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Emiola, Akintunde, and Idowu A. Akinloye. "Nigeria and the Riddle of Two Constitutions." Africa Journal of Comparative Constitutional Law 2021, no. 1 (2021): 122–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47348/ajcl/2021/a6.
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This article brings to the fore the problem of two constitutions (the 1963 and the 1999 Constitutions) coexisting in Nigeria. It argues that the ongoing debate on the need for Nigeria’s restructuring may not be resolved until this problem is addressed. By using a historical approach and an analytical research methodology, the article lifts the discourse about restructuring above mere political expediency to the realm of law, which is the only instrument for restructuring. The authors forcefully argue that the 1979 and 1999 Nigerian constitutions are “military unconstitutional constitutions” that lack legitimacy and legal validity. It submits that the 1963 Constitution, which made Nigeria a republican state, was never repealed but was used by the military to govern and it is, therefore, intact, unencumbered and operatable in the country. This paper argues that it is only after reverting to the 1963 Constitution that an honest and sincere search for a valid foundation upon which a truly federal, democratic and just Nigerian society can be built.
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FRANCIS, CHINWE CHIKWEM. "AN ANALYSIS OF BUREAUCRATIC EFFICIENCY IN THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT (TSA) POLICY IN NIGERIA." WILBERFORCE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 2, no. 1 (2017): 18–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.36108/wjss/7102.20.0120.
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The study tries to evaluate the workability of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) in a corrupt-riddled bureaucracy in Nigeria. Using empirical evidence from primary and secondary sources, which build upon the organizational and public choice models of bureaucracy, the study unravels inundation of complaints from some government parastatals about difficulty in making simple payments and procurements since the implementation of TSA and suggest that Nigerian government should review TSA to work in all banks for easy accessibility to government, her agencies, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the multiplier effect of money.
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Oladipo Ojo, Emmanuel, and Olusanya Faboyede. "Theophilus Owolabi Shobowale Benson and the Making of Modern Nigeria." American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (2021): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.21694/2378-7031.21011.
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Theophilus Owolabi Shobowale Benson, popularly known as TOS Benson, a prince from the Lasunwon Royal Family of Ikorodu, was one of the architects of modern Nigeria. A spirited nationalist, a pan–Nigerian nation builder, an inveterate antagonist of ethnic jingoism and a relentless crusader for the under–dog and the less privileged; TOS Benson made imperishable contributions to the growth and development of Nigerian politics and judiciary (law). This paper assesses the contribution of TOS Benson to the making of the Nigerian state right from September 1947 when he returned to the country from London where he had gone to read law. It points out that TOS Benson was a solid political bridgehead that held the ethnic groups in the country together and that, at the risk of incarceration and other forms of intimidation and harassment, he stood up against the colonial administration and certain policies and antics of the military junta following the incursion of the military into Nigerian politics. The paper concludes that the history of the making of modern Nigeria that does not give a prime of place to the contribution of TOS Benson will be riddled with noticeable gaps and embarrassing vacuum and that his sharing the February 13 death–date with General Murtala Ramat Mohammed – who, but for B.S. Dimka’s bullets, could have been Nigeria’s renaissance – is probably not a mere coincidence of history but a testimony of his imperishable contribution to the making of Nigeria.
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Ezekwesili and Chinyere Chinedu. "Impact of Aliteracy on Learning English as A Second Language in Nigeria." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 4 (2019): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.4p.60.
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This paper examines the impact of aliteracy on learning English as a second language in Nigeria. Genuine concern expressed by stakeholders on the poor performance exhibited by Nigerian secondary school students in English language has led to a number of inquiries for solutions to the problem. Many studies have attributed poor language performance to a number of factors but nobody has connected the apathetic stance of students towards reading to poor language performance. Their appalling performance manifests in the plethora of spelling and grammatical errors that riddle essay assignments. Writing is a productive language skill by which a student demonstrates his ability to produce grammatically correct and connected texts. This study searches for the link between students’ lack of interest in reading and their writing competence. Aliteracy is the state of being able to read but being uninterested in doing so. The data for the study were generated from students’ written essay and questionnaire. An analysis of the students’ reading habits juxtaposed with their continuous writing showed that students who were avid readers performed better than those who did not like to read. This result shows that the decline in the level and quality of language written by senior secondary school students in Nigeria can be attributed to poor reading culture.
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Adeyeri, James Olusegun. "Ethnic Propaganda, Hate Speech, and Mass Violence in Igbo-Hausa/Fulani Relations in Postcolonial Nigeria." Thinker 89, no. 4 (2021): 75–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/thethinker.v89i4.692.
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Opinions are divided on the conduct and nature of the 1967–70 Nigerian civil war, occasioned partly by the Igbo secession and declaration of the Republic of Biafra. Some believe that the Nigerian government adopted a genocidal war strategy characterised by mass violence against civilians, aggressive blockade of the eastern region, artificial famine, and hateful/threatening utterances by many military commanders, accompanied by about one million civilian casualties. On the other hand, some are of the view that the actions of some Nigerian military officers and men were not in consonant with the position of the Nigerian government during the war, but were influenced by their animosity towards the Igbo. In post-civil war Nigeria, Igbo-Hausa/Fulani relations and political discourses are increasingly tense and indicative of a fearful resurgence of mass violence due to prevalent lies, propaganda, and misrepresentations –verbally, on paper, and online/on social media – particularly among the youths on both sides. This paper argues that the historical crisis-ridden relations between the Igbo and the Hausa/Fulani, the attendant 1966 mass killings of Igbos in the north, the nature of the war strategies of the federal government during the civil war, and the currently mounting tension are all direct results of contending ethnic propaganda including hate speech, lies, and name-calling in a bid to gain political and strategic advantages over other ethnic groups. Thus, this paper is a historical inquiry into the role of propaganda and hate speech in socio-political interactions, discourses, and incitements of mass violence among the heterogeneous Nigerian population, particularly the Igbo and the Hausa/Fulani. The paper proposes legislative, constitutional, and active citizenship advocacies to address the menace. The article utilises primary and secondary sources to analyse and interpret the subject-matter of the paper.
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Adamolekun, Wole, and Kunle Ogedengbe. "CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PRACTICES IN NIGERIA: AN EXPLORATION OF SELECTED PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANISATIONS." Caleb Journal of Social and Management Science 5, no. 1 (2020): 44–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.26772/cjsms2020050103.
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Agitation for societal development has been on for a long time in Nigeria. This has made many communities complain against organisations making profits in the poverty-ridden environments. It is for this reason that the communities call on the organisations to contribute to their development through corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes. The study employed secondary methodology of desk research technique and found that organisations in the selected industries have contributed to the well-being of their communities. The study supports the position of the stakeholder theory that organisations should take care of all stakeholders and not only the shareholders. Going forward, it recommends that organizations in Nigerian industries should invest more in the area of corporate social investment as a form of CSR thereby ensuring that the people could achieve much needed development sustainably. Keywords: Corporate social responsibility, shareholder model, stakeholder model, stakeholder theory, sustainability.
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Ofuya, T. I. "Use of wood ash, dry chilli pepper fruits and onion scale leaves for reducing Callosobruchus maculatus (Fabricius) damage in cow-pea seeds during storage." Journal of Agricultural Science 107, no. 2 (1986): 467–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021859600087281.
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Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) is a very serious pest of cow pea in storage in Nigeria and many other oountries (Singh, 1977; Tindall, 1983). Damaged seeds are riddled with emergence holes, defaced with egg covers and have reduced viability. Heavy attack causes severe powdering and weight loss. In Nigeria, about 30–60% loss in cow pea is attributed to infestation and damage by bruchid beetles over a 3- to 6-month storage period, of which over 90% is caused by C. maculatus alone (Caswell, 1981).
