Insurgency, Forced Migration and the Question of Human Capital Development in North-east Nigeria (2010-2015)

Abstract

At the moment, insurgency has continued to exact high cost on human capital development across the North-East states (Borno, Adamawa and Yobe) in Nigeria. In fact, it is on record that insurgent activities occasioned by Boko Haram insurgency In the North East Nigeria have over the past five years created about l.5 mlllion Internally Displaced Persons, who have not only have to move from their place of aboard but have lost their means of livelihoods, food reserves, and therefore facing a very bleak future. Interestingly, some Nigerians from the affected states have even gone as far as migrating to neighbouring countries like Cameroun, Niger Republic and others, Incidentally, while attention to the challenges of migration from the global south to the global North has increased over the past years, the Impact of forced migration caused by Insurgency and the attendant human capital development challenges within the global south has remain insufficiently explored. This paper therefore investigates the inter-linkages between Insurgency, forced migration and human capital development with particular interests on how to provide good health services as well as quality education, which are necessary for human capital development, to this category of people. The Import of the paper therefore, Is the attempt to suggest ways through which the state and non-state actors could alleviate human capital within the constraints posed by forced migration in Nigeria. This would also be relevant for countries facing forced migration caused by Insurgency.