Enhancing Security in Nigerian Public Primary Scho...

Enhancing Security in Nigerian Public Primary Schools

Abstract

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.

Introduction

Primary school is an environment where teaching and learning takes place, it is like any other organization where safety and security is required for smooth operation. Primary school is a formal organization where teachers, pupils, time, and other resources are effectively managed in order to achieve the desired goal. Primary school is an educational institution that provides foundational education to children, typically between the ages of 6 and 11. Primary school is an institution that prepares children for secondary education. Primary education is the foundation upon which all other level of education relies on. Once it fails, the whole system will fail vice-versa. (Gumbi & Ahmed 2017). Primary education in Nigeria is for all, and no child should be deprived from getting it. A child is expected to start at six, and complete the cycle at eleven. Therefore, it is a six-year programme. At this level, pupils are expected to be trained