Nigeria's national security : issues and challenges / edited by Ade Abolurin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Para-military agencies and the promotion of good governance for national security in Nigeria / Ade Abolurin -- Strategic direction of growth for the Fire Service in a developing economy / Etannibi E.O. Alemika -- The role of NSCDC in safeguarding collective security in Nigeria / Ade Abolurin -- Border control challenges and their attendant effects on national security / Olu Ogunsakin -- Providing optimum international security in Nigeria : issues, challenges, and policy/strategic imperatives / Femi Odekunle -- Intelligence gathering and sharing between Nigerian security agencies / Yemisi Jenkins -- Security management : Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in perspective / Ade Abolurin -- The electoral violence amongst the youth : consequence and the way forward / Ade Abolurin -- Free and fair 2011 elections : building youth's partnership with the media and the security agencies and security of lives and property in Nigeria / Ade Abolurin -- Understanding the role of security agencies in preventing electoral conflicts and violence / Ade Abolurin -- Role, function and responsibilities of security organisation in prevention, control, evaluation of ethnic cum religious violence / Ade Abolurin -- Religion and national security in Nigeria / Adamu Awwal M. and Tochukwu, I. Okeke -- Setting a development agenda as a panacea for the national security dilemma of Nigerian cities / Joseph A. Onikosi -- Positioning private security organisation in the anti-terrorism campaign / Ade Abolurin -- The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and security of lives and property in Nigeria / Ade Abolurin -- National security and the good urban governance campaign in Nigeria / Ade Abolurin -- Politics, the state and national security in Nigeria / Saleh Omar -- Ethno-religious conflict : a threat to Nigeria's national security / Karita P. Ngbale -- National security and sustainable development in Nigeria : challenges from the Niger Delta / Kingdom E. Orji -- Underdevelopment as an albatross to national security in Nigeria : The Niger Delta in focus / Bina Odogu -- Food security and national development : a historical perspective / Ukwumah, John C.N. -- Poverty reduction as a strategy for enhancement of national security / Olasupo Adebayo Solomon -- Nigeria's national security as a participatory project / Olu Ogunsakin -- Expatriate quota administration and its implication on Nigeria's national security / Japh C.T. Nwosu -- Disunity between or amongst security agencies : a threat to national security / Ade Abolurin.