Global E-Waste Management and Second-Hand Consumption in the Third World: Substandard Context and Tokunbo Phenomenon in Nigeria
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The world is technologically advancing, but the management of resultant waste, commonly known as e-waste, is also becoming very challenging. Of major concern is the incessant flow of this waste into the developing world where they assume secondhand value in spite of the associate…
An Appraisal of the socio-legal issues involved in trafficking of Nigeria women and children
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Trafficking in humans has been described as the third most lucrative criminal enterprise in the world after trade in illict arms and drugs with an estimated profits between US $7–10 billion annually. The main aim of this paper is to discuss how Nigerian women and children are taf…
Short Messaging Services and Educational Information sharing by Students in Selected Public Universities in Nigeria
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Questionnaire was used to collect data from 1676 undergraduate and postgraduate students randomly selected from three large public universities in Nigeria to determine how the students use text messaging or short messaging services (SMS) to exchange educational information. Uses…
Indian Hemp trafficking and Violent Crime against Officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Nigeria
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Globally, drug trafficking has generated a lot of violent crimes. In Nigeria, among all the drugs trafficked on, Indian hemp appears responsible for much bigger portion of the violent crimes than most people realize. Perhaps, the reason for this is not unconnected to the fact tha…
AN EVALUATION OF ACCESSIBILITY OF LOW-INCOME EARNERS TO HOUSING FINANCE IN NIGERIA
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In Nigeria housing provision is fraught with a plethora of problems especially for low-income earners who incidentally constitute the majority of the population. Fundamental to this is the lack of access to housing finance by this segment of the society. In view of its enormous c…
THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL SECTOR REFORMS ON AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING SECTORS IN NIGERIA: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
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The growth finance nexus has elicited considerable debate in the academia and among policy makers. This is because, among others, the current reforms in the financial sector are based on the premise that relaxing financial constraints and deepening the financial sector is essenti…
A Critical Appraisal of the Legal Regime for Biodiversity Conservation in Nigeria
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Nigeria harbours a peculiar and an uncertain environmental situation taking into cognizance the desert encroachment in the North and the rise of sea level leading to flooding in the South, which calls for a well articulated, accelerated, and organized remedial action plan on the…
Monetary policy management implications on the movement of agricultural prices in Nigeria
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Price instability is the most serious problem in Nigerian agricultural sector today. Money supply and exchange rate are some perceived factors causing instability in agricultural prices. This study evaluated the long-run neutrality of money supply on agricultural prices; the effe…
The determinants of current account balance in an oil‐rich exporting country: the case of Nigeria
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Abstract This paper examines the determinants of current accounts balance in Nigeria with emphasis on oil‐related variables using the Johansen–Julius vector error correction estimation approach, the impulse response function and the variance decomposition analysis. The results sh…
Equilibrio espacial, integración de mercado y origen externo de los precios en el comercio de pescado seco en Nigeria: una aproximación mediante vector autorregresivo (VAR)
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Microeconomic Determinants of Migrant Remittances to Nigerian Households
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This study analyses the determinants of both the decision to remit money and the total remittances by Nigerian migrants. The study distinguishes itself from other existing migration studies in Nigeria by focusing on the microeconomic determinants of remittances from both the send…
An analysis of farmers access to formal credit in the rural areas of Nigeria
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This study examines the factors that influence farmers access to formal banking credit in the rural areas of Nigeria. The data used was collected from rural areas of Katsina State. This study used probit modelling approach to analyse the factors that influence farmers’ accessibil…
Methodological pathways to kinship networks and international return migration
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Although international migration has received significant attention in the literature, this is usually in respect of development and remittances. Methodological issues on the subject are very scarce more so relative to the interface of kinship and international return migration.…
Food security in nigeria: a development framework for strengthening igbemo-ekiti as a regional agropole
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Most governments in developing countries (DCs) now pay greater attention to food security, for self-reliance in certain staple food, particularly rice.This paper, therefore, considers the promotion of rice production in a growing town in Ekiti State, Nigeria.Two hundred and sixty…
The Fate of Nationalism in the New States: Southeast Asia in Comparative Historical Perspective
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In two landmark essays published in 1973, the eminent anthropologist Clifford Geertz offered an early assessment of what he termed “The Fate of Nationalism in the New States,” referring to the newly independent nation-states of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Ranging with char…
A Comparative Analysis of Police Accountability in Nigeria and United States
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The police all over the world are becoming more accountable in the performance of their primary responsibility of crime prevention and control. The paper is an exploratory study and examines the various mechanisms of police accountability in United States and Nigeria while also h…
Consolidation of Democracy in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects
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The-quarters of about 187 independent nation states of the world lay claim to practicing one form of democracy or the other. Yet the defining features of the bulk of these nation-states are turbulence and political instability, which are in the main explained in terms of the yawn…
Deconstructing the Democratic Developmental State: Blocked Democratization and Political Parties in Nigeria and South Korea
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Electronic-Governance for Nigeria: Opportunitiesand Challenges in the Digital Era*1 and
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E-government is a worldwide phenomenon to improve service delivery and internal efficiency of governmental organizations. It is defined as a way for governments to use the most innovative information and communication technologies, particularly web based Internet applications, to…
Review of "The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labour,and Policymaking in the European Union"by Gregory Feldman. Stanford California:Stanford University Press, 2012. 221pp.$22.95 paperback, ISBN: 978080476107
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In December 2010 the chartered flight KER 7 67- 31. departed from Dublin Airport bound for Lagos, Nigeria. Onboard were thirty five 'failed' asylum seekers and their dependants, members of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) and a medical team. The aircraft experienced t…
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