Conflict, insecurity, and underdevelopment characterize today’s critical global challenges. This triple threat presents an interrelationship often requiring multifaceted, broad-angled, partnership-based solutions to effectively resolve. Despite the existing interrelationship, differentiation based on geographical location, diverse cultural realities, historical trends, competing and dominant ideologies, local specificity and environmental factors interplay to create variants across regions. These multiple variations appearing similar on the surface manifest differences and webbed complexities better understood and managed within their own local dynamic setting, irrespective of the canopy of global development partnerships. Effectively resolving such challenges requires locally developed, homegrown solutions created by domestic actors expressing best practices and a global outlook, necessitating the need for a vital increase of domestic development experts to level in Africa.
To be Africa’s foremost partner in building peace and prosperity, leveraging the wealth of her resources - human and natural.
To deliver innovative and incisive solutions and services to communities, governments and development partners’ which strengthen their performance in advancing peace, security and development in Africa.
Barricade International Limited is committed to providing the highest quality of conflict management, security and development solutions and services while adhering to all applicable legal and standards’ requirements. In this respect, we established an effective quality management system, respect for human rights and commit to public and personnel safety. Our employees are consciously aware and support the development and delivery of our solutions and services within the context of customers’ requirements. Additionally, in a bid to continually improve our quality management system to enhance quality performance and customer satisfaction, we annually review our strategic performance, generate goals and targets in line with our corporate goals, and review this policy for continued suitability.
Barricade International Limited is committed to protecting the environment by minimizing environmental impacts as it relates to our activities including those of our suppliers. We are committed to fulfilling our compliance obligations and other requirements relating to our environmental aspects. In line with this policy and our strategic direction, the framework of our objectives is generated in a bid to prevent and reduce environmental pollution, and the reduction and proper disposal of waste. All employees support the implementation of this environmental policy which is available to all interested parties for their consumption. We are dedicated to continually improving our environmental management system to enhance environmental performance, and thus constantly review this policy for continued suitability.
Barricade International Limited provides conflict management, security and development consulting and services to governments, international organizations, commercial interests and non-state actors. As such, we are committed to providing safe and healthy work conditions for the prevention of work-related injuries and ill-health in respect to our associated occupational health and safety risks and opportunities in conformance to prescribed legal requirements and relevant industry standards. In line with this policy and our strategic direction, the framework of our objectives is generated in a bid to eliminate hazards and occupational health and safety risks within an environment for continual improvement of the occupational health and safety management system. We are committed to providing and maintaining an effective system of joint consultation and participation of our employees on occupational health and safety. This policy is communicated to all employees, is available to all interested parties and it is reviewed for continuous relevance and suitability.
Barricade International Limited is in the business of providing conflict management, security and development consulting and services to governments, international organizations, commercial interests and non-state actors. It is therefore important to note that our work at times may require that our personnel work in areas or take actions that put their lives and lives of others at risk. Notwithstanding, human life is sacrosanct, and its value is central to our core values and business operations. Therefore, as a company we are committed to upholding the principles of humanitarian law and human rights. Accordingly, we have adopted a company-wide human rights policy to drive this understanding to all and sundry. It is our policy as Barricade International Limited to treat all human beings with the respect and dignity they deserve. Our business conduct is guided by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the “Universal Declaration”) and other applicable human rights documents and principles. All personnel or anyone undertaking work on our behalf are policy-bound to uphold these standards.
We proffer multifaceted, broad-angled solutions, leveraging global best practices and partnerships in solving Africa’s complex development challenges. Our solutions are dynamic and innovative, with high premium on strategic specificity, taking into consideration differentiation based on geography, cultural ideologies and other differentials which are aboriginal to Africa and Africans.
This includes cross-functional, integrated and/or multisectoral solutions for governments, government agencies, regional and international organizations, businesses, civil society organizations and other clients.
We undertake complete and part-based program lifecycle delivery services in support of our clients’ needs. Whether it be a food security problem or strengthening education, a post-conflict reconstruction or a health inadequacy, we support with action-based strategies from in-house design to evaluation.
We work on behalf of government agencies, regional and international organizations, businesses and other clients as technical experts, assistants and/or consultants in support of various development programs.
