Nigerian president Buhari sworn in for 2nd term

Along with a 25 percent unemployment rate and widespread poverty , Nigeria continues to confront a multitude of security threats that loom over Buhari’s second term.

A new extremist faction pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group has made a deadly resurgence in recent months, overrunning military bases in the northeast and raising questions about how much support Nigeria’s troops receive from the government.

The decade-old Boko Haram insurgency also remains a threat . Bandits threaten the northwest, while oil militants remain active in the oil-rich south.

Deadly clashes between largely Christian farmers and largely Muslim herders over increasingly scarce land also have wracked central Nigeria. Buhari has faced particularly sharp criticism over the crisis, as many Nigerians worry that he sympathizes with the herders as a fellow ethnic Fulani from the north.

Buhari also faces rising discontent over the poor economic prospects for most Nigerians, said political analyst Dan Ekere, a lecturer at the University of Lagos.

“There are also challenges with infrastructure, especially power. As we speak, we are still paying for darkness,” he said of a county of nearly 190 million people where the rumble of generators is part of the daily soundtrack.

“How do you grow the economy without power supply? There is nothing to show that we are moving away from the state we are in.”