Abstract:
Abstract
The frequent internal security challenges in Nigeria have in no small measure affected all
her institutions. The worst hit is the family institution with a current estimate of over 3.3
million internally displaced persons in Nigeria according to a joint report by the Internal
Displaced Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
(2016). This paper examined the socio-economic effects of internal displacement on
displaced families. It is an evaluative study analyzed from relational/vengeance and
functionalist theoretical model. Data utilized are secondary, sourced mainly from
journals, textbooks, the internet, etc. The study found that internal displacement
the challenge is telling heavily in all facets of the family institution in Nigeria; therefore
recommends, arrests and prosecution of crisis driven agents, effective and efficient
welfare package for all internally displaced families, formulating and implementing
honest and achievable programmes to address cases of absolute poverty and
unemployment in Nigeria among other measures to address the lingering challenges
of insecurity and internal displacement in Nigeria.
