Authors : Lambert K. Ejionueme, Frances A. Alimigbe, Baptista C. Chigbu, Patricia Agu, Moses O. Ede, Clifford E. Ogheneakoke and Godwin C. Abiogu
Abstract: The daily increase in the number and dimensions of domestic threats in Nigeria has become worrisome to the government, security personnel, international community and all well-meaning Nigerians. Not only do these threats create insecurity, they take tolls on the lives of citizens and their properties. Such threats create a state of national insecurity and breed societal vices like kidnapping, vandalization of oil pipes, civil protests, clashes with security operatives, destruction of lives and property, disruption of normal life, displacement of people from their homes, among others. One of the factors that push the youths into engaging in these vices is idleness due to unemployment. Unemployment is created by lack of functional education, among other factors. These have adverse effects on the perpetrators of domestic threats, their communities and the nation at large. The government has applied some measures like dialogue, military approach and amnesty yet the disease is spreading like wild-fire due to many factors, especially, lack of functional education. This study advocates that an effective approach to curbing domestic threats is functional education which will not only educate the youths but will enable them acquire knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that will make them to be effective and functional citizens of the country.
Lambert K. Ejionueme, Frances A. Alimigbe, Baptista C. Chigbu, Patricia Agu, Moses O. Ede, Clifford E. Ogheneakoke and Godwin C. Abiogu, 2020. Functional Education as an Imperative Instrument for Curbing Domestic Threats in Nigeria. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 15: 2142-2148.