A group of people who share culture, tradition, history and are under one government can be regarded as a community, society and on a larger scale, a Nation. Nation building therefore can be referred to as a social process that involves the development of communities, societies and nations. This development occurs when individuals of a community work together to achieve common goals for the group for the collective interests in which the personal interests of the individual members are ennobled and dignified. It is disturbing when a genuine lack of concern for the common good of the society is noticed in both the socio-political sphere as well as in the other spheres of life and care about the private life and benefits of individuals in a society are unduly emphasised at the expense of the common good. Hence, this work therefore seeks to address the consequences that could emanate therefrom by adding some stress to how the society would be negatively affected by such negligence. It therefore asserts that the survival of any society hinges on the depth and seriousness with which the citizens attend to issues of common concern for the sake of the health of the community, because it is in the conscious determined representation of the common good that the individual good is ennobled and properly accomplished. 

Keywords: Common Good, Individual Good, Nation Building, Community, Polis, Society.