Rising insecurity across local government areas in Sokoto state. Sokoto State is in the Northwestern part of Nigeria and is most recently, experiencing repeated cases of banditry associated with kidnap for ransom across some local government areas.
Ibrahim Bulle has been working for Spearfish since 2018. Based in Nairobi, Kenya – Ibrahim works with our clients across the region including Ethiopia. He loves to read and an avid fan of Investigative documentaries.
Austen Pabor is our Regional Security Advisor for West Africa. Based in Abuja, Nigeria. Austen has worked for Spearfish for 4 years and his role has grown with the company. When he is not working you might find him on the football pitch or watching Judge Judy.
So, how do you take your hugely successful bite-size 1-hour travel safety webinars and turn them into something that resembles a “travel safety course”? By making it bigger.
Following on from our bite-size 1-hour travel safety webinars, we pulled our team of instructors together to build an online Travel Safety course capable of sufficiently preparing attendees to “travel safely”.
The Spearfish Training team are excited to be getting back in to the classroom in September. The team have adapted their modules to include security best practises when travelling in the midst of a global pandemic.
Earlier this week the Spearfish West Africa team led by Managing Director Dan Hooton invited some of their clients to a virtual roundtable. The event was split up into 3 discussions topics each led by a different member of the SWA Team.
