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Review Article The crisis of multi-party system and challenges of democratization in Nigeria
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The challenge of building a credible and reliable multiparty system has plagued the Nigerian polity since independence. Using the political economy approach, this study explores primarily why it is difficult to establish multi -party system in the most populous country in Africa…
PARTY POLITICS, ELECTORAL CRISIS AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN NIGREIA
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The struggle by political parties to prevail over each other in order to consolidate their hold on state power has had far reaching devastating consequences on the attempt at democratic consolidation in Nigeria. The shaky democratic environment has been threatened by several chal…
The practice and challenges of e-Government in Nigeria in the 21st century
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This paper investigates the state of the present condition of e-government commitment in Nigeria. It also, examines the difficulties encountered in the implementation process.Layne and Lee (2001) “Stages of growth theory” was adopted to explain the position of Nigeria in the impl…
Non Governmental Organisations and Conflict Management in Plateau State, Nigeria
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The paper investigates the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in conflict management with particular reference to Plateau state, Nigeria. The need for the study emerged from the fact that there has been prolonged incidence of unresolved conflict in the state. Though, b…
A Case Study of Nigeria and Other Third World Countries Quest for a Permanent Seat in the Security Council of United Nations
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International Organization such as United Nations did not originate from antiquity. Evolving developments that gave rise to the establishment of International Organization started in the 19 th century. As a result of the era of war and destruction, the citizens started calling fo…
Challenges of enforcement of judgments of ECOWAS community court of justice on human rights in Nigeria
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How to fix Nigeria – But is it broken? Pertinent issues facing Africa’s largest economy ahead of impending elections
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What could possibly be the most ferociously contested elections in decades has been postponed for six weeks, but LSE’s Chiaka Osuala looks at points raised at the ‘How to Fix Nigeria – The 2015 Elections & Beyond’ debate held by the Royal African Society in London on 28 January.…
Democracy in Africa: A one step forward, two steps backward policy
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Better known as a historian than novelist and playwright, the Nigerienne André Salifou, just like the Nigerian Chinua Achebe, the Ghanaian Ayi Kwei Armah and the Kenyan Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, used history to develop the various topics evoked in his novel entitled La valse des vautour…
THE CONTRIBUTORY EFFECTS OF SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS ON E-GOVERNMENT ADOPTION AMONG NIGERIANS
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The aim of this study was to examine the extent to which socio-cultural factors, specifically, age, gender, and ethnic background influence the adoption of e-government services by Nigerians. Three aspects of the program (e-government) were identified viz. openness, perceived eas…
States creation since 1967: An imperative of the military contribution to nation-building in Nigeria
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The structural defects in the creation of the Nigerian state by the colonialists which suited their interest of continued subjugation and exploitation of Nigeria were inherited by the civilian leadership. This class that appropriated state power to further their economic interest…
Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change
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* Acknowledgments * 1. Protests and Possibilities * 2. Mobs or Mobilizers? Nkrumah, Fanon and Anti-Colonial Protest * 3. A Democratic Transition? Anti-Austerity Protests and the Limits of Reform * 4. The Third Wave of African protest * 5. The Precipitous Rise and Fall of Occupy N…
United We Stand: How the Election Results Dismiss the Narrative of a Divided #Nigeria
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LSE’s Lola Adeyemo looks at the numbers behind the 2015 Nigeria Presidential elections and analyses what it reveals about the Nigerian state. This post is part of our African Elections series.
Quality issues: Beyond the Nigerian institution
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The article aims to take a step back to look at the issue of quality in Nigerian universities and identify those factors that have adverse effects on the process of establishing quality in universities but that cannot be controlled by the institutions' principal officers.This pap…
The potential effect of the African integration process on migration flows
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Abstract This paper focus on the African integration process and analyses its potential effect in a sense of favouring the diminishment of migration flows to the North. In the sense of a diffusion of the underlying principle of partnership cooperation another dimension of the pap…
Western Democracy and the Dilemma of Nation Building in Africa, the Nigerian Experience (1999-2007)
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Abstract: Nigeria witnessed a transition from military to civilian rule in 1999 with a practice of western democracy modeled after that of America. Although Nigeria shares a lot in common with America, its constitution is nothing but a military decreed document that is yet to be…
Enhancing National Integration and Inter-Group Relations in Post-Colonial Nigeria State through Federal Character: An Analytical Discourse.
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The geo-political entity defined as Nigeria remained the most enduring hangover of the British colonialism. Before the 1914 popular amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates, each of the over 250 ethnic groups that make up Nigerian State existed to some extent indep…
Ethnic Conflict and African Women's Capacity for Preventive Diplomacy
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The spate of the occurrence of Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria and indeed Africa is sporadic and to say the least alarming. To scholars of Ethnic Conflict in Africa, it has defied all logical approaches to its resolution. Based on this fact international organisations have begun to lo…
The Relationship Between Staff Development, Organizational Policy, Staff Welfare to Personnel Performance
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Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) is one of the most important agency tight with the responsibility of Border management, Although the agency perform many functions other than patrolling borders ranging from issuance of e- passport and visa as well as checking travellers document…
Effects Of The Global Financial Crisis On Bank Credit To Sme’s: The Nigerian Experience
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The aim of this study is to examine the impact of the global financial crisis on the availability of bank credit to the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME’s) sector of the Nigerian economy. In general terms, credit availability is a major catalyst to economic growth in any n…
Delegated Legislation in Nigeria: The Challenges of Control
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