TY - JOUR AU - Okere, Austine PY - 2021/05/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Echoes from Post-Civil War Development in Nigeria: Igboland and Infrastructure Development in a Millennium Development Goals Epoch JF - International Scholar Journal of Arts and Social Science Research JA - ISJASSR VL - 4 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.theinterscholar.org/journals/index.php/isjassr/article/view/119 SP - 306 - 322 AB - <p>This paper examines trends in infrastructure development in Nigeria with specific emphasis on the Southeast geopolitical zone. Using the case of infrastructure development provided in sectors of health, water and sanitation, and education under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) programme, it posits that the region has recorded positive gains. As a result, this paper contends that despite the effects of the Civil War on Igboland, infrastructure development efforts of successive governments within the region together with years of self-supported infrastructure projects initiated by <em>Ndi Igbo</em> (both at home and in diaspora), have ensured that this once known commercial hub moves towards her pre-civil war status. The paper further argues that it is not yet <em>eureka</em> for <em>Ndi Igbo</em> since there is also the need to sustain this and other efforts amidst contemporary challenges of corruption, good governance, calls for reforms in revenue sharing formula, insecurity, return to true federalism, and political and socio-economic 'social justice in Nigeria. Using a qualitative case narrative methodology, the paper concludes that these contemporary issues have the potential to distract <em>Ndi Igbo</em> from the real focus, which is a continued and sustained effort towards accelerated infrastructure development of this once war-torn area in Nigeria.</p> ER -