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NATIONAL SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE NIGERIAN CASE
Abstract
The symbiotic relationship between national security and sustainable development is a sine qua non in terms of security of life and property of any nation. There seems to be a rising trend of insecurity in the world over and Nigeria in terms of the Boko Haram insurgency in particular. The rise in cost of security in the world today is as a result of its importance in development process. The Nigeria of today, especially since the advent of the present democratic dispensation, new forms of violent crimes have become common. These include, kidnapping for ransom, pipeline vandalization, rape, political violence and more, which have affected the Nigerian economy adversely. National security is a precondition for economic and sustainable development as much as economic and social development is a precondition for national security. An x-ray of palliative measures in the past leaves much to be desired. Statistical data on the toll of insecurity in our study has reached an alarming proportion and condition. The concept of violence conflicts, mass poverty, insecurity of life, armed robbery, poor quality of infrastructure, decay of social services and militancy both as an instrument of disempowerment on one hand and as a tool of emancipation on the other, will be examined using statistical method of analysis. As a matter of legacy, the improvement in national security attracts both domestic and foreign investors, which leads to increase in the level of aggregate investment in the domestic economy. The way out of this sticky situation is the main focus of this paper.
Keywords: Nigeria, National Security, Sustainable Development and Aggregate Investment