Boko Haram, The Nigerian State and Counterinsurgency: A Strategic Analysis

Falode, Adewunmi James

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“…This means that Mails from Nigeria's financial institutions may not get full attention, and may likely be considered a scam because of how people outside the country see Nigerians as criminals. Nigerians may soon be undergoing serious scrutiny when establishing a business in another country, more serious than what it is experiencing now if at all they are not met with total denial (Falode, 2016) [25] . (iii).…”

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Insurgency, armed banditry and corruption in Nigeria: The bane of socio-economic underdevelopment

Adegoke

2020

Int. J. Adv. Acad. Stud.

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This paper examines the socio-economic effects of insurgency, armed banditry and corruption in Nigeria. The country as a nation state is under a severe internal socio economic and security threat. As a more general level, the threat has social, economic, political and environmental dimensions. Each of these dimensions has greatly affected the nation's stability, and can be traced to the ethnic militia armies, ethnic and religious conflicts, poverty, terrorism, armed robbery, corruption, economic sabotage and environmental degradation. The efforts of the government to eradicate insurgency, banditry and corruption have been slow and costly in terms of public funds spent, lives and properties lost. This has made the citizenry to question, the efficiency of the menace. Using frustration aggression theory, this growth and flourishing of insurgency, armed banditry, kidnapping and corruption. Historical method of research and analysis was employed in the study. The study data were collected through documentation of secondary sources including review of related literature journals and writeups. The study is also descriptive in style as it built on the findings of already existing works, about emerging security threats in Nigeria. The study is concluded by recommending among others that the country should evolve a sustainable social security system which will discourage public office holders from engaging in corruption, good information sharing techniques providing gainful employment opportunities for the citizenry and so on.

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Section: Implications For Nigeria's Socio-economic Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Insurgency, armed banditry and corruption in Nigeria: The bane of socio-economic underdevelopment

Adegoke

2020

Int. J. Adv. Acad. Stud.

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Boko Haram, The Nigerian State and Counterinsurgency: A Strategic Analysis

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Insurgency, armed banditry and corruption in Nigeria: The bane of socio-economic underdevelopment

Insurgency, armed banditry and corruption in Nigeria: The bane of socio-economic underdevelopment

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