Banditry and Security Crisis in Nigeria: Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa

PART I: THE SUBJECT MATTER AND CONTEXT
Chapter 1: Introduction: Situating Banditry and Security Crisis in Nigeria
Al Chukwuma Okoli & Saliou Ngom
Chapter 2: Pastoralism, Farmer-Herder Conflicts and Banditry in the Western Sahel
Peter Echewija Sule
Chapter 3: Climate Change and Rural Violence in Northern Nigeria: A Discursive Reflection
Al Chukwuma Okoli, Nsemba Edward Lenshie & Musa Aishat Suleiman
Chapter 4: Governance Failure and Armed Banditry in Nigeria’s North West: Some Contextual Insights
Tosin Osasona
Chapter 5: Nigeria’s North West Bandits and their Strategic Logic
Solomon Timothy Anjide
Chapter 6: Banditry in Northwestern Nigeria: Complex Issues, Emerging Realities
Noah Echa Attah & Babayo Sule
Part II: INCIDENCE AND DYNAMICS
Chapter 7: Herding Scapegoats, Framing Fulani: The Entanglements of Ethnic Conflict, Banditry, and Violent Extremism
Ian Edgerly & Scott Edmondson
Chapter 8: Manifestations of Banditry in Safana Area of Katsina State, North West Nigeria
Suleiman Iguda Ladan
Chapter 9: Armed Banditry and Humanitarian Crisis in Northern Nigeria
Dare Leke Idowu & Oladiran Afolabi
Chapter 10: Exploring Farmer-herder Conflict and the Banditry Crisis in North-Central Nigeria
Plangshak Musa Suchi & Sallek Yak Musa
Chapter 11: Banditry and Gendered Victimhood in Northern Nigeria: Women as Objects and Victims
Damilola Taiye Agbalajobi & Saliou Ngom
Part III: POLICY IMPLICATIONS, REMEDIES, AND SUBMISSION
Chapter 12: Nigerian Government’s Counter-banditry Efforts in the North West: How Effective?
Usman Sambo & Babayo Sule
Chapter 13: Curbing Armed Banditry in Nigeria: The Imperative for Community Policing
Bose Ibukunoluwa Olojede & Chigozie Joseph Nebeife
Chapter 14: Drones and Counter-Banditry Operations in the Western Sahel: Strategic Prospects
Francis Okpaleke & Al Chukwuma Okoli
Chapter 15: The State and Counter Banditry in Nigeria: Strategies, Challenges and Prospects
Ikenna Mike Alumona & Kingsley Maduka Onwuanabile
Chapter 16: Armed Banditry and the Imperative for Collective Security in the Sahel Savanna: G5 and Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in Comparative Perspective
Uchenna Simeon
Chapter 17: Conclusion: Mitigating Nigeria’s Banditry-Security Conundrum
Al Chukwuma Okoli & Saliou Ngom

Al Chukwuma Okoli is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Political Science at The Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria.
Saliou Ngom is a Researcher in the Department of Human Sciences at the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa (IFAN-CAD) at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal.