An evaluation of Ethnicity and Issue of Political Development in Nigeria

An evaluation of Ethnicity and Issue of Political Development in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT

This project is on the evaluation of ethnicity and the issue of political development in Nigeria. Ethnicity is a social consult that indicates identification with a particular group. Which is often descended from common ancestors.

Members as the group share common cultural traits (such as language religion and dress) and are on an identifiable minority within the larger nation-state.

while political development is the progressive reduction of ethnic cultural and religious tension and elements of non-continuities in the process of creating a virtually homogenous constitutional and economic development leading to the attainment of a viable political culture.

The choice of this topic was necessitated by the destabilizing tendencies of this phenomenon which has in fact threatened the existence of Nigeria state in a number of unstable and has thus hindered meaningful national political development.

This work is an attempt to trace its origin. Those factors that propagate its presence in Nigeria policies and hold it can be eliminated so as to enhance national political development.

though solutions have always be offered they have not yielded any positive result hence the need to  look for a more viable option by looking at the division that exist in a pluralist such differences.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE                                                            i

APPROVAL PAGE                                                    ii

DEDICATION                                                          iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT                                           iv

ABSTRACT                                                              vi

TABLE OF CONTENT                                             ix

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION 1

1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY                     4

1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY                               24

1.3   STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM                   26

1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY                     30

1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS                                 31

1.6  SCOPE  OF THE STUDY                                 32

1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS                                   33

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW 36

2.1 SUMMARY OFF LITERATURE REVIEW          57

CHAPTER THREE

METHODOLOGY                                            58

BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE STUDY                       58

3.1 DESIGN OF THE STUDY                                 59

3.2 AREA OF THE STUDY                                      60

3.3 POPULATION OF THE STUDY                         60

3.4 SAMPLE OF THE STUDY                                 61

3.5 INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION         62

3.6 VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT               63

METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS                             63

CHAPTER FOUR

DATA PRESENTATION                            64

4.1    DATA ANALYSIS                                           64

4.2 FINDINGS                                                       69

CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS                                     69

RECOMMENDATIONS

CONCLUSION

LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER STUDIES

REFERENCES

QUESTIONNAIRE

INTRODUCTION

The realm of politic is the field of greatest conflict in the   society. This is not surprising   since policies are the process whereby society arbitrates over power and allocation or score resource.

However in modern western political dictionary political this ability that been seen as characteristic  of the developing country  or countries in transition  in African  Latin American  and  Asia transition  in Africa  Latin America and Asia .

The political disability in African countries could  be attributed to  many factors ranging from the frequently from the  frequency of militating coup to political violence and civil  disorders,

which are all as a result  of the  existence and  dominance of social elenge such as religion,  regionalism  tribalism and most especially  ethnicity.

Ethnicity in our political life having proved uncontrollable deserves serious attention. It is evident that this Nigeria, which can be seen from the frequent changes of government and coup date in the country.

This study is therefore going to concentrate on how the problem of ethnicity has affected the political development of Nigeria.

Nigeria is a nation whose history is replete with numerous and varied existing and political threats to national political development.