Nigeria: Concerns As Peace Corps Makes Fresh Push for Legal Cover

11 February 2021

A fresh move to pass a bill that will recognise the Peace Corps of Nigeria as a federal security outfit is leaping through the National Assembly, despite its rejection by President Muhammadu Buhari, two years ago.

This is even as members of the Peace Corps continue to render security services to schools, shopping malls and other private facilities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and in some parts of the country.

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