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This compilation’s fundamental objective is to provide the government, development partners, community actors, and the larger audience with a comprehensive analysis of the burning issues in February 2021. The compilation coincides with the multiplicity of national issues seeking attention or in hot contestation. Keeping up with these national issues as they unravel may be a herculean task for many interested stakeholders and avid readers. Nextier SPD has painstakingly developed an objective analysis of the problems as they evolved.

The new year arrived with the same old issues and many new ones, especially within the Nigerian space. The publication’s fundamental objective is to provide government, development partners, community actors, and the larger audience a comprehensive analysis of the significant issues that happened in January 2021.

This research project provides detailed insight on how communities in Borno and Adamawa states are developing resilience approaches and civic solutions to counter violent extremism. Some of these community-based initiatives include the efforts of women and the youths to undertake peacebuilding and early warning activities that have contributed to community resilience. The objective of this study is to document and share the results and lessons of these initiatives and the potential for learning and replication in other communities affected by violent conflicts in the North East and Nigeria.

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In recent years, Africa\’s Sahel region has contended with multifaceted security threats.  There is an ongoing struggle for dominance between state forces and ethnic militias, criminal gangs, terrorist groups, human smugglers and other terror merchants. These non-state armed groups operate with relative impunity across the area which stretches from the Atlantic shores in West Africa to the Gulf of Aden, spanning the southern parts of the Sahara Desert.  Though naturally endowed with significant deposits of gold, diamonds and uranium, the African Sahel receives limited rainfall resulting in harsh climatic conditions which shape the various conflicts.

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The discussion of the PAP report coincides with recent speculations on the continuation of the programme. It is crucial to continue the conversation on the PAP issues and the Niger Delta region in general. The time-bound nature of the amnesty programme should trigger more engagement on the way forward. It is undoubtedly clear that the amnesty programme hastily organised and set out to buy peace has not addressed fundamental issues in the region. New efforts at addressing issues within the PAP and the area must be comprehensive, consultative, participatory, community-driven, and sustainable enough to handle all problems that have been discussed.

As part of the review of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Nextier SPD team conducted an institutional assessment of the programme to determine areas where it has been successful, highlight critical issues that were hampering its success. Through interviews and content analysis, the team reviewed the overall performance of the programme, examined challenges which have prevented it from producing optimal results and proposed policy approaches for the transition of the programme. Most importantly, the team developed actionable recommendations on how to transition the agency into a vehicle that will be able to address the critical issues of the region more effectively.

Nigeria has continued to lag in human capital and infrastructural development despite being the world’s tenth-largest producer of crude oil and Africa’s largest exporter of petroleum. The Niger Delta region which harbours these natural resources, like other regions of the country, is marred by youth unemployment, environmental degradation and other forms of socio-economic and political deprivations. On account of perceived neglect of the region, the area was awash with youth restiveness and criminal violence in much of the late-1990s to late-2000s, posing a huge security threat to lives, livelihoods, environment and critical oil infrastructure.

This Report is a product of ten months of research embarked by Nextier SPD. The study critically assessed all the transition options available to the Nigerian government and their implications for the country\’s economy, peace and security.

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Nigeria is locked in a perpetual dance on the brink of disaster. Along with a number of other conflict situations, herdsmen-farmers conflicts are spreading across the country leading to preventable death and carnage.

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A state sets up its security institutions to meet its core remit of protecting its citizens from both internal and external aggressions. This role is challenged as Nigeria is increasingly under threat from criminals and conflict entrepreneurs. While the nation’s security agencies speak about containing and eliminating these threats, scores of lives are lost every day to preventable insecurity.

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