Director General/Secretary to the Board of the NDLEA
 
Otunba Suleiman Lanre Ipinmisho, MFR Director General/Secretary, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) is an outstanding lawyer and anti-drug crusader. He hails from Ogidi-Ijumu, Kogi State, Nigeria.
 After completing his National Youth Service Corps programme, Otunba Ipinmisho began his successful legal practice with reputable law firms like Debo Akande & Okonjo Solicitors in Lagos. He was also under the legal tutelage of Lateef Adegbite & Co. Solicitors also in Lagos before he joined the Nigerian Postal Service, where he rose to become the Legal Adviser. In recognition of his excellent scholarship, he was appointed member of numerous National Committees and Presidential Task Forces between 1994 and 2000.
 
Otunba Ipinmisho has diverse public service exposures with invaluable contribution to humanity. He is a serving member of the Council of Legal Education of the Nigerian Law School, the National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association and National Committee on the Reorganisation of council of Legal Education. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the NDLEA.
 
Until his appointment as Director General/Secretary of the NDLEA, he was the Special Assistant to the former Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bayo Ojo, SAN. Otunba Ipinmisho has numerous publications as an accomplished writer and has attended several local and international conferences. In recognition of his service to humanity and dogged spirit in combating the anti-narcotic campaign, he was recently conferred with the national award of Member of Federal Republic (MFR) by President Umar Musa Yar’Adua.