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NIGERIA POLAC INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SECURITY STUDIES
Abstract
Since the return to democratic rulein Nigeria in 1999, the country has grossly experienced and still facing a multidimensional violent and non-violent insecurity issues. Formore than a decade, terrorism in the North-westernpart of Nigeria has destroyed the socio-economic fabrics as well as human security architecture. Herdsmen and farmers clash that started in the Northeast of Nigeria gradually spread to the North central and the entire country with significant impact on regional and local economies. The Niger-Delta region as well as the Eastern part of Nigeria are engulfed with aggressive resource control and separatist agitations. Across the whole federation, cases of ritual killings, unemployment, kidnapping, Maritime piracy, corruption, rape, armed robbery, fraud, HIV, hunger, electoral disputes, to mention but few pose a huge threat to Nigeria’sco-existence. Over the years, scholars have hinged the cause of insecurity on factors like: bad governance, illiteracy, poor socialamenities. It is the argument of the paper that,first, the usual stereotyped causes as explained by some analysts are weak. Second, the various factors provided by scholars are secondary causes because they are instigated by some other primary issues like – political alienation, political anomie, elite manipulation, excessive individualism, economic marginalization, state failure, political meaningless and hopelessness. The main objective of the paper is tocritically explain these latter factors as the major causes of insecurity. Secondary data and descriptive method of data analysis was used.
Keywords: Alienation, Masses, Insecurity, Causes