FASAKIN, Magret OlabisiCatherine Folake Ayeni2023-07-192023-07-192017-02https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/785This paper takes a critical assessment into the management of secondary education in a period of socio-economic and political stress in Nigeria and its implications for sustainable national development. It draws attention on the various management challenges of secondary education such as poor parenting, examination malpractice, truancy, cultism and others which pave way for poor secondary school students' academic performance, inability to defend certificates and high rate of dropouts.Concept of Management; Socio-Economic Stress and its Implications on Education in Nigeria; Social Factors Impinging on Effective Management of Secondary Education in a Period of Economic Recession in Nigeria; Examination malpractice; Poor home training; Truancy; Peer group influence; Paucity of fund; Implications of Socio-Economic and Political Stress on Secondary Education Management for Sustainable National DevelopmentenArticle