POLITICAL SCIENCE TOPICS

Background to the Study

Nigeria’s federal legislative body, the National Assembly, consists of two Chambers—the House of Representatives and the Senate. All members of the National Assembly are elected directly for a tenure of four years. Although, as the consequence of being a former British colony, Nigeria started out with a Parliamentary System of government at independence in 1960. It switched to a Preside...

Background to the Study

The aim of this research is to critically examine, assess and evaluate bureaucracy and service delivery in the National Assembly (A Case study of Senate Directorate from 2015-2019) the National Assembly Senate Directorate (Bureaucracy) in the delivery of efficient and effective services to the Senators of the Eight Senate.

The National Assembly is the law making arm of the government of Nigeria. Section 4 (1)(2)(3) of the 1999 cons...

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Political power is sought or maintained through electoral processes. An election is essential to democratic transition and consolidation in a competitive political environment. As a result, if elections are not properly structured and managed, they can lead to conflict and violence (Ongoya & Willis, 2012). It is frequently managed through the enactment of enabling legislation. According to Ismai'al and Othman (2015), democratic gover...

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Democracy is by far the most popular form of government in the world today (Anifowose & Enemuo, 1999; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, FES, 2008). It is also a concept that is often misconstrued, misapplied or misused (Ajaegbo, 2014). On this note, Ajaegbo argued that defining democracy has proved elusive and this explains why the concept has no generally accepted definition. Therefore, the definitions that abound cuts across cultures and contin...

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The Mace is believed and admitted to be the symbol of authority of the National Assembly and in other parts of the world as well. It plays a significant role in the parliamentary chamber. This is because in the absence of the Mace there would be no practice in the parliament. The Mace is as important as the legislators. When the legislators are in the chamber ready for the day’s activities, the first thing they look up for is the presi...

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Budgets affect all of us. As citizens, we depend on the state to provide crucial services and infrastructure, which depend on the way government raises revenue and allocates money to meet these various competing and sometimes conflicting needs;(Wehner,2004).Budget is one of the most important economic tools of a government and provides comprehensive statement of the priorities of a nation. Governments are large and complex institutions and t...

Introduction

Eric Hoffer once noted that, “there are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith; a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, bias for simple solutions – to cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power” (Nigerian Tribune, Monday...

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Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are enormously important players in international development. They provide development services and humanitarian relief, innovate in service delivery, build local capacity and advocate with and for the poor. Acting alone, however, their impact on policy is limited in scope, scale and sustainability. CSOs need to engage in policy processes more effectively. Despite more open and accessible policy contexts, C...

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The parliament or legislature is a prominent institution in a democratic government and is composed of elected representatives of the populace. Thus, it occupies a special position in contemporary democracy. The ancient Roman Republic which existed between 509 BC - 27 BC is recognized by scholars as the first government in the western world to have a representative government (PLAC 2016). Hence, “modern-day legislatures were inspired by...

Background to the Study

The legislature is an assembly of the representatives of the people elected under a legal framework to make laws for the good of society. According to Okoosi-Simbine (2010), the legislature represents the institution that makes laws for a nation by fashioning the collective will of the people into the instrument of law. The legislature controls through legislation all economic, social, and political activities of the nation.1 It also scrutini...

Background to the study

The legislature is considered one of the most basic structures in any political system. Hence, Abegunde (2016) noted that the legislative arm of government performs three functions which included legislative, representative, and oversight. Explaining, Woodley, Sahgal, and Stapenhurst (2004) observed that members of the legislature carry out their duties as representatives of the people. They represent the people's will and are the source...

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The Legislature is an important organ of a country which balances the power of the Executive and the Judiciary in the exercise of authority. It is one of the central institutions of democracy and it determines the extent to which government is responsive to citizens (Manona, 2016). The mandate of the National Assembly is achieved through passing legislation, overseeing government action, and representing constituencies and citizens in the aff...

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The legal Framework establishing a Parliamentary Administration is an integral part of Public Service Bureaucracy of the Legislature and a window to understanding how it is governed. In jurisdictions that develop a Parliamentary Service Act (PSA), an autonomous and independent Commission is commonly established to superintend over human resource matters in line with the principles of separation of powers. The composition of the governing body...

