Insecurity, Governance, and Social Cohesion in Fragile States: A Focus on Nigeria.

A state is generally considered to be fragile when it is no longerable to consistently and legitimately enforce its laws or provide its citizenswith basic goods and services. The major questions this paper answered are:Is Nigeria a fragile state? What are the psychosocial issues that characterisedthe Nigeria state? And, what are the implications of the identifiedpsychosocial issues for governance, leadership and management of the state?To answer these questions, this paper examines some of the occurrences suchas insecurity, youth restiveness, mass unemployment and mental threats thatcharacterised Nigeria as a state, and address the psychosocial issues such asmental health issues, youth antisocial behaviour, stress, suicides, crime tomention just a few most of which resulted from the occurrences. Finally, thepaper examined the effects of these psychosocial issues on governance,leadership and management and therefore makes recommendations from thefindings.