2017 Berlin U-Bahn informal convo with Nig very senior Def/Sec officials on nig Counter Terror/insurg efforts.
Security architecture lacks critical essentials.
A) Inter-agency Coordination,
B) Intelligence gathering and ANALYSIS
C) Counterespionage
D) Op Oversight upgrade.

Some players in the Mali/Burkina inter-ethnic conflicts & nomadic jihadism fundamentalists are spilling southward setting up structures and sending militants into Côte d'iviore and several NW, NE, Central & SW of Nigeria.
Ecowas lukewarm stance to the Sahelian threat need change

JNIM led by the Tuaregs, ISGS filled with the Peulh/Fulanis, ISWAP with the Kanouris, Toubou & Dazas, Ansaru with several local central Nigerian ethnic groups are getting entrenched in the West Africa region.
They are experienced hands for Int. Terror Orgs. like al-Qaeda and ISIS