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The general purpose of law is to regulate human behavior by protecting lives and properties in the society.  Human behavior is the potential and expressed capacity of individuals or groups in response to stimuli. It is the sum total of the overt and covert expression of human intention. Understanding of the psychology of human behavior, that is to say, a study of the science of human behavior, is paramount for human behavior...

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Committee clerks are special set of personnel among civil and public servants working for various government ministries, departments, agencies/parastatals (MDAs). This is because they work to provide support services to the Parliament. Parliament provides unique role as an arm of the government through formulation of new laws and amendment of the existing ones. Wikipedia (2019) stated that in modern politics and history, a parliament is a leg...

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The doctrine of separation of power entails the divisions of power among the different organs of government namely, the legislature, executive and judiciary. The legislature is the body responsible for making laws, the Executive executes and implements while the judiciary interprets the laws. In the course of interpreting laws made by the legislature, the courts use various aids to interpretation in other to arrive at the intention of the leg...

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The authority and power of the National assembly and state legislatures to conduct oversight is conferred by the 1999 Constitution (as amended), and the statutes and standing rules of the legislatures at the national and state levels. Furthermore, the authority given to the statutory bodies to conduct or respond to oversight functions requires that reports are submitted to the National Assembly or State legislature through the relevant commit...

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Government budget refers to a country’s financial plan encompassing revenue and expenditure over a period of one year. It therefore, provides important government revenue sources and items on which such revenues would be spent within a specific period, usually one year. This entails that budget outlines government policies, strategies and fiscal implications of public programs over the financial year while simultaneously setting aside r...

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A cardinal principle on which democracy rests is popular mandate. It is the basis of representative democracy practiced all over the world. Popular mandate presupposes the unrestrained participation of the relevant community in the affairs of the community especially in the choice of those to carry out those affairs on behalf of the rest of the community members. The tool of election is one way, if not the only means of actualizing popular ma...

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Bureaucracy is a major organizational structure within which policymaking, implementation, and evaluation take place. So vital is the concept (especially in developing countries, where governments are faced with numerous problems and challenges, resulting from the ever-increasing range of activities undertaken by the modern governments) that it not only stands out as the major machinery of government for the formulation and implementation of...

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The European Union’s relationship with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries can be traced back to the treaty of Rome and specifically the Georgetown agreement on the organization of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific groups of states of 1975 (Matteo, 2020). According to Matteo (2020), Africa is a well-known European Union’s trade partner of choice. Therefore, after the African States gained independence, the Europe...

Background of the study

In almost all known forms of government in the world, especially under the Presidential System, the legislature is an indispensable arm of government because of its centrality as a symbol of popular representation and watchdog role on both the Executive and the Judiciary. The Legislature performs three core functions in any democracy especially in Presidential systems. These roles are law making, oversight and representation. I...

Background to the Study

The parliament or legislature is one of the organs of government empowered with checking the activities and actions of the executive organ of government because governance begins with lawmaking which is its responsibility. This duty of the legislature is called parliamentary or legislative oversight over the executive which implies parliamentary supervision of executive actions. Legislative oversight helps to entrench an effective and product...

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It is imperative to underscore the fact that the recurring issue of inconclusive election is becoming frequent ubiquitous in the conduct of elections in Nigeria and, a formidable challenge in Nigeria’s electoral system, this therefore lends this subject as particularly fertile for exploration, within the context of the programme. The rationale for choosing Osun State as a case study for analysis and to interrogate the concept in Osun ar...

Background to the Study

In Nigeria, since the return of democratic governance in 1999, and after over a decade of military interregnum, relations between the legislative and executive arms of government have raised serious concerns for observers. At best the relationship between the two arms of government has been the case of the old tale of an unholy alliance of strange bedfellows. (Momoh, 2020) Today, circumstances of our democratic or even political life is awash...

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Democracy is a process of self-government in which citizens operate in their environment directly and indirectly as they make decisions for themselves, pursue careers, enters into relationships with others, and otherwise live their life and indirectly through political representative accountable to them (Appadorai, 1975; Mbachu,, 2009). It is a system of government that made possible a centralized decision making and rule setting in matters t...

