The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun has approved the posting of 54 Assistant Commissioners of Police to head the Force Intelligence Departments at zonal and state command levels nationwide. This development is coming following the recent surge in kidnapping and banditry across the country especially in Abuja and Kaduna State. Over 69 persons were killed and 152 abducted during 194 attacks carried …

The Nigeria Police Council has confirmed Kayode Egbetokun as the substantive Inspector General of Police (IGP). This was disclosed to the State House media corps at the end of the council’s meeting, held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday, by Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed. President Tinubu appointed Egbetokun as IGP on Monday, 19th June in acting …

Former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr Solomon Arase has commiserate with the Nigeria Police Force and the family of his former boss, Mr Adebayo Mustafa Balogun (better known as Tafa Balogun), the 11th indigenous IGP, who passed on Thursday at the Reddington Hospital, Lagos. Arase, a lawyer, said he was devastated by “the sudden death of my former boss …

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has announced an acting Deputy Inspector General for the Department of Research and Planning, Force Headquarters. He is Assistant Inspector General John Ogbonaya Amadi, who now represents the southeast geo-political zone in the top hierarchy of the Police. Until his death last month, DIG Joseph Egbunike, the Head of the Federal Criminal Investigation …