Abstract

There are several academic works on terrorism in Nigeria. However, such academic inquiries have not specifically hinged on the trends in the fight against terrorism. It is the existing hiatus in extant literature that occasioned the intervention of this study. The article analyzes the evolving trends of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration's war on terror in Nigeria since 2015. Using extant literature and oral historical sources in line with the interdisciplinary methods and adducing supporting evidence from statistics, it examines the drivers and typologies of terrorism in Nigeria. It identifies the negative effects of the phenomenon on the Nigerian economy and society. The study examines the successes and challenges the Buhari administration recorded and encountered in its quest to nip terrorism in the bud. It notes that those challenges have impeded the total success of the war on terror; this is to say that the administration has recorded marginal success in its quest to contain terrorism. The study advances some policy options that would help in stemming the rising tide of terrorism in Nigeria including inter alia maximum cooperation from the UN and procurement of modern military hardware.

Keywords: Buhari’s Administration; War; Terror; Nigeria; Evolving Trends.