•Prince Adewole Adebayo Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has defended the establishment of state police, arguing that it is a constitutional requirement in a federal system and that fears of abuse by state governors should not be used to oppose the initiative. According to Adebayo, policing is an in...
•Nigerian Senate There are discordant tunes over the establishment of state police, with some citing likely abuse by state governors, while others welcome the development as a panacea for insecurity in Nigeria. Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (Kogi Central) cautioned against the abuse of the initiative by state governments, insisting that any ...
•Governor Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State Northern governors and traditional rulers have reaffirmed their commitment to tackling insecurity through stronger regional collaboration and support for federal security efforts. The resolution followed their joint meeting on Wednesday at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, where they reviewed the region’s ...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu yesterday inaugurated the Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill to develop the legal framework for the implementation of state police across the country. According to a statement by the President’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu, represented by his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, inaugurated...
•House of Reps and Senate The Senate and House of Representatives are bracing for the harmonisation of the different versions of the State Police Bill they recently passed. While the House of Representatives passed the bill on June 10, the Senate passed the Executive Bill transmitted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on June 24. There […]...
•Femi Falana, SAN Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has warned that the creation of state police will not resolve insecurity in Nigeria unless the government addresses poverty and unemployment. Falana, who appeared on Channels Television last night, said the country’s insecurity challenge was often narrowly reduced to questions of securit...
•Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) The Senate has outlined a series of safeguards aimed at preventing state governors from abusing state police powers as the Red Chamber passed constitutional amendments to establish decentralised policing across Nigeria. The Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, disclosed the measures while leading debate on th...
•Nigerian Senate After minutes of failed attempts at voting electronically using the installed digital voting devices at the seat of each lawmaker, the Senate, today, opted for an open ballot on the issue of the creation of state police. Recall, the Senate had yesterday reconvened in an emergency plenary seeking to deliberate on an executive [...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Senate floor Nigeria’s push to overhaul its security architecture gathered momentum yesterday as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu transmitted the State Police Bill to the Senate. The Senate will vote on the Bill today. The House of Representatives passed an alteration to the Constitution, taking police from th...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today suspended consideration of the highly anticipated State Police Bill and all other legislative business at its emergency plenary session to honour the memory of a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yaya Tongo, whose death cast a sombre mood over the National Assembly. The upper chamber had reconvened ...
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