Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria: Causes and Consequences

ALI Usman D.¹ , YAHAYA Garba S.²

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.5 , Issue.1 , pp.70-77, Jan-2019

Online published on Jan 31, 2019

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Abstract :
Nigeria has a population of (one hundred and eighty million) 180,000,000 million inhabitants with over 250 different ethnic groups and over 400 spoken different languages and dialects. The multicultural nature of the Nigerian society with its sharp ethnic and religious differences has generated various versions of ethnic identity and question which has threaten the existence of Nigerian communities by turning to ethnic conflict, and have created dangerous suspicion, distrust and conflicting antagonistic relationship among the various ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, and this is affecting the successful operations of democracy, because, religion and ethnicity are manipulated by the Nigerian political class for their own personnel gain. The aims and objectives of this paper is to interrogate the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict in Nigeria. For the purpose of this paper, qualitative method of data collection has been adopted; materials were derived from secondary sources of data. The effect of ethnic conflict in Nigeria is on thousands of women, the aged and children have been compel to desert their homes and seek refuge in neighboring villages, towns and countries due to the ethnic conflict.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Ethnic Conflict, Causes, Consequences, Nigeria

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