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, alongside a special take-off grant of N15bn to fund the facility’s development.
A statement signed on Monday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said 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.
According to Onanuga, 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.
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.”
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 Academy, which officially took off in 1988 at two temporary campuses—the Police Training School in Challawa, Kano and the Police College in Kaduna—was merged and relocated to its permanent site in Wudil in 1996, and was upgraded to a degree-awarding institution by the NUC in 2012, becoming Nigeria’s 37th federal university.
It currently offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in law enforcement and related disciplines, including law, sciences, social and management sciences, and humanities.
The new Ogun State campus will be the first satellite campus established under the 2021 Act.
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