Security Challenges In Nigeria And The Implications For Business Activities And Sustainable Development

CHAPTER ONE  INTRODUCTION 1.1    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Nigeria in recent times has witnessed an unprecedented level of insecurity. This has made national security threat to be a major issue for the government and has prompted huge allocation of the national budget to security. In order to ameliorate the incidence of crime, the federal government has embarked on criminalization of terrorism by passing the Anti-Terrorism Act in 2011, installation of Computer-based Closed Circuit Television cameras (CCTV) in some parts of the country, enhancement of surveillance as well as investigation of crim…