Chikodiri Nwangwu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 121359 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chikodiri Nwangwu |
| PRENOMES | Chikodiri |
| SOBRENOME | Nwangwu |
| ASSINATURA | NWANGWU C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nigeria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5710-0369 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
From Operation Python Dance to Udoka
This study interrogated the evolution of military-led Special Operation Forces against neo-Biafran secessionism and its implications for peacebuilding in Nigeria’s Southeast region. Tracing a trajectory from Operation Python Dance through Exercise Atilogwu Udo to Operation Udoka, the study is situated within the broader context of securitisation and peacebuilding in a region where historical grievances surrounding perceived exclusionary practices…
Maritime Insecurity, Environmental Degradation and the Development of Nigeria's Blue Economy
This study interrogates how certain unsustainable practices impinge on the use of ocean resources and the overall development of Nigeria's blue economy. Using focus group discussions, key informant interviews and field observation, the study reveals the potential, contradictions and challenges that undermine the country's blue economy development. Findings show that the country's blue economy faces serious challenges, which range from armed robbe…
Political Interference in Election Administration and Electoral Irregularities in Nigeria
The extant literature is replete with fine-grained explanations of problems of electoral irregularities in Nigeria. However, how political interference in election administration contributes to these problems has largely remained unacknowledged. The Nigerian Constitution establishes the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a relatively autonomous electoral body and, also, empowers the president to appoint its principal officers sub…
Political Financing and Vulnerability
Existing studies have identified five major sources of illegal political financing: namely, funding from questionable sources, corporate bodies, foreign donations, government contractors, and anonymous sources. However, the clientelist manipulation of certain social protection programmes for electoral gains has received scant attention in existing academic conversations on political financing. Hence, this study shows how some social investment pr…
Interrogating the Dynamics of Social Movements in Burkina Faso and Nigeria
Two waves of mass protests were remarkable across West Africa in the first two decades of the 21st century. Drawing from the experiences of Burkina Faso and Nigeria, this study situates these mass protests within the temporal theory of social movements and argues that the focus of the protests in each wave shifted from protests against specific neoliberal economic reforms to discontent with governance institutions. However, the underlying driver …
Nigeria’s 4-D Diplomacy and Regional Integration in West Africa
Boko Haram, security architecture and counterinsurgency in North-East, Nigeria
While previous studies have interrogated the motivations of Boko Haram and the role of security agencies in counterinsurgency, explanations of the escalation of Boko Haram attacks on Nigerian security agencies have received limited academic attention. This study re-examines the dynamics of counterinsurgency operations in Nigeria within the context of the fragile state thesis. It argues that fragility of relevant state institutions has compromised…
Neoliberal state and criminal activities in Nigeria
This paper argues that the failure of neoliberal economic policies in Nigeria leads to increasing spate of criminal activities in the country. It explains how such neoliberal economic policies like privatisation, removal of state subsidies and deregulation cripple pre-existing substructure of the Nigerian economy; thereby increasing criminal activities everywhere in Nigeria. While criminal activities are closely associated with neoliberal states,…
Border Governance, Migration Securitisation, and Security Challenges in Nigeria
Neo-Biafra Separatist Agitations, State Repression and Insecurity in South-East, Nigeria
Organized Crime-Terror Nexus
This paper examines the phenomenon of crime-terror nexus from the standpoint of the linkage between banditry and Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria. Using a descriptive analysis predicated on a combination of primary and secondary studies, the paper reveals that both groups have functionally adapted each other's structures and strategies. While Boko Haram and its splinter groups have occasionally engaged in acts of banditry, there has been…
Public procurement law, political economy of the lowest responsive bidding, and the development of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Nigeria
This study challenges the argument that the non-enforceability of the procurement law is the bane of infrastructural development in Nigeria. Focusing on the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, the article argues that various attempts at procurement regulation were in fact moves to expand capital accumulation in the service delivery sector. Highly placed individuals leverage the lowest responsive bidding mechanism to engage in sharp pract…
Women, Intelligence Gathering and Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria
Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this article investigates how women leverage their intelligence-gathering capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent extremism to global peace and security has heightened the clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation and implementation of peace a…
The political economy of Biafra separatism and post-war Igbo nationalism in Nigeria
The past two decades that coincide with the return of civil rule in most African countries have witnessed the reinforcement of ethnic nationalism and separatist agitations. While scholarly attention has focused on ethnicity to explain the revival of ethnic nationalism, how ethnic and class discourses conflate in the pursuit of ethnic nationalism remains understudied. Using a qualitative-dominant approach, this article interrogates how the Igbo pe…
