Urgent signal orders every command, college and tactical unit to submit officers’ nominal rolls and account details by 9 April, fuelling speculation about a force-wide clean-up inside the police payroll and welfare system.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Inspector-General of Police Olatunji Rilwan Disu has ordered every police formation and department in Nigeria to submit the full nominal roll and bank account details of officers.
They must also submit details of rank-and-file personnel under their command by Thursday, 9 April 2026. This order is according to a police signal dated 30 March 2026 and marked “M/IMMEDIATE”. This was reported by Sahara Reporters and Naija News.
The directive was addressed to AIGs, CPs and heads of specialised units nationwide.
The order is sweeping. It covers not just state commands, but police colleges, training institutions and specialist formations, including tactical and operational units spread across the country. The text circulated in the media says the submission must be made in hard and soft copies, with the electronic version sent in editable Microsoft Excel format through the official police email channel.
Disu is not a stranger to rapid-fire reform language. The Nigeria Police Force’s own official site says he assumed duty as the 23rd indigenous Inspector-General on 25 February 2026, while the Police Council later confirmed his appointment on 2 March 2026. In his public maiden speech, he promised “transparency, accountability, and professionalism” and said improved welfare for officers would be a priority.
That matters, because this latest order lands squarely inside a reform narrative already being pushed from Force Headquarters. In the same speech, Disu said the police must “weed out corruption” and build a culture of accountability, while also strengthening welfare and support for officers under pressure. Against that backdrop, the bank-details sweep reads like more than routine paperwork.
The public text of the signal, as reproduced by the media outlets carrying the story, does not spell out a formal reason for the exercise. That silence has opened the door to speculation that the Force is either tightening payroll discipline, validating personnel records or preparing a wider audit of entitlements and postings. That is an inference, not a stated justification, but it fits the language of urgency and the insistence on a complete, editable nominal roll.
The scale of the request also underlines how deep the net will run. The Nigeria Police Force’s own website shows a sprawling command structure, with zones, departments, formations and specialist units stretching from Maritime and the Counter Terrorist Unit to Police Academy Kano, the Airport Police Command and other national formations. The contact directory also lists Border Patrol, Interpol and Mobile Police among the commands that sit inside the Force’s operational web.
For rank-and-file officers, the wording will raise immediate questions. Bank details sit at the heart of salary processing, allowances and welfare disbursements, so any sudden centralised collection of that data will naturally be read as a potential precursor to verification or reshaping of payment records. Given the police chief’s public emphasis on welfare, accountability and professionalism, this is likely to be interpreted inside the Force as a clean-up exercise with financial consequences.
The timing is also politically sensitive. Nigeria’s police system has long been criticised for weak records, opaque postings and welfare bottlenecks, and any move that touches salaries and personal account details will inevitably trigger anxiety among officers who fear delays, exclusions or administrative penalties. Yet from the centre’s point of view, a force-wide nominal roll can also be a tool for discipline, personnel mapping and budget control.
What is clear is that the message from Abuja is not soft. The signal was marked urgent, the deadline is fixed, and compliance was said to be expected without further reminders. In plain English, police formations across Nigeria have been told to move fast, submit clean data and leave no room for excuses.
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