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The National Assembly has confirmed that 28 State Houses of Assembly have approved a constitutional amendment bill to establish state police services, surpassing the required threshold and clearing the path for its transmission to President Bola Tinubu for assent. Clerk to the National Assembly Kamoru Ogunlana disclosed the development in a statement on Tuesday….
A growing tally of State Houses of Assembly across the federation have passed bills endorsing the constitutional framework for decentralised state police structures. Legislative chambers from the South-West to the North-Central have adopted draft resolutions with unusual speed, signalling broad regional political consensus. Governors across party lines now declare that the centralised, unitary policing architecture…
The Rivers State House of Assembly has approved the constitutional amendment bill seeking to create state police, becoming the second legislature to endorse the proposal as the Kano Assembly opened its own deliberation on the same day. All 25 members of the Rivers Assembly voted in favour of the Constitution of the Federal Republic…
The Nigerian Bar Association in Plateau State has called for an investigation into what it described as the delayed response of security agencies to the wave of attacks across the state, and demanded that any personnel found culpable be sanctioned. The demand was contained in a joint statement read by the chairman of the…
President Bola Tinubu has approved yet another overhaul of Nigeria’s security architecture, ordering a new committee to produce a five-year defence plan within 90 days, even as fresh data and persistent gun violence cast doubt on whether another framework can address the governance failures that previous reforms left unresolved. The directive, issued at Wednesday’s Federal…
President Bola Tinubu has formally moved the battle to establish state police to the doorstep of the House of Representatives, transmitting the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alteration) (State Police) Bill, 2026, in a bid to secure the constitutional backing that would end more than two decades of debate over how Nigeria polices…
A fresh political fault line has opened over who should carry the blame for Nigeria’s worsening kidnapping crisis, with the Presidency insisting that state governors and local council chairmen, not the Federal Government, must answer for abductions that happen on their soil. The position was laid out by Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President…
President Bola Tinubu has taken the reform of Nigeria’s policing architecture a decisive step closer to reality, inaugurating a Presidential Working Group tasked with drafting the legal machinery that will bring state police to life once the ongoing constitutional amendment is concluded. The panel was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja…
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is remembered by many for its spectacular action, but beneath the explosions and high-speed chases lies a profound lesson about the nature of disorder. Throughout the film, Batman captures criminals and appears to restore order to Gotham City. Yet every victory proves temporary because the city’s greatest enemy is not…
A member of the United States Congress, Riley Moore, has welcomed the Nigerian Senate’s passage of the constitutional amendment establishing state police, describing the reform as a tool that would help states protect citizens, particularly Christians he says face persecution. Moore, who represents West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives,…