Religious insincerity as a major challenge to Nigeria's infrastructural development: a kap analysis on imo state residents

Abstract

The researcher in this study tried to examine how religious insincerity is been perceived as a major challenge to Nigeria infrastructural under-development. This study was anchored on the Functionalists' Theories of Religion. The researcher adopted the mixed method combining the use of qualitative and quantitative designs. Focus group discussion method was used for the qualitative data in this work, whereas survey method was used for the quantitative data in this work. The population of the study is 2,373,040. The Wimmer and Dominick sample size calculator was used to arrive at a sample size of 384. The instrument used for its data collection was the questionnaire and in-depth interview guide. Finding from this study showed that misuse of Nigerian funds and resources, selfishness, unaccountability, loss of sincerity and integrity of Nigerians has limited Nigerians rural, urban and international infrastructural developmental growth. It was concluded that Nigeria have more insincere religious people who are not truthful to their religion faith nor act out their religious good moral in their daily lives. The researcher recommends that people should be truthful to themselves to work on becoming the change they want to see in the world. Peoples sincerity or insincerity in everything they do will either speak good or bad of them once they have any human transactions.