Tinubu approves new police academy campus

By Damilare Adeleye

President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a new campus of the Nigeria Police Academy in Erinja, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State, the hometown of former Inspector-General, Kayode Egbetokun.

This was just as the president okayed a special take-off grant of N15 billion to fund the facility’s development.

This was disclosed in a statement issued on Monday by the special adviser to the president on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga.

He noted that the approval fulfils the provisions of the Nigeria Police Academy (Establishment) Act, 2021, which empowers the institution to operate as a multi-campus university across the country.

“The intervention fund will be sourced from TETFund’s 2026 allocation and will finance priority infrastructure, academic facilities, student accommodation, and core training assets at the new campus,” the statement read.

Onanuga said the siting of the new campus in Erinja was recommended by a high-level consultative meeting that brought together the Minister of Police Affairs, the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, officials of the Federal Ministry of Education, the Inspector General of Police and the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC).

The meeting weighed student intake capacity, funding realities, academic quality assurance and the long-term training needs of the Nigerian Police Force, which is currently in the process of expanding its workforce through fresh recruitment.

The Presidency said Tinubu believes the expansion will “strengthen institutional governance, modern policing education and national security.”

The Nigeria Police Academy had operated only a single campus in Wudil, Kano State.

Section 3 of the Police Act empowers the Academy, under the oversight of its Governing Council, to “establish such campuses, colleges, faculties, institutions, schools and units within the Academy as may be necessary or desirable, subject to the approval of the National Universities Commission (NUC).”

In June 2025, the House of Representatives called for the decentralisation of the Academy’s operations, urging Tinubu and the Governing Council to give effect to the 2021 Act by establishing campuses in each of the country’s six geopolitical zones.

The new Ogun State campus will be the first satellite campus established under the 2021 Act.