Save the Ship: De-Marketising the Economy of Urban Violence in Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorIsiaq Abdulwaheed Atanda
dc.contributor.authorAluko Opeyemi Idowu
dc.contributor.authorAdedoyin Festus Fatai
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-25T08:05:02Z
dc.date.available2024-04-25T08:05:02Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis paper contributes to the discourse on the challenges, possibilities of imagining order and the other in a globalizing world plagued by disorder and otherness. It epitomized a market of violence traded by some actors for personal satisfaction regardless of the havoc within the community These actors should be identified and redefined so as to incorporate their goals in a model that can solve the issues of disorder in Nigeria. The Research questions poised as why is the organized market for violence. persisting in Nigeria? What are the resultant effects on the average Nigerian? The methodology adopted is descriptive statistical method which analyses the perceptions of two thousand four hundred Nigerian on the level of safety and trust in the government. The study was originally conducted by Afrobarometer. The theoretical framework adopts Merton strain theory. Recommendations are directed to both the government and the general populace on the need to strengthen the security level and to breakdown the buying and selling process in the market for urban violence in the polity. No society is free of violence but the level can be minimized and controlled through identifying the actors and prosecuting them appropriately.
dc.identifier.issn2141-9744
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/12923
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherFaculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 25
dc.subjectDisorder
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.subjectMarket
dc.subjectUrban
dc.subjectViolence
dc.subjectDemand aud Supply
dc.titleSave the Ship: De-Marketising the Economy of Urban Violence in Nigeria
dc.typeArticle

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