Managing Contemporary Security Challenges in Nigeria

This book covers a wide range of security issues in Nigeria, including insurgency, terrorism, herder-farmer conflicts, military reforms and internal security, the Nigeria Police Force and security management, intelligence gathering and insecurity, etc. It offers an in-depth assessment of the national security strategies and policies in Nigeria along with a critical assessment of the role of intelligence gathering in security management. It is useful for policymakers, students, and other important stakeholders in the security studies.

Analyses of the obstacles bedeviling security agencies in the broad fight against violent extremism in Nigeria Examines the engagement of the international dimensions to insecurity in Nigeria Emphasises on De-Radicalisation, Rehabilitation, and Re-Integration

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Ali Arazeem Abdullahi is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria and a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Usman A. Raheem, Ph.D. is a Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Jimoh Amzat is a Professor of Sociology at Usmanu Dan-Fodio University, Sokoto, Nigeria. He received the Erasmus Mundus scholarship by the European Union as a graduate student and and Georg Forster postdoctoral fellowship, Germany

Kenneth C. Nwachukwu is a seasoned diplomat who served for 34 years in the nation's foreign service; a career that saw him posted to various Nigerian Missions including Burkina Faso, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, and was bookended as Nigeria's Ambassador to Mali.

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Part I: Some Contemporary Security Issues in Nigeria.- 1. Terrorism and Insurgency: The Nigerian Experience.- 2. Climate Change and Herders-Farmers Conflict in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges.- 3. Border Management and Insecurity in Nigeria.- 4. Providing Evidence-Based Policymaking for Contemporary Security Challenges: A Task for the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies.- Part II: Security Agencies and the Challenges of Insecurity in Nigeria.- 5. Civilian Control, Military Reform and Internal Security in Nigeria.- 6. The Nigeria Police Force and Internal Security Management: Issues and Challenges.- 7. Centralised Police System and Security Challenges in Nigeria: The Need for a State-based Approach to Policing.- 8. Interrogating Non-Conventional Security Provisions in Nigeria.- Part III: International Environment and Insecurity in Nigeria.- 9. The International Environment and the State of Insecurity in Nigeria: A Critical Reflection on the Emerging Issues.- 10. Global Terrorism Networks and Insurgency in Nigeria.- 11. The Intersection between Nigeria's Foreign Policy and National Security.- 12. International Counter-Terrorism Cooperation and National Security in Nigeria.- Part IV: Intelligence Gathering and Insecurity.- 13. Intelligence and Management of National Security.- 14. Cyber Intelligence and Internal Security Management in Nigeria.- Part V: De-radicalisation and Rehabilitation.- 15. Emerging Issues in De-radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Re-Integration of Ex-Terrorists in Nigeria.- 16. Emerging Issues in Rehabilitation of Victims of Terrorism in Nigeria.- Rehabilitating the Internally Displaced Children through Specialised Schooling in Nigeria.