Banditry, Kidnapping, and Social Disruption: Assessing Nigeria's Security Challenges

The article highlighted the social and economic consequences of conflict, insecurity, banditry, and kidnapping in Nigeria using a systematic review method. Relevant information, ranging between 2015 and 2024 were sought for through google scholar, google, and other search engines to explore several secondary sources such as journal articles, books/e-books, databases of publishers, websites, and others. The PEO and SPIDER framework were used to develop the search strategy and to inform the search process and strategy. The information was subjected to data extraction, and the thematic analysis was used to analyse the materials and findings were provided and presented to further achieve the research aims of the article. The findings revealed that there is an increasing rate of conflict, insecurity, banditry, and kidnapping in Nigeria. Also, this has posed social and economic consequences on people and the nation at large. In addition, this could also affect social and economic development of the nation in the long run. The article recommends that the government should set up and establish emergency response mechanisms, such as hotlines and response teams, to provide immediate support to victims of conflicts, insecurity, banditry, and kidnapping.