Impact of Reconstruction Strategies on Basic Education Infrastructure in Post Boko Haram Insurgency in North East Nigeria

Basic education infrastructure was damaged during Boko Haram insurgency and reconstructing such infrastructure is essential to sustain recovery in North East Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of reconstruction strategies of poverty alleviation, effective governance, state reconstruction, conflict prevention and peace on basic education infrastructure in post-Boko Haram insurgency in North East, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose, five research questions and hypotheses guided the study. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprises of four hundred (400) basic education sector players and actors from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states was utilized for the study. Data was collected using researcher instrument tagged “Reconstruction Strategies on Basic Education Infrastructure Assessment Questionnaire” (RPBEIAQ). The instrument was validated, and reliability was determined using Cronbach Alpha. The data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings show that poverty alleviation, effective governance, state reconstruction, conflict prevention, and peace strategies had a low impact on basic education infrastructure in North East, Nigeria. The study concluded that key players and actors like the federal ministry of education, state ministries of education, local government education authorities, NGOs, civil societies, donor and international aid agencies reconstruction strategies had a low impact on basic education infrastructure. The study also recommended among others that sound poverty alleviation reconstruction strategies should be implemented on basic education infrastructure in North East Nigeria.