The twenty-ninth edition of the annual lecture/award ceremony of the Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria, CRAN, comes up next Thursday at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, along Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos.
This year’s lecture theme is “MANAGING COVID-19 INDUCED SECURITY CHALLENGES.
The lecture would be delivered by a former Director of the Department of State Service, DSS and currently a private security consultant, Dennis Amachree, while the Chairman of the Day is the Managing Director of Strict Guards Security, Bone Chinye Efoziem.
According to Chairman, CRAN Lecture/Award Organising Committee, Emmanuel Edom, this year’s lecture will have security practitioners, politicians, business executives, traditional rulers, and many others from different walks of life.
He says this year’s event would also feature the recognition and honouring of personalities who have distinguished themselves in various sectors of the economy.
Among them are personnel of the nation’s security agencies, private security companies, banks, agencies, and business organisations.
Special Guests of Honour are the Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dankyadi; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, while the Guests of Honour include Chairman NDLEA, Colonel Mohammed Abdallahi (Rtd); and AIG Zone 2 Command, AIG Ahmed Iliyasu.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu is the host while the Royal Father of the Day is Oluwo of Iwo Land, Osun State, HRM Oba Abdul-Rasheed Adewale Akanbi, Telu 1, with appearances from CRAN Special Patron, Colonel Kingsley Umoh; CEO Halogen Security Limited, Wale Olaoye; GMD UBA, Kennedy Uzoka, and GMD Zenith Bank Plc, Ebenezer Onyeagwu.
According to the Chairman, over the years, CRAN through its annual lecture has provided the platform for issues of national importance to be discussed and solutions proffered, which has invariably assisted the authorities in taking some policy decisions.
This year, he opined the objectives would not be different.