Insecurity and development

Journal of Sustainable Development Studies, 2014

This paper examines the pertinent issue of insecurity in Nigeria and its implication for socio-economic development. Available data on the level and dimensions of insecurity in Nigeria reveals an increase over time, which constitutes serious threat to lives and properties, hinders business activities and discourages local and foreign investors, all which stifles and retards Nigeria’s socio-economic development. This rising wave of insecurity has not abated but has assumed a dangerous dimension which is threatening the corporate existence of the country as one geographical entity. In the light of the above the paper recommends that government must be proactive in dealing with security issues and threats, through modern methods of intelligence gathering, and sharing among security personnel, training, logistics, motivation, and deploying advanced technology in managing security challenges. The real solution lies in government accelerating the pace of economic development through creat...

2015

Nigeria has been under severe internal security threat in recent times. Almost on a daily basis, the media is filled with news of terrorist activities and crimes of other nature, news that in time past were alien to the country. The rate of insecurity is alarming, disturbing and worrisome. With insurgency in the north and militancy in the south, insecurity is a growing quagmire to national peace in Nigeria. Indeed, insecurity is a pain in the neck of this nation. This essay examines the level of insecurity in Nigeria in relation to the economic growth and development of the country. The essay reviews the causes and negative effect of insecurity to the economy of Nigeria with a bid to proffer solutions to the menace of insecurity. The essay suggests that to secure the future, all hands must be on deck to ensure the safety of lives and properties thereby promoting economic growth and development in Nigeria.

The continuous rise in Insecurity and deterioration in the economic development in Nigeria call for a concern among researchers and policy makers over the years. However, these two hydra-headed problems still remain the greatest challenges facing nations all over the world. This study therefore, examines the implication of insecurity on economic development in Nigeria. With the use of trend analysis, descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation of failed state index, human development index and Legatum's prosperity index, the study reveal an inverse relationship between insecurity and economic development in the country. to ensure economic development in Nigeria therefore, the study recommends various measures of curbing insecurity including preventive community policing, human development centered growth perspective, equitable distribution of resources as well as channeling of resources to frontline sectors of the economy among others. INTRODUCTION The return to democratic rule in Nigeria on May 29 th , 1999 presented Nigerians with fresh hopes and latent optimism. This is because the people were of the hope that democracy could guarantee freedom, liberty, and equity and enhances the security of lives and properties which are the panacea for the much needed sustainable economic growth and development of the nation. About eighteen years after this fresh hope was offered, the realities on the ground suggest that the hope and optimism has remained a mirage. According to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, over ten million Nigerians were unemployed by March 2009. As Otto and Ukpere, (2012) observed, the figure on unemployment keep increasing geometrically yearly with less realistic effort by the managers of the state to abate the rampaging unemployment problem. Nwanegbo and Odigbo, (2013) agreed with the view above when they further opined that majority of the population seem to lack access to pipe borne water, health care facilities, electricity and affordable quality education. This scenario painted above aided the Nigeria security situation to deteriorate drastically. Since the return to democratic rule in May 1999, Nigeria has witnessed a number of security challenges associated with militancy, kidnapping, armed robbery, political assassination, arms proliferation, piracy and ethno-religious conflicts. The security challenges have assumed a formidable dimension forcing the country's political and economic managers and, indeed the entire nation, to rue the loss of their loved ones, investments and absence of safety in most part of the country (Onifade, Imhonopi and Urim, 2013). The various governments since May 1999, has tried different methods aimed at ameliorating the devastating effect of insecurity without any useful result. When it seems that the government is achieving good result in one, another will rare it ugly head. The reason for government failure to address this issue of insecurity satisfactorily may not be unconnected with government failure in meeting the developmental needs of the people which has forced them into forming alliance in different forms that has succeeded in breading what Onifade, Imhonopi and Urim,(2013) refers to increasing ethnic hate, religious bigotry, political rivalry and a growing population of disgruntle citizens in the country who feel they have been short-changed and given very limited or no access to the common patrimony. This is consistent with the findings of Egwu, (2001) who observed that the primordial tendencies of various ethnic groups towards violence, the perennial eruption of various ethnic militias and the preponderant religious fundamentalism in place, given expression to by some sections of the dominant religious establishment in Nigeria, have inevitably aggravated the scale and propensity of insecurity and widened its scope in various ramifications. The effect of insecurity is very obvious as it presents itself in the destruction of few available infrastructures needed for the industrial growth and development of the nation. No country of the world can develop without the needed prerequisite for growth and development. With the huge outlay of government resources spent on curbing the menace of insecurity and the attendant destruction of the few existing infrastructure, one can assume that the challenges that insecurity posed to development is enormous. Therefore, this study examines the implication of insecurity on economic development in Nigeria. It seeks to x-ray the major security challenges hindering economic development in the country. This study is divided into five (5) sections. Following the introduction is the literature review which contains conceptual explanation of insecurity and economic development, the various areas of Nigeria security

