TWEET DATA ABOUT SECURITY SITUATION IN NIGERIA

This dataset contains a collection of tweets about security situation in Nigeria. The tweets were collected between 6th of December, 2019 and 11th of April, 2020 due to the lingering security situation in the country. It was used to develop a web based sentiment analysis platform that can help the government to harvest citizen's comment expressed on twitter so as to make an informed decision and right policies for the benefits of the citizens. Preliminary results of the developed sentiment analysis system is available on https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-7182-1_7