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The emergence of armed banditry in Nigeria is rooted in governance failure. Armed banditry remains an evolving phenomenon in Nigeria’s north-west region. The causal and enabling factors centre on multiple dynamic factors intersecting and reinforcing one another. These are deep-seated governance challenges escalated by interconnected variables that revolve around poor natural resource management, climate change events, fragile local security, poor ethno-religious relations, economic inequalities, poverty, marginalisation, illegal gold mining, a flawed legal system, weak institutional capacity, and poor border management. The convergence of these elements has transformed and redefined armed banditry from local conflict to a contagious insurgency that has spread across Nigeria’s north-west region and beyond.
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Ojo, J.S., Aina, F., Oyewole, S. (2024). Conclusion: Making Credible Governance the Epicentre of Counter-Banditry. In: Ojo, J.S., Aina, F., Oyewole, S. (eds) Armed Banditry in Nigeria . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45445-5_13
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