Against the backdrop of the security challenges facing educational institutions in Nigeria, IA-Foundation - a UK charity/NGO, is partnering with Halogen Group - a safety and security solutions company, to organise a global virtual summit.
Taking place on the 4th of June 2021, from 10am to 12 noon, the event seeks to proffer solutions to the security challenges facing Nigerian schools.
The current situation indicates that Nigeria’s schools have increasingly become soft targets for violence and security incidents, thus becoming high among the most frequent targets. The objective of this summit is to get beyond the rhetoric and posturing, by embarking on the rigor of ascertaining the root causes – the ‘whys’ – and exploring what needs to be done to make our schools and education institutions safe and secured places to learn and grow, whilst providing interventions that will become part of the establishments’ central culture.
Schools Security Summit
At a joint press briefing by the CEO/Founder of IA Foundation, Mrs Ibironke Adeagbo, a chartered accountant and education advocate, who has a vision to ensure every Nigerian child is educated to reduce poverty and improve social mobility, said the insecurity challenges is an attack on the country’s educational economy and needs a multi-dimensional approach to tackle it, hence the partnership with Halogen Group. She said no human society advances beyond its quality of education and learning.
At the briefing, the CEO of Halogen Group, Mr Wale Olaoye, asserted that, all have a moral and legal responsibility to keep children safe in schools. He went on to say, that some of the attacks on schools might have been prevented with better physical protection and enhanced security response to early warning signs and threats. Most schools have limited or no security infrastructure/architecture. There is a need to establish an environment that provides “psychological security” by equipping the students and teachers with basic security education that builds trust, empowers, and ensures ‘security inclusion.’
High profile speakers such as the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on social investment - Mrs Maryam Uwais; the Lagos State Commissioner for Education - Mrs Folasade Adefisayo; ace broadcaster - Babajide Kolade-Otitoju; US security expert - Jason Destein; the CEO of Lagos State Security Trust Fund - Mr Abdurrasaq Balogun; Security Expert - Dennis Amachree (MON); Social commentator - Bamidele Ademola-Olateju and Special Adviser to the Minister of Youth and Sports Development - Kemi Areola.
The speakers would present their views and thoughts on two key areas: Their understanding and interpretation of the issues and what they propose that the stakeholders such as government, students, education communities, local communities etc need to do to address security and safety at schools.
* To attend, please register at: this link https://schoolssecurity.eventbrite.co.uk