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 N15bn take-off grant for the facility’s development.
In a statement issued on Monday, the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the approval aligns with the provisions of the Nigeria Police Academy (Establishment) Act, 2021, which allows the institution to operate as a multi-campus university nationwide.
According to the statement, the intervention fund will be drawn from TETFund’s 2026 allocation and will support key infrastructure, academic facilities, student accommodation, and core training assets at the new campus.
Onanuga noted that the decision to site the campus in Erinja followed recommendations from 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.
The meeting considered factors such as student intake capacity, funding realities, academic quality assurance, and the long-term training needs of the Nigeria Police Force, which is currently expanding its workforce through fresh recruitment.
The Presidency said the expansion reflects Tinubu’s commitment to strengthening institutional governance, modern policing education, and national security.
The Nigeria Police Academy previously operated a single campus in Wudil, Kano State.
However, Section 3 of the Police Act empowers the institution, under its Governing Council, to establish additional campuses subject to approval by the National Universities Commission.
In June 2025, the House of Representatives called for the decentralisation of the Academy’s operations, urging the establishment of campuses across the six geopolitical zones in line with the 2021 Act.
The Academy, which began in 1988 at temporary sites in Challawa, Kano and Kaduna, was relocated to its permanent campus in Wudil in 1996 and upgraded to a degree-awarding institution by the National Universities Commission in 2012, becoming Nigeria’s 37th federal university.
It currently offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in law enforcement and related fields, including law, sciences, social and management sciences, and humanities.
The Ogun State campus will be the first satellite campus created under the 2021 Act.