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Tukur, Mustafa Adedeji. "Issues and Challenges of Power Sector Reforms in Nigeria: The Political Economy Approach." American Journal of Arts and Human Science 1, no. 2 (2022): 128–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.54536/ajahs.v1i2.471.
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The post-colonial status and the formation of the Nigerian state have no doubt, redefined it as a neo-patrimonial, pseudo-capitalist and dependent entity. Its forceful integration into the global capitalist ideological orbit could be predicated on the historical antecedents of its colonial heritage. The rentier nature of its political economy had further broadened the basis of capital accumulation through the enlistment of the Nigerian political class interest. The Nigerian economic crises that persist in varying degrees have equally precipitated a number of reform policies by the successive governments in finding the alternative to the economic crises. One of such is the power sector reform with the critical infrastructural gaps despite the continued interventions over the years. There are quite emerging robust literature to support the engaging debates on the nature and character of the Nigerian pervasive economic crises. This paper, interrogates and historicizes the power sector reform policy and undertakes a careful examination of the implications of the privatization exercise as purportedly implemented under the current reforms and its far-reaching effects amidst the exacerbating social crisis of pervasive poverty and the near-absence of effective regulatory mechanism to curtail the exploitative tendencies against the Nigerian mass of electricity consumers. It is also in the contention of this paper that, the post-privatization era in the power sector is still riddled with a plethora of challenges as mostly crystallized by the poor service delivery and the exploitation of electricity consumers.
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Dode, Robert O. "Nigerian Security Forces and the Management of Internal Conflict in the Niger Delta: Challenges of Human Security and Development." European Journal of Sustainable Development 1, no. 3 (2012): 409. http://dx.doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2012.v1n3p409.
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The Nigerian Armed Forces personnel have over the years maintained a trackrecord of effective peace keeping campaigns in the world. The role Nigeria playedin especially crises ridden Sierra Leone and Liberia can not be overemphasized.Paradoxically though, this record does not seem to be playing out in their securityand crisis operations in the country. Analysts would quickly make reference toUmuechem, Odi and recently, the military bombardment of Ijaw communities inGbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South West Council of Delta State. Some studieshave shown that at the end of most of those operations, the military stay behind as“armies of occupation”. This paper therefore, raises a number of questions whichinclude: how effective and to whose benefit have measures adopted (like aerialbombardment) in the management of internal crisis by security forces in Nigeriabeen in recent times (1999-2011)? Is it not an indirect call for military interregnum,when democratic regimes authorize the rolling out of war machines by the militaryagainst the civilians? Are the military forces fully trained in surveillance and othernon-combative skills of security maintenance? This study intends to consider anumber of options available for the country to adopt and solve crisis situationswith minimal collateral damage. These options include good governance, genuinenational dialogue, adequate surveillance of the Niger Delta creeks, blocking of thesources of small and light weapons importation and sale of illegally bunkered crudeoil into the international market.
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ONIBIYO Ezekiel Rotimi, NWALA Nneka, MUNGADI Dauda Danladi, ADEKOLA Nurudeen O, AMINU Bashir, and SHITTU Hakeem B. "Effect of financial performance indicators on share price of listed commercial banks in Nigeria." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 16, no. 2 (2022): 145–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2022.16.2.1131.
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Placement of funds on the capital market could be confounding particularly when the market is unreadable in a blurred investment macroclimate riddled by unethical practices of all dimensions which naturally renders traditional financial indicators blinded. This study investigates effect of financial performance indicators on share prices of the thirteen listed commercial banks in Nigeria within the periods of 2010 to 2020. Net interest margin, economic valued added and free cash flow are the exogenous variables that proxy financial performance indicators. Study employs panel ordinary least squares because of the homogeneity nature of the cross sectional and time series data under observation while the Hausman test suggested random effect testing. Findings from the study revealed that while Free Cash flow has a positive significant effect, both economic value added and net interest margin have negative significant effect on share prices of listed money deposit banks in Nigeria. Study therefore recommends that Central Bank of Nigeria, policy makers in the financial circle, professional bodies and the academia to project financial indicators that are futuristic with demands for economic sustainability beyond profitability. This study also recommends that listed commercial banks should be more creative and innovative with value added products to scale up their interest incomes sources since investors’ appetite to safeguard funds cannot be over emphasized.
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Mahamadu, Abdul-Majeed, Patrick Manu, Colin Booth, et al. "Infrastructure procurement skills gap amongst procurement personnel in Nigeria’s public sector." Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology 16, no. 1 (2018): 2–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jedt-09-2017-0089.
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Purpose Procurement of public infrastructure that is fit for purpose partly depends on the competencies of procurement personnel. In many developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, there is a deficit in the quantity and quality of infrastructure and their procurement is further riddled with deficiencies in the capacity of public procuring entities. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the critical skills development needs of public personnel involved in the procurement of infrastructure in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach Based on a quantitative research strategy, this study sought to address the knowledge gap through a survey of public infrastructure procurement personnel (n = 288) in different tiers of government (i.e. state and local government) and geopolitical contexts (north and south) in Nigeria. Findings Of the 45 procurement skill areas operationalised, there is need for further development in 38 of them including: computing/ICT; problem-solving; communication; decision-making; health and safety management; quality management; relationship management; team building; project monitoring and evaluation; time management and procurement planning. Originality/value A key implication of this study is for policymakers in state and local government to formulate and implement infrastructure procurement capacity development reforms that address the competency gaps of procurement personnel. Such reforms need to take into account the suitable methods for developing procurement competencies. Additionally, the procurement skill areas operationalised in this capacity assessment study could serve as a useful blueprint for studying capacity deficiencies amongst public infrastructure procurement personnel in other developing countries.
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Kerim, Abdul, John Alaji, and Idachaba Odekina Innocent. "Effect of Capital Structure on the Profitability of Listed Insurance Firms in Nigeria." American International Journal of Economics and Finance Research 1, no. 2 (2019): 36–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.46545/aijefr.v1i2.69.
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This study examined the effect of capital structure on profitability of listed insurance firms in Nigeria for the period 2013-2017 The study used correlation research design. The source of data which were collected from the published annual financial reports of studies listed insurance firms in Nigeria. The population of the study comprised of the 28 listed insurance firms. The sample size was fifteen (15) listed insurance firms in Nigeria. The data collected were analyzed with the aid of OLS multiple regression technique. Using 75 firm-year paneled observations, the result of the ordinary least square regression showed that short-term debt has a negative and significant effect on the profitability of listed insurance firms in Nigeria. In addition, long-term debt has a positive and significant effect on profitability. Finally, premium growth has positively significant effect on profitability of listed insurance firms. Based on the findings, the study recommends that the management of listed insurance firms should strive towards having optimum capital structure by increasing their equity level and reducing dependence on debts so as to avoid being cash strapped and debt ridden.
 JEL classification: C88, G22, G24, G29
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Jatau, Paul Danbaki. "Praying for Civil Authorities (1 Tim 2:1-7): A Contextual Study." Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 11, no. 3 (2023): 16–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/gjahss.2013/vol11n31638.
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Most exegetes regard 1Timothy 2:1-7 as a general command for Christians to pray for all people and kings or rulers. This paper will demonstrate how Paul exhorts the church in Ephesus to pray for all people, including kings, in order to fulfill God's mission of bringing salvation to all humanity in the text under consideration. In the same vein, Christians in Nigeria must equally pray for themselves and civil leaders in order to exercise their mission in a country riddled with ills that dehumanize the image of God in the human person. To elaborate on the meaning of this passage, the grammatical structure of the text will be examined. This article argues that if 1Tim. 2:1-7 is read and understood, Christians in Nigeria would know that authority comes from God to humans, therefore they would appreciate and pray for civil authorities. Hence, the work uses contextual exegetical approach. This method combines rhetorical and literary analysis in the quest for theological meaning. Furthermore, it is a synchronic approach, this is because, it seeks to co-ordinate the different levels of meaning, the literary and theological, the historical and the hermeneutical with a view to drawing out the meaning and message of biblical text at the level of its composition and for today.
