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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Legislative Turnover in the National Assembly: A Study of the South –East Zone,1999-2015.
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Since 1999, the high turnover of lawmakers in the country has been a source of concern to not a few stakeholders but to academics. It was therefore not surprising that the National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS) in its latest report conducted in 2014 revealed that Niger…
Impact of Globalization on Nigeria Education System: Challenges in the New Millennium
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Internationalization of higher education is one of the dynamism of globalization which has reduced institutions of higher learning to a global village by facilitating teaching and learning across Nations and Continents. Not fewer than 4.3 million students chose to study abroad in…
Interface between Politics and Public Policy: A Relationship of Inseparableness
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Some scholars have argued that politics should be separated from administration while some have argued in the opposite direction claiming that there can be no dichotomy between politics and administration and that public administration is policy making and political process. In t…
The Spatial Legacy of Indirect Rule in Nigeria
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Cet article analyse les dimensions spatiales de la politique britannique de l’Indirect Rule dans le Nigeria de l’époque coloniale. Il examine à la fois la création et les modifications des frontières régionales sur des critères historiques et ethnolinguistiques. Cet article…
La persistente amenaza de Boko Haram contra la seguridad regional en África occidental
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espanolDesde el ano 2009 Boko Haram ha evolucionado hasta convertirse en la organizacion terrorista mas sanguinaria del continente africano; desde una amenaza geograficamente limitada al noroeste de Nigeria, hasta establecer una alianza estrategica con DAESH. Sus acciones, que ll…
Yihadismo en África: Amenaza, contexto y respuesta
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espanolAfrica, y a pesar del limitado interes que aun suscita, ocupa hoy el epicentro de la geoestrategia mundial. Frente a las oportunidades –dinamizadas por un enorme potencial economico, energetico y humano–, los desafios de seguridad siguen dinamitando el progreso y la estabi…
Towards the Evolution of Right to Reparation for Loss of Housing and Property of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) in Nigeria
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During internal conflicts, displaced victims are confronted with wide range of physical and psychological trauma to their persons coupled with loss of their homes and other life time investments. Relocating these victims to safe place (IDPs camps) alone will be far from given the…
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