THE SYNERGY BETWEEN TERRORISM AND MIGRATION: BOKO HARAM IN PERSPECTIVE

It is beyond any contradiction that any polemic discussion on international relations of terrorism and migration cannot be excluded from the aftermath of 9/11 attack, that is nineteenth years ago when the United States witnessed the worst attacks in her history. Some radical Islamists hijacked four commercial airplanes and turned them into deadly missiles and projectiles to hit the World Trade Towers in the New York and the Pentagon in Washington. This attack has really changed the study of terrorism across the globe, therefore putting more attention on the influence of international migration in global terrorism. This paper therefore examined Boko Haram terrorists and its implications on migratory style across Nigeria with particular reference to the North-Eastern part of Nigeria to another country as a result of heinous activities of the Boko Haram sect. It adopted the Sociological Push-Pull theoretical escapade to explain the rising phenomenon of migration as a result of terrorism in Nigeria. The paper recommends that political solution which bothers on dialogue can be an escape route for the lingering crisis of Boko Haram in Nigeria. In the same vein, the problems of marginalization, bad governance, corruption, misappropriation should be addressed by the leadership of Nigerian state.