THE PROBLEM OF INSECURITY IN ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION IN NORTH- EASTERN NIGERIA

Abstract

One of the major challenges faced by most contemporary societies of the world today is the problem of insecurity, a situation that has led to wanton social unrest and destruction of live and properties, mostly in the developing countries of the world. The worrisome situation is the educational system that has become the theatre of absurd by the activities of insurgence and threat of insecurity. However, achieving Universal Basic Education in most developing societies as contain in 2000, United Nations developmental plans on Millennium Development Goals, has continued to suffer setback. It is against this background that the research study attempts to examine the insecurity situation in the North-Eastern Nigeria as a threat to the achievement of Universal Basic Education. The objectives are to identify causes and sources of insecurity, identify the effect of insecurity on education, identify the strategies in achieving UBE in north-east.  Questionnaire was administered on 1200 subjects in three states of north-eastern Nigeria, Borno, Adamawa and Yobe as sample frame, using stratified random sampling in ten (10) schools among the selected target groups in all the three states mentioned above as sample size through primary source to elicit opinions that provided understanding into the phenomenon of problem of insecurity on the achievement of Universal Basic Education, while secondary source, deals with review of relevant literatures on the subject matter. The study chooses the afore mentioned states because of their volatility to insurgency, as a result of porous borders that influence influx of migrants, whose activities  are rather inimical. The study revealed that there is no significant correlation between insecurity and the achievement of Universal Basic Education in North-Eastern Nigeria. Hence, we accept the null hypothesis and conclude that Universal Basic Education has not achieved its goals in education at the basic level. And suggest that a new strategy be adopted with a view of ameliorating the attainment of education for all.