REINVENTING COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS IN CURBING INSECURITY IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORTH WEST, NIGERIA

This study, Reinventing Community Relationships in Curbing Insecurity in Secondary Schools in North West, Nigeria, examined strategies for Reinventing Community Relationships in Curbing Insecurity and sustainable mechanism for curbing insecurity in secondary schools in north-west Nigeria. The objectives set to guide the study include Examine the level of community security agency collaboration in curbing insecurity in secondary schools in North West Nigeria, research questions and hypotheses were also compounded in line with stated objectives respectively. Survey research design was used for the study in order to examines the strategies Reinventing Community Relationships in Curbing Insecurity and sustainable mechanism for curbing insecurity in secondary schools in north-west Nigeria. A total of 36,434 population comprising 3955 principals, 32231 teachers and 56 MOE and 192 PTA officials were used. Respondents were randomly drawn from the population. Cluster sampling was used to distribute 768 samples among the four categories as follows: 260 principals, 380 teachers, 18 MOE officials and 110 PTA officials. The main instrument used for data collection was questionnaire using Likert scale measurement. All the two hypotheses formulated were tested using One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).  All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The major findings of this research indicated that the It was on the other hand observed that at the local government level Nigeria's most neglected tier of governance security committees reconstituted as genuine multi-stakeholder platforms that include women, youth, traditional leaders, religious figures, NGOs, and security agencies. Local security budgets, where they exist, should be transparently managed and publicly reported. Conclusion and recommendations were made that Security agencies should institutionalize regular community liaison meetings with traditional and religious leaders in secondary schools in North West Nigeria and Nigeria as a whole.