Communicating Security Awareness Among Management of Tertiary Institutions in 21st Century in Rivers State

The Continuous existence of insecurity challenges of the 21st century among tertiary institutions necessitated the concerned attention of educational stakeholders. It is against this background that this study investigated communicating security awareness among management of tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study consisted of 370 principal administrative lecturers from (6) (six) public tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Stratified Random sampling technique was used to select the sample size of 128 principal administrative lecturers from 6 (six) public tertiary institutions in Rivers State who participated for the study. A self- structured questionnaire tittle “Communicating Security Awareness Among Management of Tertiary Institutions Questionnaire (CSAAMTIQ)’’ was used for the study. CSAAMTIQ was validated by experts and Cronbach alpha was used to establish the reliability index at 0.80. Means and standard deviation as well as rank order were used to answer the research questions while Z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study among others revealed that there is need for adequate financial management of resources in meeting the maintenance culture of academic and non-academic activities within the institutions. It was concluded that poor communication system between the school management, staff and students are attributed to continuous motivation of corrupt and authoritative style of leadership. It was recommended among others that government at all levels show genuine political will by providing adequate funding for effective and efficient management of tertiary institutions towards meeting the demands of educational stakeholders. Keywords: Communication, security awareness, management, Tertiary Institutions. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/16-13-03 Publication date: December 30th 2025