Federal Character Policy and the Nigerian National Integration: Dissecting the Emerging Issues

T. Onimisi¹ , K.H. K. Samsu² , M. M. Ismail³ , M.W.M. Nor⁴

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.5 , Issue.6 , pp.38-43, Jun-2019

Online published on Jun 30, 2019

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Abstract :
The quest to have an all-inclusive government devoid of marginalization, sentiment, ethnic bigotry, and to promote unity among the citizens led the enactment of Federal Character Policy as a National integrative mechanism as well as State Creation, and National Youth Service Corp in a bit to achieve this target. The paper endeavors to evaluation these approaches of the Nigerian government with the perspective on perceiving these measures, and to inspect the present issues militating its definitive objective of national integration. Thus, in order to achieve the aim of this paper, journal articles, books, and conference paper presentations were consulted and reviewed, while content analysis method was adopted. The paper, calls for the strengthening of these National Integration measures of the government and the need to adhere to the tenant of these policies and programs by the stakeholders in order to achieve its full potentials.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Federal Character; National Integration; National Youth Service Corp; State Creation Nigeria

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