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MUSA Abdullahi Ahmed, ELIJAH Emmanuel, OFODOGU EUCHERIA , ADAMA SAMUEL .

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This paper critically examined the challenges of nation-building in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic to find viable solutions. The paper highlighted the challenges of leadership, socio-economic inequalities, and institutional fragility as the major impediments which have stifled nation–building efforts in Nigeria. The paper employed national integration theory as the theoretical framework for critical study and insightful analysis of the challenges of nation-building in Nigeria. The study also utilized secondary data for critical assessment and content analysis of the challenges of nation–building in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. The study found that the management of the challenges of Nation-building in Nigeria has degenerated due to the inability of its leadership to ensure proper management of diversity, socio-economic injustice and lack of good governance are responsible for the escalation of the problems which snowballed and translated to the current security challenges of Boko Haram Insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery, cattle rustling and rapid increase in other crimes and criminality deeply rooted in youth unemployment, illiteracy, abject absolute poverty, socio-economic injustice, corruption and poor leadership. The paper therefore, recommended among other things, that political leaders should exhibit and provide responsive and responsible leadership to guarantee good governance to all Nigerians and also ensure social justice, sound economic management, transparency, and public accountability in governance to achieve peace and unity, national integration and stability. Key words: Nation, Nation–Building, National Integration Theory

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