AN EVALUATION OF ETHNICITY AND ISSUE OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF DELTA STATE)

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