Rural Development Policies in Contemporary Nigeria; With a Special Reference to Eggon-Nassarawa and Its Environs; 1999-2019 A.D

This scholarly work titled “Rural Development Policies in Contemporary Nigeria with a Special Reference to Eggon and its Environs, Nassarawa State; 1999-2019 A.D.” has been established purely to examine the inception, development, impact, successes and failures associated with the studied subject matter for a proper historical reconstruction and balanced study to be attained. In another related development, it is of great relevance and importance to bring into notice that in the course of conducting the study both scholarly published, unpublished sources and oral traditions were utilized for accurate historical data collection. Further to the above, qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection, analysis and presentation have been put in place where relevant and necessary for the attainment of positive targeted goals of the study. The study has in the long run come up with some major findings such as; the percentage which agricultural sector contributes to gross domestic product steadily declined from 1972 consequent upon the non-challent attitude towards rural sector development and the partial relegation of the agrarians and rural dwellers to the core. For instance, (16% in 1970, to 15.7% despite the case of urbanization on massive scale. The study here in justifies the aforementioned findings as some of the fundamental causes of contemporary social, financial, economic and political development crises and the subject matter of study has in the tail end recommends the way forward. Among which include; the need for the policy making bodies, stakeholders and relevant agencies to rise to the responsibility ahead for the well-being of human’s society.