Abstract The study is a comparative study and sets out to investigate the nexus between political leadership and electoral stability in Ghana and Nigeria between 1999 and 2011. We interrogated the connect between the corrupt character of the political leadership in Nigeria and the viability of electoral institutions in Nigeria and Ghana; we examined how the failure of Nigeria’s political leadership to evolve strong electoral institution engendered electoral instability in Nigeria relative ...
ABSTRACT The paper examines NEPAD and poverty eradication programme in Nigeria. The programme is rolled-out to reduce the harsh economic effect of poverty in Nigeria. To be a benefactor of this programme, eligibility to its fund is predicated upon having undergone any of the skill training programmes as defines by the objective of NEPAD. Particularly, the paper interrogates whether NEPAD has achieved poverty eradication in Nigeria through skill acquisition programme. Also, the paper ascertai...
ABSTRACT The thrust of this work is the evaluation of the expropriation of Nigeria’s vital human resources through the brain drain and its implications for its overall development. Nigeria has been adjudged a top emigration country on account of the continuous efflux of its human resources to all parts of the world. Despite the lack of agreement about the exact migrant stock of Nigerians in the diaspora, Nigeria is listed among the top remittance receiving countries in the world. The impli...
ABSTRACT The collapse of the strategic oil relationship between the U.S and the Middle East suppliers brought the Gulf of Guinea and the Niger Delta into a high profile global energy partnership. The strategic shift had developed as a form of buffer or counter weight against the insecurity of supply in the Persian Gulf. This study, therefore explores the rise of the Gulf of Guinea and Niger Delta as strategic partners. It illustrates the character of strategic or resource – rich region and...
ABSTRACT This study reviewed the nature of the relationship that exists between the government of Enugu State and the organized labour in the state. We raised and explore the following questions: does inadequate fund prevent the government of Enugu State from meeting up with the workers demand and does internal leadership crisis impede the government of Enugu State from entering into a peaceful dialogue with the labour union in Enugu State. We adopted Marxist theory of the state to analyze h...
INTRODUCTION Background to the Study One of the bedrocks of the formation of modern state is to enhance the welfare of the citizenry. Government, as the foremost agent of the state, is saddled with the responsibility of transforming this noble goal into reality (Agbaje and Adebanwi, 2003). As a means of achieving this, public policies are formulated and implemented. The quality of public policy output, in its formulation and implementation, depends on a number of interacting and intervening...
ABSTRACT Most federations face the problem of accommodation, which mainly concerns the management of diverse competing interests within the system. There is paucity of studies that integrate issues of power sharing; revenue allocation and political restructuring that have militated against effective political accommodation in Nigeria’s federalism. The study examined how these contentious issues were managed within the period 1993-2007 towards achieving an effective and successful federal f...
Abstract The adverse effects of corruption on the development of various States have raised global concerns for its control leading to the adoption of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) in 2003. Kenya Anti-corruption Commission (KACC) and Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are the foremost anti-corruption agencies in both countries. There is paucity of comparative studies devoted to the evaluation of the nexus between the Convention and the stra...
ABSTRACT Economic Diplomacy(ED) is the management of international relations aimed at promoting exports and increasing access to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Nigeria has embarked on various policy reforms including bank recapitalization policy, privatization, anti-corruption campaign, and poverty alleviation. However, various studies on Nigeria’s ED had focused more on the process of its implementation rather than its outcomes. This study, therefore, investigated the outcomes of the ...
Abstract In die ~are 1825 tot 1855 is aan die Kaap betrek1ik veel geskrywe wat van 'n letterkundige aard kan beskou word. Die , / ,Nederdultsch Zuid-Af'rikaansch Tydschrif't was die 1etterkundige orgaar raar bydrae het in a1 die Nederlandse en self's ook in . " h_ ~}. r-., Engelse tydskrifte verskyn. Die nuusblaaie was destyds merendeels tweetalig, en was die organe vir die publikasie van letterkundige sowel as 10ernalistieke bydrae. Blaaie soos De Verzamelaar van de .Lima ~n Sam Sly's Journ...
Abstract Saul Solomon we.$ born 1n. 1817 and died in 1892. He was never a member of' the Legislative Council; so that his political career can be sti1d to have begun 1n 1854. when he ·.was returned to the first House of Assembly as one of the four members rapt-eaenting Capetown. Iie held his seat w1 th a break of only one year, 1n 18691 until 1883, whetl. illness compelled h1m to ttat1re. To my mind, prior to 1854, he was put an t.aniateu:r·' politician, using the word in no dep~eeiatory se...
Abstract In this thesis I have confined myself to the social and economic position of the I ndi ans i n Uatal , the cour se of IndoEuroP. ean rel ations , the attempts to solve f r iction - and t h eir effe cts up on t he Inda-European situa tion. I have touched onl y broadly on economic policy and its effects . I shoul d like to thank Professor H.R. Burrows , M.C., M. Com. , William Hudson Professor of Economics, Nat al Universit y College, for a l l his hel p . I am indebted to him fo r mos...
ABSTRACT This thesis examined the manpower development programmes and policies in the Anambra State Civil Service between 1996 and 2006, and their impact on the performance of civil servants in the state. The specific objectives of the study were: to find out whether manpower development programmes and policies in the Anambra State Civil Service led to professionalization of civil servants in the state, investigate the effect of political instability on manpower training and development in t...
ABSTRACT Local governments in Nigeria are established to bring governance closer to the grassroots and enhance development. However inadequate finance has undermined the ability of local governments to achieve these goals. This study, therefore, investigates the link between statelocal government joint account system and financial autonomy of local government with focus on Anaocha Local government council between 1999 and 2012. The study adopted the qualitative descriptive method while data ...
ABSTRACT The study examines the efforts of the female parliamentarians in promoting issues that border on women empowerment in Nigeria. Specifically however, the study investigated the attempts by the female legislators in initiating bills that enhance women empowerment in Nigeria since 1999. Utilizing the theory of substantive representation which upholds that representation of women through initiating of policies is not a function of numerical strength but what each individual legisla...