A UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK FOR CURBING THE BOKO HARAM MENACE IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The security threat posed by the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria has remained unabated with no hope in sight. Weexamined the concept and applications of ubiquitous technology and taking advantage of its potentials, proposed anarchitectural framework – N-tier Ubiquitous Architectural Framework (NUAF) – for curbing the Boko Harammenace in Nigeria. NUAF is a hierarchical and segregational distributed architectural framework which in itssimplest form consists of the base-tier, inner-tier and top-tier. The real life implementation of NUAF is howeverdependent on some anticipated research sucesses in nanotechnology and wireless network security.Keywords: Internal security, Terrorism, Boko Haram, Ubiquitous technology and Distributed architecture