Former Niger CP Diseye Nsirim dies after brief illness

Former Commissioner of Police successful Niger State, Diseye Desire Nsirim, rtd, has died aft a little illness.

Nsirim died connected Monday, September 21, 2026, successful a hospital, according to the Niger State Police Command.

The precocious constabulary officer, who hailed from Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, served arsenic the 27th Commissioner of Police successful Niger State betwixt 2012 and 2014.

She was the archetypal and, according to the command, the lone pistillate Commissioner of Police to person served successful the state.

The bid said that during her tenure, Nsirim contributed to transgression prevention, nationalist information and the attraction of instrumentality and bid successful the state.

It listed the dismantling of the Darul-Salam radical successful Mokwa and the busting of different violent radical successful Minna among her notable achievements arsenic Commissioner of Police.

In a connection issued connected Tuesday, the Niger State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, said the command’s existent Commissioner of Police, Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, commiserated with Nsirim’s famil...