{"id":44457,"date":"2026-06-26T15:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/06\/26\/nigerias-major-police-reform-edges-forward-after-senate-approval\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:02:40","slug":"nigerias-major-police-reform-edges-forward-after-senate-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/06\/26\/nigerias-major-police-reform-edges-forward-after-senate-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&rsquo;s major police reform edges forward after senate approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Nigerian Senate on June 24 approved a bill to allow states to create their own police forces, concerns over the country&rsquo;s myriad conflicts were brought back into the spotlight recently after a mass school abduction in the typically safer southwest. But experts warn that putting Nigeria&rsquo;s 36 states in control of their own police could embolden the country&rsquo;s powerful governors in a nation where politics is already often violent. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Sam Olukoya tells us more.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Senate on June 24 approved a bill to allow states to create their own police forces, concerns over the country&rsquo;s myriad conflicts were brought back into the spotlight recently after a mass school abduction in the typically safer southwest. But experts warn that putting Nigeria&rsquo;s 36 states in control of their own police &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-44457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}