Separatist Threat, Militarization and Voter Turnout
Using the qual-dominant mixed methods approach, this study analysed the impact of the separatist threat and the militarization of elections on voter turnout during the 2017 governorship election in Anambra State, Nigeria. Findings indicate that perceived and real marginalization of the Igbo in Nigeria's state-building is largely driving the neo-Biafra separatist threat to boycott elections in Anambra State. This does not only account for the stat…
Transhumant Pastoral Economy and Human Security in Nigeria
The limited access to land in most African states has engendered a fierce competition, especially among various agricultural user groups. The two major groups of agricultural land users are transhumant pastoralists and sedentary peasant farmers. The internecine conflict between these agro-user groups has grave implications for human security in Nigeria and beyond. Explanation of the conflict has centred on climate change and environmental securit…
Femininity is not inferiority
The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and the Millennium Development Goals, brought the inclusion of women in the security agenda into the international limelight. Although these global frameworks, and other international resolutions, underscore the importance of women’s participation in the politics of peace and security, Nigeria’s frameworks have not been inclusive. Extant literature has examined the …
Energy hegemony and maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea
This Briefing argues that Nigeria’s hegemony over energy trade in the Gulf of Guinea maritime domain makes other states’ political commitment to regional trans-border frameworks difficult. It finds that the contradictions of rentier oil governance in Nigeria have implications for the rise in maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea
Political campaign and democratisation
The use of hate speech for political mobilisation and its overall impact on democratisation have generated debate and controversy in both post-colonial formations and more advanced democracies. This is because hate speech tends to promote hatred between different ethnic groups. In Nigeria, it is usually deployed in the build up to elections. Using mixed methods approach, this study interrogates the consequences of hate speech as a political campa…
Electoral Laws and Monitoring of Campaign Financing during the 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria
The emergence of politicians with overwhelming financial muscle in Nigeria since 1990s has complicated the relationship between money and politics in the country. This has been intensified by lack of clear legislation on how political parties should seek funding for their campaigns. Although effective supervision of political parties’ finance is critical to the survival and consolidation of any democracy, the relevant electoral laws in Nigeria ha…
The political economy of Biafra separatism and post-war Igbo nationalism in Nigeria
The past two decades that coincide with the return of civil rule in most African countries have witnessed the reinforcement of ethnic nationalism and separatist agitations. While scholarly attention has focused on ethnicity to explain the revival of ethnic nationalism, how ethnic and class discourses conflate in the pursuit of ethnic nationalism remains understudied. Using a qualitative-dominant approach, this article interrogates how the Igbo pe…
Femininity is not inferiority
The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and the Millennium Development Goals, brought the inclusion of women in the security agenda into the international limelight. Although these global frameworks, and other international resolutions, underscore the importance of women’s participation in the politics of peace and security, Nigeria’s frameworks have not been inclusive. Extant literature has examined the …
Political campaign and democratisation
The use of hate speech for political mobilisation and its overall impact on democratisation have generated debate and controversy in both post-colonial formations and more advanced democracies. This is because hate speech tends to promote hatred between different ethnic groups. In Nigeria, it is usually deployed in the build up to elections. Using mixed methods approach, this study interrogates the consequences of hate speech as a political campa…
Organized Crime-Terror Nexus
This paper examines the phenomenon of crime-terror nexus from the standpoint of the linkage between banditry and Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria. Using a descriptive analysis predicated on a combination of primary and secondary studies, the paper reveals that both groups have functionally adapted each other's structures and strategies. While Boko Haram and its splinter groups have occasionally engaged in acts of banditry, there has been…
Neo-Biafra Separatist Agitations, State Repression and Insecurity in South-East, Nigeria
Separatist Threat, Militarization and Voter Turnout
Using the qual-dominant mixed methods approach, this study analysed the impact of the separatist threat and the militarization of elections on voter turnout during the 2017 governorship election in Anambra State, Nigeria. Findings indicate that perceived and real marginalization of the Igbo in Nigeria's state-building is largely driving the neo-Biafra separatist threat to boycott elections in Anambra State. This does not only account for the stat…
Transhumant Pastoral Economy and Human Security in Nigeria
The limited access to land in most African states has engendered a fierce competition, especially among various agricultural user groups. The two major groups of agricultural land users are transhumant pastoralists and sedentary peasant farmers. The internecine conflict between these agro-user groups has grave implications for human security in Nigeria and beyond. Explanation of the conflict has centred on climate change and environmental securit…
Boko Haram, security architecture and counterinsurgency in North-East, Nigeria
