This project is on 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 decended from common ancestors. Members as the group share common cultural traits (such as language religion and dress) and are on an identificable minority within the larger nation - state. While  political  development is the progressive  reduction of ethnic  cultural and religion  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  instable 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 exist in a pluralist such  differences. There 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 enable local   and regional authorities with a degree autonomous power and authority.    

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE                                 i
APPROVAL PAGE                            ii
DEDICATION                                iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT                        iv
ABSTRACT                                vi
TABLE OF CONTENT                        ix

CHAPTER ONE
1.0    INTRODUCTION                         1
1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY            4
1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY                 24
1.3    STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM            26
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY               30
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS                    31
1.6  SCOPE  OF THE STUDY                    32
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS                    33

CHAPTER TWO
2.0    LITERATURE REVIEW                     36
2.1 SUMMARY OFF LITERATURE REVIEW         57

CHAPTER THREE
3.0     METHODOLOGY                        58
   BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE STUDY             58
3.1 DESIGN OF THE STUDY                    59
3.2 AREA OF THE STUDY                    60
3.3 POPULATION OF THE STUDY                60
3.4 SAMPLE OF THE STUDY                    61
3.5 INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION     62
3.6 VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT        63
 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS                63

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0    DATA PRESENTATION                          64
4.1    DATA ANALYSIS                          64
4.2 FINDINGS                                          69

CHAPTER FIVE
 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS                    69
 RECOMMENDATIONS
 CONCLUSION
 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER STUDIES
REFERENCES
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