Vice President Kashim Shettima says President Bola Tinubu remains steadfast in addressing Nigeria’s security challenges, acting quickly and decisively to confront all security concerns.
The Vice President made the remarks on Tuesday when he received the faculty and participants of the Executive Intelligence Management Course (EIMC 18) of the National Institute for Security Studies (NISS) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Vice President, who received the report on behalf of the Nigerian leader, said that “the Tinubu administration is determined to support the security establishment in Nigeria and beyond, to discharge their responsibilities to the nation.”
Led by the NISS Commandant, Mr Joseph Odama, representatives of the 78 participants were at the Presidential Villa to present the executive brief of their end-of-course report to the President.
Speaking on the significance of the programme, which had participants drawn from Ministries, Departments and Agencies within Nigeria and beyond, the Vice President said he was impressed with the composition of the EIMC 18.
He noted that “the security of Africa is a collective responsibility of all stakeholders given the peculiarity of the situation.”
VP Shettima said, “President Tinubu is working round the clock to address concerns in the security sector. It is absolutely essential that we fuse as one to address these issues and all hands must be on deck to salvage the situation.”
The highpoint of the occasion was the presentation of the report titled, “Non-state Actors in Security Management in Africa: Issues, Challenges and Prospects for Peace and Development.”
Recommendations
Among recommendations made by the participants was the formal harmonisation and integration of a country-base security initiative as part of a broad strategy to strengthen the existing legal framework for peace and conflict resolution across Nigeria and Africa.
Earlier, the Commandant of the NISS, Joseph Odama told the Vice President that the 18th edition of the flagship programme, EMIC 18 commenced on February 19, 2025
He pointed out that it had “been a 10-month journey of intense intellectual discovery, strategic broadening and unparalleled professional fellowship.”
Noting that this year’s team was composed of 78 distinguished participants of the rank of Deputy Directors and above, Odama said they “were meticulously drawn from the military, para-military, law enforcement agencies and strategic ministries, departments and agencies of both Nigerian and state governments.”
“In significant testament to our pan-African mandate, we were privileged to host five African countries, which had earlier been mentioned. With the graduation of the AIMC 18, the institute has proudly graduated 1,130 strategic leaders.
“These are men and women who have been rigorously equipped to think critically and act decisively, as well as proffer innovative solutions to the most complex security and developmental challenges facing our nation and the continent at large,” he said.
The Commandant expressed the institute’s deepest appreciation to President Tinubu and the Vice President for their visionary and pragmatic leadership, saying the Renewed Hope Agenda under the President’s stewardship was already manifesting in tangible progress across the nation.
Lateefah Ibrahim