In the modern era of governance, state is experiencing diverse transformation technologically, economically, politically, socially, culturally, demographically and so on. The paper classifies these transformative reforms into economic, political, socio-cultural, and technological changes and therefore redefining state in accordance with these change trends. The concern raised in this paper is: how did these transformations effect the role and the functions of the state? The desktop study utilises the use of literature and documents, hence follows a qualitative and analytical approach to answer this concern, that is a subject matter of this introductory paper.