Economic and Political Insecurity in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects

Economic and political insecurity has posed a major challenge to the African continent and Nigeria in particular. The paper examines the different types of economic and political insecurity that has bedeviled the Nigerian state, using the economic and growth paradigms, to actualize the analysis. It observed that these insecurity challenges were either influenced or sponsored by economically and politically discontent Nigerians and their foreign collaborators to weaken, threaten and frustrate our democratic governance. These Nigerians and their foreign allies are encamped with the ideologies of frustration, aggression, government reliance on foreign aids or assistance, corruption, lack of enabling environment and ineffective laws or machineries. Our findings are that any government policy that does not favour these dominant bourgeoisie classes and their foreign counterpart, will be criticized by them so as to pose economic and political insecurity in Nigeria.