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Tinubu Orders Herders to Surrender Guns, Embrace Ranching Amid Security Crisis

Amid worsening insecurity marked by mass kidnappings and deadly farmer–herder clashes, President Bola Tinubu has called on herders nationwide to hand over illegal weapons and adopt ranching as the new model for livestock farming, stressing that open grazing is no longer acceptable.

95News•11/27/2025

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Tinubu Declares National Security Emergency, Orders Recruitment of 20,000 New Police Officers

President Bola Tinubu has declared a nationwide security emergency, directing the recruitment of 20,000 new police officers and authorising sweeping reforms to strengthen Nigeria’s fight against banditry, terrorism, and kidnapping.

95News•11/26/2025

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Tinubu Urges National Assembly to Legalise State Police Amid Escalating Insecurity

President Bola Tinubu has called on the National Assembly to amend Nigeria’s laws to allow the creation of state police, declaring a nationwide security emergency and insisting that decentralised policing is critical to tackling the country’s worsening insecurity.

95News•11/26/2025

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Ogun Governor Abiodun Declares State Police Non-Negotiable Amid Rising Insecurity

Ogun State Governor and Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum, Dapo Abiodun, has insisted that the establishment of state police is no longer negotiable, stressing that decentralizing Nigeria’s policing system is critical to tackling worsening insecurity across the country.

95News•11/26/2025