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ABSTRACT
An increasing unemployment rate in Sub-Saharan African economies presents a major problem for the continent’s economies today. Since the early 1980s, economists and policymakers in Nigeria have been deeply concerned about the issue of unemployment. Public and private sectors are paying more attention to this phenomenon due to financial crisis and this has exacerbated the country’s unemployment problem and, in turn, the country’s security issue. It is based on this premise that this study sought to examine the impact of unemployment on insecurity in Nigeria using the following research questions; how endemic is the unemployment situation in Nigeria? What is the relationship between unemployment and national security in Nigeria? To answer the aforementioned questions, the study was descriptive in nature as it employed the quantitative methodology using the questionnaire as the primary mode of data collection. The study was made up of a sample of 100 person’s using the convenience sampling technique. The major findings of the study were that; insecurity in all its forms has a negative impact on the unemployment situation in Nigeria which have further plunged the nation with increased hunger and instability. Corruption and mismanagement emerged as significant contributors to unemployment issues in Nigeria. The study underscores the need for addressing these systemic problems to create a conducive environment for sustainable employment.Bad leadership was suggested as a possible reason for the rising insecurity situation across the country and that lack of Jobs drives youths to engage in all sorts of activities that cause insecurity. The study recommended that the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must expand and improve upon its social intervention programmes to ensure the creation and provision of jobs to both skills and un-skills citizens of the country. This would go a long way in reducing poverty, and thereby minimizing the rate of crime in Nigeria and among Nigerians. Governance must therefore work to the benefit of its own citizens. Poverty and inequality should be eliminated if Nigeria is to be spared of violence. The government should create job opportunities for its unemployed youth. Without opportunity to work the people would feel that the society is against them and will wage war against them. Provision of employment has to be Nigerian priority.
