THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INSECURITY IN NIGERIA

Abstract

There is an existential threat to most societies through natural competition between groups over limited resources. The political process in Nigeria exemplifies the absence of requisite national spirit, give oddity to human values and these idiosyncrasies inflame insecurity, violence, underdevelopment, corruption, and poverty in the nation. Economic and social integration theory, resource mobilization theory and cultural theories were applied in this paper. The article thus, exploits economic and social integration theory, resource mobilization theory and cultural theories to articulate the reason that toxic politics is the bane of the Nigerian society.