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Nigeria has taken its most decisive step yet toward breaking the federal monopoly on policing. The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the Executive Bill seeking to establish state police forces nationwide. Lawmakers withdrew their own earlier constitutional amendment proposal during plenary to adopt President Bola Tinubu’s executive version instead. The legislative breakthrough follows the…
The Senate on Wednesday passed a constitutional amendment bill clearing the way for the establishment of state police services across Nigeria, marking one of the most consequential security reforms in the country’s history and a decisive break from a policing structure controlled from Abuja since independence. The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act…
A fresh assessment of the 10th National Assembly has found that lawmakers failed to deliver 68 of 92 legislative commitments tracked since the start of their tenure, with the House of Representatives recording an overall fulfilment score of 26.8 per cent and the Senate 44.11 per cent. The report, released on Sunday by civic-tech…
President Bola Tinubu has finally asked the Senate to dismantle the federation’s centralised policing model. Speaking at an interfaith dinner in Abuja, the President urged lawmakers to amend the 1999 Constitution to permit subnational police forces. The shift reflects a grim admission: the federal government can no longer secure the hinterlands on its own. Decades…
