Nigerians blame politics, unemployment for terrorism attacks – NOI polls

Nigerians consider political interests related with election issues and unemployment to be the major cause of terrorism in the country, NOI Polls released today, Tuesday, reveals.

Meanwhile, slightly more than half of individuals polled said the Nigerian Government/Security agencies are doing enough to rescue the “Chibok school girls” kidnapped in April this year; 46%  were of the opinion that government/security agencies are not doing enough in this regard.

Asked, “In your opinion, what is the major cause of terrorism in Nigeria?” 26 percent said  “Election/political interest” while 21 percent of respondents answered “unemployment”. Meanwhile 10 percent, 8 percent and 6 percent of individuals polled respectively said bad government/leadership, high level of poverty and corruption is the major cause of terrorism in the country.

Random attacks and acts of violence unleashed by the Islamic sect Boko-Haram in the past 4 years, has made Nigeria a major feature in the “global terrorism” discuss, even as hundreds continue to be maimed, killed and kidnapped.

The poll reveals that the vast majority, about 99 percent, of Nigerians are aware of the recent activities of terrorists in the nation, as well as the abduction of the Chibok school girls that gave birth to the globally acknowledged ‘bring back our girls’ hash-tag campaign.

NOI Polls, founded in 2006 by Nigeria’s minister of finance and former World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, works in partnership with Gallup Poll of the United States of America.

According a statement from the organization, “the opinion poll was conducted in the week of July 21”with a survey method that involved telephone interviews of a 1,000 “randomly selected phone-owning Nigerians aged 18 years and above, representing the six geopolitical zones in the country”. The NOI polls insist that with a sample of this size, “we can say with 95 percent confidence that the results obtained are statistically precise – within a range of plus or minus 3 percent.