{"id":18798,"date":"2026-02-20T01:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=18798"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:29:43","slug":"attorney-melvin-matibag-named-new-nbi-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/attorney-melvin-matibag-named-new-nbi-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"ATTORNEY MELVIN MATIBAG NAMED NEW NBI CHIEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has appointed lawyer Melvin Matibag as the new director of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), a Malaca\u00f1ang official said Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer Claire Castro announced Matibag\u2019s appointment during a press briefing in Malaca\u00f1ang.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Castro said the President considered Matibag\u2019s trustworthiness and competence as key factors in his appointment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNandoon po \u2018yung tiwala. Nakitaan po niya si attorney \u00a0Melvin Matibag na maaaring pagtiwalaan, maaaring magtrabaho para sa gobyerno,\u201d she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Castro noted that additional details about the appointment will be released once they become available.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matibag will take the helm as NBI chief, replacing former NBI Director Jaime Santiago. Prior to his appointment, Angelito Magno had been serving as officer-in-charge following Santiago\u2019s resignation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has appointed lawyer Melvin Matibag as the new director of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), a Malaca&ntilde;ang official said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18800,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798\/revisions\/18800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}