Author: Prof. Princewill Alozie

Prof. Alozie In many respects, it is a misnomer to speak of development in Nigeria the way we understand it generally to mean positive improvement in life. Development however, entails motion relative to a notional starting point and can veer towards any direction of a compass. It can be negative or positive as we say in terms of integers in mathematics. It is probably better in discussing the development, to be talking about the deepening of over-exploitation in Nigeria.  Nigeria, following Claude Ake’s logic, belongs to polities where “there is really no state, liberal or autocratic”. That assertion by Ake makes it pointless to discuss Development Paradigm in the sense Thomas Kuhn used the term in his Structure of Scientific Revolution. A paradigm in the scientific sense has ...