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)...
By Kenneth Eze The ongoing debate on the creation of state police in Nigeria has reached a dangerous level of emotional consensus, where urgency is...
A bill seeking to establish state police and transfer aspects of policing powers to subnational governments on Thursday scaled second reading in the Senate and...
The House of Representatives has passed a landmark constitutional amendment bill seeking to establish state police alongside a federal police system, marking one of the...