Traditional rulers in the South-West, yesterday, converged on Ile-Ife, in Osun State, to address the insecurity challenges bedevilling the region. While noting that attacks on Yoruba traditional rulers and eminent sons of the race were systematically organised, it also stressed that the attacks by herdsmen portend expansionist tendencies to overrun Yorubaland. Traditional rulers from Osun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, and Oyo …

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, passed for second reading a bill to provide for the establishment of state police in the country. Sponsored by the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Benjamin Kalu and 14 others, the bill seeks to alter the relevant Sections of the 1999 Constitution to pave the way for states to establish their own policing outfits. As lawmakers …

Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani has described state policing as the only lasting solution to address the menace of insecurity ravaging the North and the country at large. Sani stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. Bandits recently attacked the Gindin Dutse Makyali village of Kufana district in the Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. …

The federal and state governments are discussing  the prospect of state police instead of the vigilantes that are being used in some states, according to the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mallam Mohammed Idris. Modalities for state police and addressing security issues are to be discussed further at National Economic Council, the Presidency said. Reporting on the Thursday’s meeting …

Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday called on the National Assembly to establish state police. The House, which held its first plenary weeks after the inauguration, also called on the state Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to urgently equip the Neighbourhood Safety Corps of the state so that its personnel could effectively perform the task of community policing. According to …

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has described the handling of security situation in Nigeria by the Federal Government as tantamount to ceding the country to terrorists. A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the organisation, Comrade Jare Ajayi described the confession by President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu that terrorists ‘deceived’ the government into releasing his wife and children …