Issues in Security, Good Governance and Its Challenges to Economic Growth and Development

Security is tied to Nigeria's social, political and economic growth and development. The negligence of the security sector is responsible for the non-performance of democratic governance and its attendant violent crimes, such as armed robbery, ethnic crisis, electoral violence, kidnapping, police brutality, etc. The relationship between democratic governance and security is not automatic in Nigeria. Therefore this paper uses available data sources as its method or technique of data collection and analyses the missing gaps between security and development. The paper advances its findings and suggests some recommendations, some of which are the provision of an appropriate infrastructure for good governance, the rule of law, overhauling of the security sector to meet the challenges of law enforcement, surveillance and protective service delivery, creation of employment opportunities, and programmes to embark on total moral re-orientation of the citizens among others