Thinking sustainable waste management is essential for rapidly urbanized communities. Nigeria with its current population tending towards 190 million continues to be rapidly urbanized which makes the volume of solid waste in its major urban and cities increasing correspondingly. The paper through literatures examines the populations’ drift of Nigeria communities from the rural to urban in the recent years in relation to its solid waste technology. It analyses the solid waste management technology in some of its already grown urban centers and big cities in the recent times. It identifies landfills as the ultimate disposal point for the solid waste in Nigeria’s solid waste management technology. The rapidly urbanized cities in Nigeria have grown to meet with the landfills. So, built environment and residential houses are located around the landfills. The study revealed that water security, ecological security and health security of the Landfills adjoined communities are being compromised. At the end, the study advocates sustainable approaches to managing solid waste in rapid urbanized societies.