With the continued successes recorded by Nigeria in its onslaught against terrorism, no fewer than seven African countries are seeking inclusion in the training curricular of the National Institute for Security Studies NISS, Abuja, the executive training arm of Nigeria’s Department of State Services DSS.

Commandant of the NISS, AS Adeleke who disclosed this in Abuja said many African countries have shown increasing interest in activities at the institute noting that five participants from four African countries are part of the institute’s Executive Management Course EMC 15 set to graduate soon.

Adeleke added that 78 participants including five participants from Rwanda, Niger Republic, Ghana and Gambia, the military, paramilitary, regulatory agencies and MDAs would be graduating.

The National Institute for Security Studies NISS was established to prepare high-level security intelligence professionals, as well as senior level managers for critical roles in the sustenance of national security.

NISS is also designed to provide senior level managers the required operational and administrative capacity to identify and analyse security threats with a view to proffering implementable strategies to either prevent the threat or to mitigate their impacts