WILL THE SECURITY CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA TRIGGER LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM?
Journal: Journal of Public Administration Finance and Law
Year: 2023

Since the return to civil rule in 1999, Nigeria has been grappling with distress and persistent social, economic, and political challenges that are terrifically threatening the country’s corporate existence. Perhaps insecurity constitutes the most significant challenge to Nigeria’s stability. The spate and spectre of insecurity in the country, ranging from the Boko Haram/ISWAP, ethnoreligious crises, kidnapping, rural banditry, cattle rustling, farmers’/herders’ conflict, and the IPOB, had inten