The full breath of Dr. Daniel Udo-Akang’s work is evident in his unflinching struggle and unwavering passion and commitment to make Africa a better place for all people. The founder of Africa Intelligence Agency (AIA). An uncompromised voice, a stoic, with extraordinary talent invested in the most-high-stake commitment to support the development of capabilities for the advancement of Africa in the 21st Century. He was Intelligence Studies Instructor at American Military University, West Virginia since 2010 until his new assignment as the Principal, Federal Security Services Group based in the United States. He has been teaching Homeland security and Intelligence professionals serving in various U.S. Homeland defense and Intelligence institutions for many years. Daniel is an accomplished International Investigator.
Education:
He graduated from Bellevue University, Nebraska, American Military University, West Virginia, and Northcentral University, Arizona where he earned MS in Security Management, MA in National Security Studies, and a PhD in Homeland Security, Leadership and Policy respectively. In 2014, his research on the “Assessment of Barriers to Institutional Consensus in the U.S. Homeland Security Community” was one of the few selected bibliography for U.S. Army War College’s Library. Daniel’s mentors described him as unusually gifted researcher. He earned Presidential commendation in his publication by the American International Journal of Contemporary Research – Vol. 4, No. 4; April 2014. Daniel published very interesting peer-reviewed papers and institutional webzines, including Cyber Attacks: Contemporary Warfare, which was published by Israeli Homeland Security (i-HLS); Understanding Intelligence and Covert Investigation published by USAPI. On assessment of his interesting publications, Dr. Daniel Udo-Akang earned ‘Publishing Author Excellence Award’ from the Northcentral University, Arizona.
Public and Foreign Policy Activities
Dr. Daniel Udo-Akang is strongly passionate about public policy and foreign policy activities. He struggled with governments on how to make Africa a better place and transitioned to the Republican Party (GOP) in 2016 to help campaign and promote President Trump’s policies on Africa. In 2018, Daniel filed an injunction in the U.S. District Court in South Florida, pleading the Court to terminate Arms sales to sub-Saharan Africa, especially Nigeria following human massacre by Herdsmen Terrorist group. President Trump immediately suspended Arms sales to the country and proactively summoned President Buhari of Nigeria to Washington for questioning. Subsequently, Daniel became Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Counterterrorism matters, managing intelligence stovepipe to ensure conventional intelligence integrity. In addition to successful investigation of the Boko Haram, Dr. Daniel Udo-Akang was instrumental to the successful investigative management of the clash between Shias Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and the Nigerian Army in 1995 (Zaria Massacre). He developed a National Strategy for Peace in the Niger Delta in 2007 that formulated the establishment of the Department of Niger Delta in Nigeria. Dr. Daniel Udo-Akang is one of the best National Security Analyst and the principal advocate of Trump Doctrine for Africa (TDA).
In one of his presentations, Daniel emphasized the understanding of counterintelligence, covert investigations, and the development of intelligence assessment priorities to effectively support statecraft in the application of elements of national power. Wrong decisions, such as Russia-Ukraine war are clear proof of intelligence assessment and prioritization failures, if 2008-U.S. failed-attempt to map Ukraine and Georgia during NATO enlargement summit in Bucharest-Romania was taken into consideration. According to Daniel, “I admire all U.S. Presidents but my support is POLICY DEPENDENT.” President Trump, as 45th President, demonstrated superb understanding of African needs and provided the push, in addition to homeland security support, the education to enlighten African people, the need to break away from dependency Syndrome. For TDA to succeed, according to Daniel, the integrity of Democracy must be established because strong democracy and national security are critically inseparable. Security uncertainty in many parts of Africa is facilitated by dysfunctional Democratic practices championed by Pseudo-politicians. As a member of the Presidential Advisory Board, Daniel condemned the strategy of only pursuing to kill the terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, and the gangsters without first pursuing to capture and kill their sponsors. Leadership is the strength of every institution or organization – “strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.” That was Afghanistan and Iraq strategy. Intelligence gathering in a counterterrorism environment requires utmost sensitivity. Counterterrorism is not an area for inexperienced troops – that was why we had Special Forces with asymmetric-terrain experience. African situation is simple – Democracy must be right to achieve community-wide, nation-wide homeland security, Daniel asserted.