CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background to the Study

          A nation that dreams greatness needs to invest in the strategies inculcation of national values, and such strategic investment depends on several factors

-       The scope of the value

-       The source

-       The Nature

-       Role models and instructor

-       Institutional structure

         By scope mean the reach of the value deemed national, it is unavoidably tautology to suggest that national values must be national in scope. A national value cannot be ethnic or sectarian, of course this does suggest that a value that is acceptable to one ethnic cannot be acceptable to other group. Meaning that it must be embraced by or considered us worthy of the embrace of others. Secondly the source of the value, how do members of the nation come to recognize it as a value worthy of embrace. National value cannot originate from diverse sources. Fortunately, despite the division of tribe and tongues in dear country. We have one alone-divisive source of our value. It is the constitution that provides a copious account of the fundamental objective and directive principle to state policy.