Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

The call for restructuring of Nigerian nation has remained a recurring decimal over the years. However, the quality and quantity in terms of frequency and the caliber of the people and the cross section of ethnic nationality demanding for this restructuring in recent times is overwhelming. This is coming at a time in our national history when the country is adjudged to be on the verge of being classified as a failed state due to high rate of insecurity in the land. The recent statement by President Muhammad Buhari that Nigerians should look unto God in the wave of compounding level of insecurity across the underscores the utter helplessness and cluelessness of our political leadership in containing the high insecurity challenges in the country which many believes is at root cause of all forms of social, political, economic and educational decay in the nation. It is against this backdrop that this work seeks to examine restructuring as a panacea for evolving sustainable peace and development. The paper critically reviewed the existing literature both conceptually and thematically and relied on secondary source of data and official documents as its methodology.

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