•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 ...
•Tinubu, Senate and Police President Bola Tinubu has transmitted a constitution alteration bill to the Senate seeking the establishment of state police as part of efforts to reform Nigeria’s security architecture. The proposed legislation, contained in a communication dated June 15, 2026, was read during plenary today by the Senate President, ...
•Police State governors are seeking greater constitutional authority over security operations within their domains and guaranteed funding arrangements for the proposed State Police Services, according to a report of a high-level strategic meeting involving state Attorneys-General, legal experts and senior security officials convened by the Nig...
State governors have restated their commitment to the establishment of state police and reforms in the electricity sector. The agreement was reached in a Communiqué issued at the end of the 2nd meeting of the Nigerian State Governors’ Forum held yesterday. During the meeting, the governors deliberated affecting the country, noting a dedicated ...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has passed the state police bill. This resolution followed the voting on the floor during the plenary session today, presided over by the Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas. According to Abbas, 288 lawmakers voted in support of the bill, while four were against it, a day after […]...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has pledged to commence urgent deliberations on the establishment of state police this week as part of efforts to address the growing insecurity across the country. Speaking at a media briefing with Senate correspondents, the Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, stated that the matter had gained priority among o...
•Police Nigeria is moving closer to establishing state police, with progress made towards the constitutional framework required to decentralise policing, the presidency has said. The development follows months of consultations involving the Presidency, the National Assembly, and security authorities aimed at strengthening the country’s securit...
•House of Representatives In a bid to ensure the well-being of the citizenry, the House of Representatives has called for the immediate implementation of state policing and other structural security reforms following the kidnapping of pupils and teachers in Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State and the killing of a teacher, Michael Oyedokun...
•Nigerian Senate Leader of the Senate, Opeyemi Bamidele, yesterday condemned the abduction of 87 students and teachers in Borno and Oyo states within 24 hours. Bamidele, also Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, added that the recent abduction accentuated the need to expedite the establishment of state ...
Details have emerged on the emerging framework for state police being reviewed by governors under the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) Secretariat, as part of ongoing preparations for anticipated constitutional amendments. In a communique issued after their meeting on April 22 in Abuja, the governors referenced a draft state police framework dev...
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