Educational Security in Nigeria: Implications, & Strategies for Preventing the Collapse of Our Educational System

This paper sought to discuss the ills of insecurity in our Educational Sector, it identified unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, marginalization, political factors, international influence, and communal crisis as the bane of insecurity in 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. The study showed that education, among other things, can deliver the following to our society: Economic growth and productivity, human capital development, and building a whole and informed human being. However, criminal elements have continued to work assiduously at ensuring that the educational system is scuttled, some of them hinged their reasons on Poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, population growth, and religion, culture, greed, Smoking, drinking of alcohol, theft, drug addiction and the abduction of humans for ransome are the real causes. Most surprisingly, the government, through the law enforcement agencies, have shown weakness and lack of capacity in the face of this menace. In the light of the above, the following recommendations were made: All the schools should develop an emergency action plan, An emergency communication line should be built to communicate with the necessary units and organizations to receive timely support and help in threatening situations, All students, academic staff and other personnel should be trained about security issues made to be aware of their roles in securing the educational environment and infrastructure, In each school a security committee composed of the members of students, parents, media, health and security organizations, etc., should be constituted, and effective policies should be developed cooperatively, the legislations and regulations about school security should be reviewed and refined to maintain deterrence for threatening behaviors, The physical conditions of the schools should be renewed. Cameras with night vision should be placed outside and inside of the school buildings and Proper identification, inspection and maintenance of property and infrastructure belonging to our schools should be encouraged.