{"id":6544,"date":"2025-06-24T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/maritime-militia-and-chinas-sovereignty-what-lessons-for-nigerias-civilian-joint-task-force\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:15:01","slug":"maritime-militia-and-chinas-sovereignty-what-lessons-for-nigerias-civilian-joint-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/maritime-militia-and-chinas-sovereignty-what-lessons-for-nigerias-civilian-joint-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"MARITIME MILITIA AND CHINA\u2019S  SOVEREIGNTY: WHAT LESSONS FOR  NIGERIA\u2019S CIVILIAN JOINT TASK  FORCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>MARITIME MILITIA AND CHINA\u2019S  SOVEREIGNTY: WHAT LESSONS FOR  NIGERIA\u2019S CIVILIAN JOINT TASK  FORCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/view\/22' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/download\/22\/18' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>This paper identifies the critical role china\u2019s maritime militia plays in upholding the sovereignty of china. This is owing to the deliberate efforts of the government and the people of china which now possess a well prepared and well equipped maritime militia. This was done through institutionalization, training and retraining as well as providing legal basis for the operation of the outfit. The work argues that the civilian joint task force in its present form cannot effectively pursue its objective of ending Boko Haram insurgency and upholding the sovereignty of Nigeria and the call for community policing will only create more problems except it draws from the experiences of china\u2019s maritime militia. This will ensure that the civilian joint task force is institutionalized, well trained and a legal basis created to support its operations. Primary and secondary sources of data were relied upon for this work. The paper concludes that a well trained and equipped civilian joint task force will achieve more and even serve as a national reserve for Nigeria\u2019s armed forces.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>KUKWEN ANDETSIBA JOSEPH (Federal University Wukari)<\/li>\n<li>UDEAGBALA LAWRENCE OKECHUKWU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>Keywords not available.<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: MARITIME MILITIA AND CHINA\u2019S SOVEREIGNTY: WHAT LESSONS FOR NIGERIA\u2019S CIVILIAN JOINT TASK FORCE Original&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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