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Okuyade, Ogaga. "Aesthetic Metamorphosis Oral Rhetoric in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide." Matatu 40, no. 1 (2012): 33–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001003.
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The writer's imaginative craft is usually inspired and shaped by the environment s/he hails from. This in turn gives room for constant communication between the creative mind and the immediate physical social world; the environment becomes a determinant of the writer's experiences. The influence of the Urhobo oral tradition on the poetic corpus of Tanure Ojaide is remarkable. The poet's cultural background occupies a looming space in his choices of generic style. Close examination of Ojaide's poetry reveals the exploration and appropriation of the orature of the Urhobo people, which ranges from myth, folksongs, proverbs, riddles, indigenous rhythms to folktales. Ojaide deploys orature to criticize contemporary ills as well as to locate solutions for Nigeria's socio-economic problems. The aim of this essay is essentially to demonstrate that orality accounts for the distinctiveness of Ojaide's writing. Also interrogate is the mingling of the oral and written in Ojaide's art. This approach will, it is hoped, open up what has been a restricted economy, through the inscribing of orature as a cardinal and integral constituent of the poet's art.
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Edebor, Solomon Adedokun. "Rape of a Nation: An Eco-critical Reading of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water." Journal of Arts and Humanities 6, no. 9 (2017): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/journal.v6i9.983.
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<p>A number of literary and linguistic researches have been carried out on post-independent Nigerian quagmire. The concerns of some of these studies range from investigating many of the topical issues that have come to define the country, particularly with regard to the issues of bad governance and socio-economic oppression, to the roles played by the masses in aggravating the nation’s predicaments. However, not many critics and scholars have paid the deserved attention to the ecological concerns of Nigerian novelists. This paper, therefore, examines Helon Habila’s Oil on Water as a testament to the environmental mindfulness of Nigerian novelists. The choice of Oil on Water is informed by the fact that there is a dearth of serious scholarly research on the novel. Using the sociological approach and adopting a content analysis method, this study finds out that Habila is not oblivious of the ecological implications of man’s exploitative tendencies on earth’s resources as he makes bare the grim effects of Man’s reckless actions on the environment, the society and other living things, thereby rousing the consciousness of his readers as a way of forcing them to contribute their quota towards making the earth a safe place to live in, free from further gratuitous exploitations by a few to the disadvantage of many. It is, nevertheless, found out that the author fails to suggest pragmatic solutions to the staggering challenges confronting the oil-polluted and violence-ridden nation of Niger Delta.</p>
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Denisova, Tatyana S., and Sergey V. Kostelyanets. "International Aspects of Separatism in Contemporary Biafra." Vestnik RUDN. International Relations 21, no. 4 (2021): 747–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2021-21-4-747-757.
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In the 21st century, the world at large and Africa in particular have encountered the rise of separatism, which has become one of the major challenges to stability. In Africa, over 20 countries face separatist movements, some of which demand full secession, while the rest - greater autonomy within the existing state. Most of Africas secessionist projects remain insignificant in scope and ineffectual, largely due to the absence or weakness of external support for separatists and to the commitment of the international community to preserve, with rare exceptions, the territorial integrity of states. The paper analyzes the reasons for the revival of the movement for the secession of Biafra decades after the end of the civil war between the central government of Nigeria and the separatists and looks into the international aspects that could fuel the conflict and exacerbate the military-political situation in West Africa, which is already turbulent due to the activities of Boko Haram terrorist group, other Islamist groupings in the Sahel, Cameroonian separatists of Ambazonia, etc. The present paper attempts to fill the gap in Russian Africanist literature on the current situation in Biafra, which is especially urgent due to the growing threat of separatism in Africa. Employing the historical approach, the authors analyze the nature of external involvement in the 1967-1970 Nigerian conflict, as well as methods of contemporary Biafran separatists, who seek international support. The paper concludes that due to various internal circumstances, as well as the practical lack of external material assistance, the establishment of a new Republic of Biafra will remain a utopian project for at least a decade, although separatist sentiments is likely to spread and hinder the achievement of internal political stability in West Africa, which is ridden with an increasing number of hot spots.
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Adedeji, I. Adetokunbo, and E. Abiade Agboola. "Multimodality of Tact Enactment to Stay Safe during the COVID-19 Pandemic-ridden Period." European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies 12, no. 4 (2024): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ejellr.2013/vol12n42032.
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This paper examines drama of reality orchestrated on the heels of the outbreak of a pandemic known as CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19). The disease which erupted in China around December 2019 started killing in hundreds and thousands without any tested drug in sight to quell its furnace except precautionary measures like ‘social distancing’ ‘Hand wash with sanitizer’, ‘wearing of face mask’ and the like. Cases were purposely selected through the affordances of newspapers, recorded newscast, social media applications like WhatsApp, and You-tube. Multimodality as well as Tact Maxim was considered an apt theoretical framework to capture selected instances in the Nigerian situation owing to the exploitation of semiotics and other linguistic nuances involved in the data collection. The critical analysis of the drama revealed that the world had never been the same, and that in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new world-order was imminent ; just like it had happened after the historic 1720 , 1820, and 1920 occurrences. The pandemic period was therefore a show of insincerity in governance, ingratitude, display of abject poverty necessitating renewed dedication to salient essentials of life. The religious circle was not spared as adherents became wiser when the hitherto mammoth crowd as a show of affluence and generosity became replaced with defined gathering, The paper concluded on a note that it is time non-realistic and non-productive policies were jettisoned in order to forestall future re-occurrences of the pandemic. These, in the Nigerian situation should take the form of reducing the recurrent expenditure of the legislature, avoiding mono-economy and re-diversifying, redefining the essential and non-essential services, intensifying e-learning/banking, etc, curbing the excesses of law-enforcement agents and civilians alike. These would go a long way to better the lot of the masses, provided sincerity, transparency and accountability become the watch-word of governance.
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Afolayan, Oluyinka Titilope. "Influence of ICTs on the Information Behavior of the Elderly in Nigeria." International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development 9, no. 3 (2017): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijicthd.2017070103.
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The uptake of ICTs by the elderly to fulfil their diverse information needs is ridden with unavoidable challenges militating against their full exploitation of these technologies. In view of this, this paper examined the influence of ICTs on the information behaviour of the elderly in Nigeria. The methodology adopted for this research work was purely documentary and literature search in determining the extent of the influence of ICTs on the information behaviour of the elderly in Nigeria. Specifically, the research objectives for this paper addressed the Information needs of the elderly; sources of Information frequently consulted by the elderly; types of ICTs often used by the elderly; factors challenging the elderly in meeting their information needs, seeking and use using ICTs. Findings revealed that the information needs of the elderly are diverse, differ from person to person. The elderly was equally faced with personal challenges such as old age syndromes covering anxieties, disabilities, nervousness, and lack of good eyesight that affected their ICT usage.
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Maduka, Olisaemeka, Chris Kalu, and B. Chinwendu Onugha. "Political Stability, Quality of Governance and Stock Market Performance in Nigeria: A VECM Approach." International Journal of Innovative Research in Education, Technology and Social Strategies 10, no. 2 (2023): 150–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.48028/iiprds/ijiretss.v10.i2.13.
