SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA

Security

Development of any nation lays credence to its socio-economic development. The fact that it is people centred, it affects the wellbeing of the people. When there is failure to address unemployment, inequality and poverty, security challenges is inescapable. Nigeria experiences this problem despite socio-economic schemes and programmes established by the government. The study adopts Relative Deprivation Theory by Tedd Gurr and recommends that government should create sustainable and result oriented poverty and unemployment eradication programmes and policies, there should be viable institutions that can check corruption and mismanagement of the programmes and schemes, revitalizing and rebuilding of infrastructure like power and creating the enabling environment for enterprises. The study concludes that socio-economic development of Nigeria is at a low ebb and of which gives way to the existential security challenges in Nigeria.

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