O COMPORTAMENTO DA MÍDIA DE MASSA NAS RESOLUÇÕES DE QUESTÕES SECURITÁRIAS NO PÓS-INDEPENDÊNCIA DA NIGÉRIA

  • Omoera, Osakue Stevenson
  • Azeez, Adesina Lukuman
  • Doghudje, Roselyn Vona
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Publication date
September 2017
Publisher
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

Conceptualising national security continues to be a taxing undertaking as a range of factors point up its capacity at all levels of perception, and thus, cannot be restricted to a single definition due to its changing nature from one nation-state to another. Therefore, national security remains dynamic, fluid and multi-directional, but it is critical to the survival of any nation-state. In post-independence Nigeria, security threats to its national interests not only involve conventional threats such as the ones from other nation-states but also non-state actors and activities such as terrorists, arms dealers, pirates, heists, drug traffickers, kidnappers, street gangster insurgencies, border disputes and ethnic militias. Over the past fift...

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