Violence has surged in Nigeria following a brief lull for elections earlier in the year, serving as a cruel reminder of the significant security challenges faced by incoming President Bola Tinubu.
Barely a week goes by in Africa's most populous nation without attacks or kidnappings by criminals known as"bandits" in the northwest and centre, jihadists in the northeast or separatists in the southeast.
One of the new government's most urgent tasks will be to tackle insecurity, which has resurfaced in full force since April. Bandits"invade a community, kill people and destroy their properties, with little or no resistance from the security officials," said Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, one of the states affected by the violence.
But for Idayat Hassan, of the Abuja-based Centre for Democracy and Development, the incoming administration should also move towards"a non-military" approach and address some of the root causes of the violence. The choice of Tinubu's vice president Kashim Shettima, the former governor of the most affected region Borno State, could"make a lot of difference" in ending the conflict, Hassan said, though some have blamed Shettima for deteriorating security when he was in office.
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