The President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Ali Rabiu, has called on engineers to adopt innovative and technology-driven approaches to address Nigeria’s security challenges.
Rabiu made the remarks during the inauguration of Dr. Babagana Tella as the 17th National Chairman of the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers (NIMechB) in Abuja.
He urged engineers to leverage technological solutions to support government efforts in tackling persistent insecurity across the country.
“Technical engineering, particularly, and indeed the 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,” Rabiu said.
According to him, engineering is fundamentally about problem-solving, and its application must be grounded in logic, structure, modelling, and evidence-based reasoning to deliver sustainable solutions to complex security challenges.