CORN West Africa, TADLab, Convene Second Coverage Dialogue on U.S. Christmas Army Strikes in Nigeria.

Within the aftermath of the US Christmas Day airstrikes in Northwest Nigeria, the demand for accountability, institutional reform, and locally-rooted options to the nation’s deepening safety disaster has grown louder and extra insistent.

Students, coverage consultants, and civil society leaders have continued to argue that the incident doesn’t solely represents an remoted navy episode, however a defining second that exposes longstanding weaknesses within the nation’s safety governance and democratic accountability.

It’s in opposition to this backdrop that the Battle Analysis Community, CORN West Africa, in partnership with The Africa Disruptions Lab (TADLab) will on Wednesday January 21, 2026, convene a second coverage dialogue to interrogate Nigeria’s safety structure in relation to the protection of its folks and the increasing footprint of overseas navy interventions.

The dialogue, scheduled to begin at 3:00pm West Africa Time and to be held just about by way of Zoom, is themed “The Christmas Day Reckoning: Monitoring Justice and Change Because the US Airstrikes in Nigeria.”

In an announcement signed by its Communications Guide, Bankole Shakirudeen Adeshina, CORN West Africa says the dialogue is designed to look at what has adopted the airstrikes, not solely in operational phrases, however in issues of accountability, institutional response, safety doctrine, worldwide partnerships, and the safety of civilians.

The assertion defined that the parley would focus not on revisiting outrage alone, however on assessing whether or not Nigeria’s safety establishments and political management have demonstrated studying, reform, and transparency, or whether or not the nation is drifting again into acquainted patterns of silence and impunity.

In response to the organisers, the dialogue will characteristic consultants with deep and authoritative understanding of Nigeria’s safety scenario, whose insights and projections are anticipated to tell extra coherent and other people centered native and overseas navy insurance policies.

The panelists embody Professor Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Professor Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, and Ms Abiodun Baiyewu, every bringing distinct views from scholarship, human rights follow, and civic engagement.

“Slightly than treating the Christmas Day United States led navy motion as a closed chapter, the continuing CORN West Africa and Africa Disruptions Lab dialogue sequence views it as a part of an unfolding nationwide take a look at,” the assertion reads partially.

At stake, the organisers, say, are unresolved questions round accountability, civilian safety, and the circumstances underneath which power is exercised inside Nigeria’s borders.

These questions, the organizer insisted, would proceed to problem the credibility of Nigeria’s safety establishments, the judgment of its political management, and the phrases of its worldwide partnerships.

It says, on the dialogue, consideration will flip to not ultimate verdicts, however to fulfill curiosity on whether or not the responses to date recommend real reform and openness or a quiet return to enterprise as normal, serving to to grasp what the crucial momemt could have turn into for Nigeria’s safety governance and democratic future.

This would be the second time CORN West Africa and TADLab are convening a coverage dialogue that brings collectively coverage actors, safety consultants, diplomats, and civil society voices to look at the fallout of the U.S. Christmas Day navy operation in Nigeria.

The primary dialogue, held on December 30, 2025, attracted over 200 members from Nigeria, North America, the UK, Europe, and different elements of Africa.

That prime-level dialog, hosted just about on Zoom, examined the implications of the airstrikes for Nigeria’s sovereignty, safety governance, and civilian safety.

The inaugural episode featured Dr Fatima Akilu, Prof. Oluwafunmilayo Para-Mallam, and Mr. Dele Farotimi, and was moderated by Dr Gbemisola Abiola. These mental and coverage consultants made a powerful case for improved safety and coverage framework for a protected and safe Nigeria.

As an example, Dr. Akilu, throughout her presentation, had warned that sovereignty is essentially weakened when residents be taught of navy actions affecting their nation from overseas sources reasonably than their very own authorities.

She noticed that when residents are neither knowledgeable nor protected by their state, sovereignty turns into hole.

She additionally cautioned in opposition to framing Nigeria’s violence purely in non secular phrases, noting that such narratives obscure the total vary of victims and the complicated drivers of violence.

On her half, Prof. Para-Mallam underscored the intimate hyperlink between insecurity and state failure, arguing that when a state can’t safe its territory or shield its folks, sovereignty has already been compromised.

She drew consideration to the human prices of unchecked militarismzation, stressing that the true value of safety failures goes far past budgetary figures and is in the end measured in misplaced lives and devastated communities

Mr. Farotimi, a lawyer and human rights activist, additionally supplied a extra uncompromising critique, insisting that Nigeria’s safety disaster isn’t unintentional.

In response to him, the nation didn’t arrive at its current situation by likelihood, and the deepest insult isn’t overseas intervention itself, however the elite failure that created the circumstances underneath which such intervention turned attainable.

MEDIA CONTACT
Bankole Shakirudeen Adeshina
Communications Guide
CORN West Africa
08033847701
guidearight@gmail.com
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