Youth Employment, Security and Poverty in Nigeria

Abubakar Haruna, Zipporah Oyigbenu Elijah and Hussaina Abdullahi Yarima
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Abubakar Haruna: Department of Accounting, Binyaminu Usman Polytechnic, P.M.B 013, Hadeja, Jigawa State, Nigeria
Zipporah Oyigbenu Elijah: Department of Public Administration, Isa Mustapha Agwai 1 Polytechnic, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Nigeria
Hussaina Abdullahi Yarima: Department of General Studies, Isa Mustapha Agwai 1 Polytechnic, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2022, vol. 6, issue 10, 698-701

Abstract: This paper seeks to explore the interrelation between youth employment, security and poverty in Nigeria using content analysis. Despite government initiatives or programmes on youth empowerment, there has been increasing issues and challenges with respect to youth empowerment, including youth unemployment, increasing crimes and criminality such as armed robbery, kidnapping, drug abuse, oil theft, banditry, Biafra agitation and Boko Haram menace, among others. No doubt, these issues and challenges have implications for national security in Nigeria. The study analyses the nexus between unemployment/employment and security challenges as well as poverty and security. We conclude that unemployment and high rate of poverty constitute a threat to the security situation of Nigeria. Unemployment leads to poverty, and poverty creates insecurity. It recommended among others that, only good governance can guarantee peace and security in the present-day Nigeria. Government budgetary allocation should be focused on the social and human security rather than physical approach to national security.

Date: 2022
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