The Young League Forum

COVID-19: WHY MEN REBEL BY A. O. EZE Relative Deprivation Relative deprivation is the lack of resources (e.g. money, rights, social equality) necessary to maintain the quality of life considered typical within a given socio-economic group.  The deprivation  model suggests that people who feel they are being deprived of something considered essential in their society (money, rights, political voice, status) will organize or join social movements dedicated to obtaining the things of which they feel deprived.  The major proponents of the model are an American sociologist Robert K. Merton, Ted Robert Gurr in his work titled “Why Men Rebel”, published in 1970 and British statesman and sociologist Walter Runciman. Walter Runciman listed four required conditions that can trigger the sense of deprivation: 1. A person does not have something 2. That person knows other people who have the thing 3. That person wants to have the thing 4. That person believes they have a r...

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SOCIAL INSECURITY AND CORRUPTION Man is a social being who needs social security which leads to the realization of man’s humanity. The word social means the act of living a communal and gregarious life that is full of companionship. The word social is connected with human society which encompasses the ways people organizes their society, interact with others and live their life. Hence, a human being as a social animal has an innate socialistic tendency in him. And he will remain unfulfilled and unsatisfied until he actualizes his social status. Therefore, we can define social security as the security of man’s social systems. The social systems of man are his social needs. In other words Social security refers to the protection and recognition of man’s social needs by the state. Furthermore, social security systems encompass all government programmes and actions geared towards protection of the social needs or social wellbeing of the citizenry. The social secu...

Situation of Human Rights in Nigeria by A. O Eze (director Institute of Political Therapy and Gamesmanship Studies) The question of human rights in Nigeria since independence has been very controversial. Human rights in Nigeria are protected under Chapter IV of the 1999 constitution. Nigeria has made serious improvements in human rights under this constitution that ushered in fourth republic although there are some lapses or areas that need to be strengthened which we are going to examine under contending issues as a sub-topic. In the period between its independence in 1960 to 1999, military has ruled Nigeria for 29 years starting from Aguiyi Ironsi in 1966 to Abudsalami Abubakar in 1999. Under military rule human rights suffers most. This is because military has no or little regard to human rights. Military rules with decree and not constitution. And it is only in constitution that human rights can be truly guaranteed. Nigeria since independence has been active in signing and...

Africa is a continent about which outsiders have all sorts of impressions; one of the most enduring and disturbing impressions is that which portrayed and continued to portray Africa as a dark continent where nothing good is possible. On the contrary, the general impression especially among western scholars has been to stereotype the continent as a land afflicted by drought, famine, diseases, incessant conflicts, mismanagement, population explosion, brain drain, social disorder and endemic corruption. Western scholars and observers tend to play down the fact that colonialism undermined and in most cases destroyed the structures of African political and government systems. Whether the colonial powers ruled by indirect method or supplanted the existing political order or government machinery, the same result of stifling, undermining and the destroying the existing culture was achieved. The greatest harm done to the colonial subjects is the destruction of their self-confidence, determin...

POLITICAL PARTY Political party is an organized group of people that are politically inclined and who share common political ideology with the primary aim of gaining political power in a state. Shively (2005: 247) defines political party as “a group of officials or would-be officials who are linked with a sizable group of citizens into an organization; a chief objective of this organization is to ensure that its officials attain power or are maintained in power.” Heywood (2007:272) seems to have given us a comprehensive and logically articulated meaning of political party when he aptly defined it as “a group of people that is organized for the purpose of winning government power, by electoral or other means.” According to him, party may be “authoritarian or democratic; they may seek power through elections or through revolution; and they may espouse ideologies of the left, right or centre, or, indeed, disavow political ideas altogether.” The primary aims for the formati...