Description

This paper originally presented as a seminar paper challenges the most common assumption and conventional thinking among most policymakers and social scientists that internal security threats in Nigeria are a direct fall-out of poor security structure and insitutions. It posits, with relevant theoretical support, that poverty more than any other factor, determines and influences the evergrowing level of internal security problems in Nigeria. The paper concludes with the argument that addressing the huge problems posed by poverty in Nigeria would amount to addressing the problem of socio-political insecurity in the country.