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Rethinking Nigeria’s Security Architecture Through the State Police Debate

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Centralised policing, Federal Government, State police, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Rethinking Nigeria's Security Architecture Through the State Police Debate

By Chris Kwaja Introduction The primary purpose of the modern state is the provision of security. Without the capacity to protect lives, property, and public order, the legitimacy of the sta... Read more

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How Tunani BookClub’s 2025 World Literacy Day Connected Digital Literacy to National Security

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Abuja, Digital modernity, ETC, IDP child, Michelle Amdo Ibrahim, National security, Permacrisis, Philistinism, The Nigerian State, UPENo CommentsViews:
How Tunani BookClub's 2025 World Literacy Day Connected Digital Literacy to National Security

The mandarins of the digital tech space in the Western world ought to have been there to listen to the literacy concerns from a major site of consumers of their products. That site is Nigeri... Read more

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No Cure for Rural Criminal Groups Than Reassertion of the Nigerian State, Says Prof Kwaja

Posted By: adminon: July 18, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ACSS, Citizens’ agency, Criminal armed groups, PEACE, Rural communities, Senator Abdulaziz Yar’adua, Social provisioning, The Nigerian State, Urban criminalityNo CommentsViews:
No Cure for Rural Criminal Groups Than Reassertion of the Nigerian State, Says Prof Kwaja

There are no other ways to contain the rising influence of non-state armed groups than the Nigerian State re-asserting itself. Canvassing this position is Prof Chris Kwaja, peace academic an... Read more

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Pitfalls of ‘Governed’ and ‘Ungoverned’ Spaces in Analysing Security in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy, BOKO HARAM, Borno State, CORRUPTION, Neoliberal economic reforms, Post 9/11, Sovereignty, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Pitfalls of ‘Governed’ and ‘Ungoverned’ Spaces in Analysing Security in Nigeria

By Hussaini Abdu (Ph.D) “Governance … has been turned into a mad rush to empty the treasury for private use. This means the core business of governance has disappeared for decades, and the o... Read more

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The Adamawa Electoral Drama and Nigeria’s Rising Danger Signals

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Adamawa, DSS, Panadol, Public order, Second Republic, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
The Adamawa Electoral Drama and Nigeria’s Rising Danger Signals

An inconclusive election in one of the provinces almost became the trigger of the kind of breakdown of order the country has been scared of. As relatively remote as Adamawa, it could have be... Read more

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Nigeria’s Leading Labour Platform Set to Mourn Comrade Akpan

Posted By: adminon: December 10, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Comrade Akpan Dan, Leader-worker, Nigeria Labour Congress, Radicalism, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria's Leading Labour Platform Set to Mourn Comrade Akpan

The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) has been a high profile actor since the mid-1970s when the Nigerian State made what it must, from hindsight, be considering the strategic error of centrali... Read more

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Armed Robbers Attack Peace Researcher, Dr. Chris Kwaja

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Community policing, Stateness, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Armed Robbers Attack Peace Researcher, Dr. Chris Kwaja

Generalised insecurity in Nigeria sent yet another ominous signal the day before yesterday in his country home in Jos, Plateau State, (not Yola as incorrectly reported earlier on) when activ... Read more

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