Nigeria, Nov. 16 -- The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, said four of Nigeria's 36 state Houses of Assembly have yet to transmit their resolutions on the proposed creation of state police to the National Assembly.

Mr Bamidele, who represents Ekiti Central Senatorial District, said although the National Assembly was still awaiting the resolutions from the four states, their failure to transmit them would not prevent federal lawmakers from proceeding with the process and forwarding the bill to the president for assent.

He stated this on Friday at an award ceremony organised by The Sun Publishing Limited, publisher of The Sun newspaper, in Abuja, according to a statement by his media office on Sunday.

Mr Bamidele was honoured with the new...