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Security Governance and the Necessity for Community-led Approaches in Nigeria

Posted by admin | Jul 9, 2025 |

A number of community-led initiatives have emerged in response to Nigeria’s deepening security crisis. Using broken windows theory as its conceptual frame, this paper examines several examples of community policing in the country, to explore the factors which shape the effectiveness of local security actors. It finds that community-led policing succeeds where legal recognition, oversight, and intergroup trust are present and fails where fragmentation and impunity persist. The study proposes the refinement of community-led security mechanisms by better integrating them into Nigeria’s national architecture, while also contributing to broader debates on hybrid security governance in fragile states.

The Boko Haram Insurgency and the Festering Human Insecurity in North-East Nigeria

Posted by admin | Sep 28, 2021 |

The study establishes a nexus between Boko Haram insurgency and human insecurity in the north-east of Nigeria. Anchoring on the concept of human security, the study adopt qualitative method of data collection and analysis which relied heavily on extant literature from journal articles, official documents, workshop and seminar papers, newspapers, magazines and internet
sources. The study argues that though human insecurity is a major driver of the Boko Haram insurgency. The lethal and destructive activities of its actors have heightened and widened the spate of human insecurity amid debilitating food insecurity, physical harm, internal displacements and hemorrhaging refugee syndrome. The study concludes that military combat alone cannot tame the Boko Haram insurgency and thus recommends that, the government should adopt credible measures to address the human security challenges as an effective and functional counter-insurgency strategy.