With the complexity of global security threats and the intensity of intra-state conflicts in the West African region, it has become imperative for the regional governments to devise holistic approach to security management. While violent conflicts are reportedly declining in the sub-region, a recent report...

The United Nations expert on internally displaced persons (IDPs), Chaloka Beyani, has called on the Nigerian Government and the international community to take urgent humanitarian measures to save lives and ensure the protection of hundreds of thousands of IDPs in the north-east of the...

The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that about 3,600 Nigerian women arrived Italy by boat in the first half of 2016, almost double the figure in the same period last year. More than 80% of these women, it said, were trafficked...