Security Agents

Security Education JSS1 Second Term

Sub-theme: Common Crimes and security management

Week 1

Security Agents

Performance Objectives:

Students should be able to:

1. Explain security Agents.

Content

Security Agents

Security agents are government officials who conduct intelligence activities for the internal and external security of a nation.

They are the domestic cousins of foreign intelligence agencies, and typically conduct counterintelligence to thwart other countries' foreign intelligence efforts.

The following are examples of Nigerian security agents:  

1. Nigeria Police Force (NPF)

2. Nigeria Security & Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC)

3. Nigerian Army  

4. Nigerian Navy

5. Nigerian Air force (NAF)

6. Department of Security Services (DSS)

7. National Intelligence Agency (NIA)

8. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

9. National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)

10. Nigerian Custom Service (NCS)