President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the establishment of a new campus of the Nigeria Police Academy in Erinja, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State, alongside a ₦15 billion take-off grant.
The approval was contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
According to the statement, the intervention fund will be drawn from the 2026 allocation of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and will finance critical infrastructure, academic facilities, student accommodation, and training equipment for the new campus.
The decision followed a high-level consultative meeting involving 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).
At the meeting, stakeholders deliberated on student intake capacity, funding sustainability, academic quality assurance, and manpower needs of the Nigeria Police Force, which is currently expanding recruitment.
Tinubu said the expansion of the Police Academy was aimed at strengthening institutional governance, improving policing education, and enhancing national security.
The Nigeria Police Academy, with its main campus in Wudil, Kano State, is a degree-awarding institution tasked with training officers of the Nigeria Police Force as part of reforms to improve professionalism and operational capacity in internal security.
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