While previous studies have interrogated the motivations of Boko Haram and the role of security agencies in counterinsurgency, explanations of the escalation of Boko Haram attacks on Nigerian security agencies have received limited academic attention. This study re-examines the dynamics of counterinsurgency operations in Nigeria within the context of the fragile state thesis. It argues that fragility of relevant state institutions has compromised…
Energy hegemony and maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea
This Briefing argues that Nigeria’s hegemony over energy trade in the Gulf of Guinea maritime domain makes other states’ political commitment to regional trans-border frameworks difficult. It finds that the contradictions of rentier oil governance in Nigeria have implications for the rise in maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea
Electoral Laws and Monitoring of Campaign Financing during the 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria
The emergence of politicians with overwhelming financial muscle in Nigeria since 1990s has complicated the relationship between money and politics in the country. This has been intensified by lack of clear legislation on how political parties should seek funding for their campaigns. Although effective supervision of political parties’ finance is critical to the survival and consolidation of any democracy, the relevant electoral laws in Nigeria ha…
Women, Intelligence Gathering and Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria
Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this article investigates how women leverage their intelligence-gathering capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent extremism to global peace and security has heightened the clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation and implementation of peace a…
Public procurement law, political economy of the lowest responsive bidding, and the development of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Nigeria
This study challenges the argument that the non-enforceability of the procurement law is the bane of infrastructural development in Nigeria. Focusing on the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, the article argues that various attempts at procurement regulation were in fact moves to expand capital accumulation in the service delivery sector. Highly placed individuals leverage the lowest responsive bidding mechanism to engage in sharp pract…
Interrogating the Dynamics of Social Movements in Burkina Faso and Nigeria
Two waves of mass protests were remarkable across West Africa in the first two decades of the 21st century. Drawing from the experiences of Burkina Faso and Nigeria, this study situates these mass protests within the temporal theory of social movements and argues that the focus of the protests in each wave shifted from protests against specific neoliberal economic reforms to discontent with governance institutions. However, the underlying driver …
Neoliberal state and criminal activities in Nigeria
This paper argues that the failure of neoliberal economic policies in Nigeria leads to increasing spate of criminal activities in the country. It explains how such neoliberal economic policies like privatisation, removal of state subsidies and deregulation cripple pre-existing substructure of the Nigerian economy; thereby increasing criminal activities everywhere in Nigeria. While criminal activities are closely associated with neoliberal states,…
Border Governance, Migration Securitisation, and Security Challenges in Nigeria
Electoral Laws and Monitoring of Campaign Financing during the 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria
The emergence of politicians with overwhelming financial muscle in Nigeria since 1990s has complicated the relationship between money and politics in the country. This has been intensified by lack of clear legislation on how political parties should seek funding for their campaigns. Although effective supervision of political parties’ finance is critical to the survival and consolidation of any democracy, the relevant electoral laws in Nigeria ha…
Energy hegemony and maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea
This Briefing argues that Nigeria’s hegemony over energy trade in the Gulf of Guinea maritime domain makes other states’ political commitment to regional trans-border frameworks difficult. It finds that the contradictions of rentier oil governance in Nigeria have implications for the rise in maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea
Political campaign and democratisation
The use of hate speech for political mobilisation and its overall impact on democratisation have generated debate and controversy in both post-colonial formations and more advanced democracies. This is because hate speech tends to promote hatred between different ethnic groups. In Nigeria, it is usually deployed in the build up to elections. Using mixed methods approach, this study interrogates the consequences of hate speech as a political campa…
Femininity is not inferiority
The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and the Millennium Development Goals, brought the inclusion of women in the security agenda into the international limelight. Although these global frameworks, and other international resolutions, underscore the importance of women’s participation in the politics of peace and security, Nigeria’s frameworks have not been inclusive. Extant literature has examined the …
The political economy of Biafra separatism and post-war Igbo nationalism in Nigeria
The past two decades that coincide with the return of civil rule in most African countries have witnessed the reinforcement of ethnic nationalism and separatist agitations. While scholarly attention has focused on ethnicity to explain the revival of ethnic nationalism, how ethnic and class discourses conflate in the pursuit of ethnic nationalism remains understudied. Using a qualitative-dominant approach, this article interrogates how the Igbo pe…
Separatist Threat, Militarization and Voter Turnout
