Today, Sunday Afolabi is a private security guard contracted by one of the A-list private security companies in Lagos to guard an eatery( names withheld), located at Ikeja GRA in Lagos.Īfolabi, an HND holder from Auchi Polythenic in Delta State, confessed that he roamed the streets of Lagos, wrote series of application letters in search of job, after his graduation five years ago, but was not hired by any company. The late Dr Patrick Keku, managing director of Pahek Security Services, Dr Davidson Akhimien, managing director of King David Security Limited, Dr Ona Ekhomu, managing director of Transworld Security, Richard Amuwa, managing director of Mega Guards Security, are some of the private experts Nigeria is blessed with. Some of these companies have national and international spread and operations. Others are: Transworld, Mega Guards, G4S, Zoomlens, Evergreen, Kind David and Sherperdhill. The list of some A-list private security companies operating in Nigeria are : McDon Security, TechnoCrime Security Nigeria Ltd, KingsGuard, Damog Guards, Halogen Security, Eyespy Security Service Limited, Ashaka Security Company, and Proton Security Company Limited. With unemployment figures hitting the roof in Nigeria, there are an estimated 5 million contract security guards in our country.įrom our findings, these guards man 24-hour, 12-hour or 8-hour beats and locations nationwide, but most of them are paid from N10, 000 to N30, 000 on the average as salaries, monthly. Private contract security companies hire all sorts of people, give them one or two weeks crash training courses and hire them out to man beats and locations, nationwide. They are driven by profits, the laws of supply and demand and the desperate hustle for big, juicy contracts, our investigations have shown. Like in other business concerns, owners of registered and yet-to-be-registered private security companies are in for raw deals. It is noted that all over the world, security business is deadly, risky, slippery, dangerous and sophisticated. Today, most contract security guards are earning slave wages monthly, putting their lives on danger to ensure the safety of other people, corporate bodies, government agencies, etc, 24/7.