John Sunday Ojo

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  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University
Weapons recovered from bandits during a military operation in Jos, Plateau State, north central Nigeria in April 2021. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty images

Nigeria’s growing security crisis: 6 essential reads

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.
Members of the Yansakai vigilante group in north-west Nigeria surrendering their weapons, 2019. Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images

Nigeria’s terror group Lakurawa is nothing new – it exists because of government’s failure: analysts

Nigeria describes Lakurawa as a new terror group. It is not. It’s been operating along the Nigeria-Niger border since 1999, an indication of the region’s growing ungoverned spaces.

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