President Muhammadu Buhari has given the National Center for the Coordination of Early Warning and Response Mechanism permission to start working.
The government agency was set up when President Muhammadu Buhari signed Executive Order 12.
The National Early Warning Center is set up by the order signed on June 10, 2022.
Article 58 of the Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Article 16 of the Protocol on the Mechanism for Preventing, Managing, Resolving, Maintaining Peace, and Securing Peace back it up.
Under the ECOWAS instruments, including the Revised ECOWAS Treaty of 1993, each member state must set up a national early warning centre to deal with issues related to threats to human security.
The Nigerian Centre will be based in the Office of the Vice President. It will do research, analysis, and give advice on trends in the human security sector, which includes the environment, public health, and government.
The Centre will also pay attention to human rights, food security, and crime, and it will help the government deal with new problems in these areas.
Chris Ngwodo has been chosen by the President to be the Director General of the National Center.
Ngwodo was Senior Special Assistant to the President on Policy Research in the Vice President's office (VP's office) until now.
He had been the Vice President's Technical Assistant for Justice, Conflict, and Security.
The lawyer has worked for more than a decade on issues related to conflict, human security, policy, and development.
Ngwodo was a member of the North-East Initiative Presidential Committee.