NIGERIA’S ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CRISES AND ITS SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNDERDEVELOPMENT
NIGERIA’S ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CRISES AND ITS SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNDERDEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: This work is a critical appraisal of one of the many consequences of ethno-religious crises in Nigeria. Nigeria, the most populous black nation on earth, despite its abundant human and material resources lags behind in socio-political and economic greatness. This is because the country is constantly engulfed in ethnic and religious crises which results in huge loss of life and property. This work employing the methods of historical analysis, critical and contextual analysis as well as expository method argues that ethnoreligious crises constitute one of the major causes of Nigeria’s socio-political and economic underdevelopment. After providing a synopsis of these crises the work identified the causes as well as the adverse consequences of these crises. In conclusion the work holds that ethno-religious crises is a threat to Nigeria’s corporate existence as well as its socio-political and economic development and must be arrested by addressing the root causes and by sincere dialogue.

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