President Bola Tinubu has given the go-ahead for a new Police Academy site to be built at Erinja, which is in the Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State.
His media aide, Bayo Onanuga, said yesterday that he also authorized a special take-off funding of ₦15 billion for the college.
The president’s approval was in line with the Nigeria Police Academy (Establishment) Act, 2021, which says that the Police Academy in Wudil, Kano State, should grow into other campuses across the country.
Part of the statement said, “The intervention fund will come from the TetFund 2026 allocation to pay for important infrastructure, academic facilities, student housing, and core training assets.”
A high-level meeting with the Minister of Police Affairs, the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, officials from the Federal Ministry of Education, the Inspector-General of Police, and the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) suggested that the new campus be built in Erinja.
The group talked about how many students the school could take, how much money it would require, how to make sure the quality of the education, and the long-term demands of the Nigerian Police Force, which is currently hiring more men.
It went on to say, “President Tinubu believes that the expansion will make institutional governance, modern policing education, and national security stronger.”
It took almost five months for the approval to come through. In that time, Tinubu proclaimed a statewide security emergency and ordered more people to join the Nigeria Police Force because of increased attacks and kidnappings by gunmen and suspected terrorists.
The president’s statement gave the police and the army permission to hire extra people.
He announced that the police would hire 20,000 more cops.
In a statement he signed himself in November 2025, Tinubu announced that he had already approved the upgrade of police training facilities across the country and allowed the security agency to use several National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camps as training depots.
He said that the cops who are being pulled from VIP guard duty should have “crash training” to debrief them and make sure they can provide better police services when they are sent to areas of the country where security is a problem.
In November 2025, Tinubu also told police officers to stop protecting VIPs.
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