{"id":64521,"date":"2025-04-21T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64521"},"modified":"2025-04-21T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:34:51","slug":"fct-awaits-fg-on-state-police-as-others-submit-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/21\/fct-awaits-fg-on-state-police-as-others-submit-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Awaits FG on State Police as Others Submit Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory has confirmed it will not present a proposal on state police, citing its status as a non-state entity under direct federal control.<\/p>\n<p>This clarification comes as the National Economic Council prepares to meet on April 24 under the chairmanship of Vice President Kashim Shettima.<\/p>\n<p>Although insecurity continues to worsen across parts of the country, state police is reportedly not on the agenda for the upcoming session.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the 36 states which have submitted detailed reports either supporting or evaluating the formation of state police forces, the FCT remains bound to federal security architecture and awaits direction from the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>Deliberations on state policing have faced delays due to missed meetings and ongoing political tensions, leaving many Nigerians anxious for decisive action amid the growing security challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Federal Capital Territory has confirmed it will not present a proposal on state police, citing its status as a non-state entity under direct federal control. This clarification comes as the National Economic Council prepares to meet on April 24 under the chairmanship of Vice President Kashim Shettima. Although insecurity continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64523,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64521\/revisions\/64523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}