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    Federalism and Politics of Security Management in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
    (LOKOJA JOURNAL OF POLITICS, 2025-05-25) Abdullahi, Alabi; Ajao Yusuf Ibrahim; Abdulrasheed Hamza Bamidele
    The escalation of national security challenges beyond national frontiers has brought to scrutiny, the nature and character of the security framework designed to respond to these challenges. The agencies responsible for managing security in Nigeria are the Armed Forces of Nigeria, Nigerian Police Force, Nigerian Customs Service, Nigeria Immigration Service, and Nigerian Civil Defense Corps, among others. The centralised nature of the management of security in Nigeria has generated issues of concern considering poor responses to the dynamic nature of national security challenges in Nigeria’s federal system. This study examines the federal government's negotiation procedures with the terrorist groups and why the money being allocated to buy weapons to fight these terrorist groups are not yielding the expected results over the years in Nigeria. To realize the central objectives (To examine the federal government's negotiation procedures with the terrorist groups and why the money being allocated to buy weapons to fight these terrorist groups are not yielding expected results over the years in Nigeria), samples were drawn from the military, para-military, Journalists and Political Analysts. Findings from the study revealed that; the nature and configuration of Nigeria’s security apparatus seem to have been over-centralized in terms of laws and reporting lines. It also discovered high-level discontent and disenchantment by civil society, major stakeholders and security agents with the existing legal framework of security management as a result of misinterpretation and/or abuse of Sections 14(2), 13, and 4 (1and2). These partly explain the unending nature of security challenges bedevilling the Nigerian state. The study recommended decentralization of the national security architecture on its management to give more impetus to the federating unitsat the state and national levels to manage aspects of the security architecture, as the present framework appears to have outlived its military usefulness.