By Temi Ohakwe, Abuja
The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, Prof Suleiman Bogoro, has received the security personality fellowship award of the Institute of Security and Strategic Studies, ISSS, Abuja.
Bogoro received the induction at the 1st Annual Lecture/Fellowship Night and 3rd Investiture Ceremony of the Institute in Abuja, with the theme: “our National Security Predicament: Implication for the Current Democratic Order.”
Other fellows inducted at the ceremony were the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, Former Governor of Abia State, Sen. Theodore Orji, Postmaster General of Nigeria, Dr. Ismail Adewusi, Director Sergeant At-Arms, National Assembly, Air CDRE Sani Zakari among others.
Speaking at the event, the Secretary, Governing Council of the Institute, Hon. Danladi Abdulhameed, stressed the importance of national security against all forms of threats including, war, terrorism or espionage.
Abdulhameed said 22 years after Nigeria’s uninterrupted democracy, several challenges have continued to besiege its democratic system, chief of it being insecurity which has claimed the lives and livelihoods of civilians, foreigners, security personnel and threatened the socio-economic and political stability of the country.