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Insecurity: FG Moves to Digitalize Intelligent Gathering

By Michael Eyibio

The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday said for the country to get things right with the security challenges in the country, digitalization of intelligent gathering and monitoring is the best approach.

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In a statement, Akinbode Fatima, in a signed statement on behalf of the Director Press and Public Relations, Mrs. Blessing Lere-Adams, quoted the Minister as saying that the world had gone past the manual process of operation as it is now in Nigeria.

Responding at the IT Audit presentation on the Ministry of Interior and its Agencies to the Minister by Mr. Folusho Philips, Chairman of Philips Consult, Aregbesola pledged that he would make sure his Ministry put the necessary efforts and tools in place to ensure maximum capacity building for digitalization in the ministry and the agencies under his watch.

He said: “What distinguished the individual is how he can challenge and overcome situations”. He advised that Nigeria leaders should put in all their best to overcome the security challenges facing the country to distinguish the country to meet world digital standard.

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In a remark, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Shuaib Belgore, said significant efforts have already commenced to fully digitalize operations in the ministry.

He stated that the Electronic Data Management System which would ensure digitalization of file records and implementation of the Human Resource Module of the IPPIS are set to take off in the ministry.

He however emphasized the need for more funding to be appropriated to further strengthen the Ministry’s Information Technology backbone. 

The presentation identified that the ministry and it agencies are yet to update in the digital world’s standard and needed to brace up to the world acceptable practices in the quest to curb insecurity and bring peace to our Nation.

The Directors commended the Minister’s initiative and efforts to see that insecurity is a thing of the past in Nigeria.

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