Public Administration and Local Government Research Papers/Topics

Police-Public Relation; A Case Study of Anambra State Police Command

ABSTRACT  It seems to be a reality of modern urban life that, from time to time, tensions can develop between law enforcement and community members or groups. Given this reality, it is worth doing some thinking about the best ways to prevent these tensions from developing in the first place, and of resolving them when they do. As for mutual understanding, the public is well aware that the average policeman's day can be stressful, but again, that is not excuse for being rude, obnoxious, and d...

Labour and Economic Reforms in Nigeria; Case Study of Federal Government Deregulation of Petroleum Prices (1999-2005)

ABSTRACT  The poor performance of Nigeria’s oil sector has affected the socioeconomic development of the country. This has made the government to formulate a deregulation policy to reform this ailing sector of the economy and to boost production and performance. However to understand the acceptability of this policy by organized labour, this study becomes very important. In this study three research questions were raised they include; why is government deregulating the petroleum sub-sector...

Democracy and the Politics of Resource Control in Bayelsa State

ABSTRACT  The Niger Delta question represents one of the most intractable sources of political destabilization, constitutes a profound threat to national security, and economic development of the Nigerian state. Therefore, the study of the intricate dynamics among multinational oil corporations, the Nigerian state, and insurgent militias illuminates the root causes, society schisms and the political economy of resource induced conflict in Africa’s major oil producing nation state. This cas...

Private Enterprises and Rural Development in Anambra State

ABSTRACT  This work centered on private enterprises and rural development in Anambra state. The objectives include: to ascertain the extent to which private enterprises have contributed to rural development in Anambra state; to find out the challenges facing private enterprises in rural development in Anambra state; to examine the measures to enhance participation of private enterprises in rural development in Anambra state.It is a survey type of research since it investigated what happened ...

Police-Public Relation A Case Study of Anambra State Police Command

ABSTRACT  It seems to be a reality of modern urban life that, from time to time, tensions can develop between law enforcement and community members or groups. Given this reality, it is worth doing some thinking about the best ways to prevent these tensions from developing in the first place, and of resolving them when they do. As for mutual understanding, the public is well aware that the average policeman's day can be stressful, but again, that is not excuse for being rude, obnoxious, and d...

Low Uptake of Constituency Development Fund among Small and Medium Enterprise(SMEs) in Kafue, Zambia

 The purpose of this study is to explore the low uptake of constituency development fund among small and medium enterprise(SMEs) in Kafue, Zambia. The data for this study will be obtained from face to face interviews with 50 respondents using semi- structured questionnaire in Kafue Constituency and focus group discussion. The method in this study sought to explore the low uptake of constituency development affecting the performance of SMEs and the study adopted a qualitative and employed a p...

Leadership and Public Policy Making Process in Nigeria. A Case Study of Chimaroke Nnamani Administration. (1999-2007)

Abstract  The study examined the impact of leadership on the public policy making process in Nigeria, using Enugu state as a case study. The study made use of primary and secondary data collection to gather information. In view of this it concluded by discovering that there is significant relationship between leadership style of Chimaroke and public policy process also discovered that unaccountable leadership encourages inefficient policy making in Enugu state. This study Recommends these tw...

An Evaluation of Staff Training and Development in the Kogi State College of Education (Technical), Kabba. (2010-2014)

ABSTRACT  The improvement in management sciences and technology, which demands complex skills, knowledge, and experience, has made Staff Training and Development a compulsory task. It is because of this trend that this work is being carried out in order to evaluation the training and development programmes in Nigeria public sector with special reference to Kogi State College of Education (Technical) Kabba, Kogi State. The research equally probes into the implementation and effectiveness of t...

The Prospects and Problems of Deregulation of the Nigerian Economy (A Case Study of the Telecommunication Industry)

ABSTRACT  The study investigated the prospects and problems of deregulation of the Nigerian Economy, using telecommunication as case study. The researcher was guided by three hypotheses which are drawn from the problem statements and objectives of the study. Related literature are reviewed in the study. The data are sourced from both the primary and secondary sources available. Data was also collected through the use of questionnaires that were drawn up to reflect the necessary details neede...

Globalization and Political Stability in Nigeria (1990 - 2010)

ABSTRACT  The study examined the effect of globalization on political stability in Nigeria between 1990 and 2010. It explained the concept of globalization as the integration of the nations of the world into a universal community in a way that engenders cooperation, complementarities and comparative advantage among states in such interaction. In other to carry out the study, we used both primary and secondary sources to generate data. From the data collected, the study concluded that in rela...

Politicization of Local Government Appointment and Service Delivery in Nigeria. A Study of Enugu State 2007-2014

ABSTRACT  The growing importance of administration can be traced back not only to changes in the volume, complexity and specialization of government, but to changes in the relationship between governmental organizations and their environment. The nexus between the local government and democratic governance has been keenly explored on intense academic debates. These debates have aimed at beaming attention on systems such as poor service delivery, lack of accountability, poor staffing and tota...

The Contribution of Electronic Banking to The Performance of Stanbic Bank: A Case Study of Stanbic Bank, Kampala Branch

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is the contribution of e-banking to the performance of stanbic Bank Kampala branch. The reason of this study is to examine the various services provided through e-banking at Stanbic bank, to determine the contribution of e-banking to the profitability of Stanbic bank Limited Kampala Branch, to establish the relationship between e-banking and financial performance of Stanbic Bank. In this study qualitative and quantitative descriptive research design and corr...

RECRUITMENT, SELECTION AND PLACEMENT IN PUBLIC SECTOR ESTABLISHMENTS IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, IDAH

ABSTRACT The research was necessitated by the need to examine the challenges of staff recruitment, selection and placement in Public sector establishments in Nigeria. Based on this, the researcher went into investigation with a view to discovering the effects of political and sociological factors on recruitment; their effects on effective service delivery; and to determine the remedial measures to ensure effective and efficient service delivery in the Institutions of higher learning. Three hy...