Ikwerre Moral Values: A Panacea for Insecurity and Peaceful Co-Existence in Nigeria
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Nigeria
Abstract
There is a high level of insecurity everywhere in Nigeria at the moment as no part of the country appears safe enough for any human activity. In the Northeast are the Boko Haram insurgents that have been terrorizing the entire Northern Nigeria for more than a decade now. In the Northwest are the cows’ rustlers and the bandits disquieting the society from the Sokoto, Katsina and Kaduna axis. Around Plateau and Benue States were first to appear the Fulani herdsmen who started by destroying the lives and properties of their hosts and seizing their lands but are now to be found everywhere in Nigeria and they are also into dastardly armed robbery and kidnapping. Cultism, Advance Fee Fraud (419) and Internet scammers (Yahoo Boys) and their nefarious ritual killings pervade the Southeast and Southwest geopolitical spaces. The militants in their various sprinter groups are making life unbearable in the Southsouth and some Southeast and Southwest States. Kidnapping and armed robbery dominate the North central States, particularly Niger and Kogi. It, in fact, looks like there is no place in Nigeria that is safe to live in or do any form of business.
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2. Adjara, Igerei Onajite and Andy Omokri. Urjobo Kingdom: Political and Social System Ibadan: Text Flow, 1997.
3. Adogbo M.R. ‘Religion and Medicine in Urhobo Traditional Society” in Abraka Humanity Reviews Vol. 2 No. 1 September, 200 7.
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5. Amadi, R. Ethics in Nigerian Culture. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Hooks, 1982.
6. Amponsah, K. Topics on West African Traditional Religion 2. Cape Coast: Mfantsiman Press., 1975.
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9. Boadi, I. A. Christianity or Traditional Beliefs and Customs? Kumasi: Ghana Baptist Publication, 1981.
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11. Bradbury, R. E. The Benin Kingdom and the Edo-Speaking Peoples of South- Western Nigeria London: Wightman Mountain, 1970.
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Published
2022-10-19
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Olumati, R. (2022). Ikwerre Moral Values: A Panacea for Insecurity and Peaceful Co-Existence in Nigeria. Central Asian Journal of Social Sciences and History, 3(10), 112-125. Retrieved from https://cajssh.centralasianstudies.org/index.php/CAJSSH/article/view/464
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