scholarly journals Insurgency and humanitarian crises in Northern Nigeria: The case of Boko Haram

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 284-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuelar Imasuen
Keyword(s):  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Humanitarian Crises

scholarly journals BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON THE RIGHTS OF THE FEMALE GENDER IN NIGERIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oke-Samuel Olugbenga ◽  
S. Ayooluwa St. Emmanuel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Adverse Impact ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Humanitarian Crises ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Nigerian Government

The Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria and counter-insurgency measures adopted by the Nigerian Government has caused humanitarian crises and wanton destruction, thereby having adverse impact on the Nigerian nation and its citizenry especially the female gender. The situation has aggravated and degenerated into internal displacement, loss of livelihood and criminal acts such as abduction, murder and rape. This paper examines the various human rights violations perpetrated on the female gender as a result of the insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, it highlights the various women and girls’ rights instruments and in conclusion, posits that gender equality, economic empowerment for female folks, partnership with foreign superpowers and adopting an effective intelligence network are possible means of putting a stop to the insurgency and reducing its effect on the female gender in the Country.

The Boko Haram Reader

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cook
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Long Line ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The World

Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if any attempts have been made to answer these questions, even though Boko Haram is but the latest in a long line of millenarian Muslim reform groups to emerge in Northern Nigeria over the last two centuries. The Boko Haram Reader offers an unprecedented collection of essential texts, documents, videos, audio, and nashids (martial hymns), translated into English from Hausa, Arabic and Kanuri, tracing the group's origins, history, and evolution. Its editors, two Nigerian scholars, reveal how Boko Haram's leaders manipulate Islamic theology for the legitimization, radicalization, indoctrination and dissemination of their ideas across West Africa. Mandatory reading for anyone wishing to grasp the underpinnings of Boko Haram's insurgency, particularly how the group strives to delegitimize its rivals and establish its beliefs as a dominant strand of Islamic thought in West Africa's religious marketplace.

scholarly journals Ethno-Religious Identity and Intergroup Relations: The Informal Economic Sector, Igbo Economic Relations, and Security Challenges in Northern Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-105
Author(s):  
Nsemba Edward Lenshie
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Igbo People ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
The 1960S

Nigeria operates a multidimensional and complex system in which ethnicity and religion have found expression in a competitive environment to exclude other groups. This study aims to examine how ethnicity and religion underlie the hostility and violence in the economic relations between Hausa-Fulani and Igbo people in northern Nigeria. Using documented evidence, the study argues that economic relations between Igbo people and Hausa-Fulani ethnic group have remained unpalatable since the 1960s, and it is associated with the gregarious, assertive and domineering nature of Igbo people in the informal economic sector of northern Nigeria. Democratic revival in 1999 generated new dynamics of ethnic and religious intolerance against Igbo people, especially with the violent transformation of Boko Haram since 2009. Boko Haram violence not only scuttled businesses, but also led to the destruction of lives and properties in which Igbo people incidentally have been victims in most parts of northern Nigeria. Despite the security challenges Igbo people have remained to continue with their businesses in northern Nigeria.

Organized Crime–Terror Nexus: Interrogating the Linkage Between Banditry and Terrorism in Northern Nigeria

2022 ◽  
pp. 002190962110696
Author(s):  
Al Chukwuma Okoli ◽  
Chikodiri Nwangwu
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram

This paper examines the phenomenon of crime–terror nexus from the standpoint of the linkage between banditry and Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria. Using a descriptive analysis predicated on a combination of primary and secondary studies, the paper reveals that both groups have functionally adapted each other’s structures and strategies. While Boko Haram and its splinter groups have occasionally engaged in acts of banditry, there has been mutual co-option by both groups as the exigencies of their operations demand. Nigeria’s drive at mitigating the banditry-terrorism conundrum must proceed with a pragmatic understanding of the gamut and dynamics of their situational nexuses.

Boko Haram and Turmoil in Northern Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aslam Khan ◽  
Ishaku Hamidu
Keyword(s):  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Boko Haram
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