CURBING SEXUAL AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE: IMPLICATION FOR INSECURITY IN BOARDING SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA

This study explored curbing sexual and gender based violence: Implication for insecurity in boarding secondary schools in Northern Nigeria. The repositioning women access to quality education for improving social development is a thing of concerned and fundamental. The study centered its discussion on the following conceptual clarifications thus, gender based violence in secondary schools and three types of gender-based violence as discussed such as bullying, kidnapping and abduction, and sexual abuse and harassment. Three factors influencing gender based violence such as school distance, media and technology and lack of girl-friendly school environment were discussed. Challenges curbing school-based violence and gender which includes implementation of laws protecting the right of a child, lack of communities cooperation, lack of expertise. Ways forward in gender based violence in the perspectives, in curbing the menace of gender based violence in Nasarawa State secondary schools the gender based violence experts should create security awareness among youth.