The Nigerian Fundamental Rights (Enforcement) Procedure Rules 2009: A fitting response to problems in the enforcement of human rights in Nigeria?
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This article reviews the Nigerian Fundamental Rights (Enforcement) Procedure Rules 2009 to determine whether it is a suitable response to the numerous problems arising in the course of two decades of the enforcement of fundamental human rights in Nigeria. Such problems include th…
Shell Oil Company in Nigeria: Impediment or Catalyst of Socio-Economic Development?
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The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the She oil company, through investment and crude oil exploration, benefits socio-economic growth in Nigeria in general and in the Niger Delta of Nigeria in particular. In 1998, the United Nations Special Rapporteur's report on Nige…
The Dynamics of Gang Criminality and Corruption in Nigeria Universities: A Time Series Analysis
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This study contributes to the understanding of the causal relationship between gang culture, criminality and corruption in Nigeria universities where both criminality and corruption are very high complementary variables. Writers on gang culture in Nigeria universities have largel…
Nigeria’s public service and new public management reform / Ahmad Sanusi and Abubakar Abdullahi
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The seeming failure of public service in Nigeria is demonstrated by a series of reforms introduced by successive governments to redefine and reinvigorate it. While some of these reforms are internal, some were externally induced. The climax of such reform initiatives in contempor…
Ten Simple Rules for Organizing a Virtual Conference—Anywhere
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1 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya, 2 Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, 4 Institute of Bioinformatics, Johannes K…
National Language Policy and the Search for National Integration in Nigeria~!2008-03-12~!2009-10-14~!2010-02-04~!
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At the root of the dilemmas of national integration in Nigeria is the country's search for a lingua franca.No doubt, in a plural and deeply divided society like Nigeria, a national language is seen as unifying symbol.The thrust of this paper therefore is an in-depth analysis of t…
Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria
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Women, Community Leadership and Conflict Transformation in Nigeria
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This paper examines women’s role in community leadership and implications for their involvement in conflict transformation processes. Using content analysis of selected third-party interventions in conflict transformation in some Nigerian communities, the paper discusses the stru…
Sociological Theory in Nigeria: What For?
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The paper attempts to show that the sociological position of sociologists in Nigeria and their intellectual training is likely to give them a predisposition to accept a particular theoretical orientation. This is quantitative analysis based on Parsonian variables. It is argued th…
Preferences for benefit packages for community-based health insurance: an exploratory study in Nigeria
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BACKGROUND: It is important that community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes are designed in such a way as to ensure the relevance of the benefit packages to potential clients. Hence, this paper provides an understanding of the preferred benefit packages by different economic…
Anti-Corruption Reforms and Democratic Change: Nigeria and Indonesia in comparative perspective
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After returning to democracy in 1998 and 1999, Nigeria and Indonesia began instituting a series of anticorruption measures designed to eliminate corruption and promote rapid economic development. Yet, apart from galvanizing public opinion behind the struggle against corruption, t…
Effects of Trade and Exchange Rate Policies on Imports and Trade Tax Revenue in Nigeria
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This paper examines the impact of trade and exchange rate policies on import and trade tax revenue in Nigeria. This study, which covers 1970 – 2007, adopted the ordinary least squares (OLS) method, and some diagnostic tests were performed. Time series properties of the variables…
Exchange rate volatility and export trade in Nigeria: an empirical investigation
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This article seeks to quantitatively assess the impact of exchange rate volatility on nonoil export flows in Nigeria. Theoretically, volatility-trade link is ambiguous, although a strand of studies reported inverse link between export flow and volatility. This article employed fu…
Export Promotion and the Global Economic Crisis. Experiences and Lessons for Nigeria as a Mono-product Economy
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The importance of export promotion and marketing cannot be overemphasized. This is because of the attendant economic flow into the home country. Because of these benefits, Nigeria as a sovereign nation has been involved in exportation of goods and services. After forty-nine years…
BUDGET DEFICITS, EXTERNAL DEBT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA
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The necessity for governments to borrow in order to finance deficit budgets has led to the development of external debt. This study examines how the use of budget deficits as an instrument of stabilization leads to the accumulation of external debt with the attending effects on g…
Human Rights Enforcement by People Living in Poverty: Access to Justice in Nigeria
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Abstract This article analyses the challenges facing those living in poverty in Nigeria in accessing justice for the enforcement of their rights, despite those rights being constitutionally protected and despite the existence of a specific procedure for their enforcement. People…
Rural tourism as a factor of sustainable development: a case study of Sukur World Heritage Site in Adamawa State, Northeastern Nigeria
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Tourism as one of the world's fastest growing industries has the potential to enhance sustainable development by its propensity to promote accelerated growth, income increase, improved transportation and conservation of ecosystems, among other variables.Tourism attractions abound…
Exchange Rate Volatility, Currency Substitution and Monetary Policy in Nigeria
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This article analyses the implications of currency substitution and exchange rate volatility for monetary policy in Nigeria. It adopts the unrestricted portfolio balance model of currency substitution, incorporating exchange rate volatility within the framework of the Vector Erro…
Post-occupancy evaluation and residents’ satisfaction with public housing in Lagos, Nigeria
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Cognition and Emotions in Nigerian Undergraduates’ Frustration during e-Registration
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This study was designed to investigate the relative and combined contributions of cognition and emotion on Nigerian undergraduate students’ level of computer frustration in online environments. A total of 1972 (Male=987, Female=985) students randomly selected from the two state-o…
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