ABSTRACT

This study investigated the effect of rural-urban migration and rural development in Nigeria (A case study of Uyo Local Government, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The study attempted finding answers to research questions by using survey design and purposive sampling techniques to collect data from 180 respondents with the aid of a 10-item structured questionnaire and personal interview. The respondents comprised of needs of households of migrants’ in the study area. Data for this study were edited, coded and analyzed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) and descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that majority of the migrants migrated to continue their education rather than in search of employment as concluded by a lot of past studies. It also revealed that the effect of the out-migration on the area include: absence of youths to assist parents in their profession, lack of work force to work on farms, and desertion of the area to the aged and children. The study recommended concerted government policy aimed at closing the lacuna between wage and other socio-economic differentials between the rural and urban areas, government’s support in the development and funding of small and medium scale rural enterprises, and agriculture.

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