Nigeria’s National Security Issues and Challenges is a valuable addition to the growing literature on global security and the perception of nations about security lapses and requirement and steps being taken to address them. Thus, diverse definitions of security and the way it is conceived are presented in the following pages. But then, each nation Nigeria amongst them, must devise means of addressing or dispelling concerns over the issues of, the example, governance, requisite balance in the composition and constitutional of military and para-military agencies, cross-border banditry and transnational crime networks and its particular place or position in the comity of nations amongst others.
Such is the enormity of security issues that no single armed or unarmed paramilitary or otherwise authority can solely and adequately confront them. A concerted approach by all security agencies in training and retraining, information gathering and exchange intelligence sharing and the realisation that all must work not at cross purposes, but with a common objective in sight to symbiotically achieve determined goals, ought to be in the forefront of policy making henceforth.
 

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Para-Military Agencies and the Promotion of Good Governance for National Security in Nigeria by Ade Abolurin ................................................P. 1
Chapter 2: Strategic Direction of Growth for the Fire Service in a Developing Economy by Etannibi E.O Alenika .............................................................. P 12
Chapter 3: The Role of NSCDC in Safeguarding Collective Security in Nigeria by Ade Abolurin .................................................................................................P. 25
Chapter 4: Border Control Challenges and their Attendant Effects on National Security by Olu Ogunsakin ........................................................................P. 37
Chapter 5: Providing Optimum Internal Security in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges, and Policy Strategic/Strategic Imperatives by Femi Odekunle ..............................P. 52
Chapter 6: Intelligence Gathering and Sharing between Nigeria Security Agencies by Yemisi Jenkins ........................................................................................P. 62
Chapter 7: Security Management: Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Perspective by Ade Abolurin ......................................................................P. 72
Chapter 8: The Electoral Violence Amongst the Youth Consequence and the Way Forward by Ade Abolurin ...........................................................................P. 79
Chapter 9: Free and Fair 2011 Elections Building Youth’s Partnership with the Media and the Security Agencies and Security of Lives and Property in Nigeria by Ade Abolurin .................................................................................................P. 93
Chapter 10: Understanding the Role of Security Agencies in Preventing Electoral Conflict and Violence by Ade Abolurin .......................................................P. 107
Chapter 11: Role, Function and Responsibilities of Security Organisation in Prevention, Control Evaluation of Ethnic Cum Religious Violence by Ade Abolurin ........................................................................................................... P. 120
Chapter 12: Religion and National Security in Nigeria by Adamu Awwal M. and Tachukwu I. Okeke ................................................................................P. 142
Chapter 13: Setting a Development Agenda as a Panacea for the National Security Dilemma of Nigerian Cities by Joeph A. Onikosi .........................................P. 153
Chapter 14: Positioning Private Security Organisation in the Anti- Terrorism Campaign by Ade Abolurin .....................................................................P. 178
Chapter 15: The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and Security of Lives and Property in Nigeria by Ade Abolurin
The Good Urban Governance Campaign in Nigeria by Ade Abolurin ..............p. 198
Chapter 17: Politics, the State and National Security in Nigeria by Saleh Omar ............................................................................................................P. 206
Chapter 18: Ethno-Religious Conflict: A Threat to Nigeria’s National Security by Karita P. Ngbale ....................................................................................P. 220
Chapter 19 National Security and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: Challenges from the Niger Delta by Kingdom E. Orji ...................................................P. 228
Chapter 20: Underdevelopment as an Albatross to National Security in Nigeria: The Niger Delta in Focus by Bina Odogu ..........................................................P. 241
Chapter 21: Food Security and National Development: A Historical Perspective by Ukwumah John C.N. ..............................................................................P. 248
Chapter 22: Poverty Reduction as a Strategy for Enhancement of National Security by Olasupo Adebayo Solomon ..................................................................P. 262
Chapter 23: Nigeria’s National Security as a Participatory Project Professor Olu Ogunsakin PhD ......................................................................................P. 276
Chapter 24: Expatriate Quota Administration and its Implication on Nigeria’s National Security by Japh C.T. Nwosu, OON ...............................................P.301
Chapter 25: Disunity Between Amongst Security Agencies: A Threat to National Security by Ade Abolurin .........................................................................P. 317