Greg Onuchukwu and Charity, Chioma Obi
1&2Department of Social Sciences, School of General StudiesFederal Polytechnic, Oko,
Anambra state, Nigeria
Corresponding Author’s email: greg.onuchukwu@fedpolyoko.edu.ng
Abstract
Insurgency has become a threat to global peace and security in the 21st century due to the fact
that it constitutes the highest contributor to humanitarian crisis, hence, this paper is poised to
investigate into how the activities of the Boko Haram insurgents and their series of attacks have
had serious effects on the Nigeria socio-economic milieu as it is the most dreadful insurgents
group operating within the country and the sub-saharan west African region. The problem is
virtually affecting all sectors of the country which include, security, education, food supply,
economy, social and the political spheres, many lives have been lost, private and public
properties have been destroyed. The paper is a qualitative research, it relied more on the
secondary form of data collection, and the theoretical thrust hinged on the Relative Deprivation
and the Anomie/Strain theory respectively; noting that the people feel highly deprived in the
scheme of things in Nigeria. There is an acute shortage in their basic needs, high rate of
unemployment, an unacceptable level of poverty and shortage of infrastructures. The study
recommended that government should be proactive in dealing with security issues and threats,
through modern methods of intelligence gathering, training, logistics, motivation and
deploying advanced technology in managing security challenges in the affected states in
Nigeria and poverty alleviation programmes should be initiated in the affected states with the
aim of improving the lives of the affected people in the country
