Abstract
This study examines the impact of insecurity on Nigeria’s tertiary institutions using self–a self-developed questionnaire to collect useful information from the respondents. The paper employs simple frequency counts and non-parametric chi-square statistics. The study revealed that the major reasons for insecurity in Nigeria’s citadel of knowledge were kidnapping and abduction, student violence and protest, counter- attacks between cultist groups, social evils and off-campus residents and frequent increases and multiple levies and herdsmen killings of students and staff. The result depicted that insecurity has a negative significant effect on the academic performance of undergraduate students in Nigeria’s Higher Institutions. The study recommended that the menace of insecurity can be curbed if the following mechanisms can be put in place: provision of functional tertiary education based on universal principles, norms and goals, provision of medical and psychological treatment, adequate security equipment, improvement in military technology and provision of rehabilitation centres for victims.
Ogunbunmi, S. T. & Olaoye, O. F. (2024)