Abstract
Over the last decade,
Nigeria has been experiencing rising insecurity across different sections of
the country, with the most destructive being the rising level of Boko Haram
terrorism in the Northern part of the country. Since the Boko Haram uprising in
2009, the Nigerian government has employed various leadership strategies such
as counter-terrorism measures to stem the atrocities of the group. These
leadership strategies include amnesty negotiations, implementation of emergency
law in the northeast, increase in security spending to the deployment of
military force.