Shifts in rhetoric from Western political figures including U.S. President Donald Trump’s blunt foreign-policy worldview are reviving familiar anxieties about Nigeria’s political future. For those who remember Libya and Iraq, the warning signs feel uncomfortably familiar. The descent into chaos in both Iraq and Libya was paved with language about instability, corruption, and the need for decisive intervention. Like Iraq before 2003 and Libya before 2011, Nigeria is strategically important, resource-rich, and internally diverse, ethnically, religiously, and politically. Third, addressing Nigeria’s youth crisis must be central to any stability strategy.

Source: Libya Today December 29, 2025 22:21 UTC