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ABSTRACT
This project examines Nigeria’s problem of social justice. It argues that Nigeria’s problem of social justice, viewed first, politically, originates from the legitimacy of the nature and structural formation of the Nigerian state. Viewed as an economic concept, it is concerned with the distribution and allocation of the state’s resources, goods and services among its members and groups. This point is crucial because agitations generated by real or perceived feelings of marginalization and unequal distribution of state resources abound in the county since independence till date. This agitations take the forms of ethnic, religious, dimension and insurgency. These issues then generates another which is problem of political obligation of its citizens to the Nigerian state. The project asserts that the great challenge before Nigerians is how to make Nigeria more cohesive, organized, humane and progressive in the face of substantive issues of social injustices. In achieving this goal, Nigeria’s social policies must conform to the nation’s obligations to its citizens, vice versa. The essay identified loyalty to ethnicity or other parochial interests, and tribalism as one of the crisis of nationalism in Nigeria. This essay adopts the critical analytic method which helps to conceptualize terms and notions employed in this work.
