The Nigerian army is not doing enough to help widows of its soldiers who died fighting Boko Haram.
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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.
Systemic large scale forced abortions in Nigeria’s north-east are a new development.
Undoubtedly, barbarity lies at the epicentre of modernity.
Young people’s use of technology such as Twitter shows that they are interested in politics and governance and have found a way to participate.
The Nigerian military needs a systemic approach to solving family disruptions and strains often caused by personnel deployment away from home.
The atrocities and motivation of bandits have assumed insurgent-type criminality. But the Nigerian government is reluctant to label them terrorists or insurgents.
Although it’s failed to deliver democracy to citizens, Nigeria is not the collapsed and disintegrated entity which a 2005 US National Intelligence Council analysis predicted it would become by 2020.
Nigeria is not getting full benefits of increased funding for its military
There is a need for a special unit for civil-military relations as the police cannot deal effectively with protests.
The International Criminal Court has been called to investigate the shooting of unarmed protesters in Lagos.
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