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No of Pages: 90
No of Chapter: 5
Abstract:
The study reveal the Ethno Regional Politics in Nigeria between the periods 1960-1966, of which politics at the domestic level was determined by ethnicity because the regions were carved along ethnic lines, the Yoruba of the West, the Hausa of the North and the Igbo of the East. This accounted for the power tussles among the various political parties that emerged immediately after independence. The study also showed that, despite the fact that the politics of Nigeria during the period was drawn along ethnic lines. Nigeria party politics has been polluted by ethnic chauvinism. This problem is one of the major qualms confronting the progress of liberal democracy in Nigeria since 1960, to the extent that ethnic sentiment has gradually crept in to find a place in every faced of Nigerian political activity. Ethnic sentiment has been one of the factors responsible for most of the inefficiencies and low productivity in Nigeria.
The major focus of this paper is to trace the historical origin, growth and development of ethnicity and the effects it has had on post-colonial governance in Nigeria. In the findings of this paper, it was discovered that ethnic sentiment was deliberately introduced and propagated in the polity by the British colonial government to realize colonial and imperialist economic and political objectives. It was also found that since the end of colonialism in 1960, Nigeria has carried forward the spirit of ethnicity into the post-colonial Nigeria; this vice has been discovered to have been responsible for most of the political, administrative, economic, social and cultural maladies in Nigeria. At the concluding remark, it is suggested that, indigene-settle phenomenon should be strong discouraged while the Federal Character principles be genuinely implemented at the federal, state and local government levels in other to remove the age long ethnic unrest in the governance of Nigeria.
Table of Content:
TITLE PAGE i
CERTIFICATION ii
DEDICATION iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv
ABSTRACT vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS viii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study 1
1.2 Aims and Objective of the study 5
1.3 Scope of the Study 6
1.4 Review of Literature 6
1.5 Methodology 14
1.6 Significance of the Study 14
CHAPTER TWO: CAUSES AND MANIFESTATION 16
2.1 Causes and Manifestation of Contemporary Ethno-nationalism 16
2.2 Pre-Independence Political Setting 26
2.3 National Head Count 1962/1963 28
2.4 Political parties in Historical Perspective 31
2.5 Ethnics Politics in Post-colonial Nigeria 1960-1966 38
2.6 Ethnicity and Party Organization 41
2.7 Conclusion 44
CHAPTER THREE: THE EFFECT OF ETHNICITY 45
3.1 The effects of Ethnicity on Post-colonial Governance in Nigeria 45
3.2 Meaning and Characteristics of Nigeria Political System 49
3.3 Determinant of Political Party Formation and membership Composition 53
3.4 Multiplication of Parties in Nigeria 56
3.5 Conclusion 59
CHAPTER FOUR: ETHNO REGIONAL POLITICS AND THE NIGERIA STATE 61
4.1 Ethnic Politics and Foreign policy 61
4.2 Economy and Foreign Policy 66
4.3 Constitutional Basis for Revenue allocation in the First Republic 71
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 74
5.1 Summary 74
5.2 Conclusion 76
BIBLIOGRAPHY 78
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