ENERGY SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

This paper has critically examined the relationship between energy security and sustainable development in Nigeria. We applied elite theory as theoretical framework for the study. We further adopted as methodology, the critical mode of research. The paper highlights that energy security prospects in Nigeria would require beneficial specificities in the form of incremental modeling. Furthermore, the study underscored the most critical challenge to energy security in the Nigerian state as the character of national politics, as dictated by the elite. The paper has furthermore, highlighted the plausibilities in the solar energy option for Nigeria’s energy-mix in particular and in an overall context, the country’s energy security. Energy security and sustainable development the paper concludes are positively interrelated. The realization of this laudable position requires all institutions and communities to renew and reinvent themselves, and begin to listen and resonate with each other, whereby individual members and the group as a whole, would begin to operate with a heightened level of energy and sense of future possibility. Consequently, they begin to function as an intentional vehicle for an emerging future. It is such an emerging future of energy security the paper concludes, that guarantees sustainable development.