The paper seeks to establish the role of religion and culture in the realization of women's rights to property in Nigeria. It begins by affirming that protecting women's rights to property in Nigeria is a fundamental step towards achieving the 5th Sustainable Development Goal of gender equality. The promotion and protection of these rights in any society are determined by several factors such as the customs, prevailing traditions, as well as the religious laws that control behavioral patterns in that society. In discussing this within the Nigerian context, the paper explores the tenets of Christianity and Islam that govern women's rights to property. The study used secondary data derived from articles that were sourced from Google Scholar. A total of nine articles was reviewed. The paper reveals that, culturally, women are viewed as inferior to men, and a male-child is generally celebrated and allotted higher portions of properties. However, the tenets of both Islam and Christianity do not disregard the woman in terms of property rights. The authors suggest that the prevailing discrimination against women has no religion backing, but a misguided exploitation of the low educational status of women in Nigeria.

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The existence of the Ogoni ethnic group is taken for granted in the literature that has grown out of the minority rights and environmentalist campaigns of the 1990s. This article departs from this tradition by engaging the historical development of the Ogoni ethnic group, taking as its point of departure elite politics in the context of colonial categories and post-colonial politics. With comparative data on the development of ethnic groups in Nigeria, it shows how elite politics and state structures and administrative decisions influenced the development of the Ogoni ethnic group and the identity it purveys. It also shows that differing interests in oil with unequal power bases spurred rigid positions that served to facilitate or constrain the execution of the Ogoni identity-building project.

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Which region gains more from Nigeria's wealth is a subject of heated debate between northerners and southerners. While the former believe that the southern region gets more because it plays host to most of the economic activities of Nigeria, the latter believe that the northern region has through its many years of control of federal power. Given limited space, this study uses the regional distribution of the benefits of student enrolments in federal universities to provide some insights. The reason for the choice of university education is that it combines two features of being a benefit and key to certain other benefits the federal government dispenses. The conclusion from the data analysed is that the greater beneficiary of federal expenditures on education is southern Nigeria, which also likely has greater access to other benefits that come with educational qualifications. It follows that the extent of federal government's involvement in the provision of subsidized university education is the extent of advantage the south enjoys over the north.