Towards Sustainable Development in Nigeria: Lessons from Al-Qaradāwī's Dawru ‘l-Qiyam

Abstract

Sustainable development that ensures every citizen of a nation to have access to all requirements of sufficient standard of living is a pride of any government that accomplishes it. This has been a concern of most of the developing nations. In Nigeria, many programmes have been established and initiatives are brought to board all in attempt to actualize a sustainable development. Issues of sustainable development are parts of focus of Yusuf Al-Qaradāwī in his 440 page work titled: Dawru 'I-Qiyam. Therefore. it is the objective of this paper to review Al-Qaraḍāwi's approach towards sustainable development and how it is relevant to Nigerian situations. The study, given its nature. is library based with extensive literature review. The method used is phenomenological and printed books, published journals, unpublished thesis, newspapers and internet sources were consulted on Nigerian cases. The result reveals that the Proper implementation of development plans and prevention of corrupt practices and culture of wastage are lacking in the Nigerian case. Diversification of economy to maximize advantage of all economic potentials endowed Nigeria would improve the situation.