A Critical Appraisal of Nigeria’s Most Consequential Security Debate By Oluwole Solanke, PhD, FCIB Nigeria is once again standing at a crossroads of national consequence. From the blood-soaked communities of the North-West ravaged by banditry, to the insurgency-battered territories of the North-East; from the simmering farmer-herder battlegrounds of the Middle Belt, to the kidnapping corridors of the South and the organised crime networks festering in major urban centres, the Nigerian state is confronting a security crisis of alarming proportions. The question that now stirs vigorous debate in legislative chambers, academic…
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