NNRA begins nuclear security training for airport, border officials

The Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA) has commenced a Nuclear Security Awareness Training for captious officials to fortify the country's capableness to forestall illicit trafficking of atomic and different radioactive materials.

Declaring the grooming unfastened astatine the Airport Hotel, Abuja, connected Monday, the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the NNRA, Dr Yau Usman Idris, said atomic information is simply a captious constituent of nationalist information that requires sustained vigilance and inter-agency cooperation.

Dr Idris said the NNRA was established by the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act No. 19 of 1995 with the mandate to alteration Nigeria to conscionable its nationalist and planetary information and information obligations successful the exertion of atomic vigor and ionising radiation.

He noted that portion atomic exertion offers important benefits successful healthcare, agriculture, research, manufacture and energy, the materials indispensable beryllium decently protected against theft, unauthorised entree and sabotage.

"Any compromise successful their information could person superior consequences for nationalist safety, nationalist security, the environment, and the economy," helium said.

The DG described frontline officers astatine airports, seaports and borderline crossings arsenic the archetypal enactment of defence, adding that their quality to recognise indicators of illicit trafficking and initiate an due effect could marque a captious quality successful preventing information incidents.

"Basic atomic information cognition is...