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Governance structure is riddled with rent-seeking behaviour by public agents, public institutions are not only ineffective and retroactive but there is also no regards to rule of law, no accountability and above policy inconsistencies which affects the economy including vibrant development of the stock market. This paper examined the impact of political stability and quality of governance market performance in Nigeria from 1986-2022. The variables of this study are credit to the private sector, gross domestic product, inflation, and investment (domestic), and broad money supply. The other variables are political stability, quality of governance government expenditure, unemployment and value of stocks traded. The data for these variables were sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin and the National Bureau of Statistics of various years. This paper was anchored on the efficient market hypothesis and the impulse response function and variance decomposition was used. The result suggested that market capitalization was strongly endogenous in the short-run predicting itself about 93 percent and 86 to 85 percent in the long-run while a one standard deviation of shock from gross domestic product to market capitalization continuously decreased from periods 1 to 10. The conclusion from the analysis of the findings is that political stability and quality of governance impacted on stock market performance. This paper recommended economy-wide reforms tom stem the impact of negative shock on the economy and stock market.
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OBATOYINBO Abdul-Ganiyu, ZAMANI Andrew, Adedokun Adeniyi Nureni, and ONIBIYO Rotimi Ezekiel. "Deradicalisation and national security." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 19, no. 1 (2023): 1545–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.1.1486.
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There is no gainsaying that the Northeast of Nigeria is extensively riddled by extreme views and violence, oiled by poverty, literacy disconnect, unregulated radical clerics, ungoverned spaces, widening literacy gap, and unemployment confronting the population and these further aggravate the vulnerability of Nigeria’s national security. It was against this background that this study adopted the reintegrative shaming theory to investigate the nexus between deradicalisation and national security. This study decomposed national security into terrorism and proliferation of small arms and light weapons, using the lens of deradicalisation process under Operation Safe Corridor and Sulhu. This study employed exploratory research design with reliance on publicly available archive documents. The study relies solely on secondary data. The research is conducted by examining literature concerning deradicalisation, terrorism and small and light weapon proliferation. The literature was obtained through searches in publicly available material. Literature from non-serial publications, official reports, and conferences has been included particularly if they have been cited by other references in connection with national security. Findings from the study showed that deradicalisation positively influence counterterrorism campaign by the military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies.Result from study also showed that deradicalisation influence onproliferation of small arms and light weapon remained largely unsettled. The study recommends that government should create holistic buy-ins into the operation safe corridor, whichshould be broadened and not siloed as presently seen in Nigeria by the military, which has a low buy in point, for local community involvement. The study also recommends the Nigeria Security architecture should encourage decentralization of commands and control closer to the people by unbundling security from exclusive list into the concurrent list, so as to properly situate security closer to the people and not the elite alone.
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Aondofa Ikyer, Godwin, and Bassey U. Bassey. "The Oral Thing and its Digital Double in Contemporary Tiv Society: The step Forward of Ashi Waves F.M Radio, Katsina-Ala, Nigeria." Ahyu: A Journal of Language and Literature 2 (December 4, 2021): 72–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.56666/ahyu.v2i.69.
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Oral artistic expressions, in their various categories like myths, legends, riddles, proverbs, folktales etc however, seem to be disappearing in the wake of urban, cross-cultural hybridism, industrial modes of production, and the encroachments of scientific and technological scales of reference. The closely-knit oral society of the group is gradually fading away, as learning has become less restricted to the authority of memory to transmit from elders to the young ones. There temporary seems to be a ‘dead end’ to oral arts and cultures. The vibrancy of the oral artistic expressions, however, has emerged and morphed into new patterns in the new media thereby creating verdant fields and platforms for interrogating the African oral art and making meaning in the contemporary computer-mediated society. The oral thing has gained a digital double (specify what this means) in its multi-mediated orality in the electronic studios as they help shape arts and culture in Africa. This paper examines the synergy of oral artistic productions and the new media in Tiv society by exploring the implications in the ‘co-habitation’, and the vistas and potentialities of this digital double. The paper posits that the digital double, as facilitated by Ashi Waves F.M Radio, Benue State, Nigeria, points to the future of the oral artistic product and its cultural reconstruction, as postcolonial societies continue to embrace technological innovations creating their own stories.
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Madueke, Kingsley L., and Floris F. Vermeulen. "Frontiers of Ethnic Brutality in an African City: Explaining the Spread and Recurrence of Violent Conflict in Jos, Nigeria." Africa Spectrum 53, no. 2 (2018): 37–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000203971805300203.
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There is considerable consensus among scholars of ethnic riots that ethnically mixed areas are more prone to collective violence than segregated ones. The conclusion is based on studies that compare levels of violence between segregated and mixed localities. While this addresses disparities between settlements of dissimilar ethnic composition, variations in the spread of violence across ethnically mixed areas remain a mystery. Seeking to explicate these variations, we propose an approach that examines not only the ethnic composition of a neighbourhood, but also its location in relation to adjoining neighbourhoods of similar or dissimilar ethnic makeup and their shared boundaries. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Jos, a violence-ridden Nigerian city, we demonstrate that ethnically mixed areas located between segregated ones experience more incidents of violence than mixed neighbourhoods not comparably located. Our findings have both academic and practical implications.
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Opara, Kelvin Chibenumoso. "The playwright and social justice in Nigeria: A study of Femi Osofisan’s ‘Once Upon Four Robbers’." Integrity Journal of Arts and Humanities 4, no. 5 (2023): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.31248/ijah2023.090.
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Playwrights play a pivotal role in championing equal justice within society. Through the dynamic medium of drama, they address pressing social issues and work towards catalyzing positive societal change. This qualitative study examines the playwright's role in advocating for social justice in Nigeria using Femi Osofisan's Once Upon Four Robbers with a Marxist theoretical framework. The research unveils the moral ambiguity surrounding the government-sponsored military execution of the armed robbery gang leader. It contends that this action lacks justification, given that these individuals turned to crime due to the government's failure to provide opportunities for the youth, raising questions about the government's legitimacy in administering justice while perpetuating conditions of injustice. In response, the study recommends that in societies riddled with social injustice, playwrights must diligently fulfil their role as social commentators, fostering positive change for the greater good. It stresses that playwrights should not compromise their societal responsibilities but instead advocate for constructive reforms and offer solutions to prevailing societal challenges. This can only be achieved when writers fully recognize their roles as change agents in society. This research therefore underscores the vital role of playwrights in advocating for social justice, especially in contexts where systemic issues threaten equality and fairness.
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Bebeji, Umar Sani, Hussaini Bala, and Hassan Bala. "THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR ISLAMIC BANKING AND THE QUEST FOR FINANCIAL INCLUSION IN NIGERIA." Jurnal Syariah 28, no. 3 (2020): 501–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/js.vol28no3.6.
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The banking sector is the backbone of every economy. It determines not only the pace of growth of modern economic systems, but also the prosperity of nations. But its reliance on interest, liberal prudential guidelines and its very capitalist foundation make it incompatible with Islamic law – the faith practiced predominantly in some regions of Nigeria. Securing loans for investments comes with cut-throat conditions, riddled with cases of fraudulent and unfair practices. As a way around this, scholars began to think of how to expurgate those elements considered incompatible with the Shariah. Since the enactment of the Banks and Other Financial Institution’s Decree in 1991, which vaguely introduced the profit loss sharing principle of banking, nothing tangible was done to give effect to the provisions until 2011 when the Non-Interest Financial (NIFI) Services Guidelines was issued by the CBN. As a result of this development Jaiz Bank PLC was granted a license as a regional full-fledged Islamic bank, which metamorphosed into a national bank. This, however, was not without resistance as manifested in a suit against the CBN for issuing the guidelines. The paper, thus, attempts an analysis of the legal framework and how it can push up financial inclusion in Nigeria, adopting the doctrinal methodology approach to examine legislation, case-law and existing literature. It highlights some of the approaches of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and efforts to make the legal and institutional framework favourable for Islamic banking to thrive so that the substantial Muslim population can be brought into the formal financial stream to access funds for investments without upsetting the fundamental teachings of Islam. It further argues that that there is a strong correlation between the inadequacy of legal support for Islamic banking and high rate of financial exclusion particularly in the Muslim-dominated communities. Similarly, it reveals that there is not a shred of rational basis for the opposition to Islamic banking in Nigeria as it does not seek to foster any sinister agenda of “Islamising” the polity. As Nigeria is trying to push for more financial inclusion, Islamic banking can help improve existing credit delivery mechanisms for effective outreach to the teeming excluded population of Muslims. It, therefore, strongly recommends that a comprehensive legislation be enacted by the National Assembly (NASS) of Nigeria to support the prospects of this novel and popular banking model and also help promote and protect investments in the area. This will shove off financial inclusion in many ways.
