•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 ...
•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 […]...
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