Abstract

This study aligns with the league of scholarly articles on the subject of security, as it relates to human society in the 21st century. The study draws its focus from some social science related theories, basically on values and attitude as core elements of human conduct. It therefore adopted a survey of opinions of a set of subjects. The sample was purposively selected among local government workers, students and teachers. The convenient sampling technique was adopted. Five self – developed instruments were used for data collection, while answers were provided to four research questions and two null hypotheses were tested. The study adopted the mixed method approach for its analysis. The statistics formulae of means and cluster analysis were used to test the null hypotheses and to answer the research questions. The findings showed  that respondents strongly believed that security is a joint responsibility of citizens and government, that there was preponderance of valueless conditions in the country where there is no respect for human rights; that there is poor performance of the economic sector heightened with high prevalence of tribalism and favoritism in governance. There was a significant difference in the perception of respondents to the insecurity variables based on class and a significant difference in values and value orientation according to class among Nigerians.