{"id":6205,"date":"2025-06-24T22:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/theology-insecurity-and-national-integration-in-nigeria-challenges-and-the-way-forward\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:17:14","slug":"theology-insecurity-and-national-integration-in-nigeria-challenges-and-the-way-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/theology-insecurity-and-national-integration-in-nigeria-challenges-and-the-way-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"THEOLOGY, INSECURITY AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>THEOLOGY, INSECURITY AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/view\/412' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/download\/412\/378' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>No time in history had Nigeria waded through troublous moments than now, when it is sunk deep in the mire insecurity which continues to impinge tremendously on its national development efforts. It is indeed very sad to note that insecurity has brazenly defied almost all the containment strategies and approaches put up by the government and well-meaning citizens of Nigeria in the recent times. There is now an ever-burgeoning feeling of fear, anxiety, uncertainty about one\u2019s safety and safety of one\u2019s property and family members, among Nigerians. Our national integration and the concomitant unity in diversity are now seriously threatened. This situation is made worst by alarming increase in the rate of moral turpitude and lack of fear of God among the youth, who have been turned into evil tools in the hands of unscrupulous agents of insecurity and terroir in Nigeria. Thus, the youth population needs moral, spiritual and intellectual transformation to be redirected to the path of peace and responsible citizenship. The role of theology in this regard should not be underscored as it can offer our nation the much-graved solution to the malaise of insecurity and doubtful national integration. It is against this backdrop that this paper seeks to examine \u2018Theology, insecurity and national integration in Nigeria: Challenges and the way forward. It begins by clarification of key concepts used in the study. It then goes ahead to briefly survey the problem of insecurity in Nigeria; Nigeria\u2019s national integration travail, the place of theology in finding solution to the problem of insecurity in Nigeria, and theology and national integration in Nigeria.\u2019 It equally examines challenges facing theology and theological education in Nigeria and the way forward. The paper uses a combination of theological, phenomenological, sociological and interpretative methods to achieve its objectives.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>U.N  DURUJI (ALVAN IKOKU FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, OWERRI, IMO STATE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>Nigeria, Theology, Insecurity, National Integration, Challenges<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: THEOLOGY, INSECURITY AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD Original Article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[1438,2824,2149,534,3096],"class_list":["post-6205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-challenges","tag-insecurity","tag-national-integration","tag-nigeria","tag-theology","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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