Support
By Collins Yakubu-Hammer
Abuja, June 5, 2024 (NAN) The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), says it is set to provide the needed support to the Development Space Academy in addressing insecurity in the country.
The Managing Director of NAN, Malam Ali Muhammad-Ali, gave the assurance when the Executive Director of the Academy, Prof. Okey Ikechukwu and his team paid him a courtesy visit on Wednesday in Abuja.
According to Ali, Ikechukwu’s coming to NAN is like a home coming.
“I want to assure you that all your prayers for support are already answered.
“Prof. is a well-known voice and face on national television; he has passion and love for the country.
“I want to assure you that we will deploy our human and technical resources to cover your news conference and roundtable on security,’’ Ali said.
The NAN boss explained that the Sahel Region in Africa had become so endemic, adding that NAN was also preparing to host a public lecture on security soon
“So, when I heard about yours, I was not surprised, because great minds think alike.
“You can take it that we will be there to cover your press conference and the roundtable that we believe will help address insecurity in the country.
“I have competent management staff, and we are working together to reposition the Agency. Just last week I came back from a conference that deliberated about newsrooms and AI,’’ Ali said.
Speaking earlier, Ikechuckwu said that the Academy is involved in human capital development for governments at all levels and institutions.
He added that the Academy had capacity building programmes on leadership and security, for youths, parents and servicing military officers respectively.
“When security agencies are overstretched and government institutions speak without integrity, then there will always be challenges.
“National security has become complicated; citizens have stigmatised the army; they don’t want to give information. The level of intelligence sharing between military and civilians has dropped by 90 per cent.
“We have discovered that Nigerians are not loyal to the Nigerian State. We see ourselves as indigenes, not citizens.
“So, we decided to organise a roundtable that stakeholders will come to talk about security and provide solutions to different forms of insecurity in the country.
“So we come to NAN to seek your support and joint ownership of the project. We will have a media conference and the roundtable within the month,’’ Ikechukwu said. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
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Edited by Gregg Mmaduakolam/Rotimi Ijikanmi
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