[Conference] Threats to Nigeria's Security: Boko Haram and Beyond

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washingon, D.C.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
9 A.M. - 12 P.M. EST
Organized by The Jamestown Foundation

I will be presenting a paper at the conference titled Beyond Boko Haram: The Rise of Fundamentalist Islam in Nigeria.

Watch the Live Webcast of the conference below.

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[Segun Ajayi]

Boko Haram has opted for violence; the petrol strikers chose nonviolence. Both streams of voices of dissent, however, are public expressions of indignation with the continued governmental status quo in Nigeria. Different groups are expressing extreme frustration with Nigeria’s ruling class, which is a class that has not professionalized state institutions, which has not created a world-class infrastructure that would encourage economic development, and which has continued to engage in non-transparent governance that enriches them as a class at the expense of the general population.