PROVOST

Brigadier General Solomon Inuwa, the current Provost of the Nigerian Army College of Education (NACOE), is an aborigine of Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

He was commissioned in 1993 as a member of the Nigerian National Guard Course 1, and subsequently demobilised into the Nigerian Army and posted to the Nigerian Army Intelligence Corps (NAIC). Since commission, he has attended several courses. These include Young Officers Course Intelligence, Young Officers Course Education, Tactical Intelligence Course, Security Investigation Course, Police Administration and Security Management Course, Intelligence Detachment Commanders Course and Nigerian Army Education Corps Executive Management Course. Similarly, he attended the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) Foundation Course, Advanced Stabilization and Reintegration Course as well as the United Nations Staff Officers’ Course, all at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre Ghana. He was also privileged to attend the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) Planning Course at the Norwegian Defence International Centre, Oslo, Norway, 2015.

His academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Maiduguri (1991), a Master of Science Degree in Sociology from the University of Jos (2006) and a Master of Art Degree in International Peace Studies from the United Nations mandated University for Peace San Jose, Costa Rica (2009). He also bagged a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the University of Sokoto and Ilorin respectively. In addition, he also earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Science Research and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom, in 2013 and 2017 respectively. His areas of research interest include the political economy of armed conflict, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of ex-combatants, post-conflict peacebuilding and reconstruction as well as conflict theory and critical security studies. Over the years, he has held several appointments. Some of which are Commandant Command Secondary School Kaduna from January 2019-January 2020). The Provost was also a Senior Defence Fellow and Head of Department, Defence, Security and International Studies at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru Jos, 2020, before joining the Senior Executive Couse 43 at the Institute. On completion of the Senior Executive Course in 2021, he was appointed Director of History Research and Archives at the National Defence College (NDC), where he served from January to August 2022. Before he assumed duty as Provost NACOE, he was Desk Officer Tertiary Education Trust Fund at the Nigerian Defence Academy Kaduna and was simultaneously appointed Senior Lecturer at the Department of Defence and Security Studies.

Some of his publications include:

• Solomon Inuwa (1991). “Nigerian Food Crisis and State Intervention: A Survey of Bade Local Government Area of Borno State”. Unpublished undergraduate Research project submitted in June 1991 to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Management Science University of Maiduguri, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology and Anthropology.


• Solomon, I. (2006). “The Fight Against Corruption: A Study of the Nigerian Experience between 1999 – 2003”. Unpublished thesis submitted in August 2005 to the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Management Science University of Jos, Nigeria. In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Master of Science (M. Sc.) Degree in Sociology.


• Solomon, I. (2009). “Challenges to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration: The Case of the Niger Delta”, Available at: https://ideasforpeace.org/content/challenges-to-disarmament-demobilization-and-reintegration (accessed 16/09/2022).


• Solomon, I. (2017). “A Critical Evaluation of the 2009 Niger Delta Amnesty Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme”. An unpublished PhD dissertation Submitted to the University of Bradford UK, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Doctor of Philosophy.


• Solomon, I. (2018). “Delayed Degradation of Boko Haram: What Went Wrong?”, NARC Digest, Journal of the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Abuja, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 187-210.


• Solomon, I. (2020). “Amnesty, Disarmament, Demobilisation, Reintegration and Security Stabilisation in the Niger Delta: A Critical Impact Assessment”, in Maj Gen B.K. Sharma (rtd) and Brig N. Kumar (rtd)- (ed). India-Nigeria Experience in Combating Terrorism. New Delhi: Pentagon Press LLP, pp.129-144.


• Solomon, I. (2020). “Theorising Nigeria’s Resource Wars: The Rentier-Neopatrimonialism State Perspective”. NARC Journal, A Publication of the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Vol. 3 Number 1, pp. 27-50.


• Solomon, I. (2021). Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Civilian Joint Task Force in Northeast Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects. An unpublished Research Project Submitted to the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Member of the National Institute (mni).


• Major Awwal, I. and Brigadier General Solomon, I (2022). “The Nexus Between Intelligence Education and National Security”, in NN (Capt) Associate Professor IR Saidu and Major Awwal, Isa PhD (ed). Analyzing The Influence of Technology on Intelligence System. Kaduna: Image View Digital Concept, pp. 71-78.


• Major Awwal, I. and Brigadier General Solomon, I (2022). “Strategies to Enhance Efficient Teaching and Training of Teaching Professionals in Nigeria”, in NN (Capt) Associate Professor IR Saidu and Major Awwal, Isa Ph.D. (ed). Analyzing The Influence of Technology on Intelligence System. Kaduna: Image View Digital Concept, pp. 92-99.


• Major Awwal, I. and Brigadier General Solomon, I (2022). “Intelligence and Security Education Programmes in Technological Age”, in NN (Capt) Associate Professor IR Saidu and Major Awwal, Isa PhD (ed). Analyzing The Influence of Technology on Intelligence System. Kaduna: Image View Digital Concept, pp. 125-154.


• Solomon Inuwa (2022). Contemporary Military Operating Environments and Implications for the Nigerian Military: A Monograph. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press Ltd.


• Solomon Inuwa (2022). Fundamental Resolution Strategies to Nigeria’s Niger Delta Conflict 1999-2009. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press Ltd.