Abstract
The article examines the fact that the realization and enjoyment of human rights in the rural majority in Nigeria has remained a myth. The urban dwellers may have had some measure of the enjoyment of the rights. But same cannot be said of the rural majority. The article reiterates that most civilized of states therefore is not one which has constitutionally provided for these rights perse but one which has adequate machinery and constitutional safeguards for the protection, enforcement and enjoyment or realization of these rights. In this wise, the article suggests ways of realizing these rights in rural Nigeria.
Highlights
The relevance of human rights among families, societies, nations and institutions of the world in the third millennium cannot be overestimated
The article reiterates that most civilized of states is not one which has constitutionally provided for these rights perse but one which has adequate machinery and constitutional safeguards for the protection, enforcement and enjoyment or realization of these rights
A definition of the term rural Nigeria can only be appreciated in the light of the definition proffered by Aduba (2003:1) as that part of Nigeria which is characterized by the following: Lack of pipe-borne water or water from the bore-holes; abundance of guinea-warm infested water; absence of electricity, lack of accessible roads, or means of communication; absence of educational institutions at where they are exist the distance between the institutions and the inhabitants are such that only very determined could take advantage of; lack of basic health facilities; absence of courts of law’ absence of lawyers about 80% persons of Nigerians reside here, the major economic activity is subsistence farming, poverty is the order of the day, the standard of living is very low
Summary
The relevance of human rights among families, societies, nations and institutions of the world in the third millennium cannot be overestimated. These remains so because, these rights are inherent in man and inalienable in character, which are recognized by governments as such and constitutionally entrenched and guaranteed to the citizens of the given State. Human rights is important to man as life itself, and is this millennium, it has become a buzzword but the yardstick for measuring an organized, civilized or democratic society, determined essentially by reference to the quality of their constitutional guarantee, and the machineries provided for their protection, enforcement and enjoyment.
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