@article{Colonel Abdulwahab Adelokun Eyitayo, ndc, FSS, MSS, RNS, BSc, psc, MPA, MLCJ_2017, place={Dhaka, Bangladesh}, title={IMPORTANCE OF REGIONAL COOPERATION FOR SUCCESSFUL COUNTER INSURGENCY OPERATIONS IN NIGERIA}, volume={16}, url={https://ndcjournal.ndc.gov.bd/ndcj/index.php/ndcj/article/view/204}, abstractNote={<p>The origin of regional cooperation in Africa dates back to the formation of<br>Organization of African Unity now (AU) on 25th May 1963 to provide<br>ideological, logistics and financial support for countries still under colonial rule.<br>After independence, AU became a tool for championing regional stability, peace<br>and development in line with the global best practices as expounded by UN, EU<br>and the likes. Concomitantly, there emerged a series of movement opposed to<br>democratic values but rather the use of terror as a means of change. CT/COIN is<br>not new to Nigeria as abortive secession bid in 1967 to create Republic of Biafra<br>ended with the Federal troops being victorious in 1970. The Military actively<br>continued to combat insurgency in other African countries with impeccable<br>records. Not the least were attempts by subversive elements to trigger domestic<br>violence through ethnic cleansing brought under control by the ubiquitous<br>military. The inception of Ahlis Sunnah (Boko Haram) in the North East Nigeria<br>since 2009 and collaborations with MUJAO/AQIM continually unleashed armed<br>attacks in West Africa Sub-region is sufficient to awaken the plight of regional<br>cooperation. Shouldn’t Nigeria/LCBC countries invoke Article VIII of UN on<br>regional organization to address the menace in view of the prevailing security<br>threats to lives and development? This study is a modest effort to unravel the<br>challenges of combating terrorism at regional and sub-regional level. It stated<br>unambiguously that success at Regional Cooperation involve pooling together<br>of resources, employment of Super powers continued intelligence/ technical<br>support and a level of coordination incumbent upon these countries to access the<br>AU/UN logistics and financial supports. Apparently, employment of a rightful<br>synergy would produce positive results among the parties brought together by<br>exigencies of survival. Like ECOMOG, the importance of Regional Organization<br>has once again been rekindled with the formation of MNJTF towards salvaging<br>the situation in the LCBC. Undoubtedly, abundance benefits accrued from<br>regional cooperation as a platform for peace and security, a bastion for economic<br>and technological development and a united front for combating terrorism.</p>}, number={1}, journal={NDC E-JOURNAL}, author={Colonel Abdulwahab Adelokun Eyitayo, ndc, FSS, MSS, RNS, BSc, psc, MPA, MLCJ}, year={2017}, month={Jun.}, pages={133-151} }