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.

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.

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.