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Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Journal of ASAP) is an open access international multidisciplinary journal published under the ISSN 2690-3458 (electronic edition) and ISSN 2690-3431 (print edition) by Academics Stand Against Poverty, a non-profit organization based in United States (EIN # 32-0324998).  Its mission is to publish high-quality work that can make genuine contributions to understanding and eradicating poverty and its effects in the real world. Such work will address the structural causes of poverty with an eye to the special challenges poor people face in such areas as nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications.  Journal ASAP is committed to ensuring that perspectives of the poor are adequately represented on its pages, and that these pages are accessible to all. The journal makes substantial efforts to include voices from the global South as well as from non-elite educational institutions and from organizations, agencies and communities that are working toward poverty eradication. It also aims for the widest possible reach by being entirely open-access: its one/two issues each year are free for download anywhere in the world without any requirement to provide personal information. Journal ASAP invites submission of original work and maintains a rigorous double-blind peer review system that provides constructive feedback to assist authors in presenting their work in a way that is clear, broadly accessible and practically useful. Journal ASAP is a pure Open Access Journal and allows the author to retain the copyright in their articles. Articles are made available under a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY) to allow others to freely access, copy and use research provided the author is correctly attributed.

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Terrorism Financing in Nigeria: Its Roots, Impacts, and Possible Reforms

The threat of terrorism financing has left a trail of violence and conflict in Africa which prevents countries like Nigeria from meeting important goals such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the A…

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  • Oluebube Christopher Offor

    Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC), Lagos, Nigeria

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The threat of terrorism financing has left a trail of violence and conflict in Africa which prevents countries like Nigeria from meeting important goals such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union Agenda 2063. There is an urgent need for action to address the challenges that this threat represents to the fragile stability of Nigeria. This paper uses data from local and international journals, investigative reports, online newspapers, government publications, and conference articles, to describe the problematic and endemic nature of terrorism financing in Nigeria. The paper further evaluates the magnitudes of terrorist funding and its impacts on people's socio-economic conditions. The research indicates that weak borders – particularly in the northern region of Nigeria – along with religious bigotry, poor governance, and high unemployment and poverty rates are some of the key enablers of terrorism financing. To bring the problem under control, the paper suggests that building close collaboration with neighboring countries, overhauling security intelligence, resolving people's socio-economic crises, embracing innovations informed by research and development, and strengthening counter-terrorism policies are central to curtailing the outrage of terrorism financing in Nigeria.

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TerrorismTerrorism financingIllicit financial flowsBoko HaramNigeria

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