Effects of Insecurity on School Administration in Nigeria
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Publishing House Education and Science s.r.o.
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This paper centers its discussion on“the effects ofinsecurity on school administration in the Nigerian educational institutions”. Secondary data were used to support the points raised in the article. The data were sourced from print materials and online publications by recognized institutions and individual authors. This paper identified unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, marginalization, political factors, international influence, and communal crisisas the bane of insecurity in the Nigeria. This paper also identified loss of manpower in educational institutions, poor quality of education, destructions of infrastructural facilities, brain-drain, closure of educational institutions, discouragement of educational pursuit by children, internal displacement of learners,reduction of private investment in education and inadequate funding of education as the impact of insecurity on school administration in Nigeria. In order to address the challenges of insecurity on school administration in Nigeria, the paper recommends among other things:That government should ensure that, the political will to fight all forms of insecurity in the country through the application of best strategies are honestly and sincerely put in place.
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Insecurity, Institutions, Challenges, School, Education