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Esoimeme, Ehi Eric. "A critical analysis of the anti-corruption policy of the federal executive council of Nigeria." Journal of Money Laundering Control 22, no. 2 (May 7, 2019): 176–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmlc-06-2017-0021.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine the anti-corruption policy of the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria, to determine whether the policy is working and/or has produced unintended effects. The Federal Executive Council is the body comprising all the Ministers of the Federation, including the President and Vice President. Design/methodology/approach The analysis took the form of a desk study, which analysed various documents and reports such as the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, 2008-2016, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004, the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act, 2016, the Public Interest Disclosure and Witness Protection Bill, 2017 and the Financial Action Task Force Recommendations, 2012. Findings This paper determined that the anti-corruption policy of the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria could achieve its desired objectives if the following recommendations are implemented: research grants which are sent to Nigerian universities by international and corporate bodies should be exempted from the current treasury single account arrangement. This would enable universities to easily access the funds and disburse the same to qualified students. The Federal Government should follow the guidelines laid down in Section 270 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 for plea agreements. In other words, the prosecution should only offer a plea bargain to a person who has been charged with an offence. The prosecution should not receive and consider a plea bargain from a person who has not been charged with an offence. Any attempt to water down the effect of Section 270 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 may weaken the ongoing fight against corruption and money laundering because criminals will be encouraged to continue looting public funds. The Financial Action Task Force Recommendations (Recommendation 3) requires that criminal sanctions for natural persons convicted of money laundering should be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. The Federal Government of Nigeria should introduce a Bill to the National Assembly that would provide a clear framework for the use of investigatory powers by law enforcement, the security and intelligence agencies and other public authorities. This includes the interception of communications, the retention and acquisition of communications data, the use of equipment interference and the retention and use of bulk data by the security and intelligence agencies. The Bill must establish a number of safeguards against the arbitrary or unlawful use of investigatory powers by the executive. The UK’s Investigatory Powers Act, 2016, for example, established a number of safeguards for the retention and acquisition of communications data. Authorisations for obtaining communications data will have to set out why accessing the communications data in question is necessary in a specific investigation for a particular statutory purpose and how it is proportionate to what is sought to be achieved. A police officer who receives information from a whistleblower about money hidden in an apartment should apply to a Court or Justice of the Peace within the local limits of whose jurisdiction he/she is for the issue of a search warrant before conducting a search on the said premises. This procedure is in line with Section 143 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 and the Court of Appeal decision in Hassan v. E.F.C.C. (2014) I NWLR (Pt. 1389) 607 at 625. The Public Interest Disclosure and Witness Protection Bill, 2017 should be given accelerated consideration in the House of Representatives based on its urgency and significance for the Federal Executive Council’s whistleblowers policy. Research limitations/implications This paper focusses on the anti-corruption policy of the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria from 29 May 2015 to 10 June 2017. It does not address the older policies. Originality/value This paper offers a critical analysis of the new anti-corruption policy of the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria. The paper will provide recommendations on how the policy could be strengthened. This is the only paper to adopt this kind of approach.
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Joyce Mbaebie, Joyce Mbaebie. "Caretaker Committee and Performance of Local Government Council in Anambra State." UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities 21, no. 4 (May 19, 2021): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ujah.v21i4.1.
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The study focused on the caretaker committee and performance of local Government Council in Nigeria: A study of Anambra State 2008 - 2013. In Nigeria federal structure, the three levels of government have legislative responsibility for various services and functions. The fourth schedule of the constitution outlines the functions and responsibilities of local government. The objective of the study is to: determine if the imposition of the caretaker committee system is a constitutional provision of the local government system in Nigeria especially Anambra State; to determine if the adoption of the caretaker committee by the state government affected the capacity of local government to perform its functions. The theoretical framework adopted focused on structural functional theory propounded by Gabriel Almond and J.S. Coleman in 1960. The study adopted descriptive research design and relied heavily on both primary and secondary data. Questionnaire was the major instrument for data collection and data were analyzed by the use of mean. Based on the data analysis, the following findings were made: the imposition of the caretaker committee system by state government to local governments is unconstitutional, the adoption of the caretaker committee by state government endangered the local government system capacity to perform its constitutional function. The study recommended amongst others that the use of or appointment of local government caretaker committee should be condemned, caretaker committee should be made to spend only three months to allow for a constitutionally elected local government executive.
Keywords: Local Government, Caretaker, Committee, Grassroots, Performance.
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Qadir, Adnan. "The Judicial Review of Law-Making Process in Iraq under the Constitution of Republic of Iraq-2005." ISSUE SIX 4, no. 6 (June 30, 2020): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.25079/ukhjss.v4n1y2020.pp37-49.
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The law-making process as a whole vested in the legislative power in the presidential form of government, however in the parliamentary form of government, the executive power participates in the law-making through introducing bills along with legislative initiatives. The Constitution in Iraq grants an original authority to legislate federal laws to the Council of Representatives, however the executive power namely the President and the Council of Ministries participates in the process through introducing government bills to the Council of Representatives. Although the Constitution clearly identifies two methods through which bills shall be presented to the Council of Representatives, there have been disagreements over the constitutionality of laws legislated based legislative initiatives not government bills. The Federal Supreme Court has decided differently on different occasions by depriving the legislative power of its right to initiate in some cases or by putting restrictions in some other cases. This research analyzes the line drawn between the Council of Representatives and the executive power in the process of law-making at its first stage and then examines the Federal Supreme Court’s understanding in the light of the text of the Constitution.
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Lawan, Mamman. "Abuse of powers of impeachment in Nigeria." Journal of Modern African Studies 48, no. 2 (May 19, 2010): 311–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x10000212.
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ABSTRACTThe powers of impeachment provided under the Nigerian constitution provide a means of checking the excesses of certain executive officers who enjoy the privilege of constitutional immunity against civil or criminal proceedings while they remain in office. Instead of being invoked in appropriate circumstances, however, this article shows that these powers have been abused. It examines cases of impeachment at the state level during the Obasanjo administration and shows how constitutional provisions were flagrantly breached. It provides evidence that the federal government was complicit in such cases, even though under the federal structure by which Nigeria operates, impeachment at the state level is exclusively a state business. It argues that the abuses are a symptom of imbalance of power between the executive and the legislature as well as evidence of the limits of constitutionalism in the face of politics.
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McQuoid–Mason, David. "LEGAL AID IN NIGERIA: USING NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS PUBLIC DEFENDERS TO EXPAND THE SERVICES OF THE LEGAL AID COUNCIL." Journal of African Law 47, no. 1 (April 2003): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0221855303002001.
