EFFECTS OF INSECURITY ON STUDENT'S ENROLMENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS, NIGER STATE
EFFECTS OF INSECURITY ON STUDENT'S ENROLMENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS, NIGER STATE
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2023-10
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AHMED, Muktar Auna IDRIS, Musa AHMED, Habib M.
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The paper Examine effects of Insecurity on Students Enrolments and Academic performance
of Secondary Schools in Niger stale. Schools are under violent attack that range from
kidnapping of both students and teachers to outright destruction of live and property by
unknown gunmen has become complex over time. The study tries to assess the effects of
insecurity on secondary schools' enrolments and academic performance. Data for the study
were generated from primary and secondary source. Questionnaire and interview are the
instruments used for primary data. The secondary data used in the study were the Niger state
ministry of education school enrolments and school's external examination record. Four staff
of secondary education board, principals, teachers, and traditional rulers were purposively
selected for an interview. The population of the study was2545a and sample size is 333
respondents drew from researcher advisers table 2006. The paper adopted both stratified
random sampling for quantitative and purposive sampling for qualitative data. Both inferential
statistics were used in testing and analyzing the data obtained. Simple linear regression was
used in testing hypothesis using SPSS computer package (version 23.0). Structural
functionalisms theory was adopted as a theoretical frame work. The study found that insecurity
has significant negative effects on enrolments and academic performance of selected
secondary school in Niger state. The study recommends among others that government should
set up a committee responsible for evacuating and relocating of the affected students from
insecurity prone arrears to a more secure environments or schools in other to reduce the
declining rate of enrolments.
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Department of Public Administration,
Faculty of Administration
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria