SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF YOUTH RESTIVENESS: A STUDY OF KONTAGORA METROPOLIS, NIGER STATE.

Restiveness among young people across the globe and in the sub-region has become a vogue and its consequence has erode d into numerous implications, which is inked to problems of irritation and disruption by young people pertaining to issues of abandonment,non-re cogrition,exclusion from polit ical development/blue-print inst ability, and inse curity and desertification Restiveness among young people represents mon's negative side of the devebpment of society. This negative aspect bre dks free flow of activities (politicd, socia, educational, religious), and has been intolerable in the present era,in which un certainty, fear, disorder and tension come to be seen Azeez (2018). This participation may be due to lock of interesting programs, lack of acquaintonce with programs, turf issues betwe en government offices, lock of diversification and adult is m or int entional moltreatment of youth simply because they are too young.". As abserved by Ogbeifun (20n), the source of restiveness among young people is the extensive set of laws that have b oth colonid roots and feudal incinations and the consequent moves of the Ngerian state on the country's al industry as well as the age-old pat tern of environmentd degradation from the senseless operationd threats derived from the oil ex ploration and production activities of the oil multinationals. Therefore, been the target price dueto their high amount o f time in socid activities and extracurricular to school, e.g., invdivement in community-based or ganizations, politicd inclusio ns, peer-to-peer. Al these, and the int eraction with the indviduds in them, do have an impact on youth particpation in t heir localities (Falade, 2018). In Kontagara Metropolis, youth restiveness have become an issue in the social,polit ical,and ecoromic arena. The Nger State capital, Kontagora, has seen sporadic vidence, restiveness amang the youths, and other wreaking pat terns over the past few years, which has caused a massive loss of lives and destruction of numerous assets.Such condtions were evident quite of ten in the rurd parts of the state where the majority of our effervescent you ths live and were used to terorize helpless communities. They occasiondly camp with inf amous criminals who are traveling f rom ther home states to settle in the state where it is alleged that the cimate is "fertle" for atrocities and crimes.