IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL POLICY (JHSP )

E-ISSN 2545-5729
P-ISSN 2695 2416
VOL. 4 NO. 2 2024

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Trends and Issues in Security Challenges in Nigeria’s Fourth Republics, 1999-2015

DAHUNSI, Taiwo Adegbenro

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Abstract

Nigeria is today a country that practices democratic governance but in the midst of security threat, the threat was orchestrated by youth militancy, sea piracy, inter-ethnic conflicts, National Union of Road Transport Workers’ clashes, kidnapping, banditry, ethnic nationalism, Fulanis harders /farmers clashes, Book-Haram insurgency etc. the spate of the threat made people to doubt the legitimacy of the democratic government more as violence erupted across major parts especially of the northern parts of the country hardly the Nigeria’s Fourth Republic took off on 29th May, 1999. The coercive and repressive state system to quelling people’s violent expression of grievances through the state security agencies thereby living the underlying issues out also proved extremely inappropriate. The state possession of modern military hardware, military proficiency, efficient police, customs, Directorate of State Security (DSS) and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps never mitigate the threat posed. The threats posed especially by the youths militancy in the south-southern part which is the revenue nerve centre of the country is unprecedented. All the same, the activities of Boko-Haram, a terrorist organization did not only spell doom for Nigeria internally, but had disgracefully turned Nigeria to a terrorist state. The dynamics of the violent activities of the Boko-Haram, ethnic militias, Fulani herders / farmers clashes and the state inability to quell most violence are trends that this paper is out to interrogate having taken into cognizance of modern military hardware of the state. The paper however discovered that there are underlying issues such as mass alienation of people from governance, corruption, poverty, ethnic nationalism, and general underdevelopment. The paper suggests that true federalism, mass youth employment scheme, equitable distribution of the state resources and good governance with a strong statesmanship leadership, Nigeria will o

keywords:

National Security, Nigeria Fourth Republic, Terrorism, Militancy, Insurgency

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