A SURVEY OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN THE NORTH-WEST OF NIGERIA (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
More than anything else, the greatest obstacle to the nascent democracy is the pervasive insecurity of lives and property as evidenced by the spate of armed robbery attack assassinations and religious intolerance coupled with the seeming helplessness of agencies to handle criminal act (OJO 2010).
Nigeria (2002) that the situation is worsened by increasing number of unemployed Nigerians some of whom are ready recruit for criminal activities.The above statement from an editorial comment by a national daily in Nigeria indeed, epitomizes the central focus of this paper, the aim of is to analyze the nextus between democratic nurturing, sustenance and eventually consolidation via-a-via religious intolerance seeing it as the most significant factor impeding constitutional democracy.
Joseph (1998) said not only Nigeria but in Africa generally is a source of serious concern. Social disintegration could well be the most acute danger facing democracies, undermining the human rights and civil liberties on which democracy stand.
Przeworski (1995) arguably with senseless Nigeria’s most senseless Nigeria’s most serene city. Kaduna is now synonymous with senseless intolerance largely occasioned by misgiving and primordial sentiment and prejudices among inhabitant. The directive given to national institute for policy and strategic studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Kaduna sometimes ago to carry over a comprehensive research into the crisis and similar cases across the country can only have the desired results. If the government master enough political will to tackle the issues leading to and fuelling the situations.
Gomas (2011) said when it began, it was a time the entire country was trying to come to terms with the prospects of democracy into the fourth REPUBLIC. A monster called indigene/settler syndrome tore the Kaduna people apart the Birom and Hausa were engaged in a supremacy feud over Kaduna North-West Nigeria. Simultaneously religion became an issue when it did it the scope of the problem was amplified as dwellers from other parts of the country were compelled to line up behind the two original parties to the conflict.
