National SecurityPoliceNational Assembly Approves N74 Billion For Nigeria Police Trust Fund

The Executive Secretary Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF), Ahmad Sokoto, says the National Assembly Joint Committee on Police Affairs has approved the 2021 budget of N74 billion for the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF).

Sokoto who disclosed this in Abuja after a closed-door meeting with the National Assembly Joint Committee on Police Affairs said the N74 billion budget captured all the demands of the fund which include training and retraining of personnel of the Nigeria Police Force,

He said the budget would ensure procurement of the state of the art equipment for the police, assuring that the equipment would enhance the skills of the police personnel.

“I am assuring you that the Police Trust Fund will leave no stone unturned in carrying out our assigned responsibilities for better policing of Nigeria,” he said.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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