Polmi Joseph Danjah

Keywords: Hunger, protests, governance, people-oriented policy

Abstract

This study aims at examining salient causes of hunger, protests and the clamour for restructuring in Nigeria. This became pertinent owing to the fact that Nigeria a country known with high human and material potentials has been enmeshed to grappling with massive hunger, insecurity, bad governance, economic hardship, and corruption. The foregoing issues necessitated demands for economic justice leading to several days of protests in Nigeria tagged #EndBadGovernance in August, 2024. The study is anchored on assumptions of the relative deprivation and aggression theory that explicate discontents arising from negative discrepancy between legitimate expectation and actuality. The study adopts a qualitative approach in generating data. Findings of the study indicate that political elites exploited illiteracy to reinforce ethnic, religious and political divisions between groups of #EndBadGovernance protesters. Also, the #EndBadGovernance protest was hijacked by hoodlums and some selfish individuals and this led to the imposition of curfew in some states mostly in the northern region of Nigeria. Likewise, the incumbent government did not make proper provision for measures that could bring succor and relief to the citizens before implementing the fuel subsidy removal policy.The study recommends the need for people-oriented programmes and policies of government which should aim at cushioning the effect of hunger among Nigerians.

Author Biography

Polmi Joseph Danjah

Department of Political Science Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria Email: [email protected]

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