Unpacking Contemporary Security Challenges in Nigeria

SecuritySecurity and developmentdevelopment are intertwined (Krause in Secur Dial 36(4):447–462, 2005; Onime in Eur Sci J 14:377–391, 2018; Stewart in Development and security. Centre for research on inequality, human security and ethnicity, CRISE. Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. Working paper, 2004). Security provides a conduciveconducive atmosphere for development to thrive. Insecurity, therefore, is antitheticalantithetical to growth and development. It provides an enablingenabling environment for poverty, social unrest, social dislocation, food insecurityfood insecurityinsecurity as well as politicalpolitical and economiceconomic instabilityinstability.