ABSTRACT Boko Haram is an Islamist-jihadist organization that has adopted a violent way kidnapping, slaughtering and killings of innocent people, bombing of mosque, churches, institutions and other governmental parastatals mainly in the northeast Nigeria all in the name of religion, then to a political matter, making it difficult to know its vision and mission. This study explores the implications of the Boko Haram terrorist activities on the northeast Nigeria’s development. The central arg...