Governance and Crisis of National Integration in Nigeria

A Systemic Analysis

Abstract

The Nigeria nation-state is bleeding profusely and grasping for breath. This metaphoric reality underscored the dilemma of African most populous country plagued with myriad crises of national unity. In reference to this factuality, this paper examined the woes of a nation-state challenged by failures of governance. The methodology of this discourse is a causal design which illuminates the import of secondary sources and non-participant observational method of data collection where the embellished data and observed events where textually analyzed. Hence, Systems Theory was applied to establish the crisis of national integration in Nigeria is a function of governance failures which emanate from institutional deficiencies and dysfunctionalities. Subsequently, the findings of the discourse revealed enormous events of centrifugal crisis exacerbated by failures of governance. Hence, the paper recommends for inclusive and participatory governance driven by precedents of openness, fairness and rule of law, and call for national rebirth which were among the fundamentals to mitigate crisis of national integration in Nigeria.