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At the National Consultative Forum on Transforming the Administration of Justice System in Nigeria, convened by the Federal Minister of Justice and the Federal Attorney-General in November 2001, it was decided to draft a National Action Plan on Justice Sector Reform in Nigeria and to produce a Justice Vision document. The Ministry of Justice and the Attorney-General's office identified the need to examine ways of (a) upholding the Constitution and the rule of law; (b) promoting justice, fairness and human dignity; and (c) incorporating and expanding community participation in the administration of justice. The Legal Aid Council of Nigeria could contribute to this process by establishing a public defender network using law graduates in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). It may be possible to use the NYSC scheme to expand dramatically the current level of legal aid in Nigeria by employing the services of NYSC law graduates more extensively as public defenders. In order to consider the feasibility of such a programme the following factors will be considered: (i) the availability of lawyers and law graduates; (ii) the duties imposed by the Nigerian Constitution; (iii) the function of the Legal Aid Council; (iv) the operation of the Legal Aid Council; (v) the provision of legal aid services by the Legal Aid Council; and (vi) the cost of establishing a structured NYSC public defender programme.
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Hopkins, Thomas, and Laura Stanley. "The Council on Wage and Price Stability: A Retrospective." Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 6, no. 2 (2015): 400–431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bca.2015.41.
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Applying benefit-cost analysis in the White House regulatory oversight process served as a basic mission of the Council on Wage and Price Stability (CWPS) during its seven-year lifespan (1974–1981). This paper reviews that CWPS experience, which involved filing comments in over 300 proceedings at more than 25 federal regulatory agencies. The paper draws on those CWPS public comments (filings), identifying persistent and pervasive deficiencies in the economic analysis regulators then and now often use as support for new regulation. CWPS filings fostered greater acceptance of benefit-cost analysis in regulatory decisions; such analysis is now required by executive order.
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Abiodun Akinwale, Emmanuel Jude. "A Historical and Comparative Analysis of Colonial and Post Colonial Bureaucracy in Nigeria." Journal of Public Administration and Governance 4, no. 2 (May 30, 2014): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jpag.v4i2.5602.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical and comparative analysis of colonial and post-colonial civil service in Nigeria and to probe issues connected with Nigerianisation of the civil service. It attempts to justify that both colonial and post-colonial civil service recorded bureaucratic successes but quota and federal character policies partly affected post-colonial bureaucratic practice in Nigeria. The paper applies historical and comparative analysis of colonial and post-colonial civil service in Nigeria. The paper finds that colonial administration introduced representation of indigenous officials in administration and recognized the strength of the merit principle in the practice of representative bureaucracy in Nigeria but post-colonial administration mixed meritocracy with federal character and quota policies. The paper presents elaborative discussions on strategies to break up the power hegemony of national executive with constitutional provisions of federal character policy and effects of its application subsumed in the analysis that administrative decentralization has its flaws.
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Ogunlesi, Adegboyega O., and Adegboyega Ogunwale. "Mental health legislation in Nigeria: current leanings and future yearnings." International Psychiatry 9, no. 3 (August 2012): 62–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s1749367600003234.
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Nigeria's current mental health legislation stems from a lunacy ordinance enacted in 1916 that assumed the status of a law in 1958. The most recent attempt to reform the law was with an unsuccessful Mental Health Bill in 2003. Currently, though, efforts are being made to represent it as an executive Bill sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Health. The present paper reviews this Bill, in particular in light of the World Health Organization's recommendations on mental health legislation.
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Ogunlesi, Adegboyega O., and Adegboyega Ogunwale. "Mental health legislation in Nigeria: current leanings and future yearnings." International Psychiatry 9, no. 3 (August 2012): 62–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1749367600003234.
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Nigeria's current mental health legislation stems from a lunacy ordinance enacted in 1916 that assumed the status of a law in 1958. The most recent attempt to reform the law was with an unsuccessful Mental Health Bill in 2003. Currently, though, efforts are being made to represent it as an executive Bill sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Health. The present paper reviews this Bill, in particular in light of the World Health Organization's recommendations on mental health legislation.
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Goncharov, Vitaly Viktorovich, Sergey A. Balashenko, Shikhtimer B. Magomedov, Valery V. Bogatyrev, Grigory A. Vasilevich, and Artem A. Pukhov. "Enhancing the role and place of the State Council of the Russian Federation and plenipotentiaries of the President of Russia in the federal districts in coordinating the system of executive power in the country and overcoming centrifugal political trends." LAPLAGE EM REVISTA 7, no. 2 (May 10, 2021): 495–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.24115/s2446-6220202172817p.495-503.
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This article is devoted to the analysis of the problems and prospects of increasing the role and place of the State Council of the Russian Federation and plenipotentiary representatives of the President of Russia in the federal districts in coordinating the system of executive power in the country and overcoming centrifugal political trends. In this regard, the authors have developed and justified a number of measures to resolve these problems. This will not only strengthen the system of executive power in the country, but also ensure the state sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation in a rapidly globalizing world.
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Little, J. I. "Advancing the Liberal Order in British Columbia: The Role Played by Lieutenant-Governor Sir Hector-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1900–1906." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 19, no. 1 (May 28, 2009): 83–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037427ar.
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Abstract This essay focuses on the role of Lieutenant-Governor Hector-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière in bringing political stability to British Columbia after the turn of the twentieth century. As well as ensuring that the composition of the executive council was based on federal party lines, he worked to ease federal-provincial tensions and exercised a significant influence on the McBride government’s highly effective economic reform programme. Joly has been largely ignored by historians, aside from his short term as Quebec premier, but his socially conservative liberalism made him an ideal promoter of Canada’s liberal order on the west coast.
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Chordia, Shipra, and Andrew Lynch. "Constitutional Incongruence: Explaining the Failure of the Council of the Australian Federation." Federal Law Review 43, no. 3 (September 2015): 339–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.22145/flr.43.3.1.
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The establishment and rise of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is, on balance, a story of the successful development of an executive-based institution for cooperative governance in the Australian federal system. By contrast, the Council of the Australian Federation (CAF), created in 2006 as a forum for interstate co-operation and policy development, has been far less effective. This article explores the reasons behind CAF's difficulties after a very short-lived initial impact. Integral to this account is the significance of Canadian experience of horizontal intergovernmental relations, which directly inspired the Australian Premiers to found CAF. The numerous indications of political congruence – some temporary, others systemic – between the Canadian and Australian settings obscured a deeper constitutional incongruence between the two jurisdictions and this is fundamental to appreciating CAF's failure as a transplant. CAF's ability to operate effectively as a significant institution was inevitably constrained by the parameters of the Australian federal system that its establishment was, in many ways, seeking to transcend.
