Nigeria, Feb. 13 -- The adoption of state police has been proffered as a veritable solution to the pervasive insecurity across the country.

This was the submission of state governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at a meeting held in Abuja on Monday.

Equally, it was the submission of the Lagos State House of Assembly after a plenary during which lawmakers expressed concern over the worsening security situation in the country, and Lagos especially.

Rising from its meeting to review the state of the nation, the PDP Governors' Forum, in a communique, said that they would continue to play their role in the effort to bring security and succour to Nigerians.

The governors reiterated the call for state police ...