Isiaq Abdulwaheed AtandaAluko Opeyemi IdowuAdedoyin Festus Fatai2024-04-252024-04-2520152141-9744https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/12923This paper contributes to the discourse on the challenges, possibilities of imagining order and the other in a globalizing world plagued by disorder and otherness. It epitomized a market of violence traded by some actors for personal satisfaction regardless of the havoc within the community These actors should be identified and redefined so as to incorporate their goals in a model that can solve the issues of disorder in Nigeria. The Research questions poised as why is the organized market for violence. persisting in Nigeria? What are the resultant effects on the average Nigerian? The methodology adopted is descriptive statistical method which analyses the perceptions of two thousand four hundred Nigerian on the level of safety and trust in the government. The study was originally conducted by Afrobarometer. The theoretical framework adopts Merton strain theory. Recommendations are directed to both the government and the general populace on the need to strengthen the security level and to breakdown the buying and selling process in the market for urban violence in the polity. No society is free of violence but the level can be minimized and controlled through identifying the actors and prosecuting them appropriately.enDisorderEconomicsMarketUrbanViolenceDemand aud SupplyArticle