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Lewis, I. M. "Report of the Honorary Director for 1986." Africa 57, no. 1 (January 1987): 103–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972000030849.
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The Institute's fifty-ninth Executive Council meeting took place at the African Studies Centre of the University of Bayreuth in the Federal German Republic in July 1986 following the Centre's annual symposium on the theme of ‘Identity in Africa’. Professor Jacob Ade Ajayi, myself, and Professors Mohamed Omer Beshir and John Paden gave papers at the symposium and Professor Michael Crowder delivered a special public lecture on the current crisis in African Studies (see p. 109). We are very grateful to Professor Helmut Ruppert, Director of Africanistics at Bayreuth, and to our Executive Council member, Professor Franz Rottland, and to Professor and Mrs Christopher Winter and all their colleagues for inviting us to meet at Bayreuth in this very productive fashion and in such congenial company. The meeting served to highlight the continuing international role of the Institute. Professors Martin Njeuma (Cameroon) and Toshinao Yoneyama (Japan) were attending Executive Council for the first time. The following new members were elected to Council: Professor AH Mazrui (Vice-Chairman), Professor Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (Consultative Director), Professor J. M. Schoffeleers, Professor Abdoulaye Bara Diop and Dr Steven Moyo. While welcoming Professor Coquery-Vidrovitch as incoming French Consultative Director, warm tribute was paid to her retiring predecessor, Professor Pierre Alexandre, who had for so many years sustained French support for the Institute. The Institute was extremely fortunate to have enjoyed the advice and guidance of a colleague of such distinction and wide-ranging expertise.
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Beck, K. George, Kenneth Zimmerman, Jeffrey D. Schardt, Jeffrey Stone, Ronald R. Lukens, Sarah Reichard, John Randall, Allegra A. Cangelosi, Diane Cooper, and John Peter Thompson. "Invasive Species Defined in a Policy Context: Recommendations from the Federal Invasive Species Advisory Committee." Invasive Plant Science and Management 1, no. 4 (October 2008): 414–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1614/ipsm-08-089.1.
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Preamble: Executive Order (EO) 13112—defines an invasive species as “an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.” In the Executive Summary of the National Invasive Species Management Plan (NISMP) the term invasive species is further clarified and defined as “a species that is non-native to the ecosystem under consideration and whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.” To provide guidance for the development and implementation of the NISMP, the National Invasive Species Council (NISC) and the Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC) adopted a set of principles outlined in Appendix 6 of the NISMP. Guiding Principle #1 provides additional context for defining the term invasive species and states “many alien species are non-invasive and support human livelihoods or a preferred quality of life.”
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Esoimeme, Ehi Eric. "A critical analysis of the anti-corruption policy of the national judicial council of Nigeria." Journal of Money Laundering Control 21, no. 3 (July 2, 2018): 253–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmlc-01-2017-0001.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine the new anti-corruption policy of the National Judicial Council of Nigeria to determine the level of effectiveness of its preventive measures and to provide recommendations on how the policy could be strengthened. Design/methodology/approach This paper relies mainly on primary and secondary data drawn from the public domain. It also relies on documentary research. Findings This paper determined that the anti-corruption policy of the National Judicial Council of Nigeria could achieve its desired objectives if the following recommendations are implemented: The Central Bank of Nigeria should permanently discontinue production of large denomination bank notes like the 1,000 naira notes and the 500 naira note. This policy will make it more difficult for corrupt judicial officers to smuggle significant amounts of cash out of Nigeria. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should be amended to allow ordinary citizens to participate in the criminal justice system. The jury system will speed up corruption trials, reduce bias, corrupt inducement of judges and enhance administration of justice in Nigeria. Statutes and civil procedure rules should require lawyers to certify “after reasonable enquiry” that motions have not been interposed for delay. As most courts experience high rates of adjournment because of medical illness, the adjournment policy of the National Judicial Council of Nigeria should be amended to require a doctors’ certificate and, if necessary, require the doctor to appear, with costs met by the lawyer. The National Judicial Council of Nigeria should be constitutionally mandated to provide the Attorney General of the Federation with a copy of any petition filed against a judicial officer by a member of the public. Research limitations/implications This paper focuses on the new anti-corruption policy of the National Judicial Council of Nigeria. It does not address the older policies. Originality/value This paper offers a critical analysis of the new anti-corruption policy of the National Judicial Council of Nigeria. The paper will provide recommendations on how the policy could be strengthened. This is the only paper to adopt this kind of approach.
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Forcese, Craig. "Hegemonic Federalism: The Democratic Implications of the UN Security Council's "Legislative" Phase." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 38, no. 2 (August 1, 2007): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v38i2.5519.
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Several recent UN Security Council antiterrorism resolutions amount to legislation for the international community. The Security Council's new approach raises real predicaments for those states that, in their domestic system of government, are democracies. Not least, the Council risks disturbing the carefully balanced features of liberal democracy, including the very separation of powers on which functioning democracies are built. The article that follows explores this contention, with a particular focus on the implications of Security Council action for Canadian democracy. It concludes that the Security Council's legislative phase creates a new species of international/domestic legal interface, perhaps best described as "hegemonic federalism" – that is, a system in which the Security Council asserts plenary lawproject authority over the Canadian federal executive, which in turn responds with direct implementation of the international resolution or strongly encourages (and in majority Parliaments likely ensures) compliance by Parliament.
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Alabi, OO, AAA Coker, and ME Idegbesor. "Net Farm Income Analysis of Maize Production in Gwagwalada Area Council of Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria." Journal of Agriculture, Forestry and the Social Sciences 11, no. 1 (April 23, 2014): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/joafss.v11i1.17.
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Musa, D., and EE Nsini. "An Analysis of Landuse/Landcover Change Distribution inIn Kuje Area Council Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria." Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management 7, no. 2 (March 14, 2014): 210. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejesm.v7i2.13.
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Ukoh, Francis N. Ukoh, and Rita A. Ngwoke. "Immunity Clause under the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria: A Dire Need for Reform." Journal of Politics and Law 14, no. 2 (December 27, 2020): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jpl.v14n2p47.