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Mahdavi, Paasha. "Scraping Public Co-Occurrences for Statistical Network Analysis of Political Elites." Political Science Research and Methods 7, no. 2 (2017): 385–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2017.28.
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Collecting network information on political elites using conventional methods such as surveys and text records is challenging in authoritarian and/or conflict-ridden states. I introduce a data collection method for elite networks using scraping algorithms to capture public co-appearances at political and social events. Validity checks using existing data show the method effectively replicates interaction-based networks but not networks based on behavioral similarities; in both cases, measurement error remains a concern. Applying the method to Nigeria illustrates that patronage—measured in terms of public connectivity—does not drive national oil companies appointments. Given that theories of elite behavior aim to understand individual-level interactions, the applicability of data using this technique is well-suited to situations where intrusive data collection is costly or prohibitive.
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Friday Ojonugwa, Agbo. "The challenges of internally displaced persons and the way forward: the Nigerian experience." University of Cape Coast Law Journal 1, no. 1 (2021): 17–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/ucclj.v1i1.221.
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Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are usually forced to flee or leave their homes, particularly in situations of armed conflict. They are displaced within their national territories and are generally subject to heightened suffering and vulnerability in many cases. It is also essential to state that the issue of internal displacement has become prominent because of the realisation that peace and reconstruction in conflict-ridden societies depend on the effective settlement and reintegration of displaced persons. Nigeria is a country that has a history of conflicts and displaced people. There has been a challenge in finding lasting peace through the employment of conflict resolution techniques and also the challenge of catering for the welfare of internally displaced persons in the country. However, peace and development without taking into account the settlement, return, and reintegration of IDPs. These desirous objectives are proving quite difficult in Nigeria as many challenges confront the government, policymakers, and humanitarian NGOs in providing the IDPs with their rights and needs. Some of the challenges can easily be overcome while some are more tasking requiring concerted efforts and massive resources to overcome. The aim of this article is to highlights the significant challenges confronting IDPs and provides some solutions to these challenges. In adopting the doctrinal method in discussions, the article finds that enormous challenges abound that confront IDPs in Nigeria, and it finds that there is the need for the government to find urgent solutions to the challenges of IDPs for the wellbeing of IDPs
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Kanma-Okafor, Oluchi, Yetunde Odusolu, Akin Abayomi, et al. "A qualitative analysis of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Lagos, Nigeria: Client and provider perspectives on the plan, the process and the progress." PLOS Global Public Health 2, no. 11 (2022): e0000486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000486.
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Mass vaccination has proven useful in the control of COVID-19, though vaccine rollout has met major challenges. The learning curve of this process has been valuable. This qualitative study aimed to assess the plan, the process and the progress of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Lagos, Nigeria. This study was conducted at vaccination centers in eight of the 20 Local Government Areas in Lagos State from May to July 2021 among healthcare administrators, health workers and vaccine recipients. Data were collected by conducting three key informant interviews, 24 in-depth interviews and eight focus group discussions to explore the vaccination experiences of participants and the challenges facing the vaccination plan and process. The interviews and discussions were recorded, transcribed verbatim and analyzed using the thematic approach. The four-phased plan for the vaccine rollout was clear to all the key informants because the vaccination process was preceded by training. The process was strengthened by the electronic registration system, though riddled by the frequently unstable electronic and internet data capturing. This was mitigated by a stopgap manual registration and recording of client details. Challenges in the logistics of maintaining supplies of the disposable materials required for the vaccination process were overcome by the creativity of the health professionals. Vaccine hesitancy, fueled by misinformation, myths and misconceptions about the vaccine and its side effects, played a huge role in the community response. The reported vaccine side effects were mild; fever, headaches, pain at the injection site, excessive eating and sleepiness. Though the COVID-19 vaccination process appeared to have largely made progress, the future of vaccination in Nigeria is predicated upon a bottom-up approach to programmatic planning, health education and local vaccine production. Collaborations such as public-private partnerships have the potential of boosting vaccine provision for Nigeria’s large population to ensure equitable access to vaccines.
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Obioha, Emeka E. "Becoming a Street Child in Poverty Ridden Society: A Descriptive Case of Kaduna Metropolis, Nigeria." Journal of Social Sciences 19, no. 1 (2009): 41–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09718923.2009.11892689.
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Ukala, Catherine Chinyere, and Ogar G. Agabi. "Linking Early Childhood Education With Indigenous Education Using Gamification: The Case Of Maintaining Cultural Value And Identity." Journal of International Education Research (JIER) 13, no. 1 (2017): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jier.v13i1.9960.
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Cultural values and identities remain the bench mark for national identity, cohesion, patriotism and harmonious co-existence in any society. The introduction of western education into west Africa created a weak bridge between the indigenous education and the western education which needs to be properly linked using curriculum harmonisation. This paper examines how far the curriculum of early childhood education in Nigeria link with indigenous education which is the child first point of learning. Four research questions guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey design with a population of 655 public primary schools that house early childhood centers spread across the 23 local government areas of Rivers State. A sample size of 164 head teachers in early childhood centers was drawn using stratified random sampling technique representing 25% of the population. Questionnaire which was validated was used as the instrument and the reliability yielded an index of 0.81. Mean and rank order scores were used to answer the research questions. The findings revealed among others, that methodologies that used gamification can be linked with early childhood education and indigenous education. These include storytelling, riddles, animal clowning, demonstration, stone counting, and local farm tools by the teachers. This implies that the teachers are aware of the ways gamification can be used to link early childhood education with indigenous education but do not use most of these methods probably it is not highlighted in their scheme of work. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended that the western curriculum should be developed base on an indigenous knowledge of early childhood in teacher training institution curriculum for early childhood education.
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Awwal, Ladan Muhammad, GarbaSaleh Ngaski, SaniDalhatu Khalid, Sani Muhammad Hadiza, and Muhammad Awwal Farouk. "Pressure Ulcer Stages among Bed-Ridden Patients in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria- Nigeria." IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science 3, no. 1 (2014): 61–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/1959-03146168.
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Amali, I. O. O. "Using Idoma cultural puzzle and number riddle game (odiyonee) in the development of children’s cognitive ability among Idoma-Nigerians: bilingual approach." New Educational Review 42, no. 4 (2015): 200–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/tner.2015.42.4.17.
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Animasawun, Gbemisola Abdul-Jeleel, and Adegboyega Adedolapo Ola. "Securing Peace in the Indigene-Settler Crisis of Jos, Nigeria: A Case for Second-Generation Security Approaches." Àgídìgbo: ABUAD Journal of the Humanities 1, no. 1 (2013): 10–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.53982/agidigbo.2013.0101.02-j.
