Home COI Report - Nigeria: Security Situation 1. General description of the security situation 1.2. Conflict drivers and security trends 1.2.5. Electoral violence Table of contents Table of Contents Acknowledgements Disclaimer Glossary and abbreviations Introduction Methodology Defining the terms of reference Collecting information Quality control Sources Sources on security incidents and fatalities Structure and use of the report Terminology and classification of actors Map 1. General description of the security situation 1.1. Main Actors 1.1.1. State armed actors 1.1.2. Vigilante groups and other communal defence forces 1.1.3. Non-state armed actors 1.2. Conflict drivers and security trends 1.2.1. Attacks by Islamist groups and counter-insurgency operations 1.2.2. Intercommunal conflicts, including between farmers and herders 1.2.3. Banditry and kidnappings 1.2.4. Violence linked to criminality, gangs/cults and separatism in the Niger Delta 1.2.5. Electoral violence 1.2.6. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and airstrikes 1.2.7. Main security trends and impact on the civilian population 2. Security situation per state and Federal Capital Territory 2.1 North-Central 2.1.1. Benue 2.1.2. FCT Abuja 2.1.3. Kogi 2.1.4. Kwara 2.1.5. Nasarawa 2.1.6. Niger 2.1.7. Plateau 2.2. North-East 2.2.1. Adamawa 2.2.2. Bauchi 2.2.3. Borno 2.2.4. Gombe 2.2.5. Taraba 2.2.6. Yobe 2.3. North-West 2.3.1. Jigawa 2.3.2. Kaduna 2.3.3. Kano 2.3.4 Katsina 2.3.5. Kebbi 2.3.6. Sokoto 2.3.7. Zamfara 2.4. South-East 2.4.1. Abia 2.4.2. Anambra 2.4.3. Ebonyi 2.4.4. Enugu 2.4.5. Imo 2.5. South-South 2.5.1. Akwa Ibom 2.5.2. Bayelsa 2.5.3. Cross River 2.5.4. Delta 2.5.5. Edo 2.5.6. Rivers 2.6. South-West 2.6.1. Ekiti 2.6.2. Ogun 2.6.3. Ondo 2.6.4 Osun 2.6.5. Oyo 2.6.6. Lagos Annex 1: Bibliography Oral sources, including anonymous sources Public sources Annex 2: Terms of Reference Security situation Share Print 1.2.5. Electoral violence There were instances of violence ahead of the Edo state gubernatorial elections in September 2024, including assaults and shootings.247 For more information see 2.5.5. Edo. 247 PLAC, Nigeria Annual Human Rights Report 2024, 16 December 2024, url, p. 41 Book traversal links for 1.2.5. Electoral violence Previous Parent Next
