CONTRIBUTION OF NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS TOWARDS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Presently, Nigeria is extremely encountering social development challenges, the activities of armed grouped jeopardize the lives of the millions, northwest gangs of so-called bandit, Northeast there has been attack by the Islamic state of west Africa province(ISWAP) middle belt communal conflict in middle belt. There are total numbers of 1,190,293 internally displaced persons in 191,688 households across the states in the north central and northwest. Nigeria is globally recognized as one of country with highest rate of maternal mortality rate in the world, attributable to inadequate and unequitable access to maternal health care, poor rehabilitative services to disable person more especially mentally ill-patients. Old peoples ‘abuse, gender related problems, higher rate of inflation due to removal of oil subsidy, multidimensional poverty and economic inequality, lack of access to food and other necessities of life (i.e. food, water, shelter, clothes, transport, education, health care, sanitation without functional social protection system, therefore this research has found that  non-governmental organizations have significance roles to play in bridging social development gaps in Nigeria through advocacy and awareness, capacity building, community development, humanitarian assistance, policy research and advocacy, environmental conservation, cross-sectoral, social entrepreneurships and empowerment of marginalized group .inconclusively the study has recommended that relevant pluralistic stakeholders should support the efforts of NGOS for achieving sustainable social development in Nigeria, secondary method of data collection has been used in the research.

KEYWORDS: Social Development, Non-Governmental Organisations, Development