2021

Insecurity has become the defining characteristic of Nigerian political scene, especially since the return to democracy in 1999. Its rising wave in the recent times has taken a very perilous dimension which is fast decelerating her development and threatening the corporate existence of the country as a nation. Available data on the level and dimensions of insecurity in Nigeria reveals an increase over time. Since the emergence of nascent democracy, major cities and towns have become flashpoints of violent clashes, kidnapping, assassination, rape, hijacking, sabotage, insurgency and looting. The curiosity to x-ray the dastard effects of insecurity on Nigeria’s development informed this study. Content analysis was adopted for the paper, and relevant journals, texts and other academic documents were used. The paper revealed that Nigeria’s national security is at crossroad and the effect is dastardly felt on her development. Corruption, injustice, high level of inequality, poverty and r...

This paper examines the pertinent issue of insecurity in Nigeria and its implication on the nation's national development. Available data on the level and dimensions of insecurity in Nigeria reveals an increase over time, which constitutes serious threat to lives and properties, hinders business activities and discourages local and foreign investors, all which stifles and retards Nigeria's socio-economic development. This rising wave of insecurity has not abated but has assumed a dangerous dimension which is threatening the corporate existence of the country as one geographical entity. The paper adopted the secondary method of data collection; the materials for this study will be sourced mostly from written works from libraries and archives they include: text books, journals, newspapers, and magazines. In fact, this research work is mainly based on secondary data. Analysis of data will be descriptive and historical. In the light of the above the paper recommends that government must be proactive in dealing with security issues and threats, through modern methods of intelligence gathering, and sharing among security personnel, training, logistics, motivation, and deploying advanced technology in managing security challenges.

Article , 2018

Abstract Insecurity is one of the banes of development in Nigeria. It has affected the corporate and individual progress in the country. Each geopolitical zone in Nigeria has a peculiar security challenge that it is battling with. In the south east, kidnapping is on the rise. In the south-south, hostage taking is common. The south western part of the country battles with ritual killing while in the north east, it is terrorism. However, it is important to state that there is no security challenge in the country that has affected socio-political development of Nigeria like Boko Haram terrorism in the North east. It has claimed so many lives and property worth millions of dollars have been destroyed. Therefore, this study seeks to examine the causes and impact of insecurity in North east Nigeria. The methodology employed in the study is made the use of documentary method of data sourcing. The finding of the study revealed that the root cause of terrorism in the North east is traceable to poverty and unemployment among the teeming youthful population. It is therefore, recommended that government should improve standard of living of the people through job creation. This could be done by establishing entrepreneurship centres across the country, especially in the North east of the country.

Journal of Studies in Social Science, 2020

Nigeria is currently inflated in security crisis which has turn into an unending challenge, not only by defying security procedures but making scorn of the efforts of the law enforcement agents and the millions of naira annually budgeted by the government as security votes. This study, therefore, examines the rising insecurity in Nigeria with causes and solutions to it. The finding revealed that the causes of insecurity are the menace of unemployment and poverty, elite exploitation of ethnicity and religious differences, corruption, weak security apparatus, porous border, marginalization and inequality in the country, and bad governance and poor leadership. The solution range from opposing the aforementioned causes of insecurity in this paper.

Adebayo, P. & Adewale, A. (2018). Insecurity Problems and Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria: An Historical Reassessment, 1999-2017. Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies: 2, 2, 80 – 89., 2018

The challenges of insecurity and its devastating effects on socioeconomic development in Nigeria especially since 1999 when Nigeria's nascent democracy began have remained an intriguing one. Indeed, the various problems related to the challenges of insecurity such as terrorism, kidnapping and so on as they affect socioeconomic development in Nigeria raises a lot of issues, viz: What are the main causes of these problems of insecurity in Nigeria and how have they affected socioeconomic development, why is the Nigerian government so proactive in tackling the issue of insecurity; why has government efforts continued to fail, what pragmatic and practical measures can the government take in curtailing the issue so as to enhance development? It is against the background of the aforementioned issues that this chapter reassesses the problems of insecurity challenges and socioeconomic development in Nigeria. The findings of the study are that government needs to adapt a more pragmatic, creative and practical approach in tackling the issue. The methodology adopted for this chapter is based on historical cut multidisciplinary approach. It is hoped that the chapter will contribute to the literature on peace and security studies as well as development studies.