Background to the Study

Government budget refers to a country’s financial plan encompassing revenue and expenditure over a period of one year. It therefore, provides important government revenue sources and items on which such revenues would be spent within a specific period, usual...

ABSTRACT

Since 2009, the Boko-Haram insurgency became deadly and extremely violent particularly in the three north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. Other states which were also significantly affected by the Boko-Haram insurgency include: Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna and the Federal Capital Territory. Jigawa state which shares borders with Kano, Bauchi and Yobe states was however relatively insulated from the Boko Haram insurgency. This study therefore examined how and why Jigawa s...

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Agriculture is the bedrock and fundamental pre-condition for economic growth of any country. The multidimensional contributions of the sector to the Nigerian economy cannot be overemphasized, but the percentage contribution of the sector has fallen drastically since the discovery of oil in commercial quantity. Several agricultural development policies and programmes have been implemented in Nigeria from independence to date, albeit with little result in terms of self-suffic...

Statement of Problem

The United Nations declared 1996, the international year of eradication of poverty and 1997 to 2006, decade of poverty eradication. The year of achieving Millennium Development Goal was also set for 2015. In pursuance of these targets, governments in both developed and developing countries became increasingly aware of poverty problems and several development efforts to alleviate poverty were embarked upon world-wide. Unfortunately, the issue of poverty eradicati...

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In recent times, the idea of food security has undergone transformation from the perspective of having adequate available food at national level to the ability of nations to ensure that people have adequate access to nutritious and healthy food at all times at the household level. This transformation has invoked a global concern that calls for the need to evolve strategies for either minimizing or possibly eliminating the obstacles against the universal realization of food...

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This study is an assessment of the impact of the present power transition in the international system and the implication it portends for Nigeria foreign policy formulation and implementation. The study is conducted against the backdrop of Nigeria‘s hitherto non-aligned foreign policy position and the challenges inherent in such stance with the collapse of bipolarity. Power theory in international relations is adopted as the theoretical framework of this study; the ar...

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This study is an assessment of the Impact of Democratic Rule on Socio-Economic Development in Kogi East Senatorial District, from 1999 to 2012. This is predicated upon the assumption that democratic rule advance or foster socio-economic development and also, based on the belief that Nigeria, having returned to democratic rule in 1999, opened a new chapter to write a new history in developmental issues, it becomes empirical to assess the effects of democratic rule on socio-e...

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The study examines the effects of Buhari’s Loss on 2011 Post-presidential Election Violence. In Nigeria the urge to vote is often influenced by party, ideology, religion or even ethnicity but also personality of the contestant do influences voting especially during 2011 presidential election in the Katsina state. Electorates elect candidate perceived to be honest, Courageous, tested and trusted as well as a man of integrity and action. Unfortunately because of the adu...

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The objective of this study is to determine the relationship between ethnicity and voting behavior and the extent to which the former influence the latter among Kogi state electorate. The survey research was used in the work alongside the use of questionnaire in establishing the relationship. In addition,the state‟s 2008 and 2011 gubernatorial election results were analysed using tables and charts. The study administered 156copies of questionnaire in three randomly selected...

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This study examines the effects of political defection on democratic governance in Jigawa State. Political defection has manifested itself in the State inthe form of frequent political decamping, existence of political moles that belonged to the ruling party while operating in the opposition political parties and anti-party politics among political parties and the electorate. In fact, some opposition political parties are being sponsored and sustained by the ruling party. T...

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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 outco...

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This study assessed the role as well as the strategies of political mobilization employed by the Peoples‟ Democratic Party (PDP) which accounted for its electoral victories in Bida Emirate in Niger state between 2011 and 2015. The study was carried out to generate requisite empirical data on the nexus between political mobilization by the PDP and how it influenced political participation of citizens at that level which led to its electoral victory ward as well as local gove...

