PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ADULT EDUCATION PROVISIONS

Abstract

Peaceful co-existence is essential to the attainment of national development in any society. The Nigerian society has witnessed and still witnessing several violent conflicts stemming from religious, political, ethnic and economic reasons with varied negative implications for national integration and sustainable development. It is against this background that this paper argues that everybody including Nigerian adult educators must contribute to the restoration of peace in Nigeria. The paper therefore, examines the relationship between peaceful coexistence and national development and fa ctors responsible for lack of peaceful coexistence in Nigeria. The paper concludes that adult educators can use their virile adult education provisions such as peace education, human rights education, concentization programme, citizenship education, functional literacy, liberal education and tolerance education to restore peaceful coexistence in Nigeria