President Bola Tinubu has ordered the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies to carry out a nationwide security diagnostic and submit actionable recommendations to guide reforms of Nigeria’s security architecture.
Tinubu issued the directive on Wednesday at a Presidential Parley with participants of Senior Executive Course 47 at the State House, Abuja, where he also asked ministries, departments and agencies to study and prepare to implement NIPSS’s new report on the blue economy.
Vice President Kashim Shettima represented the President.
According to a statement signed by the VP’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Stanley Nkwocha, the President framed the security task alongside a fresh economic blueprint targeting Nigeria’s marine and aquatic wealth.
The Nigerian leader described NIPSS as the intellectual engine of our national transformation and urged the scholars to remain bold, solution-driven and rooted in the country’s realities.
“The policy paper shall be submitted to my office within an agreed timeline, and it will receive the utmost attention,” he assured.
The President said the blue economy would be treated as a core engine of national transformation.
Tinubu described NIPSS as “the intellectual engine of our national transformation” and pledged prompt attention to its security paper “within an agreed timeline.”
Tinubu announced a new security and economic framework aimed at unlocking Nigeria’s vast marine and aquatic resources under the blue economy as one of the country’s most critical sectors for national transformation.
Accordingly, he directed all relevant ministries, departments, and agencies to immediately review and implement recommendations by the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies’ comprehensive study on blue economy development.
He said, “The blue economy offers a strategic pathway for diversifying our revenue base, creating sustainable employment and revitalising the ecosystems that sustain national development.
“If properly harnessed, this sector could become an anchor of shared prosperity for generations,” he said.
President Tinubu welcomed the findings of the NIPSS study on Blue Economy and Sustainable Development in Nigeria, describing it as a timely resource that outlines the “opportunities we must seize, the challenges we must confront and the policies we must refine.”
He praised the institute for sustaining what he called its tradition of analytical rigour, creativity and patriotic duty.
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