Nigeria is in a precarious situation with its neighbours. Arms and ammunition slip in through the western border with the Benin Republic. From Cameroon in the east, militants launch intermittent attacks. But the biggest security threat is from the north where Nigeria shares a notoriously porous 1,698km border with two Lake Chad Basin countries: Niger and Chad, with Burkina Faso and Mali not far away to the northwest.
For decades, weapons have…
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