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Immunity clause as enshrined under section 308 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has generated protracted controversies for and against its inclusion in the rubrics of Nigerian constitutional laws. This paper considers widespread corruption by Nigerian leaders, shielded by the immunity clause. It explains the need for reform to curtail the anomaly wherein absolute executive immunity is provided for leaders in Nigeria. The paper maintains that there should be equality before the law, hence, the possible prosecution and appearance of a sitting President, Vice President, Governors and Deputy Governors in some criminal and civil matters drawing from other jurisdictions.
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Leamy, Harry. "The National Critical Materials Act." MRS Bulletin 10, no. 1 (February 1985): 21–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/s0883769400042871.
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Profound acknowledgment of the importance of materials research to the well-being of society has recently been provided by the government of the United States of America in the form of Public Law 98-373: National Critical Materials Act of 1984. This law provides for the establishment of a National Critical Materials Council within the Executive Office of the President that is responsible for coordination of the government's materials-related policies, programs, and research and technology activities. This new legislation, the major features of which are reproduced on the next page in this issue of the BULLETIN, promises to touch all of us in some way during the coming years.The law establishes a National Critical Materials Council consisting of three presidential appointees who are qualified in materials policy or materials science and engineering. The Council is primarily responsible for the formulation of national materials policies consistent with other Federal policies. This activity includes establishing responsibilities for programs and priorities for materials activities in each Federal department or agency. The Council will also review materials programs and activities of the government for consistency with the National Materials and Minerals Policy Research and Development Act of 1980. It will monitor the critical needs of both industry and government, and it will advise the President of world trends and their implications for national and world economy and national security.
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Reaser, Jamie K. "Putting a federal capacities assessment to work: blueprint for a national program for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species (EDRR)." Biological Invasions 22, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-019-02177-5.
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AbstractThis paper responds to national policy directives intended to improve the US government’s capacity to protect national security from the adverse impacts of invasive species. It is the final, synthesizing contribution to a Special Issue of Biological Invasions comprising 12 papers that collectively inform the development and implementation of a national program for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species (EDRR). The blueprint sets forth policies, goals, and actions to be taken by relevant Executive Branch agencies and components of the Executive Office of the President to develop a national EDRR program, appropriations permitting. It is designed to function as guidance for advancing federal policy through Presidential, Secretarial, and/or Congressional directives. Those committed to protecting national security, the economy, and the well-being of American people are forewarned that our ability to establish a national EDRR program is undermined by the diminishment of the federal workforce; institutional structures, policies, and programs; and directly applicable leadership mechanisms, including the National Invasive Species Council, Invasive Species Advisory Committee, and their managerial Secretariat.
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Lee, Christopher, Suzie Allard, Nancy McGovern, and Alice Bishop. "Open Data Meets Digital Curation: An Investigation of Practices and Needs." International Journal of Digital Curation 11, no. 2 (July 4, 2017): 115–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v11i2.403.
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In the United States, research funded by the government produces a significant portion of data. US law mandates that these data should be freely available to the public through ‘public access’, which is defined as fully discoverable and usable by the public. The U.S. government executive branch supported the public access requirements by issuing an Executive Directive titled ‘Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research’ that required federal agencies with annual research and development expenditures of more than $100 million to create public access plans by 22 August 2013. The directive applied to 19 federal agencies, some with multiple divisions. Additional direction for this initiative was provided by the Executive Order ‘Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information’ which was accompanied by a memorandum with specific guidelines for information management and instructions to find ways to reduce compliance costs through interagency cooperation. In late 2013, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to conduct a project to help IMLS and its constituents understand the implications of the US federal public access mandate and how needs and gaps in digital curation can best be addressed. Our project has three research components: (1) a structured content analysis of federal agency plans supporting public access to data and publications, identifying both commonalities and differences among plans; (2) case studies (interviews and analysis of project deliverables) of seven projects previously funded by IMLS to identify lessons about skills, capabilities and institutional arrangements that can facilitate data curation activities; and (3) a gap analysis of continuing education and readiness assessment of the workforce. Research and cultural institutions urgently need to rethink the professional identities of those responsible for collecting, organizing, and preserving data for future use. This paper reports on a project to help inform further investments.
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Muhammad, Abdulgaffar. "Treasury Single Account Policy in Nigeria: Performance, Bottlenecks and Prospects." International Journal of Social, Political and Economic Research 7, no. 4 (December 23, 2020): 801–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.46291/ijospervol7iss4pp801-813.
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The treasury single account model was introduced in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to mitigate financial leakages, promote probity and prevent misappropriation of government revenue and also consolidate government accounts, this is a bid to prevent embezzlement and high handedness by revenue generating agencies. This work examined the performance, bottlenecks and prospects of treasury single account policy in Nigeria. The paper being qualitative as it relies heavily on secondary data. The study was underpinned by the systems theory. The study concluded that the implementation of the treasury single account has blocked financial leakages, promoted probity and accountability to a very large extent in the public financial system. Consequently, the paper suggested for a synergy between the executive and legislature to enforce and ensure compliance to the provisions of the TSA by ministries extra ministerial department and financial institution.
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Martin, Geoff. "Executive Styles in Canada: Cabinet Structures and Leadership Practices in Canadian Government." Canadian Journal of Political Science 39, no. 1 (March 2006): 183–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423906219991.
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Executive Styles in Canada: Cabinet Structures and Leadership Practices in Canadian Government, Luc Bernier, Keith Brownsey and Michael Howlett, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, for The Institute of Public Administration of Canada, 2005, pp. xiii, 282.Executive Styles in Canada is a welcome addition to the literature on Canadian political leadership and provincial politics, essentially raising the question of the power of the premier, central agencies, and executive council in each of the Canadian provinces. To this end the editors have organized the book in 13 chapters. The book begins with a survey of the whole debate over “court government” raised by Donald Savoie, and the development model of Canadian cabinets advanced by Stefan Dupré and Christopher Dunn. The second chapter is given over to Savoie to make his case with respect to the federal government. His argument, by now familiar, is that by the 1990s the real power in the federal government is in the hands of the “prime minister and a small group of carefully selected courtiers” (17). Executive dominance of the legislature in the Westminster model has given way to even greater centralization. Power flows not from ministers, but from the prime minister. While Savoie does not address the seeming anomaly of the Paul Martin minority government of 2004–05, in which the House of Commons and even the opposition parties suddenly became relevant again, one gets the sense that he would argue that this is a temporary development rather than a more durable departure from the direction of the last 30 years.
