ABSTRACT

THIS PROJECT IS ON THE EVALUATION OF ETHNICITY AND THE ISSUE OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA. THE ETHNICITY IS A SOCIAL CONSULT THAT INDICATES IDENTIFICATION WITH A PARTICULAR GROUP. WHICH IS OFTEN DECENDED FROM COMMON ANCESTORS. MEMBERS AS THE GROUP SHARE COMMON CULTURAL TRAITS (SUCH AS LANGUAGE RELIGION AND DRESS) AND ARE ON AN IDENTIFICABLE MINORITY WITHIN THE LARGER NATION – STATE. WHILE  POLITICAL  DEVELOPMENT IS THE PROGRESSIVE  REDUCTION OF ETHNIC  CULTURAL AND RELIGION  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  INFACT  THREATENED THE EXISTENCE OF NIGERIA STATE IN A NUMBER OF  INSTABLE 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. THERE SOLUTION MUST COME FROM POWER SHARING   AMONG THE VARIOUS ETHNIC OR OTHER SECTARIAN GROUPS. YET ANOTHER STEP WOULD BE TO INCULCATE RELIGION AUTONOMY AND FEDERATION INTO THE STATE SYSTEM WHICH ENABLE LOCAL   AND REGIONAL AUTHORITIES WITH A DEGREE AUTONOMOUS POWER AND AUTHORITY.   

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE                                                            i

APPROVAL PAGE                                                    ii

DEDICATION                                                          iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT                                           iv

ABSTRACT                                                              vi

TABLE OF CONTENT                                              ix

CHAPTER ONE

1.0      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

2.0      LITERATURE REVIEW                                    36

2.1 SUMMARY OFF LITERATURE REVIEW           57

CHAPTER THREE

3.0       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

4.0      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

CHAPTER ONE

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.