A Critical Review of Nigeria’s Second National Development Plan (1970-1974)

Abstract

The growth and development of any country is largely associated to a set of plans scheduled and set out by the executive leadership of such countries. Just like other countries of the world, Nigeria has throughout the years designed a number of national development plans that are geared toward guaranteeing that the country is positioned on the part of growth and
development together with other countries of the world. These plans were hypothesized and designed to embolden and accelerate a holistic methodology to development thereby improving the general living standard of the public. Notwithstanding the formulation and respectability of these development plans, they have not in any way recorded the much anticipated outcomes as most of the targeted indices still remain as they were. This nonetheless called for critical evaluation of such a plan. However, this research through secondary means of data collection essentially seeks to critically analyze the second national development plan 1970-1974, with no recourse to any indices of the plan, the catalogues of the plan and why it could not achieve the
desired results, and make recommendations on how to forecast imminent manifestations in our succeeding national plans.
Keywords: Critical, Review, Nigeria, and Second National Development Plan,