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The Quest for Academisation of Intelligence Studies in Nigerian Universities: Resolving the Training Imbroglio of National Security Personnel Isa, Awwal; Nte , Ngboawaji Daniel; Featherstone, Clairmont Roger; Ahmadu, Abdulaziz Baba
Advances in Police Science Research Journal Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021): January, Advances in Police Science Research Journal
Publisher : Indonesian National Police Academy

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Contemporary global and national security challenges have necessitated the need to widen the horizon of intelligence studies education across the world. For the seemingly advanced democracies of the West, this has created massive liberalisation of the quest for intelligence education and training in traditional and non-military universities. For the developing albeit transitional democracies, this quest is even more compelling as they face extreme national security challenges by non-state actors, widening ungoverned spaces, and the challenges of democratic penetration. Consequently, this work attempts to evaluate the challenges and prospects of consolidating intelligence studies for national security by universities in Nigeria. Relying on extensive qualitative research, the paper was able to evaluate these prospects and challenges with the eventual policy recommendations in the collective search for a sustainable national intelligence culture via formal education and training in Nigerian universities.
A Comparative Analysis of Intelligence Studies Programmes in the United Kingdom and Nigerian Universities Isa, Awwal; Nte , Ngboawaji Daniel; Featherstone, Clairmont Roger; Baba-Ahmadu, Abdulaziz
Police Studies Review Vol. 5 No. 7 (2021): July, Police Studies Review
Publisher : Indonesian National Police Academy

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As the world collectively recognized the onerous task of collective security and the liberalization of intelligence studies, different nations have encouraged the introduction and management of intelligence studies programmes in their university system. Consequently, this work is a comparative analysis of intelligence studies as an academic discipline in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. Relying extensively on historiographical and content analysis of data and facts logically arranged in tandem with the social sciences traditional research enterprise, the study found out, unlike the UK, with a substantially longer history of intelligence studies, Nigeria is still crawling with the idea with just two private universities-Novena University and Afe Babalola University. Furthermore, the study found out that while Nigeria has a lot to learn from the UK style of intelligence studies, both countries should better develop unique albeit parallel intelligence analytical frameworks to suit their domestic needs while cooperation will be more useful in areas of manpower training, development, foundational literature, and academic professionalism.