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                 HUMAN SECURITY AND NIGERIA                 ABSTRACT              In 1960, when Nigeria won independence, they had all the potentials to become a rich and influential country. Nigeria is blessed with abundance of both human and natural resources. It is the largest black nation in the world with up to 160m people. It is one of the biggest producers of both oil and natural gas. It possesses 34 types of solid materials, 44 exportable commodities and large area of arable lands.        Across the globe, human security and peace building initiative have increasingly assumed prime policy priority necessary for good governance. It is a concept that identifies the security of human lives focuses its attention on human beings. Its value a...

  Let me start by throwing a bomb shed, don’t crucify me yet just hold on and read carefully. ‘’Pride is not just exalting yourself beyond expectations but also debasing yourself beyond expectations’’. When you exalt yourself above normal, feeling better than others like we are on top of the world and no one can stop us, that is pride quite alright but that is just one the characteristics of pride. Timidity, shyness, low self-esteem is also a manifestation of pride.   Pride is not only thinking we are better than others; pride can be thinking we are worse than others or just being self-conscious. It doesn't matter if self is always exalting itself or if it's debasing itself. It's all self-centeredness, which is pride. Only by pride cometh contention meaning pride is the only thing that causes contention. (Contention in other words is strife, dispute, anger, disagreement etc.) It's not what others do to us that make us angry; it's the pride insi...