Nigerian Family Values Amidst Security Challenges

Abstract

Security problem has been the greatest challenges the Nigerian family and the present administration is tackling. But the conceptualization of security and the approach tends to be misdirected. The undue emphasis on national security, terrorism, physical combat and application of sophisticated gadgets, though necessary, are not sufficient to check it. The security challenges gives a big question mark on our values bearing in mind that values are not static but dynamic with time and space. The family as an institution, if properly empowered, parents play their divine role efficiently, the issue of security will be a thing of the past. Hence, the axiom that if the family is secured, the nation is secured because the maxim say that “security does not lie on the barrel of the gun but with the people” (family). The paper tries to espouse the idea that family security is much more relevant and therefore attention should be focused in this direction for some wholesome result.