The proposed establishment of state police in Nigeria has received a major legislative boost, with 30 State Houses of Assembly approving the bill, Senate Leader,...
The proposed establishment of State Police in Nigeria has moved closer to becoming law following approval of the constitutional amendment bill by 28 State Houses of...
Nigeria has moved closer to establishing state police after 24 State Houses of Assembly approved a constitutional amendment paving the way for a decentralised policing...
Former Delta State Commissioner and public policy analyst, Dr Magnus Onyibe, has revealed how state governors frustrated former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s plan to establish state police,...
The Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, has called for the funding of proposed state police services to be made a first-line charge in the...
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has cautioned against the misuse of proposed state police by state governments, warning that any constitutional framework establishing the system must include...
President Bola Tinubu has inaugurated a Presidential Working Group to draft the National Policing Bill, marking a major step towards the implementation of state police...
By Kenneth Eze Nigeria’s current move toward state police is understandable. The country is battling layered insecurity: insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, communal violence, farmer-herder conflicts, urban...
The National Assembly has taken a major step toward restructuring Nigeria’s policing system by passing the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alteration) (State Police)...