Stakeholders at War in Nigeria: From Lord Lugard to President Goodluck Jonathan is a comprehensive, authoritative and encyclopaedic study focused primarily on Social Defence before and since Nigeria’s Independence in 1960. Its collateral aspects centred on complex challenges and opportunities concerning nation-building of a relatively new but very active and well-endowed African State in the global comity of nations since 1945. Its rich sections on the phenomenology and aetiology of Crime and violence, in the context of terror, as a national and global threat to security and peace, are quite unique.
Stakeholders at War in Nigeria
Concerns over Nigeria’s effective defence were such as would significantly interest these critical circles: OPEC, ECOWAS, the African Union (AU), the British Commonwealth as well as the UN. Nigeria, if de-stabilised, if it ever split up, certainly would pose a major threat to World Order as her Civil War, 1967-70, amply demonstrated. This is partly because of her huge population and partly because of her vast natural resources, particularly, crude oil.
This reader-friendly book is a valuable reference-source on complex issues of governance, politic development and wider dimensions of contemporary Nigerian history with an inter-disciplinary complexion. Readers would also find its array of analytical tools quite impressive and very helpful.
AUTHOR: Tekena N. Tamuno
