The Boko Haram Insurgency and the Festering Human Insecurity in North-East Nigeria

Abstract

The study establishes a nexus between Boko Haram insurgency and human insecurity in the
north-east of Nigeria. Anchoring on the concept of human security, the study adopt qualitative
method of data collection and analysis which relied heavily on extant literature from journal
articles, official documents, workshop and seminar papers, newspapers, magazines and internet
sources. The study argues that though human insecurity is a major driver of the Boko Haram
insurgency. The lethal and destructive activities of its actors have heightened and widened the
spate of human insecurity amid debilitating food insecurity, physical harm, internal displacements
and hemorrhaging refugee syndrome. The study concludes that military combat alone cannot
tame the Boko Haram insurgency and thus recommends that, the government should adopt
credible measures to address the human security challenges as an effective and functional counterinsurgency
strategy.