The Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA), has inaugurated a Centre for early warning studies to build a robust national database on threats to national security.
Commandant of the Academy, Major General Ibrahim Yusuf, said the Centre is to collect remote and longitudinal data on the causes and incidences of violence, criminality, terrorism and insurgency in Nigeria.
The centre for early warning studies was established with a view to alerting relevant authorities on potential dangers and assist them to take appropriate actions.
The NDA commandant explained that the Centre is a value addition to the nation’s intelligence and security architecture by providing data that would drive a national policy and strategy.
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A professor of security, Munzali Jibril, noted that there is a Nexus between defence security and sustainable development hence the need to focus on the challenges and responses at unilateral, bilateral and multilateral levels.
The Centre, which is a collaborative initiative with the University of Ibadan, is expected to
have two main research hubs based in the University and NDA that would serve the southern and Northern regions of Nigeria.
Editor : Ena Agbanoma
