{"id":6372,"date":"2025-06-24T22:53:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/youth-restiveness-in-nigeria-an-evaluation-of-ikorodu-local-government-lagos-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:15:57","slug":"youth-restiveness-in-nigeria-an-evaluation-of-ikorodu-local-government-lagos-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/youth-restiveness-in-nigeria-an-evaluation-of-ikorodu-local-government-lagos-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUTH RESTIVENESS IN NIGERIA: AN EVALUATION OF IKORODU LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LAGOS, NIGERIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>YOUTH RESTIVENESS IN NIGERIA: AN EVALUATION OF IKORODU LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LAGOS, NIGERIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/view\/175' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/download\/175\/162' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Youth Restiveness is an attribute of youthful exuberance which has become a global phenomenon. The increasing rate of youth restiveness is alarming and it is posing serious challenges to developing countries of the world especially Nigeria with large population of youths. Youth restiveness has attracted the attention of policy makers and stakeholders in Nigeria. Youth restiveness and its attendant consequences have greatly contributed to insecurities and Uncertainties in Nigeria. This paper undertakes an examination of youth restiveness in Nigeria. It is anchored on the theory of deprivation for its theoretical framework. The paper adopted survey method as research design. 120 respondents were selected from population through the purposive sampling technique. Data for this paper were drawn from both primary and from questionnaire administered granted by the respondents while secondary sources from library. The paper reveals that drug abuse, illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, and poor child up bringing among others are some of the causes by youth restiveness. The paper recommended among others that the Government should provide basic social amenities such as water, good roads, health care center, electricity etc and also provide more opportunities to create employments for the youth.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>NIYI  ADEGOKE (Federal University Oye- Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria)<\/li>\n<li>Odedokun Ezekiel  Adeyemi (Federal University Oye Ekiti)<\/li>\n<li>Odunayo Tolulope  Ojo (Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>Youth, Restiveness, Ikorodu, Nigeria, Unemployment<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: YOUTH RESTIVENESS IN NIGERIA: AN EVALUATION OF IKORODU LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LAGOS, NIGERIA Original Article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[3493,534,3492,1546],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ikorodu","tag-nigeria","tag-restiveness","tag-unemployment","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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