Fayoade becomes new Lagos Commissioner of Police, his profile

Adegoke Fayoade

New Lagos CP Adegoke Fayoade

By Oluwole Adeboye/Yusuf Mohammed

A new commissioner of police has been posted to the Lagos State Police command. He is Adegoke Mustapha Fayoade.

The news of his posting was earlier Tuesday broken on X by the Force Public Relations Officer, Prince Olunuyiwa Adejobi.

Adejobi’s post congratulating Fayoade reads: “IGP deploys CP Adegoke Fayoade to Lagos Command. Lagos has a new Commissioner of Police. Congrats to my boss, Adegoke”.

Adegoke Mustapha Fayoade was born On October 28, 1966 in Ila Orangun, Osun State and was enlisted in the Nigeria Police as a cadet officer in the month of May 18th, 1992. He served in the operations, Administration and Investigative departments.

He holds a B.A (Edu) Hons in History and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Lagos State University (LASU) and University Of Lagos (UNILAG), respectively.

Fayoade was in John Jay College of Criminal justice New York, USA from 1998- 1999. In 1999-2003, he was Police ADC to former governor of Osun, Chief Bisi Akande.

He’s widely known to be a humble, hardworking and sincere police officer and an avowed believer in community policing, a strategy of policing which earned his station the award of the Most Community Friendly Police Station in Africa and one of the best five in the world.

The award was presented to him at the Hague, Netherlands by Altus Global Foundation in April 2006.

He was Divisional Police Officer at Ajao Police Station, Ilupeju Police Station and Victoria Island Divisional Headquarters.

When he was promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police. He served as the Area Commander, Sango Area Command, Ogun State, where he was promoted to the rank of Deputy Commissioner Of Police and thereafter moved to Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos as DC Admin.

After he got promoted to the rank of Commissioner Of Police, he was moved to become CP Amarment, Force Headquarters, Abuja and later to Police Training School, Jos and now to the Lagos Police Command.

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