NATIONAL SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

Security, in an objective sense, is measured by the absence of threat, anxiety, or danger (Booth,1991). National Security is, however, a broader concept, which attracts the highest interest within national security echelons. Amos Jordan, William Taylor and Lawrence Korb stresses that "national security has more extensive meaning than protection from physical harm. It implies protection, through a variety of means, of vital economic and political interests, the loss of which could threaten the fundamental values and vitality of the state". Commassie (1998) defined National Security as "the protection of a nation from all types of external aggression, espionage, hostile reconnaissance, sabotage, subversion, annoyance and other inimical influences."