Role of Technology in Curtailing Security and Influence Governance for Economic Development in Niger State

The study is anchored on Role of Technology in curtailing Security and Influence Governance for Economic Development in Niger State. The study adopted descriptive survey research design and the population of the study was 910 security personnel, selected from security formations across Niger State. The Research Advisors (2006) determination of sample size was used to achieved sample size of 278. Purposive sampling procedure was used to randomly obtain proportionate number of security personnel from selected security formations in Niger State. The instrument used for data collection was a researcher's structured questionnaire. Response rate was 260, which was used for analysis. The instrument was tagged: Questionnaire on Role of Technology in Curtailing Security and Influence Governance for Economic Development. Kuder Richardson formula 20 (RK-20) was used to established the reliability of the instrument. In the study, the items were considered reliable for yielding a reliability coefficient of 0.74 and above. Data were analyzed using mean scores and standard deviation for research questions and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. While t-test mean for variance of ANOVA was used to determine the relationship of the dependent and independent variables. This result shows that there is symmetrical relationship between role of technology in curtailing security and influence governance for economic development. The findings of the study however revealed that deployment of technology to curtail security will undoubtedly influence good governance to enhance economic development in Niger State. Also, it was equally revealed that implementation of global positioning system (GPS) technology architecture will serve as added impetus to curtailing security challenges. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that government at all levels should establish a working synergy and activate a well-equipped technology command control system for target identification for quick response.