No single security-related issue has dominated Nigerian strategic and political terrain since the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970 as terrorism. The changing security landscape that has emerged since the return to democratic governance in 1999 continues to evolve in manners that are largely unforeseen a few decades ago. The Nigerian security environment has become far more complex, dangerous, uncertain and threatening than anything that had been seen before. The terrorist unable and in fact unwilling in some cases, to face up with the realities on the ground have increasingly resorted to whatever means available to wreak havoc and destruction physically, economically and psychologically, unhindered and uncontrolled by conscience or civilized ethos.

It is in light of the aforementioned serious security challenges that internal security management in Nigeria is a timely educative book