Using the qual-dominant mixed methods approach, this study analysed the impact of the separatist threat and the militarization of elections on voter turnout during the 2017 governorship election in Anambra State, Nigeria. Findings indicate that perceived and real marginalization of the Igbo in Nigeria's state-building is largely driving the neo-Biafra separatist threat to boycott elections in Anambra State. This does not only account for the stat…
Transhumant Pastoral Economy and Human Security in Nigeria
The limited access to land in most African states has engendered a fierce competition, especially among various agricultural user groups. The two major groups of agricultural land users are transhumant pastoralists and sedentary peasant farmers. The internecine conflict between these agro-user groups has grave implications for human security in Nigeria and beyond. Explanation of the conflict has centred on climate change and environmental securit…
Women, Intelligence Gathering and Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria
Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this article investigates how women leverage their intelligence-gathering capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent extremism to global peace and security has heightened the clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation and implementation of peace a…
Public procurement law, political economy of the lowest responsive bidding, and the development of the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in Nigeria
This study challenges the argument that the non-enforceability of the procurement law is the bane of infrastructural development in Nigeria. Focusing on the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, the article argues that various attempts at procurement regulation were in fact moves to expand capital accumulation in the service delivery sector. Highly placed individuals leverage the lowest responsive bidding mechanism to engage in sharp pract…
Neoliberal state and criminal activities in Nigeria
This paper argues that the failure of neoliberal economic policies in Nigeria leads to increasing spate of criminal activities in the country. It explains how such neoliberal economic policies like privatisation, removal of state subsidies and deregulation cripple pre-existing substructure of the Nigerian economy; thereby increasing criminal activities everywhere in Nigeria. While criminal activities are closely associated with neoliberal states,…
Border Governance, Migration Securitisation, and Security Challenges in Nigeria
Neo-Biafra Separatist Agitations, State Repression and Insecurity in South-East, Nigeria
Organized Crime-Terror Nexus
This paper examines the phenomenon of crime-terror nexus from the standpoint of the linkage between banditry and Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria. Using a descriptive analysis predicated on a combination of primary and secondary studies, the paper reveals that both groups have functionally adapted each other's structures and strategies. While Boko Haram and its splinter groups have occasionally engaged in acts of banditry, there has been…
Nigeria’s 4-D Diplomacy and Regional Integration in West Africa
Boko Haram, security architecture and counterinsurgency in North-East, Nigeria
While previous studies have interrogated the motivations of Boko Haram and the role of security agencies in counterinsurgency, explanations of the escalation of Boko Haram attacks on Nigerian security agencies have received limited academic attention. This study re-examines the dynamics of counterinsurgency operations in Nigeria within the context of the fragile state thesis. It argues that fragility of relevant state institutions has compromised…
From Operation Python Dance to Udoka
This study interrogated the evolution of military-led Special Operation Forces against neo-Biafran secessionism and its implications for peacebuilding in Nigeria’s Southeast region. Tracing a trajectory from Operation Python Dance through Exercise Atilogwu Udo to Operation Udoka, the study is situated within the broader context of securitisation and peacebuilding in a region where historical grievances surrounding perceived exclusionary practices…
Maritime Insecurity, Environmental Degradation and the Development of Nigeria's Blue Economy
This study interrogates how certain unsustainable practices impinge on the use of ocean resources and the overall development of Nigeria's blue economy. Using focus group discussions, key informant interviews and field observation, the study reveals the potential, contradictions and challenges that undermine the country's blue economy development. Findings show that the country's blue economy faces serious challenges, which range from armed robbe…
Political Interference in Election Administration and Electoral Irregularities in Nigeria
The extant literature is replete with fine-grained explanations of problems of electoral irregularities in Nigeria. However, how political interference in election administration contributes to these problems has largely remained unacknowledged. The Nigerian Constitution establishes the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a relatively autonomous electoral body and, also, empowers the president to appoint its principal officers sub…
Political Financing and Vulnerability
Existing studies have identified five major sources of illegal political financing: namely, funding from questionable sources, corporate bodies, foreign donations, government contractors, and anonymous sources. However, the clientelist manipulation of certain social protection programmes for electoral gains has received scant attention in existing academic conversations on political financing. Hence, this study shows how some social investment pr…
Interrogating the Dynamics of Social Movements in Burkina Faso and Nigeria
Two waves of mass protests were remarkable across West Africa in the first two decades of the 21st century. Drawing from the experiences of Burkina Faso and Nigeria, this study situates these mass protests within the temporal theory of social movements and argues that the focus of the protests in each wave shifted from protests against specific neoliberal economic reforms to discontent with governance institutions. However, the underlying driver …
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