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    ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS ON THE ACTUALISATION OF KADUNA STATE EDUCATION STRATEGIC PLAN (ESP), 2009–2020
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2020-03-01) Jibir, Samira; Abdullahi, Mohammed; Ahmed, Abubakar Audi
    Kaduna State has, in the past two decade, witnessed an upsurge in ethno-religious conflicts which created instability and insecurity across the state. This has underscored the main objective of the Kaduna Education Strategic Plan (ESP) 2009-2020 to expand education coverage in the State. This study seeks to examine the extent these conflicts have affected the realisation of the Kaduna Education Strategic Plan (ESP) 2009-2020 and the consequences thereof. A number of studies conducted on the effect of these conflicts have been generally on the socio-economic development of the state. However, the extent of its effect on actualisation of the objective of the Kaduna ESP 2009-2020 has not been studied in great details as attempted herein. This study used survey method, structured questionnaires, primary and secondary data to analyses the conflicts and education coverage, and it revealed that the ethno-religious conflict is a threat to expansion of education coverage. The study further revealed that the enrolment in the State has not been equitably progressive. It is recommended that the Kaduna State Government should adopt a “safe school initiative”, while increasing security presence in the schools in the State, especially the southern part in a bid to shore up enrolment and equitable education coverage.
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    EFFECTS OF ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS ON EDUCATIONAL COVERAGE IN KADUNA STATE: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF KADUNA STATE
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2020-03-01) Jibir, Samira
    For several decades now Kaduna State has been witnessing an upsurge in ethno-religious conflicts.Ethno-religious conflicts in Kaduna State have created instability and insecurity of the citizens and has remained a constant threat to educational coverage in the State. Other studies has been conducted on the effect of these conflicts on the socio-economic development of the state in general. However, the extent of its effect on educational coverage which is one of the indicators for assessing socio-economic development is vague. Thus, the need to conduct the study. The research used structured questionnaires and existing data to collect the data for analysis. The data were collected from a sample of 400 respondents purposively drawn from Heads of schools in the public primary schools in the three senatorial districts of Kaduna State. An analysis of the collected data revealed that the trend of enrolment has been progressive in the Central Kaduna District and stable in the Northern Kaduna District but regressive in the Southern Kaduna District. It revealed that the spite of ethno-religious conflicts occasioned the trend to an extent. As the Southern Kaduna Districts has had more of the conflicts in the recent times compare to the other districts. The hypothesis that there no significant differences in the Gross Enrolment Rate, Net Enrolment Rate, Gross Intake Ratio, Net Intake Rate and Completion Rate of public primary schools in the Senatorial Districts in Kaduna State was rejected. The study goes to indicate that the conflict to the extent it has affected Kaduna State educational coverage is significant as 8 out of the 23 LGAs education coverage were affected. It is recommended that the State government should increase its security presence in the Southern Kaduna to give assurance to pupils and parents to attend and allow their wards to attend school. The various panel’s whitepaper recommendations on the various ethno-religious conflicts in the State should be implemented in full without any form of politicization, so as to curb the incidence of recurring conflicts and crisis in the State, among others.