This includes convening result-yielding discussions and debates around development policy concerns to develop better strategies. Development communication plays a critical role in development progress across the world.
Barricade International is a multicultural and inclusive company with a unique approach to international development. We are a multidisciplinary team of experts with the insight, skills and knowledge to resolve Africa’s development challenges. Meet our team leaders below.
CEO/Principal Advisor
Chukwuemeka Umunna is the CEO & principal advisor at Barricade International Limited, a company he founded after resigning his position as Strategic Relations Advisor at Ocean Marine Solutions Ltd (OMS). Prior to OMS, he’d served in the Nigerian Army, working to contain violent intercultural conflicts, armed militancy, critical infrastructure and energy insecurity, political and economic sabotage. Mr. Umunna is a conflict management, security, and development expert with over 24 years cognate experience in the public and private sectors. This experience spans years in military service, and various positions held at Ocean Marine Solutions Ltd, Primary Defence Ltd., Multi Oil and Gas Ltd., and Zidon Engineering Services Ltd., including consulting roles for the Nigerian Content Monitoring and Development Board (NCDMB) and Castor Vali Services Nigeria Ltd. Having lived and worked on resolving conflict in some of Nigeria’s most hostile areas, Emeka possesses extensive experience in conflict management and security. He is adept at private sector led community development programs and community relationship management, including stakeholder management and partnership building, as well as government – business relations and liaison. As CEO, he brings all that experience to bear, providing overall leadership for Barricade International Ltd.’s strategic security, conflict transformation and development outlook for Nigeria. Chukwuemeka holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Physiology from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He also holds a professional diploma in safety and security management from Rivers State University, several ISO management systems auditor certifications, and other certifications in conflict management, stakeholder management and facility management.
Lead, Healthcare Innovation & Development
Lead, Healthcare Innovation & Development Dr Ramatu Agbede is the Lead for healthcare innovation & development and director, country wellness program (Nigeria) at Barricade International Ltd., and senior clinician with the University Health Services (UHS) of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. Dr Ramatu is a Primary Care Physician and has worked at the grassroots of healthcare in both public and private settings for over 15 years gaining experience in Primary Care, Public Health and capacity development. She presently coordinates academic and clinical activities as part of continuous professional development within the UHS. Ramatu is a part of the process to produce standard operative protocols within UHS in a bid to standardise care for all patients. She has keen clinical interests in special populations especially women, children and the elderly and she is an advocate for equity and accessibility to health care for all. These interests have led her to offer her clinical services in different grassroot locations across Northern Nigeria. Ramatu holds a Master’s in International Public Health (MIPH) from the University of Queensland, Australia and obtained her medical degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. She has completed postgraduate residency training in Family Medicine and has graduate certificates in Leadership and Management in Health (LMIH) and Project Management from the University of Washington’s Global Health programme.
Advisor, Legal & Ethics
Udemba Chinyereugo Ngeleoka Esq. is the Lead Advisor, Legal & Ethics at Barricade International Ltd., and Chief Litigation Partner (CLP) at Titilayo Akinbiyi & Partners, a firm specialized in Labour & Employment Law, Corporate Law and Property law. In his capacity at the firm, he is involved in preparation of pleadings and case management of all suits in the firm. Mr Udemba is also specialized in Maritime law. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and also a Dispute Resolution and Management Specialist. He holds a Bachelor At Law (LLB) degree from the Abia State University Uturu and a Barrister At Law (BL) degree from the Nigerian Law School.
Lead, Tech Innovation and Digital Solutions
Ikechukwu is an IT Professional with over 15 years of experience in system administration, cyber security and DevOps. He has strong technical skills as well as excellent interpersonal skills, enabling him to interact with a wide range of clients. He is eager for new challenges which has allowed him grow and improve his IT skills and he is passionate about using his technical skills to the benefit of people and organisations. He has managed the IT infrastructure of several organisations like EEMS Limited, Upgrade Plus Nig. LTD and DynaSmart. He has also handled projects for Nigeria Communications Commission, NSChE, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, NPHCDA and Creative Associates International. Ikechukwu Umunna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and several professional IT certifications.
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