Functional National Insecurity: A Panacea for Attaining Sustainable Development in Nigeria
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2014
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Department of Sociology, College of Business and Social Sciences, Covenant University
Abstract
Scholarly literature on industrialisation views it as the catalyst for attaining sustainable socio-economic development for many nations, especially in the 21st century. Specifically, government officials and policy makers in Nigeria, like in many other countries, see industrialisation as providing the basic means of overcoming their socioeconomic retardation. However, the Nigerian state is going through a period of unprecedented security challenges which are unabatedly truncating efforts towards the attainment of sustainable industrial development. Kidnapping and hostage-taking in the South-South and Southeast which has now spread everywhere; the NURTW crisis in the Southwest and the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria have inextricably created new challenges in the National security. All these are taking place against the background of security personnel to effectively handle the current spate of insecurity. This chapter seeks to explore the nexus between national security and sustainable industrial development in Nigeria.