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Insecurity is the word of the moment in Nigeria. Boko Haram is moving more purposefully it seems from Borno in the north east to other parts of the country, but at the same time attacks by marauding bandits are on the rise and every day there are reports of kidnappings and other violence. So what can the government do? Bulama Bukarti is an analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

(Picture: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaking after security forces rescued schoolboys from kidnappers, in Katsina, Nigeria, December 2020. Credit: Reuters)