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This study examines the role of non-governmental organization in tackling poverty through women economic empowerment with particular reference to Women Farmers Advancement Network of Nigeria (WOFAN). A sample of 291 women was drawn from the beneficiaries of (WOFAN) in Kano state. Cluster sampling was used to determine the sample size from each local government selected from the three senatorial districts. The data was analyzed to test the three propositions of the study usi...

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This study examines the role being played by the National Council of Women Societies in empowering women in Kaduna South Local Government Area of Kaduna State. There is a consensus amongst scholars of development studies that abject poverty is rampant among women at the grassroots level of developing countries. Government and non-governmental organizations have attempted and are still trying to alleviate poverty among women through various empowerment programmes. This study...

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Unemployment’s problem affects youths from a broad spectrum of socio-economic backgrounds, both educated and less educated. The symptoms of unemployment manifested in all sphere of live such as armed robbery, prostitution, poverty among others. The general belief is that unemployment among youths is a reality, and unemployed youths have become a threat to lives and properties even within families. This study assesses the role of State in addressing unemployment, an as...

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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 gre...

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This study evaluates United Nations Development Programme assistance for the promotion of democratic norm in Nigeria (2003 to 2015) in order to determine its impact on voter registration and confidence in the Election Management Body (EMB), as well as in law making, legislative oversight functions and legislative constituency representation functions of National Assembly. These five items are indicators of democratic norm subset in electoral administration and the legislati...

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Middle powers are nations that have considerable influence in global affairs. These countries usually take a multilateral approach to solving international problems. Therefore, middle powers identify important transnational issues and mobilize other countries to tackle them. But middle powers must be countries with substantial power constituents – large economy and population, and strong military force. This study examined the medium power role of Nigeria in the globa...

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The European Union (EU) and other international donors have been involved in the promotion of election administration in Nigeria since the country returned to civil rule in 1999. This research examines the contributions of the EU to Nigeria‘s democracy concerning election administration so as to ascertain the extent to which their contributions have impacted on the quality of elections in the country‘s democratic development. This work was guided by the followin...

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This study evaluates African Union -United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) from 2007-2016; with a view to determining how it has contributed to the establishment of enduring peace and security in Darfur. The study is conducted against the backdrop of the fact that most United Nations (UN) Peace Support Operations(PSO) in Africa have not adequately enhanced African security; supposedly arising from their inability to address the root causes of such conflicts and...

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Terrorism constitute serious threats to Nigeria‘s security, affecting not only Nigeria‘s sovereignty, law and order, but also creating deep fear and socio-economic suffering amongst citizens. Recently, Nigeria is faced with Boko Haram Terrorism, particularly in North Eastern part of the country. The impacts of terrorism on the socio-economic activities of any society cannot be over-emphasized. Terror attacks or mere threats of terrorism can have so much socio-ec...

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The study examines and conceptualizes accumulation in the context of Nigeria‟s neocolonial state. It investigates the nature of accumulation in Nigeria and, the role of the state and social classes in the accumulation process; the implication of the hegemony of foreign capital and transnational accumulation for the development of underdevelopment in Nigeria; the impact of the state-capital model of primitive accumulation on the crisis and contradictions of capitalist underd...

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This study or research on women empowerment in Nigerian politics is divided into five (5) chapters. The first chapter is on the topic that deals with the introductory part of the study by providing a comprehensive historical background to the study, identifying the major problems, grapples with the review of relevant literatures and the methodological issues involved in the research process. Chapter two (2) highlights the relationship between politics and women participatio...

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Boko Haram figuratively implies that western for nonIslamic education is a sin, is a very controversial Nigeria militant group that seeks for the imposition of sharia law in the entire northern states of Nigeria. The hierarchical structure of the group is not presently well defined. The official name of the group id jamaiatu Ahlis sunna lidda ―awai waljihad, which in Arabic translate to ―people committed to the propagation of the prophet‘s teaching and jhad‖ literally...

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This research work that analysis on the impact of public opinion on public policy in Nigeria from 2010-2012 while narrowing it down to the economic policy of deregulation or fuel subsidy removal of 2012. Broadly divided into five chapters, the work breakdown how governmental decisions are being influenced by the opinions of the people in the democracy of Nigeria. History had it that before the discovery of oil, agriculture gave Nigeria about 70% of her income until now oil...

