Enhancing Security in Nigerian Public Primary Schools
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Public Primary Schools, Insecurity, Primary Education, SecurityAbstract
This paper is titled enhancing security in Nigerian Primary Schools. The security issue in Nigeria is an area of concerns, many schools were forced to closed and some turned to camps for refugees However, this paper examined the concept of primary education, concept of security, components of school security such as violence, natural hazards, everyday hazards, conflicts, and safety of school facilities. Factors affecting Security in public primary school were also identified such as: inadequate funding, poor community engagement, geographical location, poverty and unemployment, inadequate monitoring and supervision of primary school activities. Similarly, physical safety measures, adequate funding of primary school to fight insecurity, community involvement in managing insecurity in primary schools, favorable environment for school and inadequate monitoring and supervision of primary school activities were identified as ways of enhancing security in primary school. The paper recommended that stakeholders’ efforts in financial supports to primary schools should be improved to address the security challenges by increasing government allocation, grants and donations through public and private partnership.Downloads
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