THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF SELF HELP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (CASE STUDY OVIA NORTH EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE). A RESEARCH PROJECT MATERIAL ON ECONOMICS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BRIEF HISTORY OVIA NORTH EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Ovia north east local government area is one of the twenty-two local government areas in Edo State of Nigeria. The local government area was created from the district council under the local government law in 1976, the local government which lies across the larger part of the local government. Ovia North East local government area is one of the largest local area in Edo State in term of land mass.
Eguake (1990) noted that it is situated between longitude 5°45 and 6°15 east and latitude 5°15 and 6°45 north of the Central province of Edo State. The local government consist of twelve wards for the purpose of easy administration, the wards are Egheta, Utese, Uhen, Oghese , Olumoye, Okada, Emma, other are Isiuua, Egbarha, Ovbiogie, Utekan, Iguegho. Therefore the local government area is made up of about 50 villages. Okada is the administrative headquarter of Ovia north East local government area.
By 1960 the population of the district councils that now make up Ovia north east local government area has one-hundred and seventy six thousand, four hundred and fifty three (76,453) but it was projected in 1976 to be two hundred an forty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-six (242,276) according to local government report Journal of 1950.
The inhabitants of the local government area are Edo speaking people, so they are said to be the same origin with Bini’s and the Yoruba’s who claimed to have migrated from Egypt in search of a more ferile land. The major occupation of the inhabitants of the area are farming and trading, of recent the people have attached much importance to education which they hope will place them in better position in white collar-jobs in order to be able to develop the local government.
The village head in Ovia North East local government is the “Odionwere” the Enogie is the hereditary position while the Odionwere is the position for the eldest man in the community concernment.
The local government area is situated in the centre of Edo State. It is bounded in some village by Emma by Ovia north east local government area (map to be attached).
Development in the local government are is slow due to lack of infrastructural facilities the insufficiency of these basic infrastructure have caused devastating affects to the economic development of the area. Such that the social aspect of life in the local government has been hindered. Little wonder that the various communities in the local government embraced self-help developmental project which the researcher is to examine.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
In economic, there is a fundamental assumption that we want are numerous i.e. unlimited but the means of resources to satisfy them are very limited this statement is responsible for the government inability to satisfy the want of the whole people in the area she governs.
Realizing fully well that the government can not provide every thing they need, most communities have decided and device a way of promoting economic growth in their area which result to the adoption of self-help development project.
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