NCTC and NECSOB Partner to Strengthen Nigeria's Counter-Terrorism Response
[Premium Times] The partnership brings together the NCTC's national leadership role in coordinating Nigeria's counter-terrorism response and NECSOB's extensive network of more than 200 civil society organisations working directly with commu
Nigeria's National Counter Terrorism Centre and the Network of Civil Society Organisations in Borno have formalised a partnership linking national counter-terrorism coordination with over 200 community-based organisations in the North-East. The arrangement signals a shift toward outsourcing parts of the state's stabilisation and deradicalisation agenda to civil society, which may improve local reach but raises questions about funding sustainability and accountability for donor-backed programmes. For businesses and investors in the region, the credibility of such whole-of-society frameworks matters mainly insofar as they affect security conditions and the operating environment.
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