{
  "id": 16297879,
  "title": "State police bill gets assemblies’ clearance",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/state-police-bill-gets-assemblies-clearance",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-24T05:25:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Trust",
    "slug": "daily-trust",
    "url": "https://dailytrust.com/state-police-bill-gets-assemblies-clearance/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Twenty-four out of the 36 State Houses of Assembly have approved the proposed constitutional amendment for the establishment of state police, surpassing the constitutional threshold required for the amendment to proceed. The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill, chaired by Femi Gbajabiamila, announced the approval, stating that it meets the constitutional requirement for altering the 1999 Constitution to introduce a decentralised policing system. Six states from the South-South region - Delta, Edo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Cross River - have approved the amendment, followed by four states each from the South-West (Ogun, Osun, Oyo and Ekiti) and South-East (Enugu, Anambra, Imo and Abia) regions. The North-Central includes Kwara, Nasarawa, Plateau and Benue, while the North-East has Adamawa, Taraba and Yobe. The North-West has Zamfara, Kebbi and Kaduna. The approval represents a significant step towards restructuring Nigeria's policing system from a centralised arrangement to a dual model comprising a Federal Police Service and State Police Services.",
  "summary": "A total of 24 State Houses of Assembly have so far approved the proposed constitutional amendment for the establishment of state police, meeting the minimum requirement for the reform to proceed to the next stage of the legislative process. The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill, chaired by the Chief of Staff to […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}