Governance deficits and national and human security in Nigeria: Philosophical reflections on corruption, marginality and social order
Governance deficits and national and human security in Nigeria: Philosophical reflections on corruption, marginality and social order

Summary/Abstract: This essay focuses on the issue of corruption, marginality and the socialdisorder attending it, as threats to national and human security in Nigeria. Itnot only examines the problems of corruption in Nigeria and the implicationsof this for national security, but also, discusses the role of an ethical idea of citizenshipin tackling corruption and reinventing the political community. InNigeria, corruption has played a key role in aggravating the political and economiccrisis besetting the country. Depreciation of human dignity and collapseof infrastructures have ensured the systematic elite misappropriation ofstate power, the primitive accumulation of capital, ethno-cultural intoleranceand political manipulation in the society. This paper searches for a set ofnorms capable of mitigating needless dehumanization and inequalities, andimproving welfare of the majority by evolving public citizens oriented to thecommon good.

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