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Calls for State Police Intensify as Reps Seek to Boost Nigeria's Security

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The demand for state police in Nigeria has intensified, with the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, describing it as a critical solution to the country's escalating insecurity challenges.

- ABIODUN JIMOH

Speaking to journalists in Abuja after representing Nigeria at the 55th WTO-Inter-Parliamentary Union Public Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, Kalu said the nation's centralized policing system i

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