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Anzaku, Samuel Akawu, Jariath Umoh Umoh, Paul Ayuba Abdu, Junaidu Kabir, and Akawu Bala. "Serological Survey of Newcastle Disease in Free Ranging Local Chickens in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria." New Journal of Science 2017 (January 4, 2017): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9646138.
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A serological survey was carried out in four area councils (Abuja Municipal, Kuje, Gwagwalada, and Kwali) of the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) to determine the prevalence of antibodies to Newcastle disease virus in local chickens using haemagglutination inhibition (HI) tests. In each area council, one hundred sera samples were collected from apparently healthy local chickens with no history of vaccination. Abuja Municipal, Kuje, Gwagwalada, and Kwali area councils had prevalence of 37, 44, 79, and 68%, respectively. The overall prevalence of antibody to Newcastle disease in the four area councils was 57%. This study shows that Newcastle disease virus is circulating in local chickens in the study area, and this may pose a serious threat to the commercial poultry industry within these four area councils of the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) where this study was carried out.
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Martinez, Barbara, Jamie K. Reaser, Alex Dehgan, Brad Zamft, David Baisch, Colin McCormick, Anthony J. Giordano, Rebecca Aicher, and Shah Selbe. "Technology innovation: advancing capacities for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species." Biological Invasions 22, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 75–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-019-02146-y.
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AbstractThe 2016–2018National Invasive Species Council (NISC) Management Plan and Executive Order 13751 call for US federal agencies to foster technology development and application to address invasive species and their impacts. This paper complements and draws on an Innovation Summit, review of advanced biotechnologies applicable to invasive species management, and a survey of federal agencies that respond to these high-level directives. We provide an assessment of federal government capacities for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species (EDRR) through advances in technology application; examples of emerging technologies for the detection, identification, reporting, and response to invasive species; and guidance for fostering further advancements in applicable technologies. Throughout the paper, we provide examples of how federal agencies are applying technologies to improve programmatic effectiveness and cost-efficiencies. We also highlight the outstanding technology-related needs identified by federal agencies to overcome barriers to enacting EDRR. Examples include improvements in research facility infrastructure, data mobilization across a wide range of invasive species parameters (from genetic to landscape scales), promotion of and support for filling key gaps in technological capacity (e.g., portable, field-ready devices with automated capacities), and greater investments in technology prizes and challenge competitions.
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Kalu, Kingsley, and Isaac Akinyele. "Dietary Pattern and Nutrient Intake of In-school Adolescents in Bwari Area Council, Federal Capital Territory-Abuja, Nigeria." European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety 5, no. 5 (January 10, 2015): 1089. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/ejnfs/2015/21257.
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Aboh, M. I., and P. Oladosu. "Microbiological assessment of kunun-zaki marketedin Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) in The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria." African Journal of Microbiology Research 8, no. 15 (April 9, 2014): 1633–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/ajmr2013.5779.
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Shesler, Aleksander. "The implication to crime as a subject of criminal law research." Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia 2020, no. 1 (April 8, 2020): 235–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2020-1-235-240.
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At a meeting of the Council D 203.012.02 for the defense of dissertations for the degree of candidate of sciences, for the degree of doctor of sciences created on the basis of the Federal State Budget Institution for Higher Education “Saint-Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation”, on February 14, 2020, Dvorzhitskaya Marina Andreyevna defended her dissertation for the degree of candidate of legal sciences on the topic "Responsibility for implication to crime in criminal law" in the specialty 12.00.08-criminal law and criminology; criminal executive law. The Dissertation Council, chaired by the chairman of the Dissertation Council D 203.012.02, Doctor of Law, Professor S. A. Denisov, decided that the dissertation of M. A. Dvorzhitskaya is a scientific qualification work, that is essential for the science of criminal law and complies with the requirements established by the Regulation on the awarding of scientific degrees. The Council decided to award M.A. Dvorzhitskaya the degree of candidate of legal sciences in the specialty 12.00.08.
The article is a review of the dissertation of the official opponent, in which the structure and content of M. A. Dvorzhitskaya's dissertation are analyzed.
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S.E, Okosun,, Omokhafe , C, Dairo, O.E, and Olowookere, C.A. "Assessment of Educational Facilities in Nigeria-The Ekiti-South West Example." American International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (March 20, 2020): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.46545/aijhass.v2i1.149.
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The aim of Education for the 21st Century is to enable every person to attain all-round development in the domains of ethics, intellect, physique, social skills and aesthetics according to his/her attributes so as to contribute to the future well-being of the nation and the world as a whole. The aim of the study was to assess the provision and maintenance of educational facilities in Ekiti State, Nigeria with a focus on the Ekiti-South West LGA and Community-Based Development Associations in the study area. This study adopted the survey research method and used three different sets of a questionnaire to collect research data from the authority of the Ekiti South-West LG Council officials, Community Development Unit of the LG Council and the 61 (CBDAs) officials were available in the study area. The findings among others revealed that majority of the secondary schools were privately-owned, while the primary and nursery/primary schools were Community-owned. However, the present monthly allocation from Federal Government to LGCs is grossly inadequate, and it is not enough to embark on provision and maintenance of educational facilities. Given the findings, there were need to improve the schools through additional appropriation and maintenance of the existing schools; finally, the governments and other stakeholders should inculcate good maintenance culture on our educational facilities for effective management with the intention of promoting high-quality education for the well-being of the nation.
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Okafor, Obiora Chinedu. "Remarkable returns: the influence of a labour-led socio-economic rights movement on legislative reasoning, process and action in Nigeria, 1999–2007." Journal of Modern African Studies 47, no. 2 (May 12, 2009): 241–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x09003826.
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ABSTRACTDuring 1999–2007, a labour-led but broad-based socio-economic rights movement, which focused on a pro-poor (and therefore highly popular) anti-fuel price hike message, persuaded and/or pressured Nigeria's federal legislature, the National Assembly, to: mediate between it and the Executive Branch of Government; take it seriously enough to lobby it repeatedly; re-orient its legislative processes; explicitly oppose virtually all of the Executive Branch's fuel price hikes; and reject key anti-labour provisions in a government bill. Yet the movement did not always succeed in its efforts to influence the National Assembly. This article maps, discusses, contextualises and analyses these generally remarkable developments. It also argues that while many factors combined to facilitate or militate against the movement's impact on legislative reasoning, process and action during the relevant period, this movement's ‘mass social movement’ character was the pivotal factor that afforded it the necessary leverage to exert considerable, if limited, influence on the National Assembly.
