With less than seven months to Nigeria's 2027 general elections, a multi-layer security crisis is rapidly escalating across the country and is emerging as one of the biggest threats to the polls, placing enormous pressure on security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deliver a credible electoral process. From the insurgency-ravaged North-East to bandit-infested communities in the North-West and deadly attacks in parts of the North-Central, kidnappings and abductions in the South-West and other parts of the
With less than seven months to Nigeria's 2027 general elections, a multi-layer security crisis is rapidly escalating across the country and is emerging as one of the biggest threats to the polls, placing enormous pressure on security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deliver a credible electoral process. From the insurgency-ravaged North-East to bandit-infested communities in the North-West and deadly attacks in parts of the North-Central, kidnappings and abductions in the South-West and other parts of the