POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND NATIONAL INSECURITY IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC
POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND NATIONAL INSECURITY IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC

Summary/Abstract: Sadly and ironically, Nigeria is regarded as a nation flowing with milk and honey, yet the majorityof the citizens live in abject poverty. Faulty development policies pursued since 1999 haveleft the people pauperized and decimated. These are manifested in increasing poverty, unemployment,poor housing facilities, diseases, the total collapse of social security, poor medicalcare, etc. Poverty and unemployment as social problems have remained the major developmentchallenges in Nigeria today. It is against this backdrop that this paper examines the relationshipsbetween poverty, unemployment and national insecurity in Nigeria’s fourth republic. Using thetheory of causality, the paper argued that economic deprivation, frustration, and desperationamong the youths especially the lower-class are the underlying causes of national insecurity inNigeria today. Therefore, the way out of insecurity that has pervaded our nation rest on the needto address the issues of economic poverty and social deprivation of the masses by increasing thebasic necessities of life.

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