•Police The decisions of the remaining 20 state governors on the proposed establishment of state police are expected to be submitted within the next four weeks. This is according to the Director-General of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Asishana Okauru, who spoke in an exclusive interview with our correspondent on Friday, reports Sunday PUNCH. ...
The 36 state governors said addressing the issue of state policing was capable of correcting existing fundamental flaws in the nation’s security framework. They said the issue of state policing should be formally addressed through the ongoing process of amending the Constitution, reports. This formed part of the resolutions of the state execut...
The eight lawmakers suspended by the Zamfara State House of Assembly, yesterday, said they had been hounded out of the state by political thugs for exposing the increasing wave of insecurity in the state. They also said the House had written to them to return their official vehicles to the Clerk, reports The PUNCH. Zamfara […]
The Benue State Police Command has sealed the All Progressives Congress, APC, State secretariat in Makurdi. The force also stopped the Mr. Austin Agada-led Executives from holding its scheduled political meeting slated for today, Friday March 1 and Sunday, March 3, 2024, reports Vanguard. The meeting was called by the Executives of the APC wit...
•Police The Southwest Conference of Speakers has called for the immediate creation of state police and devolution of powers. The conference said doing so would address the hydra-headed insecurity and other socioeconomic challenges facing the country, reports The Nation. In a communiqué issued at the of their meeting in Ikogosi-Ekiti, the speak...
The organised labour in Niger State has announced an indefinite industrial action, beginning from today, Wednesday, February 21, 2024. In a letter addressed to the Niger State government through the office of the Secretary to State Government and jointly signed by the state chairman of the NLC, Idris A. Lafene, and state chairman of the [&hell...
•Some Nigerian governors A bill seeking the amendment of the 1999 Constitution to empower governors to appoint state commissioners of police scaled second reading on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday. In the alteration to the constitution under consideration, a commissioner of police appointed from among the serving policemen...
A Constitution Amendment Bill to introduce state police has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill, which was sponsored by 13 members of the House, enjoyed support from majority of the lawmakers in the green chamber who believed that concerns of political victimisation by state governors, should take the backseat to th...
•Anthony Sani Former Secretary General, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Anthony Sani has kicked against establishment of state police as proposed by the federal government. Sani, in a statement today noted that if the State police is eventually created, State governors will abuse the police and as well use them as attacking dogs against politi...
•Solomon Arase With talks about the establishment of state police gaining momentum in the country, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Solomon Arase, has warned state governors not to abuse state police. Arase, the 18th Inspector General of Police, made this known on Channels Television yesterday. On Thursday, President Bola T...