TERRORISM IN NIGERIA: ITS NATURE AND IMPLICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
ALIKA, Iyere Joseph (Ph. D)
School of Postgraduate Studies
University of Benin, Benin City
Email: josephalika12@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The discourse of the paper focuses on terrorism in Nigeria, its nature and implication for development. Nigeria has been engulfed in terrorists crises over a decade ago leaving a cloud of fear over the nation which the present administration tried to suppress without remarkable success. The paper succinctly analyses the concept of terrorism, examines the baneful issues necessitating terrorism in Nigeria, and identifies the nature of the terrorists fight and the implication it holds against development. The paper reveals the background issues propelling terrorism in Nigeria which borders on race supremacy, resulting in the ethnic cleansing which has been sweeping across the North Eastern part of the country, it gave a clear understanding of the principle on which the nation was founded as contained in its coat of arms portraying Nigeria as a destined nation under God. It recommends some policy measures which when adopted would make the nation safe for all and hasten the implementation of the anticipated development.
Key words: terrorism, terrorists, development, government, violence, policy, administration, Organization,
