Browsing by Author "Akinwumi, Olayemi"

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    The Effects of Climate Change on the Herdsmen and Farmers Relationship in the North-Central Nigeria
    (Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University Keffi., 2019-10-20) Akinwumi, Olayemi; Bilyaminu, Suleiman Muhammed; Lagi, Theophilus D.
    Climate change and Farmers- Fulani herdsmen conflict is of concern to governments and has generated serious scholarly attention in Nigeria. Statistics has shown that Nigeria has 22 million cows that consume about 1 billion gallons of water per day and 500 million kilograms of grass and forage crops. Desertification and drought caused by climate change in the far north coupled with the intensification of the Boko Haram crisis has caused Fulani herdsmen to abandon their foraging fields in the north east resulting in the migration southwards by the cattle herders. The increased southward movement of the Fulani herdsmen led to conflicts with local communities resulting to loss of life and property; seriously affected inter-group relations and corporate existence of the country. This paper examines the effect of climate change and the crisis in North Central Nigeria, and the increasing conflicts between host farming communities and Fulani herdsmen and its impact on inter-group relations in North Central Nigeria. The paper relied on data from secondary sources such as books, journals, conference papers, reports from national sources and international organizations and it is basically descriptive. The paper finds that climate change is a serious threat to the socio-economic activities of the Fulani herdsmen in Northern Nigeria. Furthermore, the Fulani herdsmen are forced to migrate to other states with favourable climatic conditions. They are viewed as threats and this lead to conflicts between the host communities and the Fulani herdsmen leading to loss of lives and properties and serious effect on intergroup relations. The paper recommends the creation of large acres of ranches across the country which should be allotted to the Fulani herdsmen; the government should sensitize and educate the host communities and the Fulani herdsmen on the need for ranching and peaceful co-habitation and national integration.
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    IMPACT OF NATURAL DISASTER ON HUMAN SECURITY IN NIGERIA
    (Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2022-07-13) Muhammadu, Alhaji Muhammed; Akinwumi, Olayemi; Usman, Alhaji Yusuf
    This paper examines the impact of natural disaster on human security in Nigeria. The study examined how natural disaster affects some of the indices or elements of human security including personal security, health security, economic security, food security, environmental security, among others. The paper used secondary sources of data by reviewing previous relevant literature. The paper argued that natural disaster impacts on different elements of human security as it leads to the loss of lives and properties among citizens, economic damages and environmental degradation in enormous proportions, health and food insecurity, to mention a few. The paper recommended, among other things, that inter-agency linkage should be strengthened to allow for easy collaboration. Keywords: Natural, Human, Disaster, National, Security.
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    Internal conflicts and development challenges in Nigeria’s fourth republic
    (Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University Keffi., 2013-08-12) Akinwumi, Olayemi; Bilyaminu, Suleiman Muhammed
    The aim of this paper is to examine internal conflicts and development challenges in Nigeria’s fourth republic. The advent of democracy in 1999 ushered in democratic governance in Nigeria after a long period of military rule. Democracy is thought to promote peace, rule of law, equality and justice, but Nigeria since 1999 has suffered various forms of internal conflicts and security threats ranging from communal conflicts, ethno-religious conflicts, resource control and indeginship conflicts to terrorism by religious extremist. All these conflicts have threatened the corporate existence of the country and the development of some parts of the country. The conflict is it ethnic or religious has become a daily occurrence with threats to life and properties as well as human security. The paper relied on data from secondary sources such as journals, books, reports from national sources and international organizations and it is basically descriptive. It is found that the democracy in the fourth republic has bread conflicts and little peace for development. It is also found that the democratic process in Nigeria breads comiption, intrigues and discord among its citizens. It is recommended that government should dialogue with all aggrieve zones. Justice and fairness is important for meaningful development and to address fiscal federalism.