ABSTRACT
This project is in 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 descended from common ancestors. Members as the group share common cultural traits (such as language religion and dress) and are 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 infact 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 exists in a pluralist such differences. Their 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 enables local and regional authorities with a degree autonomous power and authority.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE i
APPROVAL PAGEii
DEDICATIONiii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTiv
ABSTRACTvi
TABLE OF CONTENTix
CHAPTER ONE
1.0INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY4
1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 24
1.3STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM26
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 30
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS31
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY32
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS33
CHAPTER TWO
2.0LITERATURE REVIEW 36
2.1 SUMMARY OFF LITERATURE REVIEW 57
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 METHODOLOGY58
BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE STUDY 58
3.1 DESIGN OF THE STUDY59
3.2 AREA OF THE STUDY60
3.3 POPULATION OF THE STUDY60
3.4 SAMPLE OF THE STUDY61
3.5 INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION 62
3.6 VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT63
METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS63
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0DATA PRESENTATION 64
4.1 DATA ANALYSIS 64
4.2 FINDINGS 69
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS69
RECOMMENDATIONS
CONCLUSION
LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER STUDIES
REFERENCES
QUESTIONNAIRE
