Adoyi Onoja

Adoyi Onoja is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Nasarawa State University, Keffi-Nigeria, where he teaches History. His research interests are security, policing, governance, media and Central Nigeria.

Security in Nigeria depends on human welfare, not state-centric bureaucratisation

The creation of a Ministry for Homeland Security further entrenches a militarized vision of security centred on the state. This is an internal version of 'peacekeeping', not the 'peacebuilding' the country needs.

By Adoyi Onoja

/ 23 May 2012