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Ibrahim, H., N. R. Uba-Eze, S. O. Oyewole, and E. G. Onuk. "Food Security among Urban Households: A Case Study of Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Nigeria." Pakistan Journal of Nutrition 8, no. 6 (May 15, 2009): 810–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3923/pjn.2009.810.813.
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Okwori, Wilson, Millicent Adanne Eze, and Innocent U. Duru. "Relationship between National Open Apprenticeship Scheme and Youth Employment: Evidence from Bwari Area Council, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria." Journal of Economics, Management and Trade 22, no. 4 (February 8, 2019): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/jemt/2019/46746.
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Oxman, Bernard H., and Stephen J. Toope. "Self-determination—Canada—Quebec—right to secede under constitutional law and public international law—role of international law in Canadian courts." American Journal of International Law 93, no. 2 (April 1999): 519–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2998007.
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Re Reference by Governor in Council Concerning Certain Questions Relating to Secession of Quebec from Canada.Supreme Court of Canada, August 20, 1998.In an attempt to clarify the legal context in which continuing Canadian constitutional conundrums arise, the federal executive referred three questions to the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the legality under both Canadian constitutional law and international law of a potential unilateral declaration of independence by the Province of Quebec. The Court declared that unilateral secession is not permitted under either Canadian constitutional law or international law. The “underlying principles that animate” the Canadian Constitution preclude secession, even though there is no specific text prohibiting the dismantling of the Canadian state. However, if Quebecers were to vote yes to secession by “a clear majority on a clear question,” democratic legitimacy would be conferred on the secessionist project and a constitutional obligation to negotiate would arise binding the other provinces and the federal authority.
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Stack, Kathy. "The Office of Management and Budget: The Quarterback of Evidence-Based Policy in the Federal Government." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 678, no. 1 (June 18, 2018): 112–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716218768440.
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During the Obama administration, the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) leadership helped to initiate and cement evidence-based policymaking reforms across the federal government, particularly in social services programs. Notable accomplishments were in the design of outcome-focused programs that use and build evidence, the strengthening of agency evaluation capacity, and interagency data-linkage projects to harness administrative data. Here, I review those accomplishments and catalog the key assets and tactics that OMB used to help federal agencies increase their use of evidence and innovation. I also assess the shortcomings and limitations of the Obama-era OMB approach and draw conclusions about what could be done in the current or a future administration to further advance evidence-based policymaking in the executive branch. Specifically, I propose that Congress and the administration should work to improve agency evaluation capacity, assess and report on agencies’ progress in using and building evidence, and establish an Intergovernmental Evidence and Innovation Council.
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Nwaokoro, JC, CO Emerole, SNO Ibe, AN Amadi, and INS Dozie. "Risk Factors Associated with Gestational Diabetes among Pregnant Women in Owerri Municipal Council, Southeastern Nigeria." Asian Journal of Medical Sciences 5, no. 1 (September 4, 2013): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v5i1.8302.
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Background Gestational diabetes is emerging as a serious public health problem in Nigeria where the largest number of people with diabetes in Africa occurs. Current studies in Nigeria give an overall prevalence of gestational diabetes as 13.4% among pregnant women with unidentified risk factors. Aims and Objectives This study aimed at investigating the risk factors associated with gestational diabetes. Materials and Methods A cross-section analytical study design was adopted for this research and comprising a total of 100 pregnant women receiving ante-natal health care service at the Federal Medical Center, Owerri. A structured questionnaire including a set of detailed pre-determined questions was administered on the subjects. Data collected were analyzed statistically, using chi-square and T test. Results The results obtained suggest that there is a significant relationship (p<0.05) between previous macrosomic baby, parity, previous history of caesarean section, family history of diabetes and occurrence of gestational diabetes, respectively. However, there is no significant relationship (p>0.05) between history of miscarriages and stillbirth, socioeconomic status and occurrence of gestational diabetes. A family history of diabetes is independently and significantly associated with the development of gestational diabetes itself even after adjusting for other risk factors. Conclusion This study will be a working tool to guide obstetricians and midwives in counseling and advising women of their risk of developing GDM. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v5i1.8302 Asian Journal of Medical Science Vol.5(1) 2014 pp.39-46
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Kireeva, Elena Yu, Lidia A. Nudnenko, and Lyudmila A. Tkhabisimova. "Tendencies of the Legal Regulation of the Interaction between the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation." Constitutional and municipal law 10 (October 22, 2020): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18572/1812-3767-2020-10-37-40.
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The article analyzes the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation “Оn improving the regulation of certain issues of the organization of public power”. It is argued that the imposition of restrictions to replace the state and municipal posts, posts of state and municipal services associated with the presence of foreign citizenship or residence permit or other document confirming the right to permanent residence of citizens of the Russian Federation on the territory of a foreign state will not provide the “nationalization of the elites” because such a limitation is not provided for family members of the listed officials. Without this, the amendment is meaningless. The article doubts the feasibility of transferring the function of determining the main directions of domestic and foreign policy to the State Council, which by its status and composition belongs to the Executive bodies of state power. A priori, Executive power is secondary to representative power. Therefore, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, in cooperation with the President of the Russian Federation, should have priority in shaping the main directions of domestic and foreign policy.
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Holowachuk, MA, Brock. "A framework for consensus, cooperation, and progress: The role of Canada’s Council of the Federation in building a national strategy for emergency management." Journal of Emergency Management 5, no. 3 (May 1, 2007): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/jem.2007.0004.
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In July 2004, Canada’s Premiers expressed their priorities for emergency management at a meeting of the Council of the Federation. Provincial/territorial officials developed a set of priorities through a process of discussion and consensus, and these were subsequently endorsed by the Premiers and accepted by the federal government, resulting in the development of a plan of action to address the Premiers’ priorities, along with other matters of mutual concern.This article discusses the process by which a provincial/ territorial consensus was formed, and how this executive direction has led to a plan of action and meaningful improvements to emergency management and public safety in Canada. It demonstrates how a proactive and cooperative approach to emergency management policy can lead to tangible operational improvements.
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Aregbesala, Busayo, F. U. Ebele, D. T. Haastrup, and E. Adams. "The Effect of Climate Change on Agricultural Production among Farmers in Kwali Area Council of Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 1, no. 2 (March 9, 2014): 13–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.12.58.
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Ogunode, Niyi Jacob. "Challenges Confronting the Administration of English Language Program: Secondary School Context in Nigeria." REiLA: Journal of Research and Innovation in Language 2, no. 2 (August 26, 2020): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/reila.v2i2.4506.