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The frequency and brutish nature of violent conflicts especially those rooted in contestations oyer autochthony and land in many post-colonial African nation-states have exposed the limited capability of the Police to contain such crises: thereby necessitating the deployment of the military to such conflict-ridden communities. Sequel to the inability of the Police to contain communal conflicts that have threatened peace and security since the inception of its fourth-republic in Plateau State, Nigeria's federal government found it imperative to draft the military to the state. Despite military presence, the indigene-settler crisis continues apace defined by guerrilla tactics which often makes it challenging for the military to enforce order. Using two instances of such bloody clashes to illustrate the security-promotion challenges confronting the first-generation approach currently in place as depicted by military presence, the article canvasses for a shift from first-generation approaches of security promotion to second-generation approaches that are context and locale-specific towards sustainable peace and security.
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EGBE, OLAWARI D. J. "NATURAL RESOURCE ENDOWMENT AND YOUTH EDUCATION DYSFUNCTION IN BAYELSA STATE." WILBERFORCE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 3, no. 1 (2018): 67–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.36108/wjss/8102.30.0150.
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This paper investigates an uncommon and lackluster attitude towards education among youths of Bayelsa State. The Rentier State Theory (RST) is adopted as its theoretical handle. Primary and secondary sources of information were deployed in the study; with 20 randomly sampled communities of four local government areas of Bayelsa State. The paper makes an interesting insight into a rare connection between natural resource endowment and youth education, even as part of a growing concern on how to take youth away from criminality and violent conflicts in many complex conflict-ridden societies. Nigeria, and in particular, Bayelsa State need to make more effort at making education a key instrument in both national and sub-national development. The paper identifies rents/royalties from oil and gas in Bayelsa State as the major culprit. Furthermore, it assertsthat life of flamboyance and affluence without commensurate hard work, has caused disdain for education among the youths of Bayelsa State.
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Heerten, Lasse. "Biafras of the Mind: French Postcolonial Humanitarianism in Global Conceptual History." American Historical Review 126, no. 4 (2021): 1448–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab532.
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Abstract After a long period of neglect, historians have rediscovered the humanitarian crisis in the famine-ridden secessionist Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70). The recent historiography is spurred by the growing interest in the histories of human rights and humanitarianism. While critical of narratives about the Biafran crisis as a “myth of origins” of Doctors Without Borders, the historiography of Biafra, particularly on the French case, remains calibrated to this perspective: “doing history backwards,” it projects a genealogy of the humanitarianism of the present into the past. To provide a different reading, this article proposes to historicize the Biafran moment more thoroughly through an expanded form of global conceptual history that combines textual and visual analysis with a focus on multiple temporalities. As the article aims to show, such a “history in the plural” based on the work of German conceptual historian Reinhart Koselleck is particularly promising for dealing with the complex temporalities that global historical research requires. Global conceptual history can help historians move beyond stories of the origins of “our present” and at the same time develop a better understanding of the contemporary era’s specific conditions.
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Martino, Enrique. "Dash-peonage: the contradictions of debt bondage in the colonial plantations of Fernando Pó." Africa 87, no. 1 (2017): 53–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972016000693.
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AbstractDashin pidgin English means an ancillary gift to an exchange. What happened when thedashbecame attached to the indentured labour contracts that the Spanish Empire brought from Cuba to their last colony, Spanish Guinea? On the island of Fernando Pó, which came to be almost wholly populated by Nigerian labour migrants, the conditional gift in the form of a large wage advance produced a particularly intense contradiction. In the historiography of unfree labour, the excess wage advance is thought to create conditions for the perpetuation of bondage through debt. However, in imperial contexts, the wage advance did not generate compliance and immobility; exactly the opposite – it produced unprecedented waves of further escalation and dispersed flight. Thedashwas pushed up by workers themselves and relayed by informal recruiters. Together they turned this lynchpin of indentured labour and debt peonage into a counter-practice that almost led to the collapse of the plantations in the 1950s. The trajectories of thedashled to a more pointed version of the foundational thesis of global labour history: namely, that it was actually free labour, not unfree labour, that was incompatible with labour scarcity-ridden imperial capitalism.
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Daniel, Otobo D., Okoro I. Ngozi, and Meshack Daniel. "The role of Poct in delivery of standard care in war ridden and terrorized regions, in Nigeria." International Journal of Advanced Biochemistry Research 5, no. 1 (2021): 12–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.33545/26174693.2021.v5.i1a.58.
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Egbon, Osamuyimen, and Chijoke Oscar Mgbame. "Examining the accounts of oil spills crises in Nigeria through sensegiving and defensive behaviours." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 33, no. 8 (2020): 2053–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-12-2018-3794.
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PurposeThe paper examines how oil multinational companies (MNCs) in Nigeria framed accounts to dissociate themselves from causing oil spills.Design/methodology/approachThe authors utilised data from relevant corporate reports, external accounts and interviews, and used sensegiving with defensive behaviours theoretical framing to explore corporate narratives aimed at altering stakeholders' perceptions.FindingsThe corporations gave sense to their audience by invoking scapegoating blame avoidance narrative in attributing the cause of most oil spills in Nigeria to outsiders (sabotage), despite potentially misclassifying the sabotage-corrosion dichotomy. Corporate stance was reinforced through justifying narrative, which suggested that multi-stakeholders jointly determined the causes of oil spills, thus portraying corporate accounts as transparent, credible and objective.Research limitations/implicationsThe socio-political dynamics in an empirical setting affect corporate accounts and how those accounts appear persuasive, implying that such contextual factors merit consideration when evaluating corporate accounts. For example, despite contradictions in corporate accounts, corporate attribution of oil spills to external factors appeared persuasive due to the inherently complicated socio-political dynamics.Practical implicationsWith compensation to oil spills' victims only legally permitted for non-sabotage-induced spills alongside the burden of proof on the victims, the MNCs are incentivised to attribute most oil spills to sabotage. On policy implication, accountability would be best served when the MNCs are tasked both with the burden of proof and a responsibility to demonstrate their transparency in preventing oil spills, including those caused by sabotage.Originality/valueCrisis situations generate multiple and competing perspectives, but sensegiving and defensive behaviours lenses enrich our understanding of how crisis-ridden companies frame narratives to alter stakeholders' perceptions. Accounts-giving therefore partly satisfies accountability demands, and acts as sensegiving signals aimed at reframing/redefining existing perceptions.
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Sokari, Victor, and Adewale Idowu Harrison. "COVID-19 and the State of Conflict-Induced Internally Displaced Persons in North-Eastern Borno State of Nigeria." WILBERFORCE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 8, no. 2 (2023): 22–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.36108/wjss/3202.80.0220.
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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had adverse effects on the health and socio-economic lives of people all over the world. These effects could be disproportionately felt by vulnerable populations of which conflict-induced internally displaced persons (IDPs) are part of. While attention is often focused on the effect of the pandemic on other populations, vulnerable populations like the IDPs are often neglected. This article fills this gap by examining the state of conflict-induced IDPs in conflict-ridden Borno State of Nigeria in the face of the pandemic. The article adopts an exploratory research design and the qualitative method, using primary data sourced from semi-structured interviews, and analyses the data using discourse analysis. Findings show that given the living conditions in the IDP camps, social/physical distancing was difficult to practice, that special measures were put in place to protect IDPs from contracting the virus; that the lockdown occasioned by COVID-19 had an adverse effect on the welfare of IDPs; and that the pandemic brought new health and safety challenges in the IDP camps, but not security challenges. The article concludes that the pandemic had adversely impacted the lives of conflict-induced IDPs, albeit, it had not spread among them.
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Isaac, Ubong Iniobong. "INNOVATIVE APPROACHES THROUGH INTERFAITH DIALOGUE FOR RESOLVING FARMERS-HERDERS DISPUTES IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA’S SELECTED COMMUNITIES." American Journal of Interdisciplinary Innovations and Research 6, no. 7 (2024): 20–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajiir/volume06issue07-04.
