Contemporary Security Governance in Nigeria

Al Chukwuma Okoli is associate professor at the Federal University of Lafia.Folahanmi Aina is lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Contemporary Security Governance in Nigeria: Themes and Perspectives, edited by Al Chukwuma Okoli and Folahanmi Aina, highlights some of the key governance and security challenges that Nigeria confronts within its complex journey to statehood. The contributors underscore the effect that statehood is a means, rather than an end, as Nigeria comes to terms with both the centripetal and centrifugal forces that put its existence to the test. This book is an important read for both researchers and policy makers as they seek practical solutions toward addressing the issues highlighted by the respective chapter authors. I commend the editors for their incisive thoughts and scholarly contribution to the knowledge on this subject matter.

• List of Figures and TablesPrefaceList of Abbreviations Part One: Understanding Security GovernanceIntroduction: Situating the Subject Matter of Security Governance Al Chukwuma Okoli and Folahanmi AinaChapter One: Theoretical Perspectives on Security Governance Al Chukuma Okoli and Sunday OrinyaChapter Two: The Nature of Nigeria’s National Security ArchitectureSegun OfongoChapter Three: The State as the Context of Security Dispensation and ManagementIkenna Mike Alumona and Stephen Nnaemeka AzomChapter Four: Security-Governance Nexus: Towards a New Paradigm for National Security PraxisAl Chukuwma Okoli, Folahanmi Aina and Freedom Chukwudi OnuohaChapter Five: Democracy, State Legitimacy and Security Governance in Nigeria George A. GenyiChapter Six: Public Emergencies and Security Governance in Nigeria Olasunkanmi Habeeb OkunolaChapter Seven: Gender Dimension to Security Governance in Nigeria Comfort Fatimoh SheiduPart Two: Approaches and Strategies to Security GovernanceChapter Eight: The Imperative of Security Sector Reform in Nigeria Francis OkpalekeChapter Nine: Monopoly of Force and Authority Over Violence: The Military and the Exigency of State Preservation in Nigeria Samuel OyewoleChapter Ten: The Nigerian State and Its Coercive Competencies: An Assessment of The Nigerian State's Response to Internal Security ChallengesIbeh Chinyere and Miriam AdahChapter Eleven: Non-Coercive Approaches to Security Governance in Nigeria Oluwole OjewaleChapter Twelve: Internal Intelligence Oversight and Governance for Security in Nigeria Ebimboere SeiyefaChapter Thirteen: Serving the Perpetrators, Starving the Persecuted? The Contradictions of ‘Operation Safe Corridor’ and their Implications for Security GovernanceJohn Sunday OjoPart Three: State, Foreign, and Non-State Actors in Security GovernanceChapter Fourteen: The Police, Paramilitary Agencies and Public Order in Nigeria Kazeem Oyedele Lamidi and Paul Oluwamoroti AdebayoChapter Fifteen: Foreign Security Force Assistance and Security Governance in NigeriaFolahanmi Aina and Adebayo AdelekeChapter Sixteen: Private Security Companies and Security Provisioning in Nigeria Tosin OsasonaChapter Seventeen: Civil Society and Security Governance in Nigeria Fidelis Ikaade Ochim and Joseph Chigozie NebiefeChapter Eighteen: Traditional Institutions, Faith-Based Organizations, and Public Security in Nigeria Odey Joseph Obinyi, and Martin Luter OrjimeChapter Nineteen: Militias, Vigilantes, and Civilian-led Community Policing in NigeriaNsemba Edward Lenshie, Ugwu Anthony Chinedu and Buhari Shehu MiapyenConclusion: What has Governance Got to Do with Security, and Vice Versa?Al Chukwuma Okoli and Folahanmi AinaAbout the Editors and Contributors