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This objective of this study was to investigate the challenges facing the administration of English Language program in Senior Secondary schools in Abaji Area Council of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria. The study used questionnaire as instrument for data collection. 80 respondents were selected from the entire population of English teachers and school administrators in Abaji. Purposive research techniques were employed to select the respondents. Research survey method was adopted for the study. To determine the reliability of the instrument, test and retest methods. The data collected were analysed using simple percentage, mean statistical and chi-square was employed to test the hypotheses. The result collected from the study led to the following conclusion that scant fund, shortage of professional English teacher, inadequate English language instructional materials, deficient English laboratory, poor capacity development of English language teachers and paltry motivation of English language teacher are the challenges affecting the effective administration of English language program in Abaji secondary Schools.
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Adewuyi, Taiye Oluwafemi, Patrick Ali Eneji, Anthonia Silas Baduku, and Emmanuel Ajayi Olofin. "Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Urban Crime Pattern and its Implication for Abuja Municipal Area Council, Nigeria." Indonesian Journal of Geography 49, no. 2 (December 27, 2017): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/ijg.15341.
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This study examined the spatio-temporal analysis of urban crime pattern and its implication for Abuja Municipal Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria; it has the aim of using Geographical Information System to improve criminal justice system. The aim was achieved by establishing crime incident spots, types of crime committed, the time it occurred and factors responsible for prevailing crime. The methods for data collection involved Geoinformatics through the use of remote sensing and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for spatial data. Questionnaires were administered for other attribute information required. The analysis carried out in a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment especially for mapping and the establishment of spatial patterns. The results indicated that the main types of crime committed were theft and house breaking (42.9%), followed by assault (12.4%), mischief (11.3%), forgery (10.5%), car snatching (9.05%), armed robbery (8.5%), trespass (5.2%) and culpable homicide (0.2%). In terms of hot spots the districts recorded the following: Garki (27.62%), Maitama (25.7%), Utako (24.3%), Wuse (20.9%) and Asokoro district (1.4%) respectively with most of the crime committed during the day time. Many attributed the crimes to mainly high rate of unemployment and poverty (79.1%). Consequently to reduce the crime rate, the socio-economic situation of the city must be improved through properly constructed interventions scheme in areas known to quickly generate employment such as agriculture, small and medium scale enterprises, mining and tourism.
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Tershukov, Dmitry. "Experience in Creating and Developing the Information Security System in Volgograd Region." NBI Technologies, no. 4 (February 2020): 22–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/nbit.jvolsu.2019.4.3.
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The article analyzes the experience of creating and developing the information security system in Volgograd region. The author investigates the main tasks of the information security system and proposes the organizational structure of the information security system of Volgograd region. It is shown that the main functions of the Council are the following: analyzing and forecasting information security threats, defining conceptual approaches and priority directions in the field of technical protection of information in Volgograd region; analyzing the implementation of normative legal acts on technical protection of information and information security in Volgograd region; analyzing the status of information security in state authorities of Volgograd region, local governments of Volgograd region municipalities, in organizations that are not under the jurisdiction of the Federal bodies of state power and are located on the territory of Volgograd region; consolidating the efforts of territorial bodies of Federal Executive authorities and public authorities of Volgograd region to address the most complex and important problems of information security in Volgograd region; preparing proposals for improving the legislation of Volgograd region in the field of information security.
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Ashikeni, M. A., E. A. Envuladu, and A. I. Zoakah. "Perception and practice of malaria prevention and treatment among mothers in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria." International Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Research 2, no. 3 (2013): 213–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.14194/ijmbr.239.
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Ogunode Niyi Jacob. "An investigation into the impact of COVID-19 on private schools in Gwagwalada area council of FCT, Nigeria." International Journal on Integrated Education 3, no. 6 (June 23, 2020): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.31149/ijie.v3i6.399.
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The study investigated the impact of COVID-19 on private schools in Gwagwalada area council of FCT, Nigeria. Questionnaire was adopted for the study. The sample of the study comprised 80 private schools administrators. The researcher used purposive sampling technique to select the sample from the population for the study. To ensure the validity of the instrument, test retest was employed to validate the reliability of the instrument. Simple percentage and chi-square was used to analyze the data collected for the study. The result collected revealed that COVID-19 Pandemic has impact on private school finances; COVID-19 Pandemic influences retrenchment of staff in private school; COVID-19 government intervention funds did not get to private schools proprietors and majorities of proprietress of private schools in Gwagwalada area council have not been able to pay their staff for the past two months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on this findings, the researcher hereby recommends that the government should provide specially intervention funds for the private schools with low interest rate. Based on the results obtained from the study, it was recommended that government at the federal and states levels should make provision for the private schools to access special intervention loans with low interest rate so that the private schools owners should be able to pay salaries to their staff
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Onoge, Elohor Stephanie. "Monitoring and Evaluating the Impact (Post-Legislative Scrutiny) of Emergency Regulation in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic." IALS Student Law Review 8, no. 1 (March 3, 2021): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.14296/islr.v8i1.5269.
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The threat posed by passing emergency laws and policies in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic can be said to be a critical precursor of human rights abuses. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigerian President issued the COVID-19 REGULATION 2020 exercising his powers under the Federal Quarantine Act, CAP Q2 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004. Based on this, the Nigerian Federal Government has undertaken stringent measures, enforced restrictions and cessation of movement, social and economic activities in Nigeria to curtail the pandemic. Nigeria has employed human control to stop the disease's spread, including travel bans, quarantine orders, social distancing, and lockdowns. The measures applied to curtail the spread of COVID-19 have an undoubted impact on human rights.The Nigerian government implemented these restrictive measures which impinge on human rights and democratic processes with authoritarian provisions. This study analyses the emergency measures implemented by the Nigerian government and human rights' infractions and considers Post-Legislative Scrutiny to mitigate the government's legislative actions as a safeguard for human rights and democracy in Nigeria.To ensure true democracy, Nigerian regulations, laws, and policy response to COVID-19 must align with international human rights commitments. And the temporarily imposed restrictions on rights are reviewed by the Legislature and do not become permanent. Questions to be addressed in this paper are: (1) Is the breadth of powers currently enjoyed by executive bodies, such as Public Health authorities and security forces under scrutiny and review of the Legislature? (2) Are there safeguards put in place by the Legislature, as an oversight to ensure democratic rule and respect for human rights in Nigeria?The paper uses the qualitative research method. It relies on content analysis of COVID-19 regulatory and legislative provisions, academic literature, articles, journals, and newspaper publications.
