President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a new campus of the Police Academy in Erinja, Yewa south LGA of Ogun.
In a statement on Monday, Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, said Tinubu also approved a special take-off grant of N15 billion for the college.
“The President’s approval was in fulfilment of the provisions of the Nigeria Police Academy (Establishment) Act, 2021, particularly with respect to the expansion of the Police Academy based in Wudil, Kano state, into multiple campuses across the country,” the statement reads.
Onanuga said the fund would be sourced from the 2026 allocation of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund) to “finance priority infrastructure, academic facilities, student accommodation, and core training assets”.
The presidential spokesperson said the siting of the new police campus in Erinja was recommended at a high-level consultative meeting involving Tunji Alausa, minister of education; officials of his ministry; Tunji Disu, the inspector-general of police (IGP); and Abdullahi Ribadu, executive secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC).
“The meeting considered student intake capacity, funding realities, academic quality assurance, and the long-term needs of the Nigerian Police Force, which is currently recruiting more men,” he added.
“President Tinubu believes the expansion will strengthen institutional governance, modern policing education and national security.”
On December 9, 2024, Ibrahim Gaidam, minister of police affairs, said Tinubu had approved the recruitment of 30,000 police officers annually for the next six years.
Gaidam spoke when he visited the Nigeria Police Academy in Wudil, Kano state, during the screening exercise of recruits.
The police affairs minister said the federal government was committed to transparently recruiting more police officers.
Gaidam said the annual recruitment of police officers is part of the government’s commitment to ensuring Nigeria has enough personnel to address the prevailing insecurity.
“The number of police being recruited, 10,000, is not enough to cover all the states, so the president has given approval for the recruitment of 30,000 policemen annually for the next five to six years,” he said.
“I believe if this is done, by the end of the year, we should be able to get enough policemen to take care of our security challenges in this country.”
