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    British Colonial Legacy and ethno-cultural conflicts in Takum, Taraba State, North-Eastern Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria 1914-2008
    (2018-06) Yakubu, Nyuni
    The study examined British Colonial Legacy and Ethno-cultural Conflicts in Takum, Taraba North Eastern Geo-political Zone Nigeria. Takum has experienced consistent ethno-cultural conflict which destroyed lives and property and equally resulted in growth retardation and further prevent industrial growth and any form of developmental project. Three specific objectives guided this study and these were; (i) to examine the level of British colonial legacy and Ethno-cultural conflicts in Takum Taraba State, North-Eastern geopolitical Zone Nigeria, (ii) to assess the nature of ethno-cultural conflicts in Takum, Taraba State, North-Eastern Geopolitical Zone Nigeria (iii) to proffer solutions to the ethno-cultural conflicts in Takum Taraba State, North-Eastern Geopolitical Zone Nigeria. The target population was 665 from which a sample size of 250 was derived. The findings revealed that British colonial legacy has negative consequences to the community such as high colonial domination, increased political tussle and economic manipulations and increased interference in traditional issues and ambiguous overlapping jurisdiction in Takum and Ussa, Taraba State North-Eastern Geopolitical Zone Nigeria. The researcher concluded that there has been struggle among the various ethnic nationalities in the country over control of political power and natural resources which led to the Civil War of 1967-1970 since Nigeria’s democracy is characterized by ethnic-based politics and especially Takum. The researcher recommended that; both the Federal and State government of Nigeria should put in place strategies for the reorientation, sensitization of the Nigerian leaders in Takum. The contribution to knowledge indicated that; it is the failure of the leaders in Takum to meet the demands of these ethnic nationalities that has always manifested in agitation that time and again leads to conflicts. In addition to the above, symposium, dialogue for consensus, seminar/workshops, equity, job creation, integration among others ought to be put in place by all the levels of government in-order to ensure peaceful coexistence, growth and meaningful development in Takum.
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    The impact of climate change on population migration in Mai Adu’a local government area Katsina State, Nigeria
    (Kampala International University. College of Education, Open & Distance Learning, 2015-05) Salisu, Lawal Halliru
    Impact of Climate Change on population migration is an important aspect that requires more attention. The objectives of this study were to: establish the causes of climate change; its effect on human migration and the ultimate adaptation strategies; to determine the relationship between climate change and human population migration in Mai Adu’a local government area, Katsina state Nigeria. Mixed method of research (Qualitative and quantitative) was adopted in this study. The instruments used; includes interviews guide, a questionnaire survey, observations and photography. The analysis was based on a sample of 384 respondents. The qualitative data was analyzed by means of cording using matrix form, descriptions, and visual presentations, quantitative data was analyzed through the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) 16.0 for windows and complimented by Microsoft Excel to generate frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviation and Spearman correlation coefficient .The findings revealed that the level of climate change was rated high with an average mean value of 2.8536 in Mai Adu’ a local government area. This means that there is evidence of climate change in the study area and the causes of climate change were anthropogenic that is manmade activities were the major cause of climate change in the study area. Millet was the major crop grown in the area because millets requires little amount of rainfall to grow. Impact of climate change, was rated Very high this suggesting that the impacts is high in the study area between 1981 to 1990, 1991 to 2000 and 211 to 2014. The findings indicated that climate change is positively correlated to human population migration. In Conclusion the study revealed that anthropogenic factor (human activities) such as bush burning and deforestation were the major cause of climate change as perceived by the respondents. The study recommended that further research is required to expand on the finding presented in this thesis. In conducting further research using land sat thematic mapper (TM) and enhances thematic mapper (ETM) imageries to look at spatio- temporal land use and land cover types as a result of human and natural influence. It is further recommended that both state and national to support adaption measure by equipping local level institution to combat the negative effect of climate change in Mai Adu’ a, through investment into sustainable development and value variability reduction. In order to address issues on climate change, educating people and enlightment programme on climate change can be done through media such as Radio and television programme so that to minimize the human activities that causes the climate change.