Restructuring and Sustainable Development Programmes in Nigeria: Implications for Macro Social Work Practice.
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2022-12
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Published by Department of Political Science, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
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This paper examined restructuring and sustainable development programmes in
Nigeria and their implications for macro social work practice. The study relied
on secondary data which were collected from journals, textbooks, newspapers,
and internet materials. The paper revealed that poverty, increased manipulation
of religion and ethnicity, inability to withstand election defeat, dissatisfaction
with leadership quality, escalation of insecurities, conflicts over revenue
allocation or resource control, armed banditry, bitter politics of ethno-religious
and regional identities, ethnoreligious intolerances, herdsmen-farmers conflicts,
socio-economic and infrastructural deteriorations, and corruption amongst others
as the reasons forrestructuring of Nigeria. The factors militating against the
restructuring of Nigeria include elite interest, fear of domination, political
idiosyncrasy, military incursion, corruption, fear of suppression, nature of the
existing structure, ethno-regional rivalry, leadership problem, constitutional
issues, weak institution, and issues of federal character and its principles. The
paper also discussed restructuring Nigeria to attain sustainable development and
the implications for macro social work practice. The paper recommends, that
there is a need for a national conference legally backed to draft a working
constitution that would create a true federal system where the federating units
have fiscal autonomous, and responsive to the central government, there is a
need for professionalization of social work in Nigeria, and that the central
government and all federating units (states) of the Nigerian federation should
create enabling environment for active citizen participation in development
programmes.
Keywords: Restructuring, Sustainability, development, Macro social work,
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Restructuring, Sustainability, development, Macro social work, Programme