Ghanas Energie-Fahrplan: Übergang zu nachhaltigen Systemen (EN)

This research paper examines the co-constitutive relationship between economic decline and rising insecurity in Nigeria, arguing that poor governance, dwindling state capacity, and systemic poverty drive violence across the country's geopolitical zones.

• Nigeria's insecurity is driven by economic factors, specifically high unemployment and poverty, creating a cycle where poverty fuels insecurity, which in turn reduces investment and further deepens poverty.
• Security threats vary by region: the North-Central faces pastoral conflicts over waterways; the North-East is threatened by Boko Haram; the North-West experiences predominant banditry and kidnapping; the South-East deals with secessionist violence from the Indigenous People of Biafra; the South-South faces oil theft and extortion; and the South-West is affected by armed gangs.
• Widespread poverty is evident in National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data, which indicates that 133 million Nigerians, or 63 percent of the population, live in multidimensional poverty, with children making up more than half of this group.
• The Nigerian government's financial priorities are criticized for favoring a fuel subsidy regime that benefits a small elite over capital expenditure; for the first half of 2023, ₦3.6 trillion was allocated for petrol subsidies compared to ₦6.4 trillion for the entire year's capital expenditure.
• State capacity has declined significantly, evidenced by the failure to rebuild the Eastern Economic Corridor for nearly 50 years, the failure to build a dam to mitigate floods from Cameroon's Lagdo Dam despite a 1982 feasibility study, and the mismanagement of COVID-19 relief funds.
• Youth restlessness is exacerbated by a 33 percent unemployment rate and a lack of updated census data, as Nigeria has not conducted a census since 2006, leading to policy design based on projections.

APA

Nwanze, C. (2023). Ghanas Energie-Fahrplan: Übergang zu nachhaltigen Systemen (EN). Africa Policy Research Institute. https://afripoli.org/de/ghanas-energie-fahrplan-nachhaltige-systeme-en

Chicago

Nwanze, Cheta. Ghanas Energie-Fahrplan: Übergang zu nachhaltigen Systemen (EN). Africa Policy Research Institute, 2023. https://afripoli.org/de/ghanas-energie-fahrplan-nachhaltige-systeme-en.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{nwanze2023ghanas, author = {Nwanze, Cheta}, title = {{Ghanas Energie-Fahrplan: Übergang zu nachhaltigen Systemen (EN)}}, institution = {Africa Policy Research Institute}, year = {2023}, month = feb, url = {https://afripoli.org/de/ghanas-energie-fahrplan-nachhaltige-systeme-en}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }