NSE advocates engineering innovation to tackle Nigeria’s insecurity

Ali Rabiu, the President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), has stressed the need for engineers to adopt innovative and technology-driven approaches to address Nigeria’s insecurity.

Rabiu made the call at the inauguration of the 17th National Chairman of the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (NIMechB), Dr Babagana Tella, in Abuja.

The President urged Nigerian engineers to deploy such technologies to support government’s efforts to address Nigeria’s persistent insecurity.

“Techanical engineering particularly and indeed engineering discipline as a whole is central to industrial growth, infrastructure resilience and national security systems.

“Insecurity should be treated as a complex system requiring multidisciplinary engineering solutions.

“These include data analytics, surveillance technologies, local manufacturing capacity, logistics optimisation and sustainable infrastructure development.”

According to Rabiu,engineering is fundamentally about problem-solving and its engagement must be rooted in logic, structure, modelling and evidence-based reasoning to deliver sustainable solutions to complex security challenges.