{"id":91158,"date":"2026-06-24T18:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91158"},"modified":"2026-06-24T18:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:38:42","slug":"nigerias-senate-passes-bill-to-allow-creation-of-state-police-to-tackle-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/24\/nigerias-senate-passes-bill-to-allow-creation-of-state-police-to-tackle-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Senate passes bill to allow creation of state police to tackle insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA26sp0V.img?w=800&h=435&q=60&m=2&f=jpg\" alt=\"Nigeria Police Reform:\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to allow states to have their own police forces, paving the way for a major reform that would reshape the policing structure of the conflict-racked nation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/nigeria-s-senate-passes-bill-to-allow-creation-of-state-police-to-tackle-insecurity\/ar-AA26skLJ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a3bf74588fe478eacc86762d745f7ae&cvpid=4dc584c99cda4613d51ce1933ecc400e&ei=47\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to allow states to have their own police forces, paving the way for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Nigeria-map-border-countries.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91159,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91158\/revisions\/91159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}