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Ethnicity: A threat to Nigeria's security and development

International Journal of Development and Management Review

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Title Ethnicity: A threat to Nigeria's security and development
 
Creator Nweke, JO
Okoronkwe, E
 
Subject constitution, corruption, ethnicity, insecurity and tribalism.
 
Description The negative implications of ethnicity to national security and development are enormous. This paper interrogates ethnicity as the major hindrance to Nigeria.s security and development. The paper unveils the role of the  constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in strengthening ethnicity and calls for a constitutional review. This, it offers as alternative to the question of federal character, quota system and zonalization of national issues in which merit could take its course.Keywords: constitution, corruption, ethnicity, insecurity and tribalism.
 
Publisher Directorate of General Studies, FUT, Owerri
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2014-06-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ijdmr/article/view/104410
10.4314/ijdmr.v9i1.
 
Source International Journal of Development and Management Review; Vol 9, No 1 (2014); 248-254
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ijdmr/article/view/104410/94491
 
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