Abstract:
Over the years there have been series of crisis in Plateau State of Nigeria and they have led to
massive killings and destruction of valuable properties; this is a very serious problem. Hence, it became
necessary to conduct a research work with the aim of overviewing the cases of crises and killings at residential
environments in Plateau State, in order to generate architectural and other safety measures to reduce their
future occurrences in Nigeria. The research focused on desktop study as the instrument for data collection;
reviewed different newspapers in Nigeria with available crisis and killing cases in Plateau State, in order to
get relevant information to the research. Thus, table was used for the presentation and analysis of the research
data, so as to generate results and the results were checked by using contents analysis technique, in order to
validate them. Among the architectural research findings is: 1,290 houses were burnt during December, 2023
crisis in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State and some other research findings are: the security
agencies knew that an attack was coming before the 2023 Christmas eve massacre; the security forces know
the attackers, and they even know their hideouts for two decades. Among the recommended architectural safety
measures to reduce future crises and killings is: the design of the members of roof, door, window, ceiling and
any other part of building that can easily burn with the use of wood should be fire retardant type, in order to
reduce death, massive destruction of houses and valuable properties in times of fire attack from the terrorists.
Some other recommended safety measures are: there should be advanced training of security agencies on
immediate defensive responses against the terrorists been rumored of their coming to the state; urgent
investigations must be made on the security forces that knew the attackers and their hideouts for two decades
without revealing the information, so that the defaulted members of those security forces can receive a very
severe/appropriate punishment, in order to stop this kind of bad service in Nigeria
