Archives
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Adoption of compressed natural gas and national security in Nigeria
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2024) -
Porous borders and illicit arms deal: Implication for Nigeria national security
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2024) -
ECOWAS formation and Nigeria’s role in peace support operations
Vol. 1 No. 03 (2024) -
Electoral violence and democratic governance in Nigeria
Vol. 1 No. 01 (2024) -
In search of what is security and whose responsibility should be security in Nigeria
Vol. 2 No. 01 (2023) -
Military instrument for conflict resolution: A study of AU peace keeping missions
Vol. 2 No. 01 (2023) -
INSECURITY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
Vol. 1 No. 08 (2023) -
Armed banditry’s nature and character on human security in Niger state, Nigeria
Vol. 1 No. 08 (2023) -
Volume 1 Issue 1 (2023)
Vol. 1 No. 01 (2023)The common denominator in acts and in deeds by the Independent People of Biafra, Yoruba Nation Agitators, the Islamic State of West African Province, and Boko Haram cell groups is the outright dissociation from the conduct of the 2023 General Election. Activities of these non-state armed actors have since snowballed into a supply meet demands of disgruntled politicians, as seen from the apparent incessant attacks on Assets and Supplies of the Independent National Electoral Commission, which further threatens the already garnered electoral public confidence, via the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System. It was against this background that this study engaged the theory of Structural functionalism to interrogate the incessant electoral pattern violence and bimodal voter accreditation system on Nigeria's electoral body’s preparedness for the 2023 General Election. The study is a thematic study conducted by examining the literature on electoral violence and electoral technology, obtained through searches in publicly available materials. Literature from non-serial publications, official reports, and conferences, particularly, if they have been cited by other references in term of e-voting, and regional agitations against democratic institutions. The study revealed that the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System positively influences electoral body preparedness for the 2023 General Election while incessant violence against the electoral body’s assets and supply negatively impacts on the preparedness of the electoral body’s preparedness. The study recommends that all relatedly involved institutions and all tiers of government, should be supportive of the deployment of electronic voting as it is the flagship for the credibility of the 2023 General Election preparedness while the Federal government should extend electoral participation to licensed private Guards companies and other profiled quasi-paramilitary bodies since government Security Agencies are presently overwhelmed by the plethora of internal insecurity.