Armed violence and corruption is a wide spread affecting public institutions and well-being of the citizens, to which no meaningful development have been achieved since Nigeria’s forth Republic1999. Corruption is a wide spread among political leaders and government officials who have established closed and centralized system of dictatorship and authoritarianism as a means of holding power to propagate a class system that marginalized those of lower socio-economic status thereby inflicting unspeakable hardship and poverty to millions of Nigerians, violates their human rights, and destroys harmonious environments. To this end, the paper seeks examines the state of peace and development in Nigeria, highlights some drivers and dynamics of violent conflicts and their connections to politics and corruption. It provides context-specific understanding on how transformed government can be; so that it can serve its citizens while providing home grown solutions rooted in local architectures for promotion of peace, transparent, and accountable governance with focus to people-centered development. The paper utilized, field experiences, Desk research, Literatures reviews, and In-depth interviews as well as descriptive analysis as research techniques. Key findings as highlighted such as voters intimidation and fraud; .Bad leadership, corruption and lack of tansperancey an accountability;
