•Tinubu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday night formally urged the Senate to begin the process of amending the 1999 Constitution to provide for the establishment of state police, declaring that Nigeria must urgently restructure its security architecture to confront terrorism, banditry and insurgency. Speaking at an interfaith breaking o...
•Tinubu and policemen President Bola Tinubu has urged governors, members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and other governors, to support the proposal for the establishment of state police and implementation of local government autonomy. Tinubu made the call at the 14th meeting of the APC National Caucus held in Abuja yesterday. He aske...
•Some Northern governors at a meeting of Northern Nigerian leaders in Kaduna yesterday  Worried by the worsening insecurity across the country, northern governors and traditional rulers have proposed the suspension of mining activities across the region for six months. Giving the proposal in a communiqué issued after a joint meeting of the No...
•Police parade Amid rising killings, mass abductions, and growing security failures across Nigeria, several state Houses of Assembly have begun moves to consider the creation of state police, a long-debated reform that President Bola Tinubu last week urged the National Assembly to legalise as part of sweeping constitutional amendments. Nigeria...
•Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has renewed the call for a joint regional security outfit and the creation of state police. Abiodun made the call yesterday at a meeting of southern governors hosted in the state which focused heavily on the escalating security threats across the southern part […]...
•Police A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, Prince Matthew Onyebuchi Agu, has strongly opposed the proposed establishment of state police, warning that the move could plunge Nigeria into chaos and deepen political intimidation across the country. Agu, a former deputy governorship candidate under the defunct Actio...
•South-West governors South-West governors, under the aegis of the South-West Governors’ Forum, have renewed their call for the creation of state police to tackle the security challenges bedeviling the region and the country in general. They made the call yesterday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, after a closed-door meeting held at the Oyo S...
•Nigerian Police The Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission has called for federal legislative reforms to establish state police as a complement to the existing federal security architecture The Commission said the need for the call for national attention became imperative in view of the escalating insecurity across the count...
•Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani yesterday restated his long-standing advocacy for state police by calling for the decentralisation of the nation’s security architecture. He argued that the decentralisation of the security apparatus, especially the Police, would enable states to play more active roles in tackl...
•Policemen Following the recent claim by Plateau State governor, Caleb Mutfwang, that the creation of state police would be a game-changer in the war against insurgency and other crimes, several other Nigerians have called on the National AssemÂbly and the Presidency to ensure that the ongoing constitution review does not skip the opporÂtunity...
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