Cheryl Eluwa
Cheryl A. O. Eluwa was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1997. She moved to Cranston, Rhode Island with her family in 2012. She attended Cranston High School East, and graduated in 2015 with high honors. She was a student athlete during her high school career and during her first two years at Rhode Island College. She is currently in the senior year of her undergraduate career and is on track to graduate in the spring semester of 2019, with a B.S. in Business Management. She is one of twenty-five students that are scholars of the Ronald E. McNair and is also a Preparatory Enrollment Program scholar at Rhode Island College. She chose her research topic because she is passionate about the issues facing her home country, Nigeria and her main goal is to shed light on the issues that Nigeria faces.
ABSTRACT: Politics, religion and societal norms are part of a peoples’ way of life. These entities provide a guideline of a society’s doctrines and manner in which that society is governed. Politics deliver the rules and regulations according to the government, religion provides rules and regulations according to the teachings and successions of God and Pastor for Christians, Allah and Prophet for Muslims. But in the case of Nigeria, the clashing of these entities, politics, religion and social norms has resulted in the creation of disagreement and imbalance in the Northeastern geography of the country. A false demonstration of Islamic belief called Boko Haram has implanted havoc in the country opposing all other existing norms and political governance in attempts to impose the widespread of Sharia Law, in the country. This is an ongoing issue and persisting fear in Northeastern Nigeria and surrounding countries therein.
