GOOD GOVERNANCE AS A PANACEA TO PEACE AND SECURITY IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Good governance is the major driving force towards peace, security, and sustainable development in Nigeria, as in any other country of the world. However, Good Governance has been a problem for Nigeria state. After several series of military interventions and her return to a stable democracy in 1999, there has been an absence of elements of good governance in all facets of governance due to mainly corruption mismanagement of resources nepotism, and an avalanche of decadence bedeviling our nation. Furthermore, it entrenches the menace of unemployment ethnic crisis, unemployment, ethno-religious crises, kidnapping, banditry, Boko haram terrorist organization, and host of others facing the country. The non-conformity to respect the tenets of good governance such as accountability, transparency, equitability, inclusiveness, and, adherence to the rule of law has been  The paper tries to look at the absence of good governance in Nigeria as responsible for the threats of peace and security in the country Secondary sources were used such as internets materials, journals articles, and books, in carrying out these research. The paper concludes that good governance is a very important tool in mitigating the myriad of problems of corruption, poverty unemployment nepotism kidnapping, and a host of others in Nigeria Recommendations were made to offer solutions to the problems such as the establishment of skills centres, free education and health care delivery and observance of rule of law.