Providing street lighting will need a new approach to infrastructure development.
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Olabisi Onabanjo University
In response to the general state of insecurity in Nigeria, local community groups in Lagos are mobilising and providing solutions.
Experts provide insights into the various actors involved in Nigeria’s security challenge, their motivation and why efforts to rein them in haven’t quite succeeded.
Large banditry and terror attacks were relatively rare in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria’s south-west region until recently.
Youth migration, unemployment, proliferation of small arms and drugs are some of the drivers of violent crimes in Lagos.
Nigeria’s built environment should ideally be part of a broader, integrated approach to crime prevention and community policing.
Aside from human rights abuses, vigilantes may be unreliable, poorly skilled, and lacking transparency and accountability.
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