Nigeria: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Abstract

The people of Nigeria have many grievances with their elected government. They can be grouped into three major areas or categories: poor governance, through rampant misadministration and widespread corruption; poor economic development and staggering levels of poverty; and an overall tenuous security environment, which results in an embattled subsistence way of life. Although the GON has attempted to modernize its society as a means to improving the everyday citizen's quality of life, many of its policies are counter-productive and fail to address the root causes of societal conflict. An analysis of the cultural and political identities of ethnicity, religion and regional affiliation provide a greater understanding into the sources of division within the country and point to nationalism as a prerequisite for any significant change in governance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 02, 2012
Accession Number
ADA570251

Entities

People

  • Ricardo Miagany

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil War
  • Economic Development
  • Economic Systems
  • Environment
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Governments
  • Health Services
  • Minority Groups
  • National Governments
  • Political Systems
  • Public Policy
  • Quality Of Life
  • Security
  • Social Sciences
  • Societies
  • Sociology
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Economics
  • Educational Psychology