The Emergence of Okada Business and its Impact in Lafia Metropolis of Nasarawa State, Nigeria

The emergence of Okada business in Lafia Metropolis has a wider significance effect both positive and negative which resulted to the revenue generation and high rate of accident in Lafia Metropolis. The aim of this research is to look at how Okada business contributed immensely for the alleviation of poverty in Lafia Metropolis, and to suggest on how this business will be improved due to its significance role in the economy development of Lafia Metropolis and by extension Nasarawa state at large. In the course of this research, the study sort to trace the motivating factors behind the emergence of Okada business in Lafia Metropolitan. However, we were able to realize that the emergence of Okada was as a result of high rate of unemployment, poverty, untimely payment of salary, increase in numbers of graduate without absorption and bad state of the road within the Lafia Metropolis prompt many to venture into the business to enable them to earn a living. We have come to the conclusion that, large numbers of youth in Lafia prefer themselves in the business of Okada than to learn any other hand-work which by observation, the local industries will be dislocated. The methodology used in carrying out this research is both oral sources and the secondary sources and they gave me the clear picture of the Okada business in Lafia Metropolis.