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The civil society and civil society organizations, have sacrificed their existence, goals and objectives to the course of the fight towards sociopolitical development in Nigeria. To this effect, they have made relentless effort and provoking arrangements, to ensure that the goals and objectives for which they are set up are achieved to a considerable extent. Hence in the course of their activity towards achieving this goal, they discovered that there are lots of factors und...

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There is a profound paradox about the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria. The party, which earned the respect and admiration of most Nigerians, in the period between 1999-2007 due to its politics and policies. This work based on direct study and use of secondary data examines the role of the PDP in governance in the period (1999-2007). The work revealed that the PDP government has grossly been disappointing in its performance in the management of the affairs of the N...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Today, we are witnesses to sweeping changes that are taking place in the economies of both developed and developing countries. These changes relate to efforts to move away from government ownership, control or participation in the economy towards free enterprise and increased operation of market forces. On the whole, the changes ar3e making for the reduction in the role of government in the economy with a corresponding expansion in private sector ownership co...

Background of the study

Terrorism according to lodge is an illegitimate means of attempting to effect political change by the indiscriminate use of violence (Lodge 1988:5). Also Madunagu (2001:51) maintains that terrorism is “the use of violence to achieve political objectives”. The bottom line of the above definitions is that terrorism is an aspect of political violence. Since September 11, 2001, multiple attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Ce...

Background of the Study

Many people when they hear or read about the word poverty will automatically think and look at poverty as being simply a lack of money. This is partly true but for a better understanding of poverty it is necessary to go beyond this simple or common sense, definition of poverty. Poverty is much more than a simple lack of money. For example, if you were stranded on a desert island and you had several thousand dollars or pounds in cash, while th...

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Over the years, Nigeria was experienced series of attacks, agitations, restiveness and blests ranging from diverse regions and localities. References are; hostage thing in the south-south region, the Niger Delta militancy crisis, the Boko Haram crisis in Northern Nigeria (which is the case study of this research work) etc. most restiveness of youths has often been done under the puise of a ring or body, this makes their operational activities fast and broader. All these gro...

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This research is geared towards assessing the role of National Population Commission in economic development as well as to investigate the effect of population growth on Nigeria’s development. Specifically, it examined the indices of economic development in Nigeria, interrogated the relationship between population growth and economic development as well as investigated the role of NPC in promoting economic development in Nigeria. The theoretical framework that is used...

Background of the Study

The development of political parties in Nigeria dates back to the days of the struggle for political independent in the late 1940s, when the nationalists were at the pre-independence and post-independence periods. In the preindependence and the early post independence periods, political parties in Nigeria were not ideologically based. Rather, they were regionally based and woven around individual politicians who they saw as their mentors. In...

Background of the Study

Federalism, according to K.C Wheare, is the method of dividing powers so that the central and regional governments are each, within a sphere, coordinate and independent. He said that the characteristics of this Federal Principle are the division of powers among levels of government, a written constitution showing this division of powers and co-ordinate not subordinate supremacy of the two levels of government with respect to their functions (...

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This study analyzes military rule and the political transition to democracy in Nigeria. It enquires into how military intervenes in the Nigerian politics in the recent time. The study also examines how corruption induces military intervention in Nigerian politics due to the embezzlement of public funds by our political leaders as well as mismanagement of government properties. This study looks at the major challenges in Nigeria‟s transition to democratic rule so as to estab...

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One of the major impediments to development in Nigeria is labour unrest. This is given the fact that no Nation can develop without human resource because they constitute and play very significant role in Nation building and development. The Nigerian case has been so pervasive that labour unrest extends to every situation when the Government takes major public policy decision that seems to affect the labour union and generally the masses without due consultation of labour st...

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Intergovernmental relations is associated with states having a federal administrative system where the relationship between the federal, central or national government and major subnational units (province, region or state) are formally spelt out in the constitution. This seek to promote peace and harmony among the levels of government which are the federal, state and local government, to enhance the emergence of cooperative rather than competitive federation and to solve t...

