DOI: 10.21276/sjpms.2018.5.2.10

Pages: 166-170

This study seeks to examine government expenditure on internal security and its impact on selected agricultural sectors in Nigeria. The objective of the study is to determine whether government expenditure on internal security affect the growth of Crop production and Fishery production in Nigeria from 1999 - 2015. The study employed secondary source of data collection obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria statistical Bulletin 2015. Regression analysis was used to analyze the data obtained. The findings of the study suggests that there exists a significant relationship between government expenditure on internal security and the agricultural sector, as government expenditure on internal security explains about 90.3% and 93.0% of the total variation in crop production subsector and fishery subsector. This was also verified by the test for the adequacy of regression model which shows that the models were all significant.