{"id":64524,"date":"2025-04-21T12:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64524"},"modified":"2025-04-21T12:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:42:42","slug":"governors-unite-behind-state-police-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/21\/governors-unite-behind-state-police-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Governors Unite Behind State Police Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has announced that all thirty six states in Nigeria have declared support for the establishment of state police.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after a National Economic Council meeting, the governor said the worsening security situation and the scarcity of security personnel across the country have made state policing a necessary path forward.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the vast and often ungoverned spaces in many parts of Nigeria have overwhelmed the current security framework, prompting unanimous agreement among governors on the need for a decentralised policing system.<\/p>\n<p>Although the states have submitted their individual positions backing the proposal, final discussions have been postponed to allow for broader stakeholder consultations and a comprehensive review by the NEC Secretariat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has announced that all thirty six states in Nigeria have declared support for the establishment of state police. Speaking after a National Economic Council meeting, the governor said the worsening security situation and the scarcity of security personnel across the country have made state policing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64524","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=64524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64526,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64524\/revisions\/64526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}