BOKO HARAM’S PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION AND JIHAD: ASSESSMENT OF ISLAMICSTUDIES TEACHERS IN NORTH-EASTERN NIGERIA

Abstract

This study examines Boko Haram’s perspectives on Education and Jihad: Assessment of Islamic Studies
Teachers in North-Eastern Nigeria. The study was a descriptive research. Purposive sampling technique was
employed to select 414 respondents from six universities, six colleges of education, ten secondary schools and
ten non-formal Islamic schools located in North-east Nigeria. A researcher-designed questionnaire was used for
the data collection. Data collected were analysed using mean and standard deviation. Findings of the study
revealed that formal and non-formal Islamic studies teachers assessed the perspective that male and female
students are not allowed to acquire knowledge under the same roof as partially correct on education. It was
revealed that formal Islamic studies teachers assessed the perspective that Islamic Law must be established at all
cost across the country as incorrect while the non-formal Islamic studies teachers assessed it as partially correct
on Jihad. The study concluded that male and female students cannot acquire knowledge under the same roof and
Jihad should not be established at all cost. It was recommended that Muslims and Non-muslims should acquire
knowledge regardless of gender or religious affiliation and killing should not be perpetrated for religious
difference.