Hybrid Consultation Workshop for the South-South Cooperation (SSC) Programme for Peacebuilding, was held in Abuja, on 11 July, 2024.

National Coordinator, NCTC, Maj Gen AG Laka (left) in a handshake with the Zamfara State SSG, Mal. Abubakar Mohammad Nakwada at the workshop, while others watched

While addressing participants at the workshop, the National Coordinator, National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Maj Gen AG Laka noted that the meeting was a continuation of previous engagements as it would provide opportunity to build on preceding discussions on collaboration for the implementation of the SSC Programme in Nigeria.

                                              Nigerian participants in a group photograph after the workshop

He added that the SSC programme was apt and aligned with peacebuilding process geared towards complementing government efforts to foster peace, unity and national security. Additionally, he said it conformed with the Policy Framework and National Action Plan for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism deployed through the whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to ensuring a safer society.

R-L: NC NCTC, (Maj Gen AG Laka, Director PCVE NCTC, Amb. Mairo Musa Abbas and Director Intelligence, NCTC, Brig Gen A. Adekola at the workshop

A cross section of some of the participants at the workshop

                                                                  Some of the participants at the workshop

General Laka encouraged stakeholders to consider priority needs of the regions as this would form components of the curriculum for the Learning Route.