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This paper examined the state of security in Nigeria and its implications for education and by extension sustainable national development. Insecurity in Nigeria has reached alarming proportions as it is gradually becoming synonymous with the country. There are militant and secessionist groups in the south, and terrorists and armed bandits in the north. This situation has been fuelled by the increasing rate of unemployment and poverty, porous and unsecured borders, corruption and bad governance, lopsided distribution of wealth and development, as well as weak judicial system, among others. These have profound effects on the literacy rate, reduction of female enrolment and destruction of educational facilities or their conversion to centres for internally displaced persons. The implications of insecurity for the socio-economic development of Nigeria include loss of investment opportunities, political instability, brain-drain, production of uneducated and half-baked graduates to man the various sectors of the nation’s economy, etc. As part of measures to mitigate the ugly trend, some recommendations among others were made, such as formulation of policies to enhance the security architecture and promote job creation, strengthening of the judicial system to make it more effective, and improving on the standard of governance by entrenching the culture of probity and accountability.
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