Youth and Nigeria’s Internal Security Management
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One of the major challenges confronting Nigeria is insecurity which hinders national
development. The problem of insecurity includes menace of ethnic militias across the
country, insurgency in the north, militancy in the Niger Delta, kidnapping, armed
robbery and cultism all over the country. The government and other partners recognise
that national security is a precondition for maintaining the survival, growth and
development of a State. It is also well known that the army of unemployed and idle
youth population of the country is the major group perpetrating these security
problems across the country. Given the realisation of the government that the problem
of insecurity needs to be tackled as panacea to the socio-economic development of the
country, several solutions have been applied. The option of youth empowerment is
believed to possess the capacity of not only keeping the youth busy but putting food on
their table and thereby making incentive to engage in actions that promote insecurity
unattractive. The youth empowerment programmes including the Amnesty
Programme, YouWin and N-Power, among others, were some of the programmes
implemented. What is the impact of these programmes as a strategy of managing
insecurity in the country? To what extent are these programmes impacting on the
socio-political and economic development of the country? What are the challenges in
the implementation of these programmes? This chapter attempts to provide answers to
these questions. The data used in this chapter were collected largely from documentary
materials and analysed using descriptive analysis.
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JA Political science (General)