DEMOCRACY IN PERIL? VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRACY

The growing violence and tension in Nigeria in the recent era demand scholastic exploration to explain the phenomenon and also it could be used to elucidate the ‘tap-Roots’ of the Nigeria states of violence, terrorism in a democratic dispensation its impacts on the nation stability. These studies examine the underlying root causes of violence, which has recently turned into the act of terrorism in Nigeria. Drawing from these indications, some literatures have indicated religious and protracted long competition among the three major regions in Nigeria as a unique index of the countries crises. Even so, The opening of this debate captures historical antecedent of what today is known as “Northern ” Nigeria and had paid attention to various revolutionary traces of violence within the context of the Northern regions. The study interpreted the contemporary causes of violence, terrorism and other disturbance in Nigeria's geopolitics. Specifically, those which occurred in the form of political dissatisfaction among political parties that had recently gone beyond a border as violence intensified constantly. Consequently, given this greater danger to the nation unsettled domestic instability, higher tension in the country, these complexities ' contradicts i