Papers by Philip Deewua Dahida
International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Review, Feb 23, 2015
This study intends to unravel the copious challenges which hampered industrial growth in Africa a... more This study intends to unravel the copious challenges which hampered industrial growth in Africa and in deed Nigeria as a nation. Nigeria for instance, after independence in 1960, the main stay of her economy was Agriculture with little elements of textile and agro-allied industries until around late 1970's, these industries came to a state of comatose. One of the reasons for the distortion in the industrial development was the production of oil in commercial quantity. By implication, the discovery of oil made most African states like Nigeria to settle for an economy which relies mainly on primary mode of production instead of developing the hitherto existing local craftsmanship into modern industries. Also most consumers in Africa prefer foreign products to locally made goods due to inferiority complex. In the long-run most infant industries producing locally made products folded up due to inability to favorably compete with the western technologies. After a thorough review of relevant literature, the study adopted the dependency approach as theoretical framework that guides the paper. The main objective of the paper is to investigate in to the multiple problems that have accounted to the decline in the sector that led to industrial crisis. In an attempt to achieve the objective of this study, content analysis was used to articulate the views of notable scholars who have meaningful contributions on the subject matter. As to methodology, the paper made use of secondary data which include; pamphlets, magazines, books, journals, bulletins, newspapers, government publications and internet services. The study revealed that, the major challenge confronting industrial growth in most African countries and Nigeria in particular is lack of political will and focused leadership to break away from mono-cultural economy i.e. oil, with out diversification to allow industrial growth and development to flourish. Other setback include the followings; lack of access to micro credit facilities, epileptic power supply, weak market structure, general lack of trained manpower-technical know-how and security challenges. The attendant effects are that, there is no wealth creation, lack of job opportunities and high level of unemployment. Although in principles, Nigeria is regarded as the giant of Africa but in practice she is a consumer nation without potent industrial growth and development. One major recommendation in the study is that skill acquisition and rejuvenation of technical education by institutions of higher learning and technical colleges as well as diversification of the economy to entrenched in it industrial base and development is seriously advocated.
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015
GLOBAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2015
This paper intends to critically assess the impacts of rural development strategies on grassroots... more This paper intends to critically assess the impacts of rural development strategies on grassroots development in Nigeria. Suffice it to say that successive governments in Nigeria have introduced several strategies aimed at ameliorating the adverse effect of poverty, depression, destitution, deprivation and degradation in rural areas but the results obtained is a far cry from attaining the millennium development goal(1) of eradicating extreme poverty in 2015. The major cause of high exodus of rural dwellers to urban centre in search of greener pastures is the neglect of rural infrastructures. The rural areas are generally characterized by high level of illiteracy, abject poverty, unemployment, and lack of basic infrastructures such as good road, pipe borne water, electricity, communication facilities, health care delivery, and good schools. The continuous rural-urban drift no doubt poses serious threat to the economy of Nigeria as rural predicament has turned to urban calamity due to...
Is it possible to develop models that will not only provide consistent and elegant analytical fra... more Is it possible to develop models that will not only provide consistent and elegant analytical framework for conceptualizing welfare change and sustainability of public policies and programmes formulated and implemented under a democratic setting, but evaluate the impact of such on the socio-economic welfare or wellbeing of the people living in project communities? Using the European Economic Community/Federal Government of Nigeria Katsina Afforestation Programme, which was conceived as a desertification control measure with the ultimate goal of improving the living condition of the people in the affected area through the provision of certain basic requirements, including fuel wood and poles, to reduce pressure on the remaining natural vegetation and reverse the trend of environmental degradation, this study attempts to measure its socio-economic impact as an example, this study employed the stylized models of Ravallion (1999) and Baker (2000), and Vouvoka and Xepapadeas (2008) to de...
International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Review, Feb 23, 2015
This study intends to unravel the copious challenges which hampered industrial growth in Africa a... more This study intends to unravel the copious challenges which hampered industrial growth in Africa and in deed Nigeria as a nation. Nigeria for instance, after independence in 1960, the main stay of her economy was Agriculture with little elements of textile and agro-allied industries until around late 1970's, these industries came to a state of comatose. One of the reasons for the distortion in the industrial development was the production of oil in commercial quantity. By implication, the discovery of oil made most African states like Nigeria to settle for an economy which relies mainly on primary mode of production instead of developing the hitherto existing local craftsmanship into modern industries. Also most consumers in Africa prefer foreign products to locally made goods due to inferiority complex. In the long-run most infant industries producing locally made products folded up due to inability to favorably compete with the western technologies. After a thorough review of relevant literature, the study adopted the dependency approach as theoretical framework that guides the paper. The main objective of the paper is to investigate in to the multiple problems that have accounted to the decline in the sector that led to industrial crisis. In an attempt to achieve the objective of this study, content analysis was used to articulate the views of notable scholars who have meaningful contributions on the subject matter. As to methodology, the paper made use of secondary data which include; pamphlets, magazines, books, journals, bulletins, newspapers, government publications and internet services. The study revealed that, the major challenge confronting industrial growth in most African countries and Nigeria in particular is lack of political will and focused leadership to break away from mono-cultural economy i.e. oil, with out diversification to allow industrial growth and development to flourish. Other setback include the followings; lack of access to micro credit facilities, epileptic power supply, weak market structure, general lack of trained manpower-technical know-how and security challenges. The attendant effects are that, there is no wealth creation, lack of job opportunities and high level of unemployment. Although in principles, Nigeria is regarded as the giant of Africa but in practice she is a consumer nation without potent industrial growth and development. One major recommendation in the study is that skill acquisition and rejuvenation of technical education by institutions of higher learning and technical colleges as well as diversification of the economy to entrenched in it industrial base and development is seriously advocated.
International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Review, 2015
This paper seeks to critically assess the paradox of curtailing the antics of ethnic militias and... more This paper seeks to critically assess the paradox of curtailing the antics of ethnic militias and its attendant implications on socio-economic development in Nigeria. It is approximated that Nigeria is made up of 250 ethnic groups and 350 languages but only three i.e (Hausa/Fulani,Yoruba and Ibo) were generally recognized as the major ethnic groups. Most ethnic militias in Nigeria today have evolved due to one perceived notion or another which the ethnic nationalities feel they have suffered in the hands of the Nigerian state. For example, the O’odua Peoples’ Congress (OPC) was formed for the purpose of integrating the aspirations and values of all the descendants of Oduduwa (Yoruba) solely because they felt that they had been denied the right and the opportunity to be in power when the June 12, 1993 general elections believed to have been won by M.K.O Abiola, a Yoruba son, was annulled. The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) which is another mi...
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Papers by Philip Deewua Dahida