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This Civic Education Lesson Notes CoversThe Following Topics

  1. REVISION OF SS2 WORK
  2. CHARACTERISTICS OF CATEGORIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS
  3. FIGHTING POLITICAL APATHY
  4. PUBLIC SERVICE
  5. SHORTCOMINGS IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE
  6. HOW TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SERVICE IN NIGERIA
  7. CIVIL SOCIETY
  8. POPULAR PARTICIPATION

 

 

WEEK 1

Human Rights, Cultism and Political Apathy

Human Rights

Human rights can be defined as a global principle which refers to rights and freedom that all human beings are entitled to enjoy as a person irrespective of the country of birth or residence. They are not awarded by human power and cannot be surrendered and are enforceable in national and international courts. Some of the rights includes:

(a) Right to life and protection of property.

(b) Right to education.

(c) Freedom of association

(d) Freedom of movement

(e) Freedom from all kinds of discrimination

 

Cultism

One of the greatest social crimes committed in institutions of higher learning in this country is cultism. It is a social crime which is very rampant in universities, colleges of education and polytechnics all over the country.

Cultism as defined by the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary is a small group of people who have extreme religious beliefs and who are not part of any established religion.

Secret Cult: Secret Cult is an enclosed organized association or group of people devoted to the same course. It is an enclosed group of adherents having an exclusive sacred ideology and a series of rites centering  around their sacred symbols. Secret Cult is a terminology coined by the former military Head of state, Ibraheem Babangida between 1983 – 1984. Before then such groups were referred to as fraternities.

Political Apathy

The word apathy was formed from the ancient Greek word apathies which means lack of feelings, it is an attitude.

Political apathy can be defined as lack of interest in political activities; it is a state of non participation of citizens in the political process of their community, state or country. It is a situation where citizens exhibit carefree attitude to political issues by not participating in it.

Political apathy is the indifference on the part of any citizen of any country with regard to their attitude towards political activities. For example, political, elections, public opinions, civic responsibility, etc.

A broader way of referring to political apathy in a country is to consider its political culture. By contrast, political culture is the behavioral disposition of people towards the government of their country vis-a-vis every other political activity. Political apathy, if left uncontrolled, can bring about stagnation to the development of any nation. An individual’s political apathy begins with a lack of understanding of politics or government to a certain degree, and that makes it more difficult for that individual to see the value in universal suffrage, and to see the benefits and/or costs of new policies that the government places. That makes the individual see it as irrational to gain the knowledge; since (supposedly) there would be no benefit (the individual would see this as rational ignorance. This creates a feedback loop.

 


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