Counter Insurgency in Nigeria and the Lake Chad Option

It is a reserch work that is aimed at providing solution to the problem on insurgency in Nigera and the entire lake chad basin looking at the option of returning the water into the lake chad thereby resoring the lost ecosystem and recreating a means of livelihood for the population of the basin. The loss of over 90 percent of the lake has contributed largely In fuelling insurgency within the lake chad basin. It is believed that this would deprive the warlords of militants to continue with there insurgent and subversive actions. The history of insurgency in Nigeria was recounted and the efforts of the Nigerian government in counterinsurgency was critically reviewed.