Youth Empowerment, Wealth Creation and Security as Key to National Development

This paper examined youth empowerment, wealth creation and security as key to national development. The paper was guided by three objectives viz-a-viz; finding out how the empowerment of youth enhances national development, determining how wealth creation in the country is capable of enhancing national development and examining the role security play in entrenching national development. Reviews of literature were carried out in line with the objectives of the study using secondary data as method of data collection. The paper concluded that youth empowerment, wealth creation and national security enhance a nation’s positive and sustainable development. The paper suggested that government should make youth empowerment and wealth creation process in the country seamless so that majority of her unemployed youth can key into the scheme to uplift self and enhance national development. Also, the government should make national security a priority at all times. This is because without adequate security in the country, the zeal to be creative will be discouraged, investment will be limited, thus making development of the country to be stagnated as interested persons and organizations will be scared to invest. Keywords: Youth Empowerment, Wealth Creation, Security, National Developmen

Effect of Child Upbringing and Husband Support on Spousal Adjustments of Women in South-South, Nigeria

This study sought to investigate if there was any effect of child upbringing and husband support on the spousal adjustment of married women in southern Nigeria. Two (2) research questions were raised and two (2) hypotheses guided the study. An ex-post facto research design was employed in this study. A total sample of 1,582 married women was selected through a multi-stage sampling procedure as a sample size from an estimated population of 3, 346, 632 married women from the southern part of the country as stated in the 2015 Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) register. Findings revealed that a significant positive relationship existed between child upbringing and Spousal adjustment of married women in southern Nigeria. It was recommended amongst others that the government, married couples, intending couples, and society at large,  should be enlightened on the importance of spousal adjustment in facilitating harmonious family life and by extension, proper societal functioning