| dc.description.abstract | Federalism has been defined as a state in which two levels of government rule the same
land and people, whereby each level has at least one area of action in which it is
independent and there is some constitutional guarantee of the autonomy of each
government in its own sphere. The study sought to investigate the modes to federation
and the role it has played in conflict management in Nigeria and Ethiopia state. The
specific objectives of the study were: to establish the structures of federation in Nigeria
and Ethiopia, to investigate the role of federation in managing the ethno-linguistic
diversity and conflicts in Nigeria and Ethiopia, to find out the role of the constitution in
intergovernmental relations and service delivery to communities in Nigeria and Ethiopian
federal arrangements. This study used secondary data in analyzing the variables. The
findings from these secondary data were analyzed through content analysis. Ethiopia has
been following federalism for the last two decades. It has provided peace and security for
the great majority of the population following a violent civil war and laid down, for the
first time in the history of Ethiopia, the legal foundation for a fully-fledged democracy.
Nigeria has been a federation ever since independence and federalism has apparently
served a number of purposes. In Nigeria federation has served as a guideline for a
presumably fairer and equitable distribution of the country’s resources, based on the size
of population, than might otherwise have resulted. | en_US |
