The Nigerian Army has collaborated with the National Information and Technology Development Agency NITDA on utilisation of modern technology to tackle the activities of insurgents and other security challenges in the country.
Speaking during the opening ceremony of a seminar in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff COAS Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, said the nation was currently witnessing one of the most challenging times in its history.
Yahaya, said that the seminar aimed at broadening the knowledge of participants, and were on the roles of inter-agency collaboration and use of technology to address national security challenges.
He added that the acts had continually posed huge threats to the national security and cohesion as a country.
According to him, the complexities of these threats cannot also be addressed without harnessing the capacity of our security agencies. He said, however, there had been various policy options adopted by both the Federal and some state governments to address the security challenges
