THE ISSUE OF EXCESSIVE MATERIALISM AS A MAJOR UNBENDING ENFORCER OF CRIME IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY NIGERIA AS PORTRAYED IN IFEOMA ODINYE’S PAIN IN THE NECK

Abstract

The contemporary society of the nation, Nigeria suffers lots of criminal issues. As it is a natural and normal human nature, every effect the human existence creates anywhere, in any manner and to whatever degree either negative or positive, there is a cause and Nigeria is not an exemption. Amidst the many  never ending motivations of these anti constitutional activities, this work rather chooses to narrow down its discourse more extensively to the provisions allotted it by limitation, by the text under consideration. It reveals how the victims and most active participants in crime execution happen to fall under the teenage and youth age brackets, believed economically to be the labour force and by extension the supposed productive sector which holds the destiny of a nation. It tells how the author is asking the Nigerian populace what the future of the Nigerian society holds within and outside the country, since they portray and represent the country unpatriotically outside the country; an unpatriotic act and migration caused by the bad situations as poverty, monetary devaluation, economic recession and unemployment etcetera when compared to other countries, given the dignity allocated the country in its foreign affairs with other countries. This work unveils the theoretical postulations of the text even in its fictional mode about the matter of excessive materialism in the society. It however only discusses the description and revolts against the bad situations of Nigerian youths without any prescription on the way out of the problems but suggests it, in its conclusion.