Paper short abstract:

One quest that has lingered for so long in the Nigerian state is that of development.From her attainment of political independence in 1960 to the present,she has pursued the subject of development with so much vigor and tenacity.

Paper long abstract:

One quest that has lingered for so long in the Nigerian state is that of development.From her attainment of political independence in 1960 to the present,she has pursued the subject of development with so much vigor and tenacity.This developmental aspirations has seen her set up several development programs with the core objective of achieving development.It is unfortunate to note that in spite of the plethora of programs set up by successive governments,the subject of development seems elusive and seemingly unattainable. In the medical world,the first action carried out by the medical personnel is to carry out a laboratory analysis to ascertain the root cause of a disease before administering medication.It is in tandem with this tradition that we have decided to tackle this longstanding quest by x-raying and carrying out a socio-political laboratory inquest into the inhibiting factors for the continual failure of the Nigerian state to achieve a state of development.We have discovered that a major factor responsible for Nigeria's failure to attain a state of development is because she has failed to address the causative factors responsible for her developmental struggles chief amongst it being the persistent internal insecuritiy challenges confronting her,the paper therefore establishes a linkage between internal insecurities and development.This paper adopts a qualitative methodology by accessing information from secondary sources such as books,monographs,conference papers,journal publications et.al to critically unearth the embedded issues.