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INSECURITY IN NIGERIA: GENESIS, CONSEQUENCES AND PANACEA

European Journal of Social Sciences Studies

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Title INSECURITY IN NIGERIA: GENESIS, CONSEQUENCES AND PANACEA
 
Creator Ozoigbo, Bonaventure Ikechukwu
 
Subject security, insecurity, Nigeria, government, development
 
Description Insecurity is one of, if not the most glaring and much talked about thing in Nigeria today. Acts of insecurity occur on daily basis throughout the country. Right thinking and sane Nigerians are really concerned about this ugly trend. This paper digs into the root causes of insecurity in Nigeria, its effects on the country and proffers/suggests ways out of this nightmare. The causes amongst so many include fundamentally illiteracy, unemployment/joblessness, poor leadership, porous nature of our boarders, proliferation of arms, non-compliance with the rule of law. The effects are also there – underdevelopment, poverty, hunger, insurgency, militancy, youth restiveness, kidnapping, armed robbery, fear, drug abuse, political thuggery, etc. As part of the way out of this, this paper suggests that ‘career’ (technical) education be emphasized rather than the ‘degree’ (non-technical) education. Civics as a subject should be restored in the primary school curriculum; the country be restructured as demanded by most of the populace, community policing introduced and supported; rule of law and quality leadership firmly established and spirit of nationalism enshrined in the minds of the citizenry.  Article visualizations:
 
Publisher Open Access Publishing Group
 
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Date 2019-11-07
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/article/view/646
10.46827/ejsss.v0i0.646
 
Source European Journal of Social Sciences Studies; Volume 4, Issue 4, 2019
25018590
25018590
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/article/view/646/1228
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Bonaventure Ikechukwu Ozoigbo
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