THE IMPLICATION OF BOKO-HARAM INSURGENCY ON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
This study examined the Implication of Boko-Haram Insurgency on Educational Development in Nigeria. It covered the Nigerian security Officers, Media Houses and Tertiary Institution. The research design adopted for the purpose of this study was a descriptive survey method. A self design questionnaire tagged ‘the Implication of Boko-Haram Insurgency on Educational Development in Nigeria was used to gather responses from the respondents. The sample consisted of one hundred and twenty(120) workers in which forty (40) were selected from each of the three (3) quarter used. Simple percentage and chi-square analysis were the statistical methods used for the study. The outcome of the study revealed that Boko-Haram sect has seriously affected the Educational development in Nigeria. It also showed that the Boko-Haram sect has truly crippled into the development of education in Nigeria through the listed items in the research questions. The outcome also showed that the items listed on the possible solution of Boko-Haram sect and its effect on the quality of Education in Nigeria are the possible ways due to the respondent’s response.
Hence, the following recommendations were made among others: the government should implement the poverty education programme, injustice should be addressed in Nigeria, government should make education mandatory and compulsory for all, the government should provide employment opportunities for those unemployed etc.
CHAPTER ONE
Background to the study.
Terrorism is an illegitimate means of attempting to effect political charge by the indiscriminate use of violence (Lodge 1998:5)
Also, Madunagu (2001:51) maintains that, terrorism is the use of violence to achieve political objectives. The bottom line of the above definitions is that, terrorism is an aspect of political violence. Since September 11 2001, multiple attacks on the twin towers of the world trade centre and pentagon in the United States of America, terrorism has become a household discussion in the world.
Boko-Haram according to Omenma D.A. (Dr) 2011 is traceable to the militia group called Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) which enjoyed the patronage of top politicians in other parts of the Northern Nigeria, began to patronize the group through budgetary allocations.
A seminar was presented in Caritas University by Omenma(2012), the boko haram insurgent started as a militia group called ECOMOG, which have being sponsored by prominent politicians in the North – Eastern States of Borno and Yobe during thw build up to the 2003 general election. Later, other politicians in other parts of Northern Nigeria began to sponsor the group, they provided them with huge sums of money, provision of training grounds on mountains scattered in the Northern region as well as protection against arrest by the federal government (Omenma 2012:15)
