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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Over the years, Nigeria has experienced series of attacks and blests in most parts of the country. The violent agitations by militants in the Niger Delta” (MEND). So many splinter groups hide under this body to carry out their nefarious acts of rebellion against the Nigerian state to express their grievances over the degradations of their environment through the operation of the ...

ABSTRACT Dependency and underdevelopment in Africa is our main thrust which we try to relate the above to the Nigerian context. Dependency as we all know is a product of underdevelopment which is prevalent in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. It is certain that Nigeria is an independent nation, but it does not reflect in all the facts in the society since the super structures that form the ...

ABSTRACT This study examines the role of private agencies in the promotion of mass literacy campaign in Oredo Local Government Area. Private agencies was seen as playing a complementary role with the government agencies in mass literacy crusade aimed at eradicating illiteracy from the locality and the society in general. The instruments used for gathering the data were: questionnaire, oral interview and documentary sources. The study was based on the ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Nigeria became an independent nation on the 1st of October 1960. A country richly endowed with monumental geographical and diverse natural resources ranging from crude oil to gas (natural), coal al, et. Nigeria possesses potential market ability for rapid economic development. However, inspite of these obvious resources and its advantage, Nigeria remains a poor and underdeveloped country. Scholars have achieved and advanced ...

ABSTRACT This project is basically on the politicization of religion in Northern Nigeria and its effects on the Nigerian federalism. The essence of this study is to look at how religion is politicized in Nigeria and suggests possible ways of resolving its attendants problems on Nigerian federalism. The study is carried out using both the primary and secondary data methods, where questionnaire is used to sample the views of the ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1    Background of the Study The human race will never see the end of troubles until political power is entrusted to the lover of wisdom “Plato Republic”. My first approach to the challenge of this topic, is that we have no choice but to seed to return to the basic context in which Nigerians see the godfather or the conflicts as a segment of the political ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study The concept of godfatherism is firmly establishing itself as a guiding principle in contemporary Nigeria politics. Godfathers are generally defined as men who have the power personally to determine both who gets nominated to contest elections and who wins in the election. In the past, Nigerian society had fewer criminals that the judicial systems attempted to contend with in recent times, our judicial ...

INTRODUCTION In recent times, service delivery has been an issue of controversy in respect to the quality of service received by the public. A wide range of factors such as conservative bureaucracy, ethnicity and ethical considerations have been identified as a cul de sac to efficiency despite various government policy reforms in the public sector. The Nigeria public service is a vital government institution consisting of the staff of the ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The advent of internet and technology has exposed majority of the global population to different interactive platforms on which different kinds of information is exchanged which might significantly have effect on human behaviour, decision and judgment (CES, 2012). Social media are new information network and information technology using a form of communication utilizing interactive and user-produced content, and interpersonal relationships are created and ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Election is an integral part of a democratic process that enables the citizenry determine fairly and freely who should lead them at every level of government periodically and take decisions that shape their socio-economic and political destiny; and in case they falter, still possess the power to recall them or vote them out in the next election. This was Obakhedo, (2011) aptly ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      Background of the study Human security, in its extensive sense, covers far more than the absence of violent conflict. It comprises human rights, good governance, access to education and health care and making each individual has opportunities and choices to fulfill his or her potential. Human security, human right, etc reduces poverty and alsohelps in achieving economic growth and prevents conflict. Freedom from want, freedom from fear, ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Democracy in its true meaning is synonymous with grassroots democracy. Grassroots democracy is a people/community driven participation in elections, governance and decision making. Grassroots democracy can be seen as a tendency towards designing political processes where as much decision making authority as practical is shifted to the lowest level of organization. Thus, a local government is a government at the grassroots level ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1    Background of the Study In a statement on the 2015 Nigerian General Elections the Freedom House (2015a) congratulated Nigerians for an election that appears to be one of the smoothest and least violent in Nigeria‘s history and, hoped that the democratic transition occurs peacefully and with respect for human rights of all Yet, despite the positive remarks Nigeria was categorized as partly free‖ using ratings from political ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1    Background of the Study The advert of internet and technology has exposed majority of the global population to different interactive platforms on which different type of information is exchanged which might significantly have effect on human behavior, decision and judgment. No doubt, one of the most remarkable developments in the last century is the internet. This information super-high way has continued to revolutionalize the way ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Within the context of a complete break away from one-party and military dictatorships, African countries dived into competitive multiparty elections since the 1990s. Thus, as Ake puts it ‘Issues of democratization and human rights are increasingly the world’s interest in Africa overcoming a legacy of indifference to the fate of democracy on the continent’ (Ake, 1991:32). Many of these African states that allowed ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The golden pages of the New World Order bears that good governance and development are the desiderata of every state, which according to Western scholars can exclusively be achieved by upholding the tenets of democracy to which election remains it central nexus. As rightly noted by Gesset “the health of any democracy, no matter its type or status, depends on a small technical detail: ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The nature and condition of the financial relations in any federal system of government is crucial to the survival of such system. This, in most, if not all federal countries, one of the most constant sources of wrangles centres on the problem of securing adequate financial resources. Resources control is a very vital aspect of Fiscal federalism the very nature of Nigeria in terms of ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Africa politics has several unique features in our historical experience and contemporary times; this experience includes colonialism, Nationalism, independence, military rule, transition to democracy and consolidation of democracy. Colonial domination of the African countries started officially in the scramble for Africa at the British conference 184/1885 where Africa was partitioned among different spheres of influences by colonizing state. Britain, France, Portugal, Belgium and Germany. ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Any attempt made at holistically separating the twin concept of policy and programme may not yield the desired result as both are more or less intertwined on this note we shall attempt conceptualizing both terms in the context of this study. Be taken by government or private organisation1 the Oxford Advance Learner’s Dictionary of current English define policy as a plane of action, ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Virtually all the native races of Africa are represented in Nigeria, hence the great diversity of her people and culture. It was in Nigeria that the Bantu and Semi Bantu, migrating from southern and central Africa, intermingled with the Sudanese. Later, other groups such as Shuwa-Arabs, the Tuaregs, and the Fulani’s, who are concentrated in the far north, entered northern Nigeria in ...