This research study examines the implications of India's involvement in global climate change debates on the dynamics of international relations and the reciprocal consequences of India's involvement on the evolving field of international relations.
Gun violence poses a significant challenge in the modern world. Gun-related violence refers to criminal acts perpetrated using small weapons or rifles. The proliferation of firearms has been implicated in the escalation of criminal activities as well as the perpetration of violence and loss of life on a global scale. The phenomenon under consideration has reached an endemic state, resulting in a higher mortality rate compared to HIV and other global diseases. Furthermore, there has been a not...
Abstract This study vividly examine the effects of ethnicity on quota system or federal character for the main purpose of recruiting and promotion in the Nigerian military. Quota system was first adopted in the provision of 1979 constitution (second republic) for the appointment and promotion of officers in the Nigeria military to forth republican constitution of 1999. Some of the findings in this study is that federal character principle has not fully achieved its main purpose unable to ...
Abstract The study explore ethnic conflict: a conceptual framework of rational choice theory on the nature of conflict and war. The different occurrence of events in ethnic conflicts are based on the rational choice of an individual on private gain on the nature of conflict and war. However, the study focus attention on critical analysis of misunderstanding why an individuals joined rebellion and cause prolong conflict and war in a state. The study relies on secondary source of data colle...
AbstractThe existence of government is to deliver social services that will make life meaningful and worth living. Local governments as a tier of governments are created to bring government closer to the people at the grass root and for transformation of lives at that level. One of the ways of bringing government closer to the people at the grassroots is through the delivery of social infrastructural, educational and welfare services in a satisfactory, timely, effective and adequate manner. T...
Africa is democratizing but the democratization occurring in Africa does not appear to be in the least emancipatory. On the contrary, it is legitimizing the disempowerment of ordinary people who seem to be worse off than they used to be because their political oppression is no longer perceived as a problem inviting solution, but a solution endowed with moral and political legitimacy.
Abstract: Human rights violation has been endemic in Nigeria despite its ratification of the United Nations’ Universal Human Rights (1948) - rights equally enshrined in 1999 Nigerian constitution. This study examined the militarization of Nigerian politics and its adverse effect on the United Nations Universal Human Rights in Nigeria. The paper is descriptive and qualitative in typology. Metho...
Abstract: Informality is pervasive in Tanzania’s rural waterscape, but not acknowledged by development partners(donors and beneficiaries), despite persistent warnings by development scholars. Informality is thus the proverbial elephant in the room. In this paper, we examine a case of superior rural water access in two geographical locales—Hai and Siha districts—in Tanzania, where actors not only acknowledge, but actively harness informality to provide access to water to rural population...
The focus of this study was to review the performance of MTEF and notice the change that was brought about by MTEF since the commencement of its implementation. The study examined the effectiveness of the budget reform process, the current process whether the Namibian fiscal policy did achieve the micro and fiscal policy goals. Given that Namibia has implemented a homemade MTEF in Africa, the paper examines whether Namibia MTEF's is different from those MTEF initiatives. The study analysed th...
Many women especially in Liberia and other developing countries when asked if they would consider entering politics, i.e., consider becoming a candidate for an elective position in public office or appointed to a decision-making position in government, answer in the negative. Foremost among their reasons is that politics is reputed to be dirty, where methods employed include the illegal and the unethical to win in elections and assume power, and where the corruption of public service for pe...
ABSTRACT Studies on the transition from dictatorship to democracy often argue that democracy provides a great opportunity for the advancement of women‟s political participation. This is premised on the equal participatory opportunity that democracy offers to all adult citizens. However, the extent to which this is borne empirically is yet to be established. This study, therefore, examined the extent to which the Nigerian state, under President Obasanjo, enhanced women political participati...
Abstract This paper analyses the use of social media for political mobilisation and communication during the 2015 General Elections in Nigeria. Its aim is to describe the structure and context of information dissemination and communication among political actors, agents and the electorate during this period. It argues that the widespread use of social media was due to the evolving technological architecture of the Internet as well as the ready supply of human technical competencies and appeti...
Abstract This paper contributes to the debate on the limited efficacy of civil society in Africa. It examines the complex interface between notions of civil society and citizenship within the context of the postcolonial state in Africa. It argues that the bifurcated character of citizenship is implicated in the inefficacy of civil society. This is underlined by the limited achievements in social citizenship, aggravated by the economic crisis and neoliberal reforms of the 1980s and 1990s as w...
The security situation in Nigeria at the moment has deteriorated at a geometric rate. This paints a very ugly writing on the wall and thus elicited very fundamental questions: is the heightened insecurity political or is it a function of a failed state? ...
Abstract This work studies the intellectuals in Nigeria and their roles in the policy process. After a careful identification of the roles which have been played by Nigeria’s intellectuals since Nigeria’s independence, the paper adopts the belief system framework of public policy analysis together with three ideological categorization of individual personalities. It provides a theoretical cum ideological explanation for the different roles played by these intellectuals in different areas...