Tuesday February 24, 2026
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By Idorenyin UMOREN
Private Investigator/Security Evaluator
The Nigeria Police Force, NPF, is expected to witness a massive shakeup in its higher cadre with the appointment of Assistant Inspector General, AIG Olatunji Rilwan Disu as the new Inspector-General of Police, IGP.
Security sources hint that with the appointment of AIG Disu as IGP, it becomes automatic for all the eight present Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, DIGs, including the newly promoted DIG but yet to be decorated and posted, would leave the Force.
Insiders say that, out of about forty-four Assistant Inspectors General AIGs, about twenty seven who are seniors to the newly appointed IGP when they were both in the rank of AIG together, are also expected to leave also.
In the foregoing therefore, most Commissioners of Police, CPs, in various commands, are expected to be elevated to the rank of Assistant Inspectors-General of Police, AIGs, while nine of the Assistant Inspectors-General, of Police, AIGs, are to be moved to the rank of Deputy Inspectors General of Police, DIGs.
Disu has earned a sterling reputation as one of Nigeria’s finest contemporary officers.
He will serve in an acting capacity pending his confirmation in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Disu was born on April 13, 1966, in Lagos State. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Education from Lagos State University.
He also has two Master’s degrees in Public Administration from Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo State, and another in Criminology, Security, and Legal Psychology from Lagos State University.
He has attended numerous professional training courses in Nigeria and abroad, including programmes in small arms smuggling, internet fraud, strategic leadership, and forensic investigations
He joined the Nigeria Police Force as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police in 1992, and has since served in key leadership roles nationwide.
He trained at the Police Academy in Wudil, Kano State. Before his current posting, he was the commissioner of police, Rivers State Police Command.
Disu was the former commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT). He was picked to lead the IRT by former IGP Usman Alkali Baba on August 2, 2021, following the suspension of Abba Kyari.
He was also a former commander of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos State.
Prior to his appointment as IGP, Disu was the AIG in charge of the Force Crime Investigation Department (FCID) Annexe, Alagbon, Lagos.
Before his deployment to head the FCID in Lagos State, he served as the police commissioner at the Federal Capital Territory and Rivers State Police Commands in 2024 and 2023, respectively. Before his appointment as CP, he was Principal Staff Officer to Egbetokun.
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