INTELLECTUAL SECURITY AND THE CHALLENGES OF INSECURITY IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Security in all the strata of life guarantees a kind of tranquility that will permeate every facet of human existence. It engenders a peaceful atmosphere that will go to enhance harmonious co-existence, respect and preservation of human life and dignity, promotion of social cohesion, economic viability and attraction of diverse investments, entrepreneurial enhancement, boosting of productivity, and overall smooth-running of all administrative segment of any country. On the country, the reign of insecurity unleashes untold mayhem in the society ranging from wanton killing, kidnapping, uncontrollable upsurge in crime rate, unthinkable relapse to ochlocracy to mention but a few. Howbeit, such unhealthy situation will be difficulty to nip from the bud unless there is an assured intellectual security. Environment plays a crucial role in the learning process. It is what is in the mental environmental that plays out in the physical environmental. If the mental environmental is properly sanitized and the prominence of the use of reason is made more pronounced, the resultant effect will be evident in an all-inclusive salubrious physical environmental. To that effect, every occasion in the learning process ought to count in the journey towards intellectual security. When a greater number attains intellectual security, insecurity in all its ramification will be vigorously combatted and it will eventually fizzle out. The researcher makes use of expository method and critically evaluative approach. Valuable information on the subject matter will be harvested from secondary sources. The researcher goes further to discuss the outstanding position of intellectual security as a veritable tool in the fight against insecurity. Intellectual security promotes knowledge with character that will eventually zero in on integral development.