Browsing by Author "Lagi, Theophilus D."

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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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    Feminisation Of Poverty An Impediment To Entrepreneurial Spirit Among Nigerian Women
    (Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University Keffi., 2017-12-24) Lagi, Theophilus D.; Bilyaminu, Suleiman Muhammed
    Women low participation as entrepreneurs from their male counterparts in is associated with cultural, religious and patriarchal constrains. This trend is prominent in Nigeria, economically some feminist perceive women's marginality in the conduct of managing businesses as arising from their entrenchment to the globalised capitalist production relation. A relation, that ensures that majority of Nigerian women are peasants and housewives. Women are suppose to make significant contribution in terms of wealth creation through small scale businesses, farming and other extra means of wealth creation, but all that is considered as part of women's domestic role. An assessment of the “feminization of poverty” in Nigeria is attributed to three contributing factors that have been underscored and dampens the entrepreneurial spirit among women; (1) the growth of female-headed households, (2) intra-household inequalities and bias against women and girls, and (3) neoliberal economic policies, including structural adjustments. The growing visibility of women's poverty, it is argued, is rooted in these demographic trends,