Rivers of Blood

Rivers State has dominated the news media for some of the wrong reasons in recent months – from intra- and inter-violent party relations, (ab)use of youth gangs, political assassinations, the militarization of polls, to outright electoral violence. Indeed, the scale and frequency of violence in the oil-rich state is above the national average among non-insurgent states in Nigeria.

Following these developments, this edition of Nextier SPD Weekly examines the politics of violence in Rivers State and makes recommendations on how the ugly trend can be reversed.

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