![]() ![]() This year (2022), the Nigeria Social Cohesion Index (NSCI) is 39.6 per cent, a 4.6 percentage point decline from the 2021 figure, which was already a shortfall from the 50 per cent average.ĪPI said this indicates a weakening of the state of cohesion in the country over the last year.Ĭonducted between the months of May and June 2022, the study adopted a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, with the Citizens Perception Survey (CPS) and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) adopted for primary data collection.Ī total of 7,245 people were contacted, out of which 5,178 interviews were completed, representing a response rate of 71.5 per cent. Nigeria’s mark in social cohesion was 44.2 per cent in 2021. The 2022 Nigeria Social Cohesion Survey (NSCI), a publication of Africa Polling Institute (API), was undertaken to develop a social cohesion index for Nigeria and measure citizens’ perception of the state of social cohesion, API’s executive director, Bell Ihua, said in a statement. In the past year, 59 per cent of Nigerians believed the country would have a better future while 27 per cent said the future of Nigeria would be worse. The data reveals that the National Assembly (16 per cent) is now the least trusted public institution in Nigeria, overtaking the Nigeria Police Force, which was the least trusted (20 per cent)Ībout 60 per cent of citizens believe that the future of the country would be better than it is presently compared to 27 per cent who expressed pessimism that the future would be worse and 6 per cent simply do not foresee any change in the future. (from 22 per cent and 26 per cent in 2021). The survey found that trust in the National Assembly and the Judiciary declined to 16 per cent and 22 per cent respectively. “Trust for President Buhari’s government has substantially declined to 17 per cent from 26 per cent in 2021,” the survey found. On trust, religious leaders were rated more favourably (50 per cent), followed by traditional leaders (43 per cent). This, perhaps, explains why 66 per cent of Nigerians believe that “Nigeria is much more divided today (in 2022) than it was four years ago” as opposed to the 10 per cent who said “the country is much more united today,” and 20 per cent who “believe that the country has stayed the same.”īut, this also means the proportion of citizens who believe that the country is much more divided today than it was 4 years ago increased slightly by one percentage point from 65 per cent in 2021 to 66 per cent in 2022. In the 2021 data, 4 in 10 Nigerians said they were proud of being equally Nigerian and from their ethnic group, while about a third (33 per cent) said they identified more with their ethnicity than with being Nigerian, compared to only 9 per cent that felt more Nigerian than ethnic. While 36 per cent are fine with being both Nigerian and members of ethnic groupings, 35 per cent identify more with their ethnic groups, and “only 10 per cent feel more Nigerian than ethnic”. The causes of polarization are “ethnicity (62 per cent), political affiliation (60 per cent), and religion (57 per cent),” according to the survey.įindings revealed that 81 per cent of Nigerians are comfortable with their dual identity of being both Nigerian and from their ethnic group, but to different proportions. More than half (53 per cent) of Nigerians “agree and strongly agree” that Nigeria is polarised in the context of faith, ethnicity, and religion, and the survey states that Nigeria is more polarised in 2022 than it was four years ago. President Muhammadu Buhari’s apparent mismanagement of Nigeria’s diversity has fueled distrust, further polarised the country and made more citizens lose hope in the country, a new survey has found.
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