Conceptualizing the "Nigerian Environment" As a Hindrance to National Development, 1960-2023

Abstract

Irked by the enormous perplexities surrounding and buttressing Nigeria's moribund national growth and under-development since independence in 1960, more so in its seeming stereotyped peculiarities, this study is posed to not only unravel but understand and explain these issues and challenges. The paper further goes on to shed more light on a litany of environmentally-habitual and peculiar factors domiciled within the Nigerian country, apparently adoptive and infective, with cumulative effects on not only the government and citizenry but influencing foreign interests. Overall, this work is an attempt at providing concise concepts of what coalesces to portend the "Nigerian Environment": human behavioural indices and adaptational acquisition. One may not successfully conceptualize the "Nigerian Environment" without engaging the "Nigerian Factor". Not only identifying these anomalies, but providing succinct explanations on how these vagaries cumulatively hinder Nigeria’s attempt at development, lies at the very root of this study. Both Adaptational and Behavioural Theories present stable and variable conduits towards ensuring that information gathered and garnered secondarily are quantitatively used. The paper asserts that the "Nigerian Environment", somewhat reversely ordered, is challenging and highly antithetical to international standards as the case may be, hence this research work boldly advocates for a wholistic rethink, rebirth and re-organization in national body politic, in order to spur patriotic development.