Civil disorders

Civil unrest flared up in Nigeria in 1993, in an unprecedented civilian challenge to the military following the rejection of the presidential election results by the Nigerian military leader Ibrahim Babangida.

1. Social conflict
2. Man-made disasters

1. Routs
2. Mutiny
3. Engaging in riot
4. Crimes committed during civil unrest
5. Civil violence

1. Proliferation of weapons in civilian hands
2. Political upheavals
3. Human destructiveness
4. Harm to innocent bystanders
5. Aggressive stone throwing

1. Unethical practices by police forces
2. Unchecked village rowdiness
3. Student revolt
4. Social hardships of economic reform
5. Political unrest
6. Police brutality
7. Oppression
8. Monotonous and unaesthetic architecture and design
9. Lack of social discipline
10. Inadequate working conditions
11. Inadequacy of civil defence
12. Hyperinflation
13. Famine
14. Environmental degradation of inner city areas
15. Economic unrest
16. Demonstrations
17. Counter revolution

1. Excessive government control

1. Unlawful assembly
2. Overthrow of government
3. Offences against public order
4. Inhumane methods of riot control

1. Quieting civil unrest
2. Pacifying citizens
3. Engaging in riots
4. Controlling riots

1. Unsociable
2. Unrest
3. Riot
4. Rights
5. Order
6. Disturbance
7. Disorder