President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inherits major security challenges. Job creation, poverty alleviation and inclusive growth may be the solution.
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Once in office, the new president will face a myriad of challenges, chief of which is insecurity.
The spike in violence was marked by a 68% increase in fatalities involving civilians.
The interests of bandits and jihadists are converging in Nigeria and this poses a formidable threat to the country’s security.
To stem the tide of violent extremism across the Sahel region, especially northwest Nigeria, the vulnerabilities and grudges of border communities need to be properly addressed.
To understand the latest coup in Burkina Faso, one must appreciate the internal power struggles in the country, their links with violent extremism as well as the role of external state actors.
Rather than ban motorcycles, the Nigerian government must intensify its military campaigns and address socioeconomic causes of insecurity.
Sexual violence against women and girls in Nigeria’s northeastern region persists because of the Nigerian government’s lax response to cases of sexual offences.
Improved mediation skills for local leaders can help prevent the escalation of disputes and break cycles of violence.
Political extremism has a checklist. The more boxes are checked, the closer political extremism gets.
Chadian president Idriss Deby’s death has serious implications for stability in the troubled Lake Chad Basin and the broader Sahel region of West Africa.
Nigeria must eschew nepotism and ethnic or religious sentiments in the war against terror.
The Islamic State group, often called ISIS, is not just based in Iraq and Syria. A scholar tracks where the group and its affiliates have spread around the globe.
It’s been a decade since Boko Haram morphed into a violent, radicalised, Jihadist sect after the death of its founder. Since then it has caused untold harm in Nigeria.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is hoping to be reelected but he’s fallen short on the country’s security challenges.
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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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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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Research Fellow, Obafemi Awolowo University, Regional Coordinator, Institute for Security Studies
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Olabisi Onabanjo University
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Lecturer, University of Northampton
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Associate Profesor in Education and Global Development, University of East Anglia
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professor of International Relations and Visiting Scholar, Texas State University
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Assistant professor, University of Birmingham
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Associate Research Fellow, Africa Center for Strategic Studies
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University of Kent
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Professor of Islamic History, UMass Dartmouth