Nigeria's Security Challenges and the way Forward

Abstract

The persistence of insecurity of lives and properties in society has caused/posed fear, threat and anxiety to the citizens in our society. This paper, therefore, examined the concept of security and identified various types and classification of insecurity facing Nigerian, which includes herder farmers conflicts, terrorism/religion extremism, ethno religion crisis, organized violent groups, weak security system, Niger Delta crisis, and kidnapping among others. However, the paper identified the strategies required by the government to solve the secondary challenge, which includes practical and practice leadership, job creation, good and quality education, improved funding for expanded Armed forces, involvement of religious organizations and the role of civil society and the paper came out with some recommendations such as equity, fairness and justice for all the citizens; prompt actions by the government via reconciliation between herders and farmers, religious tolerance among citizen and increasing security vote of security agencies.