Abstract
Human security is a term used in the contemporary world to explain issues bordering on individual induced development which is in contrast to state induced development. This is because the world today is facing a wide range of crises and instabilities, causing immense suffering to millions of people and threatening the security of family cohesion. It is not a hidden fact that, government has failed in her task at ensuring that issues like ethnicty, religious conflicts and corruption do not lead to insecurity especially in the Third World Countries. Also, corruption and elitist economic policies of the government has disempowered masses which its effect brings about; hunger, starvation and poverty. These and other related issues have been threatening human security in Nigeria. This paper however attempts an explanation of the impacts of Aso-Ofi, a weaving industry in Ilorin, Kwara state which as a result of its modernization has been generating employments to teeming population of youths in Okelele Area, thereby reducing poverty and guaranteeing human security. The period between 1990-2005 was when the industry witness decline and rise due to creativity of the practitioners. The study adopted both qualitative and quantitative research method while simple random sampling technique is used in data collection
Keywords: Human Security, Crises, Modernisation, Aso-Ofi, Ilorin
DOI: 10.36349/sokotojh.2022.v11i01.002
author/Yittametu, S. L. and Iyabo, O. E.
journal/Sokoto JH | Vol. 11 | Page 134- 143