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Nigeria is one of the countries where human right abuses are recorded daily and virtually in all human endeavors and these human right violation are mostly found in torture, extrajudicial killings by government security operatives, kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention and extortion etc. The study reviewed relevant related literature and adopted social conflict theory by Karl Marx as it's theoretical framework while it's methods of research were primary...

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The Civil Service as the machinery of Government performs the unique role of governance and National development as such government everywhere in the world have come to terms with the need to train and re-train it’s human resource for them to be better equipped to maximize productivity levels and meet the challenges of governance and management. This work makes use of the system theory as the theoretical framework and data gathered from secondary sources. My chapter o...

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Nigeria is one of African countries that have the lowest number of women in political participation and governance even though women make up half of the population of 140 million, according to the 2016, census and Nigeria adopted the United Nations’ 1985 Beijing Platform for Action and several other gender policies in order to narrow the gap between male and female in all spheres of life. Thus this research focused on gender imbalance in political participation and go...

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The problem of federalism and the associated crises of national integration in Nigeria raise serious alarm. The situation attracts growing interest and concern. The crises are very severing such that they culminate in a strong force being mounted on the federation with tendency to disintegrate the country. The works addresses this phenomenon by investigating and analysing the problem. Documentary research method is used in gathering and analysing data. So textbooks, journal...

Background to the Study

Generally, news of crime and criminal acts elicit different reactions from the people. Sometimes people are intrigued, attracted or repelled, amused or frightened. While interest in crime has usually been high, understanding why it occurs and what to do about it has always been a problem. As every other area of life and human behavior, there is no shortage of experts and experts’ opinion starting from public officials, politicians, philosophers and the...

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Dependency and underdevelopment in Africa is our main thrust which we try to relate the above to the Nigerian context. Dependency as we all know is a product of underdevelopment which is prevalent in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. It is certain that Nigeria is an independent nation, but it does not reflect in all the facts in the society since the super structures that form the society and state are dependent on foreign policy and factors. As we can see in thi...

Background of the Study

A man can be born again; the springs of life can be cleansed instantly…if this is true of one, it can be true of any number. Thus, a nation can be born in a day if the ideals of the people can be changed [William Jennings Bryan]. Nigeria is one of the Countries in Africa that loses billions of dollars yearly because of corruption. She was ranked the second most corrupt country in the world in 2004 [Olu-Olu, 2008]. In 2005 and 2008, Nig...

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The Niger-Delta region of Nigeria has a chequered history of human and material exploitation as well as environmental degradation and underdevelopment. As the heartbeat of Nigeria’s economy being the source of most revenues accruing to the federation in terms of oil mineral resources, the efforts at addressing its teeming challenge of development has taken difficult very dimension, moving from one government policy to another. Ensuring sustainable development in the N...

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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 wor...

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This research work attempt to examine the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria and how it undermines socio-political development, with Niger State being our case study. The work has five chapters, each chapter structured in analyzing the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria and how it affects the socio-political development of Nigeria. To do this, the researcher developed twelve (12) questions, these questions were administered in form of questionnaires to 400 people who were selected as a...

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The study examines the nature of opposition politics and party ideology in Nigeria and their attendant impacts on democratic consolidation in the fourth republic (1999 – 2019). The core concern in developing countries is how to consolidate democracy or make it permanent; and of importance to this is the trend and viability of opposition politics and party ideology. Party politics in Nigeria is characterized by absence of purposeful opposition and political parties tha...

BACKGROUND OF STUDY

In view of the fact that ethics and morality are the norms of every descent society, and the bedrock on which wholesome, efficient just and prosperous bureaucracy can be built upon, there is the need to stress on the importance of efficiency in the civil service. There is no gain saying the fact that effective, efficient, patriotic, and committed public servants who should be accountable for their stewardship are desirable for any nation to match forward. However...

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The study examines, critically, policies and programs and their varying degrees of successes as it relates to description, explanation and justification of the causes and consequences of government activities especially with respect to sustainable rural development using research design. It further explains some basic reasons and how to reduce rural-urban drift, encourage agro-industries for processing of raw materials and finished goods; and promote export oriented commerc...

