Managing Contemporary Security Challenges in Nigeria

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, GermanyKenneth 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.