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Leadership And Problems Of National Development: An Assessment Of Unemployment Problem And Movement Of Nigerian Youths To Developed Countries Of The World
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
In
Nigeria, the quest for national development is always at the heart of
the leaders and the led. Leadership is the process of influencing group
activities towards attainment of goals. The quality of leadership in any
given country has a direct influence on the development of that nation
in terms of the standard of living, available infrastructures, and
poverty, level on unemployment among others. According to World Bank
Report (2006) a nation’s wealth is measured in terms of balance sheet
which consists of three categories of capital. Natural assets, produced
assets and intangible assets, which consists of human and institutional
capabilities that measures society’s quality index.
Nigeria is ranked
as the world’s largest producers of oil, but the leaders have not been
able to manage the oil wealth for the benefit of average Nigerian. This
is due to unrelenting progression of corruption, inefficient, bad
government policies and incompetent decision making. Mass unemployment
among the able bodied Nigerian youths to their influx to developed
countries of the world in search of greener pasture. Lack of basic
social amenities is also major cause for the influx, deficient
infrastructure, inadequate health and educational system among others.
Although the problems of unemployment is a general phenomenon depending
however on the nature of the skill produced by the economy for its own
use. The features of underdevelopment in the third world economies is
lack of developed manpower required for the development of the
industrial, technological and service sector. Where the high level
manpower is available, they remain unemployed. A country with abundant
natural resources and in dare need of high level human capital could
allow massive exodus of her able bodied men and women to European
countries in search of greener pasture.
Mass exodus of youth from
Nigeria also be traced to the activities of the criminal agencies and
cartels whose main business is to recruit young people to serve as
either drug carries or in case of young females, to recruit them as
prostitute. Thousands of female Nigerian teenager and youth found their
ways to overseas through these channels, and their work has led to the
tragic deaths of many promising Nigerian youths. Nigerian youth became
even more desperate to take even more during chances to emigrate, the
crossing to the notorious Sahara Desert on foot as well as the tragic
risk of hiding oneself in a wheel of an aircraft just to get to Europe.
The problem of national development had remain a hydra-headed monster
looking for a messiah for help. Good governance is all that would be
required to extract the best of this unique opportunity of abundant
human and natural resources to establish sustained durable and
diversified, economy for national development.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Rich
countries are largely rich because they are well governed, while poor
countries are largely poor because of bad governance. Good governance
translates to progressive national development, and good
infrastucr=tural facilities. Good governance implies that intangible
assets of the nation are fully exploited to manage tangible assets.
Since inefficiency, incompetence, corruption, bad management are rules
of the day. It means that it will be difficult for Nigerian leaders
proved incapable of turning the advantages of oil wealth.
The
influxes of Nigerian youth to Europe and America in search of greener
pastures are due to unemployment, insecurity, lack of economic
opportunities, corruption and nepotism, which could betraced to bad
leadership. The extent which bad leadership contribute to the influx of
Nigerian youths to Europe and America is what this project intends to
unravel.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The main objective of
the study is to assess the problems of bad leadership on the influx of
Nigerian youths to Europe and America and the extent which it has
affected socio-economic development of the nation. The consequences of
unemployment as a result of bad leadership. Specific objectives were
follows:
1. To identify major reasons for mass movement of youth to Europe
2. To find out the influence of unemployment on the influx of Nigerian youths.
3. To critically examine the relationship between the problems of leadership and unemployment problem in Nigeria.
4.
To provide plausible solutions that could minimize the influx of
Nigeria youths to Europe and America in search of greener pasture.
5. To ascertain the effects of leadership on national development in Nigeria.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Leadership is the key to social upliftment, social stagnation and even social decay, but there is no such agreement as to which kind of leadership is most capable of meeting and enhancing national development. The ability of a leader to coordinate member’s behaviour in the pursuit of goals is referred to as leadership. George and et al (1990) defined leadership as a relationship in which one person accepts the responsibility for the fate of self and others in relation to achieving a task. ... Continue reading---
