Youth Employment: A Panacea to Security Challenges in Southeast Nigeria
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- November 1, 2021
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ABSTRACT
Unemployment and its attendant poverty situation poses serious problem to the security integrity of a nation and the consequences have a number of security implications. This study investigated youth employment as a panacea to security challenges in South-East Nigeria. The objectives include to assess the link between youth joblessness and human violence and the extent of relationship between under-engagement and youth restiveness in south East Nigeria. To attain the desired results, the study used a survey research approach. Questionnaire was used to collect data from one hundred and fifty (150) respondents in the research area. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics, and the hypotheses formulated were tested using regression analysis at a 5% level of significance. Findings revealed that youth joblessness has a significant effect on human violence in South East Nigeria (F = 299.99; p0.05). Further, youth under-engagement has significant effect on their restiveness in South East, Nigeria (F = 199.835; p0.05). Based on the findings, the study concluded that youth employment and security challenges in South-East Nigeria, have significant link. As a result, the study recommended that vocational and technical education be introduced at all levels of education. Government needs to make provision through various financial institutions to grant soft loan to potential and prospective youth entrepreneurs in order to encourage small scale business especially at the grassroots. Again, it is important that non-governmental organizations and relevant bodies endeavour to create training should create to promote and develop desirable work ethnics and skills that are congruent with real labour market demand.
Keywords: Youth Employment; security challenges; Human Violence and Restiveness; Unemployment
Authorship
Prof. Chiekezie, Obianuju Mary1; Akinroluyo, Bankole Isaac2 and Okuoyibo, Azuka Monday3
1&2Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.
3Department of Marine Economics and Finance, Nigeria Maritime Uni, Okerenkoko. Delta State