Abstract
The actual point where slavery ends, there freedom is expected to begin. The state of facilities in the north eastern region of Nigeria which is sympathetic and subjecting the lives of citizens to severe hardship is not only a serious and urgent matter that demands government attention. It is also another form of slavery which people in this region are suffering from. This work examines the decaying nature of public facilities across the six states in the north-east geo-political zone of the country. It also assesses the impacts of this infrastructural decomposition on the lives of the people of the region. The work examines the needs for infrastructural development in the region. Secondary and primary sources of data collection were utilized in the study. Library based documentation analysis like textbooks, journals, newspapers, magazines and other electronic as well as print materials were consulted in the work. Personal observation visits to practically assessed facilities in the area chosen for the study within the north-east region were also embarked by the researchers. Primary source of data collection like the close ended type of questionnaire was utilized in the study. Percentage was used as the statistical tool of analysis with which data collected for this study were analyzed. The work discovered that facilities in the education, health, water, electricity and other sectors are seriously collapsing in the region. Population is growing, state efforts towards infrastructural development in the north-east are minimal and the living conditions of the people of the region are in severe state of agonies. These are some of the reasons and needs for the development of infrastructure in the north-eastern region of Nigeria.
Highlights
Education, health, water, electricity, housing, roads and other rural infrastructures in addition to food constitute the basic requirements of man in human society
Public schools no longer provide the required conducive atmosphere needed for learning-in many, the classroom floors have broken, in some, the roof tops have been blown away by the wind while in some other cases, the structures in totality are falling from the top to the bottom-development which is putting the lives of innocent Nigerian children and future leaders as well as that of their teachers at great risk
This research adopted the survey design which elicits data from the sample selected for the study through various techniques such as the close ended questionnaire and unstructured interview methods. The choice of these methods and design was informed by the fact that it seeks to provide the opportunity for members of the various communities across the north-eastern region of Nigeria to express and contribute their views to the study on “The Decaying Nature of Facilities and the Need for Infrastructural Development in North-East Nigeria”
Summary
Health, water, electricity, housing, roads and other rural infrastructures in addition to food constitute the basic requirements of man in human society. Facilities that have direct impacts on the basic needs of man are essential but seriously required if live is to be meaningful to man in any aspects. Government efforts to arrest the nature of facilities which are rapidly decaying with time in the north-east region is minimal. Minimal governmental attention, mishandling on the part of the people as well as the reluctances of authorities to come up with new infrastructures to replace old existing ones and reduced the over burden on old ones have put together continued to result in the decaying nature of facilities in the north-east region of Nigeria
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