Vanguard News IGP Adamu: As February approaches . . . On
In spite of the abundance of talents and human resource within the Nigeria Police force, it has constantly struggled to surmount the challenges posed by the need to provide security for a growing population of about 200 million. With each passing day, crimes such as kidnapping, terrorism, banditry, online fraud, cybercrime, human trafficking, cultism, ritual killings, politically motivated uproars, arms trafficking, armed robbery, gun running, arms struggle for territorial control among militia groups and herdsmen and communal assaults, take innovative forms, thus, greatly increasing the job of the Police. The task of ensuring a safer country fell on Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, NPM, MNI who was at the time, an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) and Directing Staff at the National Institute For Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). By his appointment on January 15, 2019, as the Inspector-General of Police by the Federal Government, Adamu succeeded IGP Ibrahim Idris.