Al-Hikmah University Journal

Nigeria education system has witnessed so many attacks as a result of cults related activities, banditry, boko-haram insurgencies, kidnappers and suicide bombers. These attacks have seriously threatened the unity and co-operate existences of Nigeria. Primary and Secondary sources of data collection was employed to answer the three research questions designed for the study by the researchers. Validity of the instrument were obtained by internal and external historical criticism. The study identified and examined the following as causes of security challenges in the education system as poor funding, porous school boundary, Government refusal to pay adequate attention on education and religious dichotomy and miss-interpretation of religious tenets. The consequence of insecurity in the education system led to burning of 24 halls in to ashes at federal Government College, Buni Yari, Yobe State, losses of lives and prosperities. Bokoharam alone killed an estimated 2,295 teachers and displaced over 19,000 teachers. Other incidence of insecurity in the education system in Nigeria includes gruesome murder of 4 Students by Cultist, at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife on 10th July 1999 and in November 6th 2018, 4 youth were gruesiously murdered in cross River State university. To exterminate or reduce to the lowest problems of insecurity in schools, the following are suggested as the way forward: (i) all students’ needs to be taught how to respond to security emergencies and also need to be taught basic skills of self-defenses. (ii) Federal and States government should allocate 26% of their annual budget in line with United Nations’ recommendation in funding education and (iii) state governors must be given the power to direct all Security Agencies in his State as the Chief Security of Officers in their respective states particularly on issues concerning insecurity in the State.