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This study explores the farmer-herder conflict in Southwest Nigeria and the potential of interfaith dialogue as a novel approach to achieving sustainable peace. The paper argues that traditional methods of conflict resolution have proven inadequate and highlights the transformative potential of dialogue in fostering empathy, understanding, and collaboration between these often-antagonistic groups. Drawing on a multi-pronged methodological approach that combines secondary source analysis with primary data collected through interviews with key stakeholders, the research delves into the root causes of the conflict, including population growth, resource scarcity, and historical grievances. The paper emphasizes the devastating consequences of these clashes, including internal displacement, livelihood destruction, and loss of life. Through the lens of Leonard Swidler's Decalogue of Dialogue, the study outlines a framework for interfaith dialogue initiatives. This framework emphasizes open communication, mutual respect, a willingness to learn from each other, and a commitment to finding common ground. The research highlights the importance of addressing underlying grievances while also promoting innovative solutions such as sustainable cattle rearing practices and collaborative land-use policies. The study concludes that by implementing interfaith dialogue strategies alongside educational components, economic incentives for peaceful coexistence, and social interaction programs, stakeholders can cultivate a culture of peace and build a more prosperous future for all communities involved. This research contributes to the field of conflict resolution by advocating for a nuanced approach that acknowledges the religious dimensions of the farmer-herder conflict while emphasizing the importance of intergroup dialogue and collaboration. The emphasis on interfaith dialogue as a tool for peace-building offers a valuable addition to existing scholarship on conflict resolution in Southwest Nigeria. Limitations of the study include its focus on a specific region and the reliance on self-reported data from interviews. Future research should explore the long-term effectiveness of interfaith dialogue initiatives and investigate their applicability in diverse cultural contexts. By continuing to refine and expand the toolkit of interfaith dialogue, scholars and practitioners can make significant strides towards fostering peace and social cohesion in conflict-ridden regions.
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Olalere, Dr Kunle Oluwafemi, and Mrs Temitope Ruth Adedokun. "Assessment of the Impact of the National Policy on Displacement on the Resettlement of Women and the Girl-Child in North-Eastern Nigeria." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science VII, no. VIII (2023): 683–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2023.7848.
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The resolution of conflicts and internecine wars across Africa has often proved enigmatic due to the failure to comprehend, articulate and activate an adequate framework for post-conflict reconstruction. Scholars like Laury Ocen, Olu Arowosegbe, and Elizabeth Mutunga admit that as seen in Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other conflict-ridden parts of Africa, post-conflict peace building must become integrative and indigenous in its approach especially as it relates to women and the girl-child. In Nigeria, there appears to be a prevalent difficulty in the interpretation and application of the National Policy on Displacement which unfortunately affects the wellbeing and procedure for the resettlement of displaced women and girl-child. In dissolving these concerns, the study therefore suggests that the roles of governments in rehabilitation and social reconstruction after conflicts as contained in its policy document, should be determined largely by an understanding of the peculiarities of the individuals and agencies involved in post-conflict justice, especially in terms of their worldview, culture and environment. It submits that this will undoubtedly assist in disparaging the monolithic disposition often adopted by governments or its agencies while at the same time assuaging the fears of displaced women and their children.
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Gaiya, Abel B. S. "When Anti-Corruption Meets Industrial Policy: Nigeria’s EFCC’s Function Creep into Industrial Policy Enforcement." Advances in Politics and Economics 7, no. 3 (2024): p1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/ape.v7n3p1.
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Industrial policy in countries characterized by high levels of unproductive and disorganized corruption is, unsurprisingly, also ridden with high levels of corruption. With dispersed distributions of power, it is more difficult to create and maintain pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness to drive successful industrial policy. This is the case in Nigeria. There has, however, been no research into the involvement of its premier anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in industrial policy enforcement. The article identifies this phenomenon through news reports and proposes avenues for empirical research and policy experimentation. The EFCC has, over years, been involved with development loan recoveries, local content policy enforcement and infrastructure contract enforcement. These have often been at the invitation of the relevant implementing agencies which often display inundation with the enforcement challenge. Its substantial investigative and prosecutorial capabilities acquired from anti-corruption activities in a highly corrupt country have made it a key agency for others to call when help with enforcement is needed. There are some indications of propositions to institutionalize or regularize the EFCC’s involvement in local content policy and infrastructure contract enforcement, but no serious attention has been paid to these in the literature or news circles.
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Soomiyol, Mnguashima Valentina, and Olushola Fadairo. "Climate-induced conflicts and livelihoods of farming households in Nigeria: lessons from farmers-herdsmen conflict-ridden communities in Benue State." Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica 53, no. 2 (2020): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ats-2020-0010.
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AbstractHelping conflict-affected persons requires an understanding of conflict impacts on their livelihoods. Hence, effects of farmers-herdsmen land-use conflict on livelihoods of farming households in Benue State were investigated. Data were collected from 110 farming households in Guma and Logo Local Government Areas (LGA) using interview schedule and focus group discussion. Most (56.4%) respondents were male, aged 51.6 ± 1.6 years, cultivated 9.14 ± 5.75 acres of farm size and had been involved in farming for 27.7 ± 14.16 years. The majority (>90%) experienced high degree of exposure to conflict incidences such as destruction of properties, homelessness and poor access to market. The respondents indicated a high effect of land-use conflict on farming households’ livelihoods (81.8%) and land availability/use (>50%) following conflict regime induced by climate change. All respondents perceived the anti-open grazing prohibition law as a right step to reducing conflict occurrence. There was no significant difference in the effects of farmers-herdsmen land-use conflict on livelihood of farming households in Guma and Logo LGA (t = 0.051). Farming households were highly vulnerable to the effects of farmers-herders conflict and are supportive of the current local authority’s prohibition of open grazing. A concerted effort involving religious institutions, government and non-governmental organisations including persuasion of herders to consider other options of livestock production such as ranching or settlement scheme would add impetus to the on-going efforts to resolve the conflict.
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Kraamwinkel, Nadine, Hans Ekbrand, Stefania Davia, and Adel Daoud. "The influence of maternal agency on severe child undernutrition in conflict-ridden Nigeria: Modeling heterogeneous treatment effects with machine learning." PLOS ONE 14, no. 1 (2019): e0208937. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208937.
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Kolade, Oluwaseun. "Venturing under fire." Education + Training 60, no. 7/8 (2018): 749–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/et-08-2017-0124.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how a new entrepreneurship education (EE) intervention offered at conflict-ridden Maiduguri, Nigeria, is having transformative impacts through new venture creation and poverty reduction. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a single case study approach, drawing from in-depth interviews of participants, experts, and facilitators of the entrepreneurship training, in addition to relevant memos and documents. Findings The findings indicate that the EE programme is, by generating awareness and facilitating skill development, contributing to new venture creation, poverty reduction, and positive change in mindset. However, the impact is limited by inadequate support through venture capital and limited facilities for business incubation. Research limitations/implications This study is limited in its focus on EE provided for university undergraduates and graduates. Further research should explore interventions aimed at less-educated youth in the region, and in other conflict contexts. Social implications The study suggests that EE facilitates youth empowerment through venture creation, in the process transforming them from aggrieved outsiders to active stakeholders in societal peace and national prosperity. Originality/value The nascent theory of transformative entrepreneuring identifies poverty reduction and conflict resolution as the main mechanisms. This paper focuses on how EE triggers new venture creation, which in turn contributes to poverty reduction and overall change in mindset of otherwise unemployed and aggrieved youths.
