IDEAL INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

It has been a normal story over the way and manner of the killings in the south-East and other parts of Nigeria which started slightly in 2015 and from 2020 became intense with so many killings and kidnappings for ransom till date. Rural insecurity in Nigeria has become a recurring decimal with its continuing attacks on its citizenry. This security challenges in Nigeria manifest itself in the loss of lives and property worth millions of naira on daily basis. This has drawn the emergence of militancy in those areas. Moreover, the phenomenon of nomadic Fulani herdsmen onslaught on communities are not only obtainable in the South-East alone but also in the whole parts of the North central and South, particularly against peasant farmers in those areas. This has assumed frightening dimensions and they are rarely apprehended by security operatives. Combined with these are armed robberies, rising rate of unemployment among youths leading to restiveness, corruption and increasing inequality, leading to chaos everywhere in the country. The effect of this insecurity is a threat to democratic governance and cannot be undermined hence; this paper examines rural insecurity, women’s protest and agitation in Nigeria: a catalyst for democracy as well as its multifaceted manifestations.

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