FG to unveil National Strategy for Strategic Communications Approach

The Federal Government will soon unveil National Strategy for Strategic Communications (NSSC) aimed to tackle the ideology and narrative of the Boko Haram terrorists and other insurgent groups in the country.
The strategy which is similar to the Soft-Approach programme of the previous administration will coordinate government communication across the Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) and reinforce their core-values towards de-radicalisation of terrorists.
Speaking at a two-day ‘Counter Violent Extremism (CVE)-Media Round Table’ in Abuja, a Deputy Director in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Ahmad Gusau said the NSSC, is a policy document put together by ONSA with the technical support of the EU.
Mr. Gusau who represented the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj-Gen. Babagana Mongonu (rtd) at the occasion said: “A validation workshop on the draft NSCC was held in June, 2015 and contributions of the various departments of government and other stakeholders are being integrated before the document would be approved and unveiled.
“It will interest you to know that the draft NSSC has as one of its six focus areas, the relationship between government and the media.”
To this end, he added that the media round table was aimed “to draw the attention of the media to current understanding of terrorist’s use of media and violent extremism in Nigeria, including the ISIS, which has since incorporated Boko Haram, and ways in which both groups radicalize, propagandize and recruit by exploiting the media”.


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