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Jason, Ossai O., Graham Nsiegbe, and Nnadozie Juliet Chidinma. "Kidnapping and Socio-Economic Development in Rivers State between 2009-2019." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 8, no. 4 (2023): 42–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.56201/ijssmr.v8.no4.2022.pg42.63.
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Socio-economic processes and developmental aspirations of a country or region are usually challenged by a myriad of criminal and conflict-ridden activities, especially in 3 rd world countries of Africa and particularly in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. This paper examines kidnapping and socio-economic development of Rivers State, between 2009-2019. The paper adopted the structural-choice theory as its theoretical foundation. The design of the paper is based on the survey research design; as such data was generated quantitatively via the use of a 4 point likert scale questionnaire administered on 400 respondents which represented the sample size of the study. The sample size was determined using the Taro Yamene formula. Additional data which supplemented those generated via the questionnaire was gotten through interviews and other textual materials. The study was guide by a single hypothesis which was tested using a chi-square(x 2 ) at a critical value of 5% (0.05) level of significance while data was analyzed using the simple percentage statistical method. The paper revealed that there is a strong relationship between kidnapping and socio-economic development in Rivers State between, 2009-2019. Accordingly, the paper recommends amongst others; government should put mechanisms in place that will engage the youths in compulsory education and skills acquisition while social infrastructural facilities be maintained to improve human capital index and also assist in wealth creation.
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OLAWOYIN, Kayode Wakili, and Olawale Olufemi AKINRINDE. "Examining the Globalist and Marxian Groundworks on Human Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century: Insights from Nigeria and South Africa." BULLETIN OF "CAROL I" NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY 12, no. 4 (2024): 175–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.53477/2284-9378-23-56.
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This study probes into the globalist and Marxian perspectives on human insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa,with a particular focus on Nigeria and South Africa. By employing a case-study methodology and data from relevant secondary and archival sources, the study seeks to understand the effects of globalization, globalist ideologies, and Marxist ideologies on human insecurity in the region. While previous studies have primarily attributed human insecurity in Africa to internal factors, such as corruption, self-destructive public policies, poverty, environmental degradation, militancy, and insurgency, the globalist and Marxist contexts of the insecurity have received limited scholarly attention. While findings partly confirm that most human insecurities in the region are largely influenced by internal factors, the global environment, encompassing job insecurity, global warming, deadly viruses and pandemics, transnational crimes, drugs, and interstate conflict, also plays a significant role. The study further uncovers the exploitative, oppressive, and conflict-ridden interactions between the bourgeoisie and proletariats in Sub-Saharan Africa, thereby contributing to unfairness, deprivation, and conflicts that usually morph into human insecurity. To mitigate human insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, the study proposes a collaborative global approach and a more equitable distribution of resources within the state. Understanding the globalist and Marxian foundations of human insecurity can provide valuable insights for policymakers and stakeholders in devising comprehensive strategies to address this pressing issue in the region.
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Moji, Rebecca Ashikor, Grace Terdoo Waya Ijoyah, and Joy Ojorumi Ijoyah. "Causes and Effects of Marital Conflict on Educational and Social Development of Primary School Pupils in the North-West Zone B Educational District, Benue State, Nigeria: Teachers Perception." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 53 (June 2015): 101–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.53.101.
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The study investigated the causes and effects of marital conflict, as perceived by teachers, on the educational and social development of pupils in primary schools. A sample size of 400 respondents (255 males and 145 females) were drawn from the entire population in the seven local government areas of the district. The survey research design was adopted for the study. The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire based on Teachers Perception on Marital conflict (TPMCO). The data collected were subjected to mean evaluation, while the chi-square (X2) was used to test hypothesis. The findings revealed that 55.0 % of teachers agreed that infidelity was the major cause of marital conflict with the highest mean value of 4.27, followed by poor communication between couple having 30.5 % of respondents, with a mean value of 3.92. The deprivation of instructional materials, followed by poor academic performance respectively, with the mean values of 4.82 and 3.94, were perceived by teachers, in order of ranking, as the most serious issues affecting the educational and social development of primary school pupils as a result of marital conflict. Love followed by encouragement were perceived by teachers to be the major ways in improving the educational and social development of pupils from conflict ridden homes. On hypothesis testing, marital conflict significantly (P≤0.05) affected the educational and social development of pupils, thus null hypothesis was rejected, while the alternate hypothesis was accepted.
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Vincent Chuks, Maduekwe,. "The Infallibility of Supreme Court Verdicts and Sustainable Democracy in Nigeria." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 04, no. 08 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v4-i8-27.
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The Supreme Court is final not because it is infallible; but it is infallible because it is final” – this status quo of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and its application in various electoral cases, especially in the just concluded 2019 general elections in Nigeria has aroused mixed feelings and raised questions on the credibility of the Nigerian Judiciary and its capability of enshrining sustainable democracy in Nigeria. Meanwhile, according to the report of the Kayode Eso Panel on Reform of the Judiciary, the mindset of an average Nigerian is that “the Nigerian Judiciary hardly redeems itself from the unfortunate image it acquired during the military interregnum when it was described as a judiciary in patent chaos, riddled with corrupt Judges and in need of urgent and radical reform”. This study which sought to explore the infallibility of the Supreme Court and sustainable democracy in Nigeria; the effect of the infallibility of the Supreme Court verdicts on sustainable democracy in Nigeria; and the effects of bribery and corruption of the Supreme Court Justices on sustainable democracy in Nigeria, is an exploratory research which employed qualitative method of research and adopted the Transitional Jurisprudence Model as propounded by Ruti Teitel (2015) to analyze these. The study found that the bribery and corruption of the Supreme Court Justices has significant effect on sustainable democracy in Nigeria; and that the infallibility of the Supreme Court verdicts have significant effect on sustainable democracy in Nigeria. The study recommends among others that there is need for the independence and accountability of the Judiciary with the other arms of the government in Nigeria.
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Akanle, Olayinka, and Olukunle Babafemi Oladosu. "Youth Restiveness and Entrepreneurial Orientations in Ijora-Badia, Lagos, Nigeria: A Development Approach." IBADAN JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 8, no. 2 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.36108/ijss/0102.80.0210.
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Conflict and restiveness have become so endemic in Nigeria to the extent that Nigeria is commonly known at home and internationally as a crisis ridden nation. To demonstrate this, the federal government o(Nigeria has earmarked at least one-third of its national budget for the year 20l2for security and conflict management. lf the real dynamics and trajectories of the Nigerian conflict are not understood, the budget provision and other resources will be useless ultimately. Unfortunately, 11I0stof the drivers and armies of the conflicts are youths. It is against this background that this article explored the subject of youth restiveness and the entrepreneurial options in the country. The article was empirically based 011data collected through questionnaires, IDIs and FGDs. Important findings were made and useful conclusions reached in this article.
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Orabueze, Florence O., Victor O. Ukaogo, Ifeyinwa David-Ojukwu, Godstime Irene Eze, and Chiamaka I. Orabueze. "Reminiscence on #EndSARS Protests of 2020 in Nigeria." Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 13, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.11.
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Every misfortune of the black man, particularly in Africa, has been blamed on the Europeans because of Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and colonization of different parts of Africa. However, the present study on the #EndSARS protests that rocked Nigeria between October and November 2020 has proven that Africans, particularly Nigerians, should bear the burden of their problems and not point accusing fingers on foreigners. The study uses historical theoretical framework and qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to find out that the protest has an affinity, albeit in a milder degree, to the various agitations, including Boko Haram that have levied wars on the country. The corruption-riddled Nigeria and the re-enslavement and re-colonization of the citizens by the leaders have fired resistance in the youths of the country and it concludes that the only way the protest and agitations would stop is when the fundamental causes are addressed.