•Police The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill has extended the deadline for the submission of memoranda and position papers on the proposed legislation to Friday, August 21, 2026, at 5:00 pm West Africa Time (WAT). The extension, announced today, is aimed at widening stakeholder participation and giving individuals, inst...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has passed the constitutional alteration bill seeking to establish state police after 311 lawmakers voted in support of the proposal, meeting the constitutionally required two-thirds majority. However, the passage sparked protests from members of the minority caucus, who staged a walkout, ...
•Tinubu and House of Representatives The House of Representatives has withdrawn its proposed constitutional amendment seeking to establish state police, opting instead to consider a similar bill transmitted by the Executive. The development emerged during today’s plenary, where lawmakers gave the Executive-sponsored state police bill its...
•Police Nigeria yesterday moved closer than ever to establishing a state police force after the Senate passed the controversial Constitution Alteration Bill seeking to decentralise policing, shifting the battle for the landmark reform to the 36 state Houses of Assembly where at least 24 legislatures must endorse the proposal before it can beco...
•Tinubu, Nigerian Senate and Police The Senate today passed the landmark Constitution Alteration Bill seeking to establish state police across the federation, marking a major step in Nigeria’s decades-long debate over decentralising the country’s policing structure to address worsening insecurity. The passage followed a rigorous clause-by-clau...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives said today that it will prioritise the issue of state police and is set to pass the bill to amend the constitution to allow for the establishment of state police in the country. The House said that it will vote on the constitutional amendment bill allowing the establishment […]
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