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Nigerian troops tackling landmines Internal Security Challenges: Military is No Magic BulletBy Chidi OmejeI took this caption from the Conversations of Lindy Heinecken, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa wherein she was remonstrating over South African Governments decision to deploy military to quell the recent violent protests that greeted the conviction of former President, Jacob Zuma. Her contentions include worry over governments use of the military against its own citizens, risk of giving prominence to the military in what should otherwise be a civil unrest and the consequent culture of militarism and militarization of the civil space, amon termos stanley g other concerns. Well, her concerns, as expressed above, are not the only the concerns of this submission as she appears to be still grappling with the propriety or otherwise of deploying the military for internal security operations 鈥?in fact, it appeared to her as such an irregularity in the civil-military relations dynamics which disposes the civil space to gratuitous culture of militarism and stanley tumblers militarization . We have gone beyond such innocent contemplation in Ni stanley mug geria. Nigerian militarys engagement in internal security operations ISOs does not only have robust precedence, it has now become a national security imperative considering the gravity and multiplicity of internal security challenges across the country. In fact, deployment of Nigerian milita