THE POROSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BORDERS AND THE SPREAD OF ISLAM IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This paper discusses the porosity of international borders and the spread of Islam in Nigeria. Nigeria has suffered some suffocating smoking ruins in its public spaces and escalated injurious violations of human lives and property in the hands of Boko Haram insurgents for over a decade now. And for about half a decade the migrant Fulani herdsmen added gross injuries to the scenario by their trespass on lands with the consequent farmers’ reverse-aggression in the native communities of the Middle Belt and Southern regions of the country. Nigeria has porous international borders that are open to Islamic migrants who enter the country without respect to international policy provisions. The findings of this paper include, inter alia, the correlation between the porosity of borders, weak foreign policy and the spread of Islam in Nigeria. This situation retards integral human development in the country in many ways. The methodology employed in this work is historic-descriptive which means that the migrations into and within Nigeria have been studied over time and presented with keen interest on its supportive Islamization agenda consequences.