Reconstructing the North-East

The North-East\’s region of Nigeria has been the worst hit by insurgent violence in the last decade. The campaign of violence waged against the state and society by the Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State have reduced human life to misery.

Tens of thousands of lives have been lost on account of the insurgency as well as the counter-insurgent efforts to rout the jihadi extremists. In response, the Nigerian government and its allies have recovered swathes of lands and communities initially taken over by insurgents, but the outright defeat of the rebels has remained an uphill task.

With the President Muhammadu Buhari\’s nomination of the board of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), with Major Gen. Paul Tarfa (Rtd) as the chairman and Mallam Mohammed Alkali as Managing Director, the herculean tasks before these men and the commission are unprecedented, judging that from Nigeria political history and economic development.

Following these developments, this edition of Nextier SPD places the reconstruction of the North-East on the policy agenda by outlining the critical sectors that require urgent public attention.

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