Interrogating Youth Restiveness and Leadership Problem in Africa: The Nigeria Experience

Abstract

This research sought to interrogate the implications of youth restiveness on leadership problem in Africa using the Nigeria experience. Three research questions were formulated. 1,000 respondents were sampled from youth in Edo, Delta and Anambra States. The conflict theory was adopted as the theoretical orientation for the study. The quantitative technique which relied on a self-constructed instrument was employed to collect data while the data generated from the field was analyzed with the aid of percentage. The study found that youth restiveness in Africa is mostly a result of employment, illiteracy and unfair distribution of mineral resources. Violent protests and destruction of properties, increase in social and criminal vices were some of youth restiveness. The study recommends that the ills associated with youth restiveness can be curbed through good governance, provision of skill acquisition programmes, creation of more employment opportunities for youth as well as public enlightenment against this social malaise which has become evident in the African continent.

Prevalence of Substance Abuse among Secondary School Students in Lagos State of Nigeria

“…(Degenhardt et al 2019) It sometimes undermines moral restraints and encourages deviant or criminal behavior, especially among youth (Chilo, 2018). Obarisiagbon and Ajayi found out that substance abuse was an important determinant of risky sexual behavior among youths in Benin City, Nigeria (Obarisiagbon and Ajayi, 2019) Researchers in Lagos, Nigeria also showed that Nigerian youths have limited knowledge of the adverse effects of substance abuse and widely abused tobacco, alcohol, opiates, cannabis, amphetamines and benzodiazepines (Odukoya et al 2018). Many of these youths eventually end up abusing more addictive substances (Oshodi et al 2019).…”