The Police Council on Friday, confirmed Usman Alkali Baba as the Inspector General of Police (IGP).
This comes almost two months after President Muhammadu Buhari approved his appointment.
Alkali was confirmed during a meeting of the council in Abuja presided over by Buhari.
The Minister of Police Affairs Maigari Dingyadi, speaking after te meeting, quoted Buhari as urging the IGP to justify the confidence reposed on him by reducing the rising wave of insecurity in the country.
Alkali takes over from the immediate past Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo physically attended the meeting which was billed to take place last week but postponed to honour the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and ten other military officers who died in a plane crash on May 21.
Others who physically attended the council meeting include the Chief of staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; National Security Adviser, Babagana Munguno; Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Musiliu Smith; Ministers of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi.
