Abstract The Niger Delta – the geographical heart of oil production in Nigeria has been a breeding ground for militants for some years now. This is because the discovery of oil and its exploitation has ushered in a miserable, undisciplined, decrepit, and corrupt form of ‘petro-capitalism’ which produces conflict accelerating factors. Devastated by the ecological costs of oil spillage and underdevelopment, the Niger Delta has become a centre of violence. In an attempt to solve the Niger ...
ABSTRACT The study is a comparative analysis of SAP and NEEDS in economic planning and management in Nigeria. It seeks to understand if there is any relationship between SAD and NEED in economic planning and management and the prospect that NEEDS will succeed were SAP failed. Documentary data sources of textbooks, journals, newspapers and magazines among other secondary sources were used extensively in the study. Anchoring analysis on the depending theory, the study noted that NEEDS is an oil...
ABSTRACT This study evaluated manpower training and utilization in Nsukka local government area, Enugu State, 2009-2015.The objectives of the study are: to determine whether manpower training has translated to infrastructural development in Nsukka local government area and to examine whether inappropriate placement of trained staff undermine the level of infrastructural development in Nsukka local government area. The study used both the quantitative and qualitative methods for data collectio...
Abstract The State as a political entity is confronted with several crosscutting challenges that often times transcend formation boundaries the post-Formation emergent contradictions, complexities and paradoxes are usually adequately amplified by political power relationships. This is even more so in multicultural States where the logic of standard majoritarian democratic philosophy, a la ancient Greece, has failed many times. This thesis is about devising structures and institutions suitable...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the contributions of Multi-national oil companies in Nigeria to indigenous human capital development in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria between 1993 and 2002. Interest on this contemporary issue emerged as a result of complaints by indigenes of Host Communities of Multi-national oil companies in Niger Delta Region in Nigeria. They complained of not being equipped with relevant skills for employment or self-employment. To address this research problem, the study out...
ABSTRACT The issue of public service performance and productivity whereby public officials are required to provide the public with the best service possible is a major challenge for the modern civil service. The Nigerian federal civil service which has grown bulky in the last decade after Independence faces the problem of utilizing its manpower to meet public demand for increasingly better service. The general motion still persists that government staff work less and that the services they re...
ABSTRACT Nigerian leaders since independence in 1960 have proclaimed adherence to the universal convention of predicating the foreign policy of the country on the domestic policies which should emphasize citizens‟ welfare and good governance. With the inception of globalization that has integrated the various countries of the world reducing their distinctiveness over the last three decades, Nigeria‟s foreign policy has transformed but this has not been sufficiently addressed by scholarly...
ABSTRACT In contemporary scholarship, the discourse on local government system has shifted from the debate on the requisite level of autonomy for local government administration, to the more topical issue of the impact of the local government system on grassroots development. Whereas scholars are agreed on the import of local government in any form of governmental contraption, however, there are divergent views on the extent of the role of the local government system in community development...
ABSTRACT The potentials of local government as basis for development, as a structural/institutional apparatus for political and administrative decentralisation and social services delivery, and as a bedrock for a solid political system through making governance relevant at grassroots level are now becoming widely acceptable among policy makers and researchers in Nigeria. Similarly, the arguments for a shift of emphasis from law and order oriented local government to cne coping with social ser...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at unveiling the challenges that have been faced by Zimbabwe in the 21st century. This study mainly focuses on the challenges that have had a negative impact to peace and in some instances reconciliation. The research branched out the challenges into economic, social and political categories so as to create a proper path of how they affect peace. In other sections of this research the dimensions of the categories shape shift into two distinct parallels which are e...
ABSTRACT Motivation is crucial for organizations to function; without motivation employees will not put up their best and the organisations performance would be less efficient. The situation is even more serious in developing countries where working conditions are unattractive. It is in view of this that this study was conducted to assess the role of motivation on employee performance in parastatals: a case study of the rural electrification agency. The case-study approach was adopted for the...
ABSTRACT The adoption of the Economic Structural Adjustments Programs in Zimbabwe from 1991 to 1995 has provoked a debate both internally and internationally as to what extent have they hindered or promoted the democratization process in Zimbabwe. Although the programs ended in the year 1995, their effects continue be felt in all the sectors of life up to date. The study examined how the programs were adopted and their impact on the democratization process and gave recommendations on recovery...
ABSTRACT The year 2000 marked the rise of a formidable opposition political party MDC to challenge ZANU PF monopoly in the Harare city council as a result subsequent years becomes theatre for a humiliating electoral defeat of ZANU PF. Harare City Council was turned into a political battle field as ZANU PF intensified partisan politics in the Administration of the local authorities to survive the democratic storm using all means at their disposable which has led to the detriment of the City Co...
ABSTRACT This study was aimed at assessing the impact of training and development of staff efficiency and service delivery in urban municipalities with specific reference towards CM from 2013 to 2016. The study utilised a mixed method approach encompassing both qualitative and quantitative data analysis with a case study design. The sample study was selected from the employees within Chitungwiza using stratified random sampling as well as judgemental sampling. The research study utilised both...
Abstract The environment within which social dialogue operates is shaped by a number of factors, most of which are economic, social, political, environmental and legal. The economic, social and political developments in Zimbabwe from 2008, and 2014 posed various challenges to the economy of the country. In an attempt to find solutions to the challenges affecting the country, policy makers pursued various avenues, including social dialogue. Against this background, it was of interest to ascert...