President Bola Tinubu approved a new police academy campus in Erinja, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State, and a special take-off grant of ₦15 billion. The approval extends the academy beyond its Wudil, Kano State base and gives the project a funding line tied to the TetFund 2026 allocation.
Bayo Onanuga said the intervention fund will finance priority infrastructure, academic facilities, student accommodation, and core training assets. He also said the president’s approval followed the Nigeria Police Academy (Establishment) Act, 2021, which allows the academy to expand into multiple campuses across the country.
Erinja and Wudil
The new campus sits in Erinja, where a high-level consultative meeting recommended the site. That meeting included the Minister of Police Affairs, the Minister of Education, officials of the Federal Ministry of Education, the Inspector-General of Police, and the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission.
Onanuga said the group weighed student intake capacity, funding realities, academic quality assurance, and the long-term needs of the Nigerian Police Force. The decision moves the academy from a single-base model toward a wider footprint, with the stated aim of handling more trainees and more training infrastructure.
Tinubu and police training
The approval follows a series of security measures Tinubu announced in November 2025. He said he had already approved a nationwide upgrade of police training facilities, authorised the use of various NYSC camps as training depots, and ordered the withdrawal of police personnel from VIP security duties.
Those officers were to undergo crash training before deployment to security-challenged areas of the country. Tinubu also declared a nationwide security emergency nearly five months before the Erinja approval and ordered additional recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force, including 20,000 officers.
Gaidam and academy expansion
At the Nigeria Police Academy in Wudil on December 9, 2024, Ibrahim Gaidam said the president had approved the recruitment of 30,000 policemen annually for the next five to six years. Taken together, the recruitment push and the new campus approval point to a larger training pipeline than the academy has managed from Wudil alone.
The immediate practical effect for the academy is not just more space on paper. The ₦15 billion grant is set aside for buildings, student housing, and training assets, and the next stage depends on how quickly those funds move through the 2026 TETFund allocation and into construction and equipment.
