BY DON OKEREKE, SECURITY CONSULTANT AND ANALYST

The United States of America designates every October as ‘’National Cyber Security Awareness Month’’ (NCAM). Initiated in 2004, the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a collaboration between government —the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — and private industry — the National Cyber Security Alliance, and other partners. The National Cyber Security Awareness Month campaign is aimed at raising awareness about the importance of cybersecurity (safeguarding digital information) and to increase resiliency in the event of an incident. The United States President, Mr. Donald J. Trump proclaimed the October 2017 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month a while ago at the White House. The National Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign is now a global call to action. Canada, Europe and other countries have joined the fray. Africa, nay, Nigeria must take a cue.

IBRAHIM KPOTUN IDRIS: THE ABANDONMENT OF DUTY

PART 1

SERIES: BUHARISM AND THE SWIFT URGENCY OF NOW

In the face of the current high crime rate of all sorts ravaging every nook and cranny of the Nigerian State, it's very shocking to know what preoccupies the small mind of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris of the national police is not how to combat all these by partnering with all the communities in Nigeria, expanding the frontiers of crime fighters, upgrading policing in Nigeria from its primitive and antedilluvian policing to international standards of effective policing, befitting a multicultural, multi-lingual Nigeria and making the nations's police become representative, buying state of the art policing equipmemt and gadgets, including drones and helicopters, body armours and body worn cameras for the police, building habitable barracks, having police stations that are of international standards, coming up with befitting uniforms, looking at the welfare status of the police, buying new vehicles, encouraging graduates and women to take to a career in the police service, embarking on researches, training and development, and moving the police from its current people-unfriendly/bestial/jungle-like status to a people-friendly one, etc, but to embark on an egostical ingloriousness of wanting to open a separate broadcaster for the police community in Nigeria.

BY DON OKEREKE, SECURITY CONSULTANT/ANALYST

Introduction

The age-long reverence for places of worship and religious leaders is increasingly eroding around the world. The unprecedented security threats to places of worship are diverse and alarming. They include: terrorist attacks, kidnapping of religious leaders and congregants, theft of relics and offerings, arson active shooter incidents, amongst others. An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. Victims are selected at random. Event is unpredictable and evolves quickly. I will cite some incidents to buttress the fact that places of worship, religious leaders are no longer venerated nor spared by men of the underworld.
At about 8:30am on September 8, 2017, three gunmen posing as worshippers invaded St. Thomas’ Catholic Church, Onilekere, Ikeja, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria and shot the Parish Priest, Rev. Daniel Nwankwo at close range. The incident took place after the priest concluded morning Mass. In Imo state, Reverend Father Cyriacus Onunkwo was on September 1, 2017, abducted and subsequently killed in cold blood by his assailants. An police ex-corporal, Mr. Jude Madu, is one of the five suspects arrested for masterminding the abduction and killing of the priest.

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Until now, until now (sobbing), Mother
In our delusion we had thought
we were protected, safe and secure
in your bossom of love.
And basking in the glory of this security
we carried on in our own very complacency
and self-confidence