Come Sunday, April 27, 2014, the NUC accreditation team will berth once again at Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), this time for the accreditation of the University’s Intelligence and Security Studies Programme.
A March 24, 2014 letter signed by NUC’s Director, Quality Assurance, Prof. C.F. Mafiana, said: “I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated March 24, 2014…and to inform the Ag. Vice Chancellor that the Adhoc Accreditation Panel for the Intelligence and Security Programme will arrive the University on April 27, 2014.
Meanwhile, in its determination to produce graduates that will compete favourably in the ever dynamic and competitive global market, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), has set up a befitting Security and Intelligence Laboratory for the use of its Security & Intelligence students in the College of Social and Management Sciences.
The new laboratory, under the supervision of Brigadier-General Joe Komolafe (rtd) who is also a Lecturer in the Department of Security and Intelligence Studies, brings to 36 the number of laboratories in the four-year old university.
Speaking with ABUAD NEWSWEEK after a tour of the laboratory by the Founder, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, the Registrar, lady Christie Oluborode, Representative of the Board of Trustees (BOT), Prof. Olatunji Orubuloye, and the Director of Academic Planning, Dr. Yekeen Lawal as well as Provost, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dr. Olurotimi Sanya, last week, Komolafe said the whole essence of the well-equipped Security and Intelligence laboratory is to give practical effects and feelings to the students.
The retired Brigadier-General said with the vision of the Founder at promoting quality, functional and reformatory education, there is no point mentioning certain gadgets in class without being able to show the students and demonstrate to them how such gadgets work.
He said that because security today goes beyond mere surveillance, the laboratory will go a long way in assisting the students tackle more sophisticated security issues like intelligence gathering, intelligence processing and reconnaissance duties.
Besides, he said the laboratory is equipped with the necessary equipment the students would need to complete the intelligence cycle of direction, collection, processing and dissemination.
The laboratory has eight different units like Processing, Surveillance, Recording, Protection, Navigation, Information, Communication, and Detection which dovetails into Processing all over again.