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State police: FG Opens Public Consultation on State Policing Bill, Sets Seven-Week Timeline for Reform
For most of Nigeria's democratic life, "state police" has functioned less as policy than as ritual, a proposal wheeled out after every mass-casualty attack, litigated at every constitutional conference since 1999, and quietly shelved once the news cycle moved on. Governors demanded it after Boko Haram's rise in the northeast. Southwest leaders demanded it after the ki…. read more.
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