Survey Shows Political Interest, Unemployment Fuel Terrorism in Nigeria

A security snap poll results released by NOIPolls Limited on Tuesday have revealed that Nigerians consider “Political interest (election issues) (26%)" and "Unemployment” (21%) as major cause of terrorism in Nigeria.

These were followed by “Bad government/Leadership” (10%) and "Poverty" (8%). More findings revealed that almost all of the respondents (99%) are aware of the recent activities of terrorist groups; as well as aware of the abduction of 200 Chibok school girls in Borno State (98%).

Also, 46% of the respondents are of the opinion that government and security agencies are not doing enough to rescue the abducted girls; while 54% believe they are doing enough.

The study also revealed that the 66% of the respondents believe that the abduction of the girls can potentially hinder girl-child education, especially in the North-East region.

Meanwhile, top suggestions proffered by Nigerians to tackle terrorism include: “Government should beef up security across the country” (25%);  “Create more jobs” (18%); and “Prayer” (17%).

These were the key findings from the Special Edition Security Snap Poll conducted in the week of July 21st 2014.

The opinion poll was conducted in in the week of July 21st 2014.

It involved telephone interviews of a random nationwide sample. 1,000 randomly selected phone-owning Nigerians aged 18 years and above, representing the six geopolitical zones in the country, were interviewed.

With a sample of this size, we can say with 95% confidence that the results obtained are statistically precise - within a range of plus or minus 3%.

NOIPolls Limited, is the leading-specific polling services in West Africa, which works in technical partnership with the Gallup Organisation (USA), to conduct periodic opinion polls and studies on various socio-economic and political issues in Nigeria.