Abstract
Nigeria, like most developing States is still grappling with the task of nation – building, responsive democratic order and a just and secured polity. The task over the years has remained arduous and seemingly illusive. Presently, the menance of Boko Haram, the marauding herdsmen militancy, the new face of militancy in the Niger Delta, the spate of kidnappings, armed robberies, and ethno-regional intolerance, the vociferous separatist agitations in the South-East and South-South and the deteriorating living conditions have continued to create survival, stability and security challenges and threaten the very existence of Nigeria as a federation. Against this backdrop, this paper therefore attempts to identify some of the emerging trends of security challenges in Nigeria with a view to diagnosing their causes and examining their implications on the corporate existence of Nigeria. This paper adopted the analytical method and relied on the natural theory of state to posit that the solution to the disturbing trend of security challenges in Nigeria is employment generation and genuine implementation of poverty alleviation programmes in the polity
Highlights
Nigerian State is grappling with continuous rising incidences of insecurity, repeated pattern of attacks on innocent citizens and vociferous separatist agitations from ethnic cleavages
Socio-economic and political settings, differential legal system coupled with ethnicity which are embedded in the struggle for political and natural resources control which are exhibited by the political leaders
According to Aning, 2016 cited in Yagboyaju and Akinola (2019:3), most of these security challenges „‟have emerged partly as a result of multiple socio-ecnomic injustices, including but not limited to marginalization, social inequality, political exclusion, corruption, economic deprivation, unequal allocation and distribution of state resources.‟‟ Despite strong optimism that a returned to democratic system of government 1999 would abolish ethnicity and ethno- religious arises, the country continues to be driven by tides of ethnic hostilities with devastating consequences (Kwaja, 2009)
Summary
Nigerian State is grappling with continuous rising incidences of insecurity, repeated pattern of attacks on innocent citizens and vociferous separatist agitations from ethnic cleavages.
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