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Issue of corruption in Nigeria has been a major concern to all and sundry in the society. The upsurge of this social menace in Nigeria in recent times is disturbing and it seems the menace has defied all kinds of treatment and the damage it has caused to national life cannot be quantified. The objective of this project therefore, is to examine and assess corruption in the public sector in Nigeria with particular reference to Edo South Senatorial District. It has generated d...

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Nigeria as a politically independent nation since October 1st, 1960. The country is richly blessed with natural resources, which includes; oil, rubber, cocoa, coal, kolanut, limestone, among others. Before oil was discovered in 1956 at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria, agriculture accounted for about 75 percent of the country income and employment. The role of agriculture and its sector plays in any nations cannot be overemphasized, shortly after oil has been d...

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Nigeria is a multi-ethnic society with a conglomerate of nations each with distinct and unique identities and values but fused together as a state by European imperialism in Africa as perfected by British colonialism. Since the advent of British rule following amalgamation of the colonies in 1914 through independence in 1960 and date, there has been plethora of governments and various constitutions aimed at arriving at a social contract that serves all ethnics on the basis...

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The words perform actions. Language and, in fact, words have different functions and, according to J.L Austin's speech act theory, written and spoken expressions have a particular effect that they should have on the listener. Many scholars have written on political campaigning and on a universal trend: propaganda in Nigeria. The researcher believes that the related work previously carried out in the field of research was not able to analyze the s...

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Democracy is a system in which the government is controlled by the people, and in which people are considered equals in the exercise of that control. However, unequal access to political finance contributes to an uneven political playing field.

The main objective of this study is to examine the role of Inec and challenges of monitoring political party campaign financing in Nigeria .

The study is restricted to the role of Inec and challenges of monitoring...

1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY

The electoral process in Nigeria has gain a lot of transparency since the inception of the use of card reader as the tool for the credibility. The continuous occurrence of electoral malpractice in Nigeria political election has had a negative effect on its reputation and reliability.

According to (Akinboye, 2005) states that the effective management of the Nigeria electoral process has become significantly imperative political demand...

Statement of Research Problem

Gender inequality especially in the political arena is a serious challenge being faced by women in Kaduna State.

The statement of the problem therefore, is the issue of economic disadvantage which might have impacted negatively on the women’s participation in the 2011 general election in Kaduna State.

​​​​​​​Objectives of the Study

The objective, which this research work seeks to achi...

Background of the study

The co-ordination of the system, people, and the polity is the responsibility of government who is the  custodian of the sovereignty of the entire citizenry which collectively and willingly they have submitted to it in return for peaceful and meaningful co-existence propelled by law and good government.  It is therefore pertinent to say that  the responsibility  of the government is to provide effective and efficient frame...

 Abstract

This study is on Nigeria federalism and local government autonomy. The total population for the study is 200 staff of Ofu local government of Kogi state. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made of directors, counselors, senior staff and junior staff were used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and...

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This study examines, investigates, and surveys opinion of Nigerians on some of the factors that influence party and party system development in Nigeria, using data elicited from the three Senatorial Districts of Edo State, Nigeria.  The exercise was embarked upon against the background of widespread desire of Nigerians for the country to attain the highest height of party politics.  To be sure, Nigerians have been clamouring for the country to evo...

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Extreme poverty is a global challenge facing all regions of the world including developed economies of Europe and North America but particularly serious in developing countries of Asia and Africa. Indeed, poverty reduction is an indispensable precondition for sustainable development, which entails meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability for the future. This study examined the impact of poverty reduction on sustainable d...

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          In am attempt to develop and improve the standard of living and eradicate poverty in Asari – Torm local government area this study was carried out, it highlighted public policy and grass root development in Nigeria, with a critical appraisal of the National Poverty Eradication Programme. The programme uses personnel, money and material resources to achieve its goals and objectives...

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In several quarters, there have been allegation making round, that state governments use their state Broadcast media as propaganda machinery. The focus is to investigate such allegation using Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) radio/TV as a case study. The study was based on critical theory by staurt Hall. The theory views the means by which the “haves o...