SECURITY MEASURES AND ADMINISTRATIVE EFFECTIVENESS IN UNIVERSITIES IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA

Bashir B. Tahjdeen, Issa Jubrin and Abubakar Alhassan

Abstract

Nigerian universities are significantly dysfunctional, in terms of decline in values, effectiveness and relevance to the development and aspirations of the country. This especially on the production of well cultivated men and women for different professions entails measures for control of safety. This study is premised on security measures and administrative effectiveness in universities in Kwara state, Nigeria. The study was a descriptive survey design of correlation type. The study consisted of all administrators and security officers in the five universities in kwara state. A proportionate stratified random sampled technique was used to select 250 respondents (150 Administrators and 100 security officers). This study used a questionnaire tagged “Security Measures Questionnaire” (SMQ) and “Administrative Effectiveness Questionnaire” (AEQ) to  elicit responses for the study. The data gathered were analyzed using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Statistic to test the hypotheses formulated of 0.05 level of significance and while the reliability co-efficient of 0.72 was obtained. The findings of this study revealed that there was a significant relationship between security measures and administrative effectiveness in universities in Kwara state. Other findings include There was a significant relationship between the protective security measures and administrative effectiveness in Universities in Kwara State, there was a significant relationship between detective security measures and administrative effectiveness in Universities in Kwara State. It was recommended among others that the University authorities should provide for the fencing of the school campus; surveillance equipments; training and retraining of school securities; proper access control and reprimand offenders according to the gravity of their offences.