IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL POLICY (JHSP )

E-ISSN 2545-5729
P-ISSN 2695 2416
VOL. 11 NO. 5 2025
DOI: 10.56201/jhsp.vol.11.no5.2025.pg30.41

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Governance and Crisis Management for Sustainable Development in Nigeria

Oluwatusin, Adebowale O PhD, Ajibola, Oladapo P Adu, Daisi, Simeon A

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Abstract

Citizens’ proclivity for high standard of living and predilection for accessibility for the latest available technologies and infrastructures in the world make the states all over the world irrespective of the system of government they practise or where ever they are located in the globe to crave for development. This propels them to evolve policies and programmes that are intended to engender development that is sustainable to meet the needs and expectations of the citizenry. Sustainable development can only be attained in the atmosphere of peace and tranquillity, so that government policies geared towards development can be fully implemented for the goodness of the generality. Government must ensure that crises are nipped in the bud while those inevitably exploded are professionally managed to forestall unimaginable damage and devastations to the nation. This study looks at how crises in Nigeria can be systematically and methodogically managed in Nigeria to avert great destructions that may preclude much envious and desired development while the existing ones not fester unnecessarily for the betterment of all in the country. This study adopted secondary data sourced from conference papers, textbooks and articles. The study concludes that the Nigerian state is volatile and precarious because of her plurality in all spheres, both kinetic and non kinetic approaches should be adopted in managing her crises and adequate punishment and rewards methods are also crucial to minimise crises and more importantly, that provision of good governance will minimize the eruption of crises which is a clog in the wheel of the development of the country which will invariably put Nigeria on the part of sustainable development.

keywords:

Citizens, Crisis management, Development, and Sustainable development

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