The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Thursday, October 29, approved the promotion of over 3,800 senior police officers, including two Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs), ten Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) and seventeen Commissioners of Police (CPs).
This followed their success in promotion examinations and oral interviews conducted by the commission.
In the list of those promoted, AIG Olaolu Adegbite, Head of INTERPOL National Central Bureau Abuja, and AIG Dankombo F. Morris, who currently heads Zone 4 Headquarters, Makurdi, were elevated to the rank of Deputy Inspector General.
The ten Commissioners of Police elevated to the rank of AIG are: Omosanyin Olusegun (CP Admin, FCID Annex Ikoyi, Lagos); Ogbodo Ugobueze (CP Anti Fraud, FCID Annex Enugu); Ohagwu Felix Ndukwe (CP Ondo State); Taylor Lennox Olanrewaju (AIG/ES Nigeria Police Cooperative); Regina Cosmas Udoette (CP GI, FCID Annex Enugu); Afolabi Wilfred Olutokunbo (CP Abia State Command); Nwogoh Martin, fdc (CP Airwing); Shetima Jauro Mohammed (CP Nasarawa); Ibrahim D. Gotan (former CP Osun); and Danjuma I. Yahaya (CP GI, FCID Kaduna).
The seventeen officers promoted to the rank of Commissioners of Police are: DCP Nache Bashir Liman (DC ZCID); Sirajo Lawal Salihu (DC FMIU); Ayeleye Adegboyega E. (DC AHTU FCID); Isiaka O. Salau (DC SID Ibadan); Usman Shaik Adamu (DC CID Jos); Aminu Maiwada Garba (DC DFA NGS); Abdulkarim Musa Waziri (DC DFA Yobe); Muhammad Yusuf Adamu (DC Admin FCID); Sani Adamu Nufawa (DC Inter School, Kwara State); Bello M. Adamu (DCA Zone 2); Okezie Chikezie C. (DC Anti Fraud FCID Abuja); Aminu Usman Gusau (DC DFA Katsina); Abiodun Onuoha (DC DFA Oyo); Salisu Bello Fago (DC DFA Zamfara); Adegoke A. Alani (DC CID Delta); Wuwa Auwal Muhammad (DC Airwing); and Benedict U. Agbo (DC Forensic).
Among the 85 officers promoted from the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) are ACP Dr. Ruth Oyinmearelu Okunbo, Medical Director, MD Abubakar Police Hospital Deidei and ASR Police Reference Hospital Utako, Abuja; ACP Isah Adejoh, Assistant Director, Liberal Studies, Police Staff College Jos; and ACP Mannir Yusuf Gafai, Kano State Command, among others.
The list also showed that 49 CSPs were elevated to ACPs, 245 SPs elevated to CSPs, including SP Josephine Adeh (PPRO FCT Command), while 498 DSPs became SPs just as 3,218 became DSPs.
