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ABSTRACT

This study examined the menace of banditry and degeneration of socio-economic development of Nigeria with particular reference to Boko Haram in Maiduguiri, Borno State. It This study is anchored on frustration aggression theory as its theoretical framework which we believed provided a detailed explanation for the emergence of Boko Haram insurgence in Nigeria. It adopted documentary method of data collection and content analysis of data. Based on evidence from Maiduguri Borno state which formed our case study, we demonstrated that the major causes of boko haram crisis originate from political and religious factors, the struggle for political power rotation. The overall implication of the boko haram crisis on the socio-economic development of Nigeria is civil disturbance which led to civil unrest and destabilization by disintegrating the nation such that the nation’s security was tampered with by killing of the residents in the northern part of Nigeria. Further findings stated that incidence of armed banditry in Nigeria has developed new tendencies from the traditional to the modern. Rising from the above, the study avers that the government should provide funds, instead for amnesty but to upgrade and switch in its intelligence gathering gadgets of the security agencies and network.