Biography of Solomon Arase

Solomon Ajase

Solomon Arase was born in Sapele Delta State on June 21, 1956 but hails from Oredo Local Government Council of Edo State. He enlisted in the Nigerian Police December 1, 1981.

Solomon Arase bagged a degree in Political Science from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1980 and subsequently got a Masters Degree from the University of Benin in 1998. He went further to read Law and
got (BL) qualification certificate in 2001 and another LL.M in Corporate Management and 
Finance Law in 2004.

Solomon Arase is also a Fellow of the Nigerian Defence College (fdc). He has travelled to and studied in many countries, including the National Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA in 2011 and 2013. He attended the workshop on Identifying Key Needs and Developing Training Best Practices on Counter Terrorism in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, with focus on Counter-Terrorism, Rule of Law and National Security Management.

Solomon Arase served as the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State CID, Panti-Yaba, Lagos between 2009- 2011, he was Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom State Command, between August 2011 and March 2012, Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Force Intelligence Bureau at the Force Head Quarters, Abuja from March 2012 to August 2014. He is married with children.

Solomon Arase was appointed the Inspector General of Police on April 21, 2015 after the sack of former IGP Suleiman Abba.