Shuaibu, Umar Abdul.Kigbu, Hafsat2023-12-102023-12-102021-04-06Shuaibu, U.A. ( 2021) State Corruption and Man-Made Poverty in Nigeria: A Discuorsehttps://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/72The Nigerian State has plunged into high-level corruption in recent time. The result of which, is bad governance, lack of national development and un-conducive political atmosphere. The country's bad style of leadership is becoming worrisome to an accepted tradition within the polity. While the political gladiators constantly manipulated the people and the political processes to advance their personal aggrandizement, the society remained pauperized, and the people wallowed in abject poverty. It is an obvious fact that Nigeria is naturally endowed with human and material richness which are notj udiciously utilized to give average Nigerians a decent life. The endemic and cancerous nature of corruption in Nigerian polity had generated and further intensified the poverty condition of the people in the country, to the extent that average citizens of the state have automatically became the victim ofo ne square meal a day. It is in response to these daunting challenges which permanently stationed themselves in the Nigerian political system that this study through the use of conceptual analysis of corruption and poverty synthesized the way and manner in which pervasive corrupt practices in the polity engendered poverty in the country. The study is purely qualitative with content analysis. The study revealed that the endemic poverty in Nigeria is a biological offshoot of ungodly act of corrupt practices that deeply eaten Nigerian polity particularly, within the governmental circle. In view of the above findings, the researchers recommend that people who were entrusted with confidence by the public should instill the fear ofg od in their doings and the anti-corruption crusade should be strengthened with all intents and purposes, otherwise, achieving corruption and poverty free Nigeria will remain a mirage.enState, Corruption, Poverty, National Development, Nigeria.Book chapter