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Item Functional National Insecurity: A Panacea for Attaining Sustainable Development in Nigeria(Department of Sociology, College of Business and Social Sciences, Covenant University, 2014) Issah, Moshood; Olatunji, Abdulganiy; Yusuf, Mohammed SanusiScholarly literature on industrialisation views it as the catalyst for attaining sustainable socio-economic development for many nations, especially in the 21st century. Specifically, government officials and policy makers in Nigeria, like in many other countries, see industrialisation as providing the basic means of overcoming their socioeconomic retardation. However, the Nigerian state is going through a period of unprecedented security challenges which are unabatedly truncating efforts towards the attainment of sustainable industrial development. Kidnapping and hostage-taking in the South-South and Southeast which has now spread everywhere; the NURTW crisis in the Southwest and the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria have inextricably created new challenges in the National security. All these are taking place against the background of security personnel to effectively handle the current spate of insecurity. This chapter seeks to explore the nexus between national security and sustainable industrial development in Nigeria.Item Neighborhood Patern and Incidence of Crime: A comparative study of G.R.A and Kuntu areas of Ilorin(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Benin, Beni City, Nigeria, 2017-06) Yusuf, Mohammed Sanusi; Abdulhameed, Abdussalam; Issah, MoshoodIt has been observed that physical deterioration and social disorganization of neighbourhoods have links with the dramatic increase in the incidence of crimes. In view of this, a comparative study of incidence of crime in two neighbourhoods (Kuntu and GRA) in Ilorin, Kwara State was carried out. The target populations are the residents of the two areas. A total of two hundred and fourty (n=240) respondents were purposively selected from the two neighbourhoods (one hundred and twenty from each neighbourhood). Questionnaires were administered to the respondents in their respective residential areas. Out of the two hundred and fourty questionnaires that were administered, two hundred and twenty-five were completed and returned and good for analysis. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as percentile and mean score methods. The percentile method was used to analyze the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents in the two neighbourhoods; and the mean score method was used to compare the incidence of crime in the two neighbourhoods. The results revealed that the incidence of crime in Kuntu neighbourhood is higher; while the incidence of crime is lower in GRA neighbourhood.. Based on this conclusion, it was recommended that structural planning of deteriorated neighbourhoods and improving socio-economic conditions of the residents of unplanned neighbourhoods would go a long way in reducing the incidence of crime in Ilorin metropolis.