1st Edition
Governance and Security in Nigeria's Fourth Republic
Chapter One
Governance and Security in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic: Introduction
V. Adefemi Isumonah and Nathaniel Umukoro
Chapter Two
An Outline of Security Thought and Its Implications for Nigeria
Mellissa Simbisai Mlambo and Cori Wielenga
Chapter Three
Securitization Drivers of Biafra Agitations
Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani
Civil Society’s Image of Ethnic Grievance
V. Adefemi Isumonah
Chapter Five
Governance and Security of Nigerians in Diaspora, 1999-2022
Yemisi Olawale
Chapter Six
President Buhari’s Border Closure Policy and Nigeria’s External Relations
Sunday Omotuyi
Chapter Seven
Governance of Land Use, Anthropocene Inequality and Human Security in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
Nathaniel Umukoro and William Okotie
Chapter Eight
Implications of Rural Banditry in Northern Nigeria for Women’s Livelihood
Changwak Emmanuel Jonah, Thaddeus T. Ityonzughul and Nadir A. Nasidi
Chapter Nine
A Critique of 'Not Too Young to Run' Act 2018 for Elective Offices and Participation in Governance
Kugbeme Isumonah
Chapter Ten
Governing from the Grassroots: Women and Political Security in Nigeria
Oluwatoyin O. Oluwaniyi, and Ishola Olamilekan Qudus
Chapter Eleven
Policing During Covid-19 Lockdown and Human Rights in Nigeria
Nathaniel Umukoro, Chid Amaechi and Eunice Umukoro-Esekhile
Chapter Twelve
The Agatu Farmers and Fulani Herders Conflict: Implications for Food Security in Benue South Area of Nigeria
Emmanuel Steelman Okla
Biography
V. Adefemi Isumonah is a professor and former Head of Department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan. He earned his doctorate degree in Political Science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1998 after obtaining Master of Science from the same institution. In 1997, he earned Postgraduate Diploma through a fellowship in Conflict Resolution from Uppsala University, Sweden. He is a recipient of several academic awards and fellowships and author of numerous scholarly book chapters and journal articles on governance and political economy of Africa. He co-authored Confronting Islamist Terrorism in Africa: The Cases of Nigeria and Kenya (2019) and Federal Presence in Nigeria: The Sung and Unsung Basis for Ethnic Grievance (2009). He is the author of “Land Tenure, Migration, Citizenship and Communal Conflicts in Africa” in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on cultural theory of nationality and citizenship. His recent works are “Political Development Narrative of Africa’s Physical Space: The Case of Nigeria,” in Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies (JTMS), and “The Nigerian Illustration of Under-Developmental Democracy,” in Timothy Scarnecchia & Corrado Tornimbeni (eds.) Democracy and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa from the 1990s to the 2020s: An Historical Challenge, James Currey.
Nathaniel Umukoro is a professor of International Affairs, Conflict, Peace and Strategic Studies in the Department of Political Science and Dean, College of Postgraduate Studies, Western Delta University, Nigeria. He had his undergraduate education at the University of Benin and postgraduate Studies at the University of Ibadan, both in Nigeria. During his postgraduate research, he was a fellow of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Unit of the Social Science Research Council, New York. In addition to his postgraduate studies, he received additional training in Education in Emergencies (2017), Peace Education and Transitional Justice (2015) from the Georg Eckert Institute, Germany; Development and Inequality in the Global South from Brown University, USA (2010) and Mixed-method Research Course from the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, Nairobi, Kenya, in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK (2011-2012). He has over 100 publications, including 22 articles published in journals indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. Nathaniel Umukoro served as fellow of the Social Science Research Council, New York from 2013 to 2015, Humboldt fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany in 2022, Senior Research Fellow at Point Alpha Research Institute, Germany in 2023, Senior Fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany in 2024, and Senior Fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (IfL), Leipzig, Germany, in 2025.
