Benue State University, Makurdi

Farmers/Pastorialists Conflicts and the Management of Primary Schools in Benue State of Nigeria

Prof. A. Okwori Benue State University, Makurdi
M. E. Angenyi College of Education, Katsina-Ala

Abstract

The study examined farmers/pastoralists conflicts on the management of primary schools in Benue State of Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 11,987 teachers drawn from 4,407 primary schools in Benue State. A total of 400 teachers from 120 primary schools constituted the sample Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample size from the three Senatorial Districts of Benue State. A self-structured questionnaire titled Farmers/Pastoralists Conflicts and School Management Questionnaire (FPCSMQ) was used to collect data. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research questions while chi-square (X2) test of goodness-of-fit was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that farmers/pastoralists conflicts negatively influenced infrastructural facilities utilization and students’ enrolment in primary schools in Benue State to a high extent. It was recommended among other things that the Federal and State Governments should as a matter of urgency ensure the ban of open grazing in Benue and other parts of the country to stop the conflict that often results into killings and destruction of properties.

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