UPDATED: Security Trend Analysis: Is Insurgency 2.0 Fermenting In Nigeria?

Preamble: At the risk of painting a gloomy picture, I dare submit that the tempo of social tension, political entropy, armed conflict, wanton bloodletting, ungoverned spaces, and the centrifugal forces at play in Nigeria is to say the least, ramping up every day and very disturbing. Not to be outdone, Nigeria is increasingly ticking all the right boxes of a fragile state and upping the misery index. To be sure, Nigeria increased from 94.4 index in 2006 to 97.27 index in 2020. Aforesaid upshots in Nigeria are fueled by widening gap in social cohesion, entrenched marginalization, corruption, multidimensional poverty, inequality, injustice, uncurbed proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) and attendant quest for the Balkanization of the country by sundry self-determination groups.

United Nations Reiterate Economic Dangers Of Small Arms In West Africa

The deputy country director of the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, Mandisa Masholugu says both ECOWAS and relevant agencies of the United Nations must increase advocacy on the economic dangers posed by the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in Africa.

He said this at the regional symposium held to launch the survey project report on small arms and light weapons in the Sahel and neighbouring countries. The survey which was conducted in nine African countries show that proliferation of small arms is not only on the increase but linked with drugs and human trafficking.

For the deputy director of the U.N. regional centre for peace and disarmament in Africa, Jiaming Miao and ECOWAS head of small arms division, Joseph Ahoba, the recent crisis in the Sahel, and increasing insecurity in the lake chad basin has greatly worsened the already tense situation.

Culled from: AIT

National Security: ‘Terrorists Are Taking Advantage of Nigeria's Porous Borders’ - NACFEST Boss

The Coordinator, National Counter Terrorism Strategy (NACFEST), Commodore Yaminu Musa (rtd), raised this concern at a three-day workshop on joint border control and enhanced regional cooperation to combat terrorism held recently in Lagos.