Citation

Mustapha M, Hamid AFA. Int. J. Recent Technol. Eng. 2019; 8(2 Special Issue 9): 608-614.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication)

DOI

10.35940/ijrte.B1127.0982S919

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article investigates into the operations of Boko Haram insurgency and its consequences on Nigeria's political and socio-economic arrangement. The paper faults the sudden development of Boko Haram on the government languorous attitude to governance. The paper is qualitative research, it relies more on the secondary form of data collection, and the theoretical thrust hinges on Ted theory of Relative Deprivation; noting that the people of Northeast feel highly deprived in the scheme of things in Nigeria. There is an acute shortage in their basic needs, high rate of unemployment, an unacceptable level of poverty and shortage of infrastructures. With the arrays of attacks, suicide bombing, abductions, armed robbery and use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), Nigeria is gradually gravitating towards a failed state. Since development cannot take place in an insecure environment, the paper recommends that there must be the full entrenchment of good governance, the military must be adequately strengthened, and poverty must be eradicated. © BEIESP.

Language: en

Keywords

Insurgency; Boko Haram; And Good Governance