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 The study set out to establish why there seemed to be contrasting discourses emanating from The Herald and Newsday’s framing of a proposed opposition alliance prior to the 31 July 2013 elections. While polarisation of the media in Zimbabwe had been documented before, the period in which this study takes place was unique in that the country was in a dispensation of a government of national unity (GNU). The previous polarised environment was expected to have been corrected or at leas...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on political reporting and electoral violence in Nigeria from 1999-2011. The study notes that crisis has become a regular characteristic feature of virtually all the post-independent elections in Nigeria to the extent that academics across disciplines have concluded that since independence on October 1, 1960, the electioneering process in Nigeria has been an experience of tears, blood and sorrow, (Akinboye, 2009; Akinfeleye, 2004; Olurode, 2011; Ologbenla, 2003; Og...
Abstarct There is increased awareness in recent times of the urgent need to improve valuers‟ methodology and practice along national, regional and international boundaries. This is informed by the growing demand on the side of investors who can no longer accommodate unreliable valuation advice, and instead are requiring sophisticated investment guidance (Gilbertson & Preston, 2005; Ogunba & Ajayi, 2007). This buttresses the strategic relevance of valuation in modern investment decision of...
ABSTRACT The study of the Role of the Print Media in Political Stability in Nigeria (1993 – 1998) was galvanized by the fact that since the end of the civil war in Nigeria in 1970, there was no time the issue of political stability suffered a set back like during Abacha era. While NADECO and other pro – democracy groups were struggling against the regime, government on the other hand was arresting people. The era showed a contrasting trend that needed to be examined. It now became interes...
ABSTRACT Good governance, with respect to how organisations or states are managed has assumed a prominent position in the private and public domains (Abdellatif, 2003; Mbao and Komboni, 2008; Owojori, Akintoye and Adidu, 2009). A review of literature suggests that good governance is very key to tax compliance (Maffry, 1997; Carstens, 2005; Ribadu, 2006; Friedman, 2009; Iwuagwu, 2009; Lu, Huang and Lo, 2010). According to Graham and Bruhn (2009), the decision to impose taxes is not based simp...
ABSTRACT This research studied the impact of regional and international peacekeeping operations on intra-state conflict. It especially studied the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations in the resolution of the Liberian conflict of 1989-2003, and the Sierra Leonean conflict of 1991-1999. The research is carried out using the Case Study Design which involves the detailed examination of a single phenomenon at a time. Case studies thus enable a comprehensive un...
Abstract Following the 1980 Berg Report, and the injection of “political conditionalities” by the Bretton Woods Institutions (BWI), in particular the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) in their financial relationships with the developing countries, the intellectual issue of how best to attract and stimulate foreign direct investments (FDI) became subsumed within the great debate ignited by the famous Report. As the debate raged on, there was the lack of specific foc...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the challenges of proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) to peace-building in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The study provides a critical analysis of the nature of warfare in Africa with the use of small arms and light weapons and child soldiers. It is a discourse of post-conflict peace-building as it assesses the various measures adopted in Liberia and Sierra Leone. It argues that continual availability of SALW in these countries poses a great threat...
ABSTRACT This exploratory study looks at statelessness in Namibia, focusing on citizenship as a legal status. The study uses the theory of politics of citizenship to assess how the issue of statelessness fits into citizenship discourse in Namibian. It defines the problems presented by statelessness and highlights the urgency of addressing it. The study draws upon qualitative data like documentary analyses, books, journals and semi-structured interviews. Despite provisions on protection agains...
ABSTRACT The conduct of periodic free and fair elections is gradually becoming the norm rather than the exception in most developing parts of the world including Africa and Ghana. Ghana’s successful conduct of seven multiparty democratic elections resulting in three alternations of power has surpassed the two-turn over test espoused by Huntington. This has also recognised the country as a democratic torchbearer on the continent. In all these elections, the role of the media has been very p...
The role of Parliament in the policy making in Ghana has been found to be limited as the institution has suffered from the unstable political environment within which it operated especially from independence in 1957 to 1992. The lack of consistency and continuity of democratic governance undermined Parliament's ability to be properly institutionalized and benefit from path dependency.
bstract The colonial regime left Namibia with a fragmented education system characterised by factors such as racial and ethnic divisions, unequal access to education, unqualified and under-qualified teachers and lack of proper schools facilities and poor performance. After independence, the Government made a commitment to reform the education system. An education policy ‘Toward Education for All’ was put in place to guide the education reform process. As a result, the education sector rec...
ABSTRACT The Ghanaian state was ushered into multi-party democratic governance in 1992. Unlike its predecessors, the 1992 Constitution of Ghana which shepherded the democratic transition has so far survived seven successive competitive elections and three turnovers of power from one democratically elected government to another, surpassing Huntington’s “two turnover test” the criterion for democratic consolidation. However, fiscal policy management by successive elected governments sin...