State exists fundamentally to offers high quality of life to its people, provides economic flourishment, deliver social stability, and guarantee security and safety. A state is strong when is having these basic features where essential public institutions, rule of law and basic social services are functional and provided for its citizens. Unfortunately, the state of Nigeria is predominantly and perennially unstable owing to persistent severally motivated crises, dysfunctional of public institutions, dire insecurity and political corruption. Nigerian state has been strangling to provide essential political goodwill and dividend that is commensurate with the ideal statehood ‘human security, legitimate functional public institutions, budget and economic management cum apposite and definite social welfare’, as such, Nigeria manifests virtually all the traits of a weak and failing state, and on the way to joining the disreputable club of failed state. For an evidence-based and justification in this regard, this paper therefore, appraised the current state of Nigeria to actually established the class/category of state that Nigeria belongs ‘strong, weak, failing or failed’. The paper observed that there is abysmal physical insecurity, pervasive political corruption, intractable unemployment and endemic poverty, infrastructural deficit and dysfunctional public institution in Nigeria. Arising from these reprehensible features, the paper however concluded that, Nigerian state is weak and failing, and needed to be rescued from the verge of being collapsed