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Ozoemena, Johnkenedy A., Festus U. Ngwoke, and Basil O. Nwokolo. "Prospects of Mother Tongue as a Medium of Instruction in Nigerian Primary Level Education." English Language Teaching 14, no. 4 (March 3, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v14n4p1.
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This paper investigates the prospects in the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction in Nigeria’s primary level of education. With the multilingual nature of Nigeria, many scholars have continued to clamour for the use of indigenous languages as a medium of instruction in Nigeria’s primary schools. This paper also seeks to justify the reasons why mother tongue education may not be feasible in the nearest future especially with the numerous roles that the English language plays in Nigeria, and the myriads of difficulties which constitute stumbling blocks to its realization. In doing this, two research questions were generated, and data collected from 150 primary school teachers, from both private and public primary schools in Gwagwalada Area Council of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) through purposive sampling technique. The instrument for data collection is a well-structured questionnaire. The questionnaire is made up of two sections, sections A and B. Section A sought for demographic data of respondents, while section B sought for information on the factors militating against mother tongue as a medium of instruction in primary schools in Nigeria. The data collected were analyzed using Crombatch Alpha, mean and standard deviation. The result of the analysis revealed that the multilingual nature of Nigeria, and lack of names of instructional materials and science equipment in the indigenous languages are impediments to the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction in Nigerian primary level of education.
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Nudnyenko, Lidiya. "Practice of implementation of parliamentary and Deputy requests to the Federal Assembly Russian Federation." Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia 2020, no. 2 (July 21, 2020): 89–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2020-2-89-95.
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The compliance of decisions and actions of the executive branch with federal legislation should be facilitated by parliamentary control, among the forms of which are parliamentary and parliamentary requests. The purpose of this study is to analyze the practice of parliamentary and parliamentary inquiries by examining publicly available materials, using functional, statistical, systemic methods of knowledge. The analysis of the available materials made it possible to conclude on a small number of parliamentary requests, which limits the representative and controlling functions of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, reduces the possibilities for the full realization of the role of the Parliament of the Russian Federation in the political process enshrined in the Constitution. Gaps in information on parliamentary requests open up opportunities for parliamentarians to use this tool for lobbying purposes. The article suggested that the total number of parliamentary and parliamentary requests could increase in 2020-2021 due to preparations for elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the topic of deputy and parliamentary requests, updated by the forthcoming parliamentary elections, will remain. Qualitative information about deputy requests will be available to the public, as before, only on the initiative of the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation through the media.
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H. A., Apeh,, Gidado, B. K., and Iyiegbuniwe, O. A. "Effects of Brain-Based Learning Strategies on Secondary School Students’ Attitude to Learning in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria." Sustainability in Environment 6, no. 1 (December 15, 2020): p19. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/se.v6n1p19.
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The study was carried out to find out whether Brain-Based Learning Strategies had any effect senior secondary school students’ attitude to learning in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. A pre-test post-test Quasi Experimental Research design was used with a sample size of 142 Senior Secondary School Students (S.S.S 1) drawn from two Senior Secondary Schools in the Abuja Municipal Area Council. Two intact classes were used; one class drawn from each of the schools, the classes were assigned to Groups using a Lucky Dip. With 70 students constituted in the Experimental Group and 72 in the Control Group. The Student Attitude Scale (SAS) was used to collect data for the study. All hypotheses were tested at a significant level of 0.05 using t-test. Findings revealed a significant difference in Students Attitude to learning with a mean difference of 0.59 in favor of the Experimental Group. However, no significant difference was observed in Students Attitude to learning in the Experimental Group based on gender. It was recommended that teachers should adopt the Brain-based learning strategies in teaching Economics in Senior Secondary Schools. In addition, since the teaching pedagogy is Gender-fair, it should be implemented in all schools irrespective of learners’ gender.
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Ochinyabo, Samuel. "THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC AND FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY IN NIGERIA." International Journal of Advanced Research in Statistics, Management and Finance 8, no. 1 (January 5, 2021): 166–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.48028/iiprds/ijarsmf.v8.i1.11.
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The study will examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Nigeria’s fiscal sector. This was undertaken on the premise that the sector is the lifeline of a developmental state like Nigeria which needs to deliver dividends to her citizens after two decades of un-interrupted democratic governance. The specific objectives of the study are to (i) examine the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on government revenue, expenditure and debt management in Nigeria. (ii) assess the government’s response in managing the Covid-19 effect on the fiscal sector in Nigeria and (iii) set the agenda for the post COVID-19 strategy for recovery and fiscal sustainability in Nigeria. The study adopted an exploratory data analysis approach, where it obtained secondary data for the period Q1 2016- Q2 2020 from publications of the National Bureau of Statistics, Central Bank of Nigeria, and National Council for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, Descriptive Statistical tools was used to analyze the data. The findings of the study revealed expected declines in total gross revenue, total federal expenditure, external reserves and GDP growth rates, but unexpected declines in Deficit financing and foreign debt servicing. There was increase in total public debt. So, the study makes the following recommendations; The growth in non-oil revenue must be sustained. Government must have to change its expenditure framework to ensure that capital expenditure is more than revenue expenditure. External reserve should be shored up immediately to a level that can sustain the economy for a reasonable period of time. The decline in deficit financing should be sustained by engaging in realistic budgeting. Foreign Debts should be used mostly for capital expenditure that will finance itself in the long run. Debt servicing strategies should be properly streamlined not to become a burden on the economy. Total public debts should not be allowed to grow beyond sustainable threshold.
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Milenković, Marko. "Electoral Management in the Western Balkans – Overview of Institutional Setting." Srpska politička misao 66, no. 4/2019 (February 3, 2020): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.22182/spm.6642019.2.
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Countries of the Western Balkans (WB) – former federal units of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Albania have undergone a lengthy and complex process of democratisation from late 1980s. Free and fair elections are among the cornerstones of democratic consolidation. Even though the institutional setting for electoral management differs greatly across the globe, during the Europeanisation process it was widely recommended to transitional societies to set up independent electoral management bodies in other to guarantee fair electoral conditions, with standards mostly promoted by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (VC) and International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). Based on this influence, all the countries of the WB have established electoral commissions that are to great extent formally independent from the executive, with the intention of being less prone to electoral meddling. This is enhanced by regular election monitoring in the region by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the process being followed and evaluated by both the European Union institutions and member states as part of fulfilment of the Copenhagen criteria to join the EU. This paper gives an overview of the institutional setting of electoral management in the WB that was created following the model of independent bodies and outlines main features of their design.