Ex-Army Chief Dambazau To Deliver Lecture On Security November 4

A erstwhile Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and ex-minister of Interior, Lt. General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd), volition present the keynote lecture astatine the 7th Annual Lecture of Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN) connected Tuesday, November 4, 2025, astatine Bolingo Hotel, Abuja.

The lecture, themed “Nigeria’s Security Challenges and the Quest for National Cohesion: A New Paradigm for Internal Security Architecture and Governance” volition commencement astatine 10 am.

It is oming astatine a clip of heightened nationalist interest implicit Nigeria’s interior information situation and the hunt for lasting solutions to terrorism, communal conflicts and organized crime.

The president of the lawsuit is Prof. Tonnie Osa Iredia, erstwhile director-general of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). helium is besides a erstwhile director-general of the National Orientation Agency and laminitis of Tonnie Iredia University of Communication, Benin City, Edo State.

According to Mr. Fred Ohwahwa, the president of JFCN, the lawsuit volition supply a level for heavy reflection and policy-driven speech connected however Nigeria tin rethink and rebuild its interior information systems successful airy of emerging nationalist threats.

A connection issued by the chair, Organising Committee, Just Friends Club of Nigeria, Mrs Maria Cardillo, said Dambazau, who served arsenic Chief of Army Staff from 2008 to 2010 and aboriginal arsenic curate of Interior from 2015 to 2019, is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the country’s astir experienced voices connected information matters.

A vocation worker with a beardown world inheritance successful criminology and sociology, Dambazau is expected to present a lecture that bridges some mentation and signifier successful nationalist information governance.

He holds a PhD successful Criminology from the University of Keele, United Kingdom, and has authored respective world and argumentation papers connected information assemblage reform, counterterrorism and civil-military relations.

Ohwahwa said the keynote lecture is expected to analyse Nigeria’s existent information architecture, code its organization weaknesses, and suggest applicable reforms that equilibrium instrumentality enforcement, quality gathering, and community-based approaches. It volition besides interaction connected the value of nationalist cohesion and inclusive governance arsenic tools for semipermanent bid and stability.

“We are delighted and honoured to big Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd) astatine this captious clip successful our nationalist journey. His wealthiness of acquisition and thought enactment successful information matters travel astatine a clip erstwhile the federation is yearning for fresh, pragmatic ideas to code analyzable interior information threats. We judge his lecture volition situation orthodoxies and connection a bold, coherent imaginativeness for Nigeria’s information and unity,” Ohwahwa added.

The lecture volition beryllium followed by a high-level sheet treatment featuring argumentation experts, erstwhile information chiefs, scholars, and civic leaders, who volition supply captious reflections and applicable responses to the issues raised successful the keynote. The panelists see Air Vice Marshal Gbolahan Adekunle, a erstwhile Chief of Training and Operations and besides ex-Chief of Policy and Plans of Nigerian Air Force; and Prof. Okey Ikechukwu, Professor of Strategic Management, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

Just Friends Club of Nigeria is simply a non-partisan web of Nigerian professionals, technocrats, and public-spirited individuals committed to civic engagement, nationalist argumentation reform, and bully governance. Since its inception, the Club has positioned itself arsenic a starring forum for cross-sector dialog and nationalist thought leadership.

The Club’s Annual Lecture Series is 1 of its flagship programs, aimed astatine promoting informed nationalist sermon connected captious socio-political and economical issues. Over the past six editions, the Annual Lecture has attracted a divers assemblage of policymakers, academics, civilian nine actors, information experts, younker leaders, and media professionals.