Neighbourhood Enlightenment and Safety Organisation (NESO)
ABOUT NESO
Founded in 2010 through the merger of patriotic organizations, NESO is a non-governmental initiative devoted to supporting Nigeria’s constitutional security agencies through intelligence, community enlightenment, and peacebuilding. With over 70,000 members across the nation, NESO plays a vital role in grassroots safety and counterterrorism efforts.
OUR VISION
OUR MISSION
CORE VALUE
“To assist in creating sustainable safety and security in Nigeria.”
“To provide support intelligence to regular security and intelligence agencies while propagating peace and unity.”
“Protecting and enhancing lives in collaboration with national agencies.”
Objectives:
- To engender security consciousness in our local communities.
- To provide community-based network for committed patriots as agent of a secure, safe and peaceful nation.
- Training of personnel to imbibe and disseminate a new culture and psychology of positive nationalism and patriotism towards building a virile, peaceful and prosperous nation.
- Providing a pool of resourceful, committed Nigerians as volunteers for Para-military duties.
- Deploying the methodology of assimilation as an unconventional means of intelligence collation towards curbing criminalities before the gain root in our society.
- Providing a template for communal peace and cohesion as a boost to the prevention of insurgents and terrorist migration.
Membership:
The membership of NESO comprises of patriotic and security conscious adult Nigerians from every field of human endeavor. This includes core professionals, technocrats, retired but not tired military personnel and those from the menial community including laborers, farmers, tradesmen and tradeswomen, and even the physically challenged, whose vision is to free Nigeria from the rising tide of terrorism and insurgency.
Partnerships:
NESO is in partnership with select community-based organizations (CBOs) on security and other developmental objectives that would make Nigeria bigger, better, safer and prosperous for every law-abiding persons.
We also partner with human rights organizations like the CLO, MPGGI, RDV etc to ensure that in pursing our mission we respect the entrenched rights enjoyed by law-abiding persons.
Our partnership outreach is ongoing with a view to building a web or community of civilian intelligence.
