Assignment
Assignment
There is no doubt that Nigeria has great potential for greatness, particularly with its large
resources, diverse raw materials, huge oil reserves, and intellectual reservoirs. Despite
most frantically to find its feet among the nations' committees due, among other factors,
to the prevalent insurgency and insecurity that have continued to present a challenge to
It is a fact that unemployment causes poverty and extreme poverty leads to a crime that
live below a defined standard of living income so that individuals and nations are
classified and identified as poor. While unemployment is defined as when people are not
engaged in meaningful work and are lacking the basic needs of life.Every year, tertiary
institutions graduated many students who have been unfortunately thrown into the labor market with
no hope for job opportunities in sight. Many become frustrated in an effort
to keep mind and body together and engage in violent and criminal acts such as lucrative
kidnapping, militancy, and armed robbery. Others have been terrorists ' victims and are
quickly radicalized. Nwagbosa(2012) believes that past governments have failed to put
in place actions that will reduce unemployment and poverty rates, which have been the
of insecurity in Nigeria; however, political and religious leaders across the nation
sometimes use ethnic sentiments to achieve their selfish ambitions. Throughout this way,
the elites exploit people's minds to stir up mistrust and resentment among different
ethnic groups and among the country's major religions that cause Nigeria's insecurity. In
a multiethnic country like Nigeria, the relationship should be cordial, without reciprocal
distrust, fear, and a propensity to a violent confrontation between members of one ethnic
or religious group and another of that ethnicity or religious group.Adagba, et al, (2012);
Achumba, et al, (2013), similarly asserted that control of scarce resources, fuel, land,
economies, traditional and political offices resulted in mass killings and property
marginalization, nepotism, and intolerance. This often results in ethnic violence and
religious conflicts.
3.Corruption:
Nonetheless, corruption was largely responsible for government failure and systemic
widespread corruption. Corruption is poor not because money and profits change hands
in an unequal way, and not because of participants' motives, but because it privatizes Corruption is
responsible for Nigeria's massive unemployment, it's the reason Nigerian
youth and businessmen lack electricityto run their businesses, it's the reason many
businesses fail. Unemployment6 and deprivation are the two main causes of Nigeria's
Nigeria. According to Charas, (2014) Past governments, both Military and Democratic,
Shagari Civil Administration in 1979, the War Against Indiscipline and the Corruption of
reliance, social justice and economic recovery in 1985, General Sani Abacha's Failed Banks
Nigeria's security system is seen as very poor in both personnel and equipment. Security
officers are poorly and poorly trained and poorly remunerated. As a result,the requisite
expertise is not available to meet modern security challenges. The contribution of the
security personnel to the Nigerian project of ensuring general safety is equally of serious
police jurisdiction and this partially explains the Nigerian Police Force's failure to
asserts that the police population ratio in Nigeria is 1:450 which falls below the United
this perhaps explains the police‟inabilityto effectively tackle crimes and security
challenges.
Many of the soldiers fighting the insurgency in the northeast of the country have been
ambushed on some occasions and many have been killed by the rebels at Boko Haram as
a result of information leaked to them by those who were supposed to fight them. Again
huge sums of money made available for the acquisition of weapons were embezzled and
misappropriated or outdated equipment purchased and the offenders were not punished
appropriately. In some other situations, firearms meant to be found in the possession of
the insurgents for the Nigerian troops. The lack of cooperation between the Security
Agencies is also noted. The case of some soldiers who killed three police officers in Taraba
State and injured others, who had an official duty to apprehend a kidnapping kingpin
not long ago, and also a soldier who shot a Mopol in Maiduguri demonstrated the weak
5.Porous border:
The country's unstable frontiers, where human movements are essentially untracked,
have led to Nigeria's level of insecurity. There is an unregulated inflow of Small Arms
and Light Weapons into the country as a result of the porous borders which has enabled
militancy and crime in Nigeria.Edeko (2011)has reported that Nigeria hosts over 70% of
about 8million illegal weapons that have been used to create a security crisis.In addition,
the porous condition of both the Nigerian borders has contributedthe uncontrollable
influx of migrants, predominantly young people, from nearby countries such as the
Republic of Niger, Chad and the Republic of Benin accountable for some of the insecurity
Nigeria's current government has been strongly charged with ethnic disparity, and the
Currently, key political positions were given to people from Northern extraction while
the South-East was left in the cold. That may explain the agitation for the Biafra Republic and Shi'a
strongly known as the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and several breaches
of security this followed the agitation. Besides, it is quite clear that Nigeria's life chances
oppression, marginalization, and this has resulted in dissatisfaction and loss of hope,
particularly among the youth. Such young people are now voicing their disillusionment
with the state of affairs by any means possible, whether legal or illegal. The consequence
That fact remains Nigeria's fundamental cause of insecurity from the past till now. Any
government anywhere has the primary function of providing basic services such as
Ironically, these basic things are not there in Nigeria and the people, in general,are
Frustrated and demoralized. Demoralization and anger logically provide a strong fertile
ground for aggression and general insecurity. The scarcity of these basic amenities in
Nigeria is embarrassingly not due to a shortage of funds but rather to corruption at the
highest level of leadership structure. A reality articulated by Hazen and Horner (2007),
such communities or societies in a multi-ethnic and religious society like Nigeria, given
the current scenario of the democratic politics in which the nation has been located. To
this end, believing that weak leadership, has added more challenges to the uncertainty
and causes of insecurity not just in the north but also in Nigeria in general, might not be
violent cultures such as thuggery, indiscipline, corruption, abduction, bombing, etc. have
come in since the arrival of third and fourth republics in 1999 and 2009 respectively,
which was just a decade ago after the previous military invasion.
Insecurity in Nigeria poses a threat to life and property, hampers business activity,and
discourages local and foreign investors, all of which hampers and morons a country's
social and economic growth and development. Since the nation gained political
the rising insecurity has assumed a dangerous dimension that even threatens the
Removing such challenges should be Nigeria's number one priority at all levels because
the nation cannot achieve any significant development despite insecurity and terrorism.
challenges.
The way out in Nigeria to solve the problem of insecurity is by government pushing
growth with its policies. The creation that we are addressing here involves:
centers of entrepreneurship across the nation, most notably in the North and
North East.
v.The government should create more job opportunitiesforthe youth;thiswill
through the use of print and digital media, and inform the public through
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