INTERNAL SECURITY CRISES AND THE STATE OF NIGERIA’S ECONOMY: TOAWARDS A WORKABLESOLUTION

Abstract

Abstract The territory called Nigeria today is beset with intense and complex rivalries between her regions, religions and ethnic compositions; a complexity that has triggered several crises and violent eruptions in the country with grave consequences on the nation‟s economy. This paper examined these various crises and violent eruptions about the economic state of the country. These tasks were accomplished using secondary data from national and international journals, textbooks and the Internet search engine. The study is strictly evaluative research analyzed from the relative/vengeance theory platform. The study found that the various crises and violent eruptions in the country grow out of past history of hatred and conflict with ever-increasing thought and plans for vengeance by divergent ethnic and religious groups as the penance or rationale behind crises and violent eruptions in the country. The study, therefore, recommends patience among her citizens, holding people and organizations responsible for misconduct within the ambit of the law, and peaceful and continuous dialogues/debates among others as viable pathways to curtail this phenomenon.