SECURITY CHALLENGES AND COMPLIANCE TO SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE BY PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORTHEAST NIGERIA

The paper examined the security challenges and compliance to safe school initiative by public secondary schools in northeast Nigeria. Major discussions were drawn around security challenges in Nigerian schools, school security, security interventions in schools and security standards in schools. The sources of information were majorly secondary data in the areas of the subject of discuss. The observation revealed that security measures does not guarantee there will be no crime or violence in the school environments but could assist in checkmating them. The paper concludes that security issues have become a major challenge in our educational institutions, hence the introduction of safe school security standards and the need for full compliance to provide conducive school system where students can be safe, free from hazards, and other possible disruption is paramount. It was therefore recommended that public secondary school authorities in northeast Nigeria should build strong security synergy with host communities to tackle any security challenge that may arise before it becomes uncontrollable.