Past IG Team

IG Team Abuja
Ogbonna Okechukwu Onovo (born February 7, 1953) is a Nigerian law enforcement officer and specialist detective, who rose through the ranks of the officer cadre to become the 14th indigenous Inspector-General of Police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Education and Professional Training: An indigene of Enugu State, Nigeria and a son of a policeman, Onovo received his secondary school education at Izzi Boys High School, Abakaliki and Mary Knoll College, Ogoja (both in Nigeria) between 1965 and 1972. Upon the successful completion of his high school education, he proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in the same year, from where he graduated in 1976 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science with International Relations as his area of specialization. He obtained his initial law enforcement training by completing the Cadet ASPs course at the Nigerian Police Training School, Kaduna. As he, subsequently, progressed in his law enforcement career, he also completed a Detective Course; Junior Command Course; Middle Management Course; and a Senior Management Course under the auspices of the Nigerian Police Force. He also further attended the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Nasarawa State, Nigeria for the NIPSS Course No. 25; the Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy for an International Humanitarian Law Program ; as well as several other courses in Criminal Investigations. Career: From the NDLEA, Onovo was deployed to the Police Academy in Kano as Commandant in May, 2000, and he served in this position until his subsequent promotion to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in May, 2001. As an AIG, he headed the Research and Planning Department at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, and also served as Force Secretary until February 2002. Following another upgrade to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) in March, 2002, Onovo was initially designated the Second-in-Command to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) in the Force headquarters. However, between 2003 and 2006, another official reassignment of tasks placed him in charge of the Criminal Investigations Department, from which he was subsequently designated the DIG in charge of Administration in November 2006. Onovo remained in this capacity until he responded to the presidential summons of Umar Musa Yar’Adua to succeed Sir (Dr.) Mike Okiro as Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police on July 24, 2009, following Okiro’s retirement. He assumed duty in an acting capacity until his appointment was unanimously confirmed as substantive by the Nigerian Police Council on August 5, 2009, officially crowning him the 14th indigenous Inspector-General of Police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Accomplishments: As Nigeria’s ‘Drug Tsar,’ Onovo’s efforts in combating international drug trafficking prompted the U. S. Department of State’s 2000 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), issued on March 1, 2001, to disclose that – “Nigeria did take a significant step in November of 2000 by transferring into U.S. custody four fugitives wanted on serious narcotics and narcotics-related charges, including two who are on the President’s List of Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.” (Retrieved from - http://www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2000/893.htm)

IG Team Abuja

Ogbonna Okechukwu Onovo (born February 7, 1953) is a Nigerian law enforcement officer and specialist detective, who rose through the ranks of the officer cadre to become the 14th indigenous Inspector-General of Police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Education and Professional Training: An indigene of Enugu State, Nigeria and a son of a policeman, Onovo received his secondary school education at Izzi Boys High School, Abakaliki and Mary Knoll College, Ogoja (both in Nigeria) between 1965 and 1972.
Upon the successful completion of his high school education, he proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in the same year, from where he graduated in 1976 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science with International Relations as his area of specialization.

He obtained his initial law enforcement training by completing the Cadet ASPs course at the Nigerian Police Training School, Kaduna. As he, subsequently, progressed in his law enforcement career, he also completed a Detective Course; Junior Command Course; Middle Management Course; and a Senior Management Course under the auspices of the Nigerian Police Force.
He also further attended the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Nasarawa State, Nigeria for the NIPSS Course No. 25; the Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy for an International Humanitarian Law Program ; as well as several other courses in Criminal Investigations.
Career:
From the NDLEA, Onovo was deployed to the Police Academy in Kano as Commandant in May, 2000, and he served in this position until his subsequent promotion to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in May, 2001. As an AIG, he headed the Research and Planning Department at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, and also served as Force Secretary until February 2002.
Following another upgrade to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) in March, 2002, Onovo was initially designated the Second-in-Command to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) in the Force headquarters.
However, between 2003 and 2006, another official reassignment of tasks placed him in charge of the Criminal Investigations Department, from which he was subsequently designated the DIG in charge of Administration in November 2006. Onovo remained in this capacity until he responded to the presidential summons of Umar Musa Yar’Adua to succeed Sir (Dr.) Mike Okiro as Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police on July 24, 2009, following Okiro’s retirement.
He assumed duty in an acting capacity until his appointment was unanimously confirmed as substantive by the Nigerian Police Council on August 5, 2009, officially crowning him the 14th indigenous Inspector-General of Police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Accomplishments:
As Nigeria’s ‘Drug Tsar,’ Onovo’s efforts in combating international drug trafficking prompted the U. S. Department of State’s 2000 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), issued on March 1, 2001,
to disclose that – “Nigeria did take a significant step in November of 2000 by transferring into U.S. custody four fugitives wanted on serious narcotics and narcotics-related charges, including two who are on the President’s List of Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.”
(Retrieved from - http://www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2000/893.htm)