Youth Violence and It’s Implications on Sustainable Development in Yenagoa Local Government, Bayelsa State

Undutimi Johnny Dudafa

Abstract


The study was designed to examine youth violence and it implication on sustainable development in Yenagoa Local Government, Bayelsa state. Related literatures were reviewed base on the objectives of the study. To give a theoretical background to the study, frustration aggression theory was used to explaining youth violence and it implication on sustainable development; The research design used for this study was cross-sectional design, while the sampling techniques used was multi-stage sampling technique. The primary data consisted of mainly; the instrument of questionnaire. The study sampled a total of two hundred (200) respondents in the two clans. The analysis of data was done using descriptive statistics (mean and simple percentage) through the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The study concluded that youth criminality is at its peak in the study area and would continue to increase if the economic condition of youths is unattended to. Based on these findings, the study recommended that, the government should open economic windows through job creation, by creating skill acquisition programmes among others.


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Bayelsa; Youth Violence; Nigeria

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