By Daniel Tyokua
Experts will converge on Enugu state to appraise the protracted security challenges bedeviling the country.
The security discourse which is an Initiative of Michael Ekwo Foundation is slated for August 16th – 18th, to expand new frontiers on strategic approaches to address grey areas that appear to be heightening insecurity.
Leading discussant at the Enugu security summit to chat way forward on socio economic bedbugs posing security challenges is Prof. Dame Nora Daduut, retired Commissioner of Police, Lawrence Alobi, Prof. Joy Ezeilo of the Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus.
Other strategic speakers will include the executive Director, Women Aid Collective (WACOL); Mr. Okey Attah, retired Deputy Director, Department of State Services, and Dr Sirajo Yakubu – a security consultant and lecturer at Nile University, Abuja.
In a statement issued on Friday, by the Program Director, Michael Ekwo Foundation, Ms. Barbara Ozougwu, the discussions at the summit will focus on human security with national security and financial literacy.
The summit tagged ‘MEF Ideas Festival’ will be graced by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State which is expected to generate new thinking on contemporary security issues, deepen channels of communication across opinion leaders and experts, and examine different aspects of human security broadly defined -financial security, food security, information security, and health security.
The statement reads in part, ” The forum convened by Michael Ekwo Foundation and the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu features notable speakers who will facilitate discussion around specific subject areas.
” The summit is a way of generating new knowledge and understanding, forging, and expanding new international, intercultural, interdisciplinary research networks, partnerships, and institutional collaborations” it said.
