{"id":160994,"date":"2025-04-30T18:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:07:14","slug":"nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners","title":{"rendered":"NSCDC issues licence to 50 private security practitioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has presented practising licences to 50 private security practitioners at the NSCDC national headquarters in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>CSC Babawale Zaid Afolabi, NSCDC national PRO, said in a statement that it is part of the corps\u2019 statutory mandate to train, supervise, monitor, and issue practising licences to private guard companies.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further revealed that over 200 applications were received through the NSCDC Private Guard Companies Department and were thoroughly screened, after which only 50 companies met the requisite conditions to be issued with operational licences.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated categorically that the corps carried out thorough screening and vetting before recommending the companies to the Minister of Interior for approval and issuance of practising licences.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights of the event included an address of welcome by the head of the Private Guard Companies Department, ACG Peter Samuel Maigari; a lecture about \u201cthe need to strengthen public partnership for national security in Nigeria,\u201d delivered by Prof Tyoor Frederick Terhemba; and the symbolic presentation of licences to new private security practitioners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has presented practising licences to 50 private security practitioners at the NSCDC national headquarters in Abuja. CSC Babawale Zaid Afolabi, NSCDC national PRO, said in a statement that it is part of the corps\u2019 statutory mandate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":160993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,1337],"class_list":["post-160994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-nscdc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NSCDC issues licence to 50 private security practitioners - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has presented pra ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NSCDC issues licence to 50 private security practitioners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has presented pra ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-30T17:11:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-30T19:07:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1746026022.146299.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NSCDC issues licence to 50 private security practitioners\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-30T17:11:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-30T19:07:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners\"},\"wordCount\":198,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1746026022.146299.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"NSCDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscdc-issues-licence-to-50-private-security-practitioners\",\"name\":\"NSCDC issues licence to 50 private security practitioners - 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