This Book extensively examines Nigeria’ s multifarious security challenges and proffers implementable recommendations for their effective management. The Book acknowledges the inevitability of conflicts and insecurities in a pluralistic Nation like Nigeria with diverse ethnic, religious, economic, political, social and other interests; but blames the metamorphosis of conflicts into fatal security challenges on the poor management of such conflicts at their early stages of development.
The Book clearly establishes how poor conflict and security management led to the political crises of the 1950s and the 1960s, the civil war of 1967-70, the recurring bloody ethno-religious and communal crises, the fatal farmers/herders clashes and livestock rustling, the Niger Delta Militancy, the Boko Haram insurgency, the incessant armed robberies and kidnappings, the “Biafra” secession threat, etc.
The Book exposes the author ‘s deep knowledge of the subject, not only as a Management Scholar, but as a person who served for several years on Presidential, State and Local Committees on Boko Haram insurgency, livestock rustling and other security challenges. Those services enabled him to have direct contacts and discussions with insurgents and rustlers and with security personnel. As a senior member of the traditional institution, the author has the added advantage of obtaining information on security challenges from the grassroots, some of which could not be obtained even by security personnel. The Book therefore contains rare, priviledged, authentic and important information on the security challenges bedevilling Nigeria.
