LIST OF REASONS

INTRO:  National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) was established in Nigeria by General Yakubu Dan-Yuma Gowon, the former Head of State of Nigeria with his Decree No. 24 of May 22nd 1973. This establishing law of the programme was later reviewed in 1993 by General Ibrahim Babangida with a 23-section Decree No.51 of 16th June 1993. The programme is compulsory. It mobilizes and deploys Nigerian youths that graduated from universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education to different parts of the country to serve the fatherland for normal minimum of one year. In the service year, they could be posted to ministries, departments and agencies of government, hospitals, farms, schools, sports development centres, private sectors of Nigerian economy, etc. At the end of the service year, the participant is issued with a certificate in recognition of the service rendered to the country. The certificate, or the exemption letter given to those above the age of 30 years is compulsory for job place...

INTRO:   The reasons for the conflict between herdsmen and farmers are destruction of farm crops by herdsmen, cattle rustling, open grazing prohibition and ranch establishment laws, the nonchalant attitude of the federal government, environmental issues, and sexual harassment of the women of the host communities.  Herdsmen and “farmers” conflict in Nigeria has succeeded in burying the fact that the herdsmen themselves are also farmers. The pastoralists that rear cattle have launched several attacks on crop farmers in Nigeria. These attacks have resulted in the death of several thousands of people especially in Benue, Plateau and Taraba states; not to talk of the injuries, displacements and property worth billions that were destroyed. A report even has it that every state in Nigeria has recorded herdsmen-farmers clash death except Sokoto state. The conflict between the livestock and crop farmers is surprising because right from time, the duo have co-existed symbiotically. The...

INTRO: Global warming has been a source of worry to the international community to the extent that starting from 1995, parties to the Kyoto Protocol have met annually to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Also known as climate change, this global warming thing is the rise in average surface temperatures on Earth. The global community’s worry about global warming is well founded on the fact that it melts the ice in the polar regions of the earth and thereby increases the sea level in threat of the coastal cities of the world. In this regard, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) quoted in Independent said that they have tracked a sea level rise of 20cm over the past century. The body also said that they have observed significant shift in the weather pattern of the world over where wet regions became wetter while dry regions became drier. In my country Nigeria for instance, scores of communities were su...

INTRO:   The reasons for the fall in the standard of education in Nigeria are parents’ failures, government’s failures, students’ failures, teachers’ failures, and schools ’ failures.  Standard of education is a multi-dimensional concept, but generally however, it entails the best of practices, status, products and contributions of education. This truism is observable in the variegated perspectives of authors and authorities discussing the indicators of falling standard of education in Nigeria. Some of the indicators include the decreased number of Nigerian graduates considered for admission in big universities in the developed world (Babalola 2006); the lower rank of Nigerian universities among other universities in the world; the unsettling lack of proficiency in written and spoken English by students; the massive failure of students in external examinations, etc. The central thread that ran through these indicators is that they have worsened from what they used to be, point...

INTRO:  Preparatory to the independence of Nigeria, election into the Federal House of Representatives was conducted on December 12, 1959. The election was significant as it featured the participation of key regional leaders of the East and West which were Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Chief Obafemi Owolowo respectively. The duo of the Nigeria’s political triumvirate of the era were attracted by the prospects of being the first prime minister of the independent Nigeria and they left their posts as Premiers of their respective regions. The remainder of the triumvirate, Sarduana of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello sent his trusted disciple, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa to the Lagos politics while he remained in his comfort zone as the Premier of the Northern region. The election largely reflected the ethnic configuration of Nigeria. The National Congress of Nigeria Citizens (NCNC) controlled the East; the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) bestride the North; and Action Congress (AG) dominated t...