This study is on determining the risk of survival of commercial banks in Nigeria using Survival Analysis. Survival analysis involves the modelling of time to event data; where death or failure is considered an event in the survival analysis literature. The survival analysis can be used for socio-economic research to investigate complex phenomena such as unemployment, employment, inflation, supply and demand for bank loans, life expectancy of the products, the producer and consumer to mention a few. The source of data used in this study is secondary data obtained from financial reports, NDIC (Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation) and CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) publications. From the findings it was observed that about 67% of the twenty five commercial banks that met the 25 billion Naira capitalization in year 2005 survived to year 2011. Also, it was observed that the explanatroy variables Merger history, Age of operation in Nigeria, Revenue and Asset has no significant contribution to the survival of the banks.
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