The impact of Boko haram insurgency on social orientation and academic performance of secondary school students in Potiskum Local Government

The study was designed to investigate the Impact of Boko Haram Insurgency on Social Orientation and Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Potiskum Local Government. The three major objectives that guided the study were to evaluate the number and rate of students’ dropout due to the Boko Haram insurgent, to investigate the rate of students’ enrolment in secondary school and to Evaluate Teachers performance during book haram insurgent. The study employed descriptive survey research design and the instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire developed in consonance with the review of available literature on the study under investigation. The data collected from the questionnaire items were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypothesis of the study at 0.05 level of significance. Decision for accepting or rejecting an item or group of items was based on cut-off point of 2.50. Based on research question one, the finding of the study revealed that crises has all effect on school attendance of both the teachers and students, destruction of available facilities of the schools influence the well-being of students in classroom; loss of teachers due to the crisis in the area influences the well-being of student in classroom, damaging school infrastructure can grossly reduce the availability of access to education which reduces performance, insurgents suicide bombings at school as a tactics which in turn reduce school population and affect the academic performance of students, destruction of available school facilities by insurgents leaves the educational system in a dire situation, insecurity in the state insurgents have leads to the deaths of many students, killing and abduction of students by the has been traumatic for students as they are forced to flee their homes in fear. The attack by the insurgents include fear and reduce academic performance and violence can affect attendance and learning cannot successfully occurs in an environment of fear and some of the influences of schools as insecurity constitutes a negative reinforcement due to the obvious fact that Boko Haram insurgents consequently, developed threat on social well-being of students in secondary schools Potiskum local government area of Yobe State.