What is national unity? National unity and integration is a situation where by people of diverse cultures‚ religions‚ languages‚ political‚ social and economic systems are brought together to have a common goal The people have mutual understanding‚ love‚ co-operation and trust among them. They are united‚ tolerant and have faith in their fatherland. They de-emphasize their differences and stress more on their common goals and aspirations and any other thing that can bring about unity in diversity
Premium Nigeria
HISTORY AND THE ORIGIN OF EKENI IN SOUTHERN IJAW LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA (LGA) OF BAYELSA STATE OF NIGERIA THE ORIGIN OF EKENI IN SOUTHERN IJAW LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA (L.G.A) OF BAYELSA STATE OF NIGERIA Ekeni in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State of Nigeria is situated in the south‚ south end of Bayelse State. Ekeni is in the Pennington River and the oldest town to settle there. Ekeni is situated in between the Atlantic ocean and the Pennington River. She originated from keh and derived
Premium 2nd millennium Centuries
INTRODUCTION: The Niger Delta cuts across three geopolitical zones of Nigeria namely; South South‚ South East and South West. It consist of nine states Rivers‚ Bayelsa‚ Akwa Ibom‚ Cross Rivers‚ Delta‚ Edo‚ Imo‚ Abia and Ondo and it is from this zone that over 90% of Nigeria’s revenue is derived‚ the citizens of the area live in abject poverty and deprivation‚ environmental hazards and threat to source of their livelihood. It was as a result of these challenges that the citizens of the area began
Premium Nigeria Strike action
Oil Exploitation and Conflict in the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria Samson Imasogie Omofonmwan* and Lucky Osaretin Odia** *Department of Geography and Regional Planning‚ Ambrose Alli University‚ Ekpoma‚ Nigeria E-mail: profomofonmwan@yahoo.com **Department of Sociology and Anthropology‚ University of Benin‚ Benin City‚ Nigeria E-mail: odialucko@yahoo.com KEYWORDS Niger-Delta. Oil Exploitation. Environmental Degradation. Conflict. Mitigation ABSTRACT The Niger-Delta area of Nigeria‚ coincides approximately
Premium Petroleum Poverty Economic development
DEMOGRAPHY AND NATIONAL SECURITY IN NIGER REPUBLIC: ISSUES AND PROSPECTS INTRODUCTION 1. The ultimate aim of governments worldwide is to achieve sustainable improvement in the quality of life and well-being of the citizens. Before this can be achieved‚ the government must have an adequate demographic statistics of the citizens for an improved National Security (NS). Demography underpins every segment of development‚ it shows if a country’s resources can sustain its growing population‚ or not
Free Demography Population Total fertility rate
Creoles by reference to Alleyne’s (1980) arguments that‚ “in spite of the apparent linguistic diversity among the slaves arriving in the Caribbean‚ there was a degree of an underlying linguistic unity. They all spoke languages belonging to the large Niger-Congo language family”. The plantation situation of slavery in the Caribbean made creation of creole languages with common features
Premium Language Linguistics Caribbean
These states are collectively referred to as Alaigbo (Igboland). Native speakers of Igbo are also minorities in two other Eastern States‚ namely Delta and Rivers. The language is also spoken as a second language in the Niger Delta and Cross River Basin. Igbo belongs to the Niger-Congo language family. Greenberg (1963) classified it in the Kwa group along with six other big clusters: Akan‚ Gbe‚ Yoruba-Igala‚ Nupe-Ebira‚ Edo and Idoma. Williamson has since redrawn this picture‚ reducing the Kwa sub-group
Premium Nigeria Igbo language Igbo people
Bantu: The People The Bantu can erroneously be defined as an ethnic group or group of people. However‚ Bantu is a language family that is a derivative of the Niger/Congo language group. The influence of the Bantu language and its cultural impacts in Africa are astronomical. After the Bantu migration‚ their culture and language spread through Africa. According to the Cambridge Review‚ “The Bantu language contains hundreds of languages that are spoken by 120 million Africans in Angola‚ the Congo
Premium Africa Agriculture
Management of development projects – Exposé Jessica Thomas ------------------------------------------------- Critical analysis of the program Growth Policy Reform Operation II to increase agricultural productivity in Niger. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Why are there so many criticisms toward the World Bank’s liberalization policies and structural adjustments in agriculture and how the World Bank could answer to them
Premium Food security Agriculture Poverty
Sources of african history A source of history can be divided into two big groups‚ remnants and storytelling which usually are called primary and secondary sources. The primary sources‚ remnants and written documents are counted as more reliable than the oral history. African history has been a challenge for researchers because of scarce written sources in many regions‚ especially sub – Saharan Africa. Prejudice against black Africans in particular‚ which goes far back in history‚ has meant that
Free Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Atlantic slave trade