IMPACT OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY ON POVERTY IN BORNO STATE, NIGERIA

The book-haram insurgency has been a big problem to most of the areas in Borno State. This has resulted in high poverty level because the major occupations there is farming which has largely been affected as a result of the insurgency. The study was carried out in 2024, and it adopted a survey research design, using a population of 1,097, 759 indigenous people in the Borno North Senatorial District. The Taro Yamane technique of sampling was applied to select a sample of 384 individuals. The hypotheses of the research were analyzed through multiple regression with the help of the Statistical Package of the Social Sciences (SPSS) 22.0. It was found that the effect of distressed lives and property is positive (5.358) and statistically non-significant (0.000). Moreover, agricultural production and trade exhibited a positive (6.407) and significant (0.000) effect whereas poverty level and loss of livelihoods exhibited a powerful positive (11.308) and significant (0.000) impact. This paper thus finds that the insurgency of the Boko Haram is a major contributor to poverty in the area. Based on the findings, the study recommended that policymakers ought to aim at coming up with holistic policies that will improve security of lives and wealth in conflict prone regions. The government ought to come up with policies that aim at giving specific assistance to farmers and traders. This constitutes providing financial support, access to advanced farming machinery, and provision of secure agricultural products markets. The policymakers need to devise holistic poverty alleviation policies, which would incorporate the creation of jobs and provision of vocational and microfinance services to enable people to be economically empowered.

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