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Protests and political unrest are global phenomenon. Every country has a fair share in this escapade. Protests take place in both developed and developing democracies as a means of obtaining a lawful course. This is largely forbidden in non-democratic and autocratic states. Protests do go bad when the tyre burning theory phenomenon occurs. Protesters resort to violence and destruction of lives and properties in the community. The government has a role to play to secure the lives of both the protesters and the non-protesters, and to be prompt in action to address the agitations of the people within the ambience of the law.

Nigeria is becoming a finished and spent state. The fabrics that made up the country had been undermined by the series of corrupt practices by both state and non state officials. These therefore resulted into cascade of evil and series of domino effect against the stability of the country. A major semiotic of a finished and spent state is an unabated protracted systemic crisis that results into other crises. A prominent crisis of such in Nigeria is the Boko Haram terrorism which has lasted more than a decade. This breeds other variants of internal insurrections and external aggressions such as the Fulani terrorism kidnapping for ransom and other banditry activities. Thousands of lives were wasted, millions were displaced from their communities and economic valuables worth millions of dollars were destroyed. No doubt, these are tensions in the country that grew from various models of radicalization and threatening the existence of the political entity. How can Nigeria survive these tragedies and remain a single sovereign state? Realist theoretical perspectives are interrogated to proffer solution to these predicaments. Conclusions are premised on the ensuring of good governance and equitable distribution of sovereign wealth of the country to ensure lasting peace and sustained development.