CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1       Background of the Study   The role of traditional institutions such as traditional rulers, TownUnions or community association Age grades, the Umuada and women Development groups in Nigeria with the particular reference Awomama,Orlu East in Imo State. This institutions and agencies act as instrument for coordinating various social-economic activities within such a society and between it and other aims traditional institutions have been social agents as well as mass mobilization facilitators in various communities in Nigeria. Traditional rulers more often than not, negatively affects the development effort of the people. Traditional institutions should be working cooperatively and collaboratively, and not as cross purposes each.

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