Abstract The study observed that Nigeria adopted federal system of government to ensure coordination and independent administration of the component regions and interrogated the nexus between federalism and national integration in Nigeria between 2020 and 2025. Expost facto research design was adopted, secondary data were collected through documental method of data collection and the collected data were analyzed using content analysis. Theoretically, the study utilized the Marxian Theory of social production and reproduction of material value. The theory asserted among others that the primary need of man is economic and the efforts for actualization of the needs are always social in nature, where the participants are always selfish in pursuing the production goal. Therefore, the selfish nature of the regions in satisfaction of their needs made them to invoke ethnic, religious and some other sentiments to thwart the common goal of national integration in the country. However, the study suggested that muli-principles of revenue derivation and political re-orientation to help redirect the needs for proper management of ethnic and religious differences in the country to enhance national integration in Nigeria.
Okonkwo et al. (Mon,) studied this question.