Tag: state police
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Security: Senate begins work on creation of state, community police
The Senate on Tuesday resolved to direct its constitutional review committee to put in place the machinery to amend the Constitution to allow for the creation of State Police. TheNewsGuru reports the Senate also mandated that the Police Reform Bill be passed within the next two weeks. This was following a debate on the killings…
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Establish state police to end killings, attacks across Nigeria – Ekweremadu advises FG
The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has called for the establishment of state police as the only panacea to stop killings across the country. This, he said, was necessary to stop the rising insecurity in the country, particularly the killing of over 100 people in 11 villages in Plateau State by armed Fulani…
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Killings: MASSOB advocates secession, rejects establishment of state police
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has said the recommendation of state police by some elites as panacea for restoring peace in the country will not work. The group however demanded the division of Nigeria into six different republics as a positive step to ending the tribal conflicts that…
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Insecurity: Osinbajo recommends establishment of state police
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday recommended the establishment of state police as the effective solution to the current security challenges in Nigeria. Osinbajo said this at a summit on national security organised by the Senate. Osinbajo’s pronouncement on state police received spontaneous applause from participants at the summit, where Senate President Bukola Saraki…
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Restructuring: El-Rufai led committee presents report, recommends establishment of state police, resource control, others
The Governor Nasir El-Rufai led committee on restructuring on Thursday presented its report to the National Chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun with some recommendations aimed at making the states and local governments more independent. Some of the key recommendations are resource control, making local government an affair of states, constitutional amendment to allow merger…
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Governors forum sets up committee for state police
Apparently throwing its support for the restructuring of the country, the Nigeria Governors Forum [NGF], yesterday set up a six man committee to explore the option of actualising state police in the country. The committee which has representatives from the six geo-Political zones of the country was mandated to come up with the best way…