Abstract
This paper examined insecurity and emotional disorder as a correlate of academic achievement of Senior Secondary School Students’ in Nasarawa State Nigeria. The news of security threat trending the school environment these days is quiet alarming. This could endanger the students’ mental health and dominate the mind with anxiety. However, school could promote critical thinking, which aid student to make meaningful decision not to be cajoled and manipulated by the various unpleasant occurrences around them. Students rather develop good understanding and resilient to achieve the aim of being in school. Three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. Correlation research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 21875 SS2 Students in 234 public Senior Secondary Schools.. Sample size of 948 SS2 students were selected for the study through cluster sampling. The researcher structured four (4) instruments for the study. The instruments include: Physical Safety Questionnaire (PSQ), Emotional Disorder Questionnaire (EDQ), Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) and English Language Achievement Test (ELAT). Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was used in answering research questions, while hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance by comparing the p-value of Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The findings revealed significant relationship between insecurity, emotional disorder and academic achievement of senior secondary school students in Nasarawa state. It was however recommended among many that learning environment should be safe, secure and emotional intelligence should be inclusive in the school curriculum in subject like civic Education for effective teaching and learning in order to facilitate and improved academic achievement of students.

Keywords
Insecurity, Emotional Disorder, Academic Achievement