{
  "id": 3141146,
  "title": "LASU, NIS convene conference to address border security",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/lasu-nis-convene-conference-to-address-border-security",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-25T00:00:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Punch",
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    "url": "https://punchng.com/lasu-nis-convene-conference-to-address-border-security/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The 2026 annual conference of the African Borderlands Research Network, held in Ikeja, Lagos, was co-hosted by Lagos State University (LASU) and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS). The conference, themed \"The Connected Borderlands: Socio-Cultural Integration and the Centrality of Policy, Research and Security,\" aimed to address emerging security challenges and promote socio-cultural integration across African borders. LASU's Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, emphasized the importance of viewing borderlands as living spaces where people, cultures, languages, markets, and histories intersect, and stressed the necessity of collaboration among researchers, policymakers, security agencies, and border communities to tackle border management, migration, security, regional integration, and socio-economic realities.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Punch Nigeria",
        "title": "LASU, NIS convene conference to address border security",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/lasu-nis-convene-conference-to-address-border-security-3143834",
        "published": "2026-08-25T00:16:16.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}