The lamentation,‘students don’t read anymore’is increasingly becoming prevalent on the lips of teachers, school administrators and other academic players. This statement is obviously a fall out of the generally deteriorating students’ performance in their academic endeavors as seen every year in the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) results as well as the Low Cumulative Grade Points (CGP) in tertiary institutions. Although economic insecurity expresses itself in many fronts, this paper considers basically two of its indices which include; food insecurity as well as poor accommodation in relation to students’ academic attainment in Nigeria. The functionalist theory was deployed to build a framework while the descriptive survey research methodology with the use of questionnaire was adopted. Samples were sourced purposively and with the aid of the snowballing technique. The findings show that the two identified variables of economic insecurity impede academic stardom. The study recommends that Government should invest adequately in education to cater for quality and sufficient accommodations in our public schools as well as free quality feeding for the sake of the poor.