PSC promotes Yobe, Kwara CPs to AIGs, 16 DCPs to CPs

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of Commissioners of Police Garba Ahmed (Yobe) and Salman Garba Dogo (Kwara) to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs).

The PSC also approved the promotion of Nemi Edwin Osigoboka Iwo, the CP Border Patrol.

The commission’s spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, made this known in a statement on Tuesday, February 18, 2025.

The 16 Deputy Commissioners promoted to substantive Commissioners of Police were Audu Baba Umaru who was promoted and retired.

Others were Cyriacus Enechukwu, Gombit Kopshella Bangs, Eloho Edwin Okpoziakpo, Mamman Bitrus Giwa, Rosemary Okpoho Akpan, Umar Hassan Kabir, and Usman Kanfani Jibrin.

Also promoted were Naziru Abdulmajid, Osadolor Olaye, Modi Jonthan Filiya, Sani Omolori, Hassan Gwani Saleh, Hammed Sule, Ayodele Rowland Adeyemi, and Justine Obiora Oranwusi, the Director of Works, Force Headquarters.

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Ani stated that the promotions were the highpoints of an extraordinary meeting of the PSC presided over by the commission’s chairman, DIG Hashimu Argungu (rtd), and other officialss.

“The candidates for promotion were subjected to written examination and oral interview,” he said.

Ani quoted Argungu as using the occasion of the interactive session to warn the officers to stay clear of civil matters such as land, marital issues, and debt collection, among others, and allow the courts to adjudicate on such matters.

Argungu said the PSC will deal decisively with any of them caught engaging in such matters.

He added that the commission will continue to monitor them and support them to give off their best.

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