Segun Atanda/
Sixty-six participants in this year’s Senior Executive Course 40 at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, in Plateau State, have joined the league of the elite class of Nigerian policymakers as they received the prestigious award of mni on their graduation at the institute today.
Among the participants drawn from the upper echelons of Nigerian security forces, the Private and Public sectors are six commissioners of police (CP) recommended for the course by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris who is also an alumnus of NIPSS.
The new mni holders are CP Leye Oyebade, CP David Folawiyo, CP Zanna Mohammed, CP Moses Jitoboh, CP Yunana Babas and CP Zubairu Muazu.
Here’s a video of one of the participants receiving his award at the graduation ceremony:
For nine months, the 66 academics of excellence, seasoned policy initiators and other citizens of mature experience and wisdom, drawn from all walks of life, exchanged ideas on the great issues of society, particularly as they relate to Nigeria and Africa.
They received lectures from eminent diplomats and scholars and visited some countries around the world.
The graduation ceremony was held at the new NIPSS auditorium, in Plateau State.
The graduands who were at the institute from February 9 to November 24, 2018, have done some policy analysis and provided relevant policy options in order to solve the national challenge.
The central study theme for the Senior Executive Course 40 is ‘Strengthening Internal Security Framework and Community Policing in Nigeria: Models, Policy Options and Strategies’.
Before the graduation today, the participants had presented a report to President Muhammadu Buhari at a Parley Meeting in the State House, Abuja, on Wednesday, and the President had ordered immediate implementation of the strategic recommendations by security agencies.
The National Institute was established by the Federal Government in 1979 by Decree No. 20 of 1979 (now as Act 20 (Cap 626 of 1990).
The Institute has been a high-level center for reflection, research and learning, with the primary objective of serving as the nation’s foremost policy ‘think- tank’, developing a crop of top-class technocrats of high intellectual capacity, conceptualize and anchor the implementation of innovative and dynamic policy initiatives and strategies critical for national development.
