The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of more than 4,000 police officers to various ranks, including two Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) elevated to Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs), ten Commissioners of Police promoted to AIGs and 17 Deputy Commissioners of Police elevated to Commissioners of Police. The promotions followed the officers’ successful performance in promotion examinations and oral interviews conducted by the Commission.
The approvals were granted at the Commission’s plenary meeting held in Abuja on Thursday, October 29, 2026, under the chairmanship of retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu, mni, psc, NPM. The exercise covers officers across several ranks, from Assistant Superintendents of Police to the highest promoted ranks, reflecting a major personnel advancement within the Nigeria Police Force.
Among the officers elevated to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Police are AIG Olaolu Adegbite, Head of the INTERPOL National Central Bureau in Abuja, and AIG Dankombo F. Morris, who heads Zone 4 Headquarters in Makurdi.
Adegbite holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian Language from the University of Lagos and a Master’s degree in Philology from the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He is a recipient of the national honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR), a member of the FBI National Academy Associates and an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School. Before his current assignment, he served as Director of Operations at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Morris, who hails from Gombe State, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Maiduguri, as well as a Diploma in Police Science. His previous assignments include service as Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State before his current role as head of Zone 4 Headquarters in Makurdi.
The Commission also approved the promotion of ten Commissioners of Police to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police. They are Omosanyin Olusegun, formerly Commissioner of Police, Administration, at the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) Annex in Ikoyi, Lagos; Ogbodo Ugobueze, Commissioner of Police, Anti-Fraud, FCID Annex, Enugu; Ohagwu Felix Ndukwe, Commissioner of Police, Ondo State; Taylor Lennox Olanrewaju, AIG/ES, Nigeria Police Cooperative; Regina Cosmas Udoette, Commissioner of Police, General Investigation, FCID Annex, Enugu; Afolabi Wilfred Olutokunbo, Commissioner of Police, Abia State Command; Nwogoh Martin, fdc, Commissioner of Police, Airwing; Shetima Jauro Mohammed, Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State; Ibrahim D. Gotan, former Commissioner of Police, Osun State; and Danjuma I. Yahaya, Commissioner of Police, General Investigation, FCID Kaduna.
In another major development, 17 Deputy Commissioners of Police were elevated to the rank of Commissioner of Police. The officers are Nache Bashir Liman, Deputy Commissioner, Zonal Criminal Investigation Department; Sirajo Lawal Salihu, Deputy Commissioner, Force Monitoring Unit; Ayeleye Adegboyega E., Deputy Commissioner, Anti-Human Trafficking Unit, FCID; Isiaka O. Salau, Deputy Commissioner, State Criminal Investigation Department, Ibadan; Usman Shaik Adamu, Deputy Commissioner, Criminal Investigation Department, Jos; Aminu Maiwada Garba, Deputy Commissioner, DFA, NGS; Abdulkarim Musa Waziri, Deputy Commissioner, DFA, Yobe; Muhammad Yusuf Adamu, Deputy Commissioner, Administration, FCID; and Sani Adamu Nufawa, Deputy Commissioner, Inter-School, Kwara State.
Others promoted to the rank of Commissioner of Police are Bello M. Adamu, Deputy Commissioner of Administration, Zone 2; Okezie Chikezie C., Deputy Commissioner, Anti-Fraud, FCID Abuja; Aminu Usman Gusau, Deputy Commissioner, DFA, Katsina; Abiodun Onuoha, Deputy Commissioner, DFA, Oyo; Salisu Bello Fago, Deputy Commissioner, DFA, Zamfara; Adegoke A. Alani, Deputy Commissioner, Criminal Investigation Department, Delta State; Wuwa Auwal Muhammad, Deputy Commissioner, Airwing; and Benedict U. Agbo, Deputy Commissioner, Forensic.
The PSC further approved the promotion of 85 Assistant Commissioners of Police to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police. Among the officers are ACP Dr Ruth Oyinmearelu Okunbo, MBBS, FWACP, Medical Director of the MD Abubakar Police Hospital in Deidei and the ASR Police Reference Hospital in Utako, Abuja; ACP Isah Adejoh, psc(+), Assistant Director, Liberal Studies, Police Staff College, Jos; and ACP Mannir Yusuf Gafai of the Kano State Command.
At the Chief Superintendent of Police level, 49 officers were promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police. Those listed among the promoted officers include CSP Danjuma Ribah of the Special Forces Unit, Lagos; CSP Peter Ajah Oluohu of the Cross River State Command; CSP Effiom Okon of the Anambra State Command; CSP Emmanuel Kayode of the Lagos State Command; and CSP Mohammed Bello Goshe, Divisional Police Officer of Madalla Division.
The Commission also elevated 245 Superintendents of Police to the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police. The officers include SP Josephine Adeh, Police Public Relations Officer of the Federal Capital Territory Command; SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, Police Public Relations Officer of the Adamawa State Command; SP Abah James of the Rivers State Command; SP Okere Romanus, Divisional Police Officer of Isiowulu Division, Anambra State; SP Ugochukwu Ozoude Alex, Officer-in-Charge of the Monitoring Unit, Zone 9, Umuahia; SP Vincent Elekwa, second-in-command of the Violent Crime Response Unit, Rivers State Command; SP Umar Sani of the FCT Command; and SP Mustapha Mohammed.
In the same exercise, 498 Deputy Superintendents of Police were promoted to the rank of Superintendent of Police. Among them are DSP Isa Osu of the Border Patrol Force Headquarters, Abuja; DSP Samaila Amadu Bangajiya of the 12 Police Mobile Force Squadron, Minna; and DSP Akadu Godwin of the Tactical Intelligence Unit at the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
The largest category of promotions involved 3,218 Assistant Superintendents of Police elevated to the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police. The officers include ASP Frank Okafor, a former Chief Security Officer at Jaiz Bank and Intelligence Coordinator at Government House, Uyo; ASP Samson Sule, Chief Security Officer to the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund; ASP Ibrahim Abuh, Officer-in-Charge of the Confidential Unit in the Commissioner of Police, Mobile Police Office, Force Headquarters, Abuja; ASP Dauda Yusuf Olatunji of the Force Headquarters; ASP Sarauta Mohammed Mohammed of the Force Intelligence Department’s Intelligence Response Team, Force Headquarters, Abuja; and ASP Yusuf Mukarram Ado of the Airport Police Command, Ikeja, Lagos.
Congratulating the newly promoted officers, the PSC Chairman, DIG Hashimu Salihu Argungu (retd.), urged them to regard their elevation as a call to greater responsibility and improved service delivery. He charged them to demonstrate renewed commitment to securing lives and property, maintaining law and order, and enforcing the law professionally.
Argungu stressed that the promotion exercise should motivate the officers to perform better in their respective assignments, noting that higher ranks come with greater expectations. He urged them to justify the confidence placed in them by the Commission through dedication, discipline and effective policing.
The announcement was contained in a press release issued on October 29, 2026, by Torty Njoku Kalu, ANIPR, Head of Protocol and Public Relations at the Police Service Commission in Abuja.
