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.
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Nigeria needs to take full responsibility for its own security governance and counter-terrorism campaign without waiting for foreign handouts.
Social media can reach people around the world. However, the simplicity and superficiality of hashtags neither readily lend themselves to feminist causes nor were they designed to be feminist tools.
Climate policies in Africa must include clear commitments to combat modern slavery.
China stands a good chance of taking advantage of the dwindling western presence in the Sahel region of west Africa.
When governments denounce terrorist attacks, backlash follows – typically within a few days, research found.
The capabilities of the Nigerian Air Force have geopolitical implications for combating terrorism and threats of coups in west Africa.
Ghana is a big player in west African geopolitics.
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.
What will happen to Cameroon after President Paul Biya, who has been in power since 1982?
The latest suicide bomb attack in Nigeria could be an act of desperation, a tactical shift or a form of communication by the insurgents.
Boko Haram leaders valued western education knowledge for the tactical advantages it offered.
Large banditry and terror attacks were relatively rare in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria’s south-west region until recently.
The disintegration of the United States’ relationship with Niger following its military coup in 2023 is giving way to stronger ties between the African country and Russia and China.
Education can spur peace and development. Here are five essential reads on the topic.
Increasingly slick films attracting big budgets are major features of Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry.
Boko Haram may be the unintended beneficiary of the crisis created by the recent coup in Niger.
Civilian protection payment is not a sustainable self-protection strategy in north-west Nigeria.
In parts of Nigeria and Mozambique, the central governments and state institutions are either absent or unable to address the dire socio-economic conditions and related instability.
Deadly attacks on schoolchildren by terrorists groups have been growing around the world from 2009.
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Associate professor in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
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Lecturer in Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, SOAS, University of London
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Researcher, Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Modibbo Adama University of Technology
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Lecturer, University of Northampton
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Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Nile University of Nigeria
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Research Fellow, Obafemi Awolowo University, Regional Coordinator, Institute for Security Studies
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University of Pretoria
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Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State
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Associate Profesor in Education and Global Development, University of East Anglia