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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In a democracy, election is a fundamental ingredient and a utmost test of political participation it is defined as a process of selecting officers and representatives of an organization by votes of its qualified members. The process gives the citizens the right to vote at regular intervals among competing leaders and policies (Bedlolman 1993). Also, election has been defined as a process ...

CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Nigeria is a nation with great vision and plans to the growth and development of its economy. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan assumed the office as the president of Nigeria on 29 may, 2011. So many has happened in his regime; the president (Goodluck Ebele Jonathan) with his team made a pladge to use the platform of the programs in transformation agenda to ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The role of foreign aid in the growth process of developing countries has been an issueof intense debate. Foreign aid is an important issue given its implications for poverty reduction in developing countries. Previous empirical studies on foreign aid and economic growth generate mixed results. For example, Addison, Mavrotas and McGillivray (2005)find evidence for positive impact of foreign aid on growth; Abegaz (2005) ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Presently, the call for freedom and democracy echoes across the globe. The world has witnessed phenomenal shift from authoritarian style of governance to democratic rule. The fact still remain that state is no longer interested in interacting with other state where democracy is not practiced just like student politics in various higher level of learning in Nigeria. The struggle for democratic government ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1    BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The INEC was established by section 153 of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution. It is responsible for organizing referendums and elections for president, vice president, state governors and deputy governors, and the Nigerian Senate and House of Representatives. The INEC also has power to register political parties and monitor their organization and operations, including auditing their finances and publishing reports for public consumption. ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Nigeria operates a federal system of government with a Federal Capital Territory (Abuja), 36 states and 774 local governments. As creatures of the federal government, local governments are constitutionally mandated to perform four basic functions: to provide a machinery for the discussion of local needs and for the provisions of corresponding services within the competence and capability of the local area; to ...

ABSTRACT Sexism has become a major problem in Nigerian politics. Women have been politically considered an endangered species, and their low participation in Nigerian government and politics is often associated with cultural, religious and economic constraints, and male chauvinism. Economically, some feminists perceive women’s marginality in the conduct and management of public affairs as arising from their entrenchment to the globalized capitalist relation of production. A relation, which ensures that ...

Abstract Women participation in Nigerian politics is crucial to the development of Nigeria and since women constitute a sizeable proportion of the population, neglecting them may mean losing their valuable contribution. Traditional socio-economic and political and cultural structures aid discrimination against women leading to loss of contributions of women to societal development. Raising the status of women through gender empowerment has is considered in certain quarters as vital in the ...

ABSTRACT Within the traditions of critical social theory and cultural criticism, there are many models of cultural studies. Both classical and contemporary social theory have engaged the relationships between culture and society, and provided a variety of types of studies of culture. From this perspective, there are neo-Marxian models of cultural studies ranging from the Frankfurt School to Althusserian paradigms; there are neo-Weberian, neo-Durkheimian, poststructuralist, and feminist studies of culture; ...

Abstract , which often portray students as ‘deviants’ and the libraries as ‘victims’, however we focus on a holistic account which incorporates both students’ and librarians’ narratives in the analysis of deviant behaviours in library utilization. Through observations and interviews the paper highlighted some common trends of deviance and the implication on library utility in selected universities. The study reveals a gap in the security of students’ personal effects, inadequate ...

ABSTRACT The Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys (NDHS) for 2003, 2008 and 2013 were pooled to examine the relationship between ethnicity and youth sexual reproductive health, proxied by age at sexual debut, multiple sexual partners (MSP) and condom use at last sexual activity, among the 6304 females and 1549 males who reported being sexually active in the four weeks preceding the survey. Multivariate analysis using a Cox proportional hazard regression ...

GENDER AND THE COMMUNITY OF FEMALE SEXUALITY IN UGEP, NIGERIA   Developing countries of the world are characterized with very high dependence on international social service and aid. This dichotomy has rendered many recipient nations stagnant instead of enhancing their quest for development. This study therefore looked at international social services and aid, intrigues and controversies therein in the issuance of aid to recipient nations. Also attempt was made to debunk ...

Chapter One 1.0       Introduction 1.1       Background Information 1.2       Problem Statement 1.3       Research Objectives 1.4       Hypothesis 1.5       Significance of the Study 1.6       Scope of the Study   Chapter Two 2.0    Literature Review   Chapter Three: 3.0   Research Methodology 3.1    Description of the Study Area 3.2    Research Design 3.3    Method of Data Collection 3.4   ...

FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICIES AND ITS IMPACT ON THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY   Nigerian economy during the first decade after independence could reasonably bedescribed as an agricultural economy because in the words Ogen (2003), agricultureserved as the engine of growth of the overall economy. During this period Nigeria was the world’s second largest producer of cocoa, largest exporter of palm kernel and largest producer and exporter of palm oil. According to Alkali (1997), ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      Background of the Study There is increasing recognition in the social science literature that infertility is a devastating problem for women, particularly in the high-fertility context of sub-Saharan Africa. Regardless of the medical causes of infertility, women in most African societies suffer grief, social stigma, ostracism and often serious economic deprivation. A previous article demonstrated that these hardships vary across different cultural contexts, given that institutional ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      Background of the Study There is increasing recognition in the social science literature that infertility is a devastating problem for women, particularly in the high-fertility context of sub-Saharan Africa. Regardless of the medical causes of infertility, women in most African societies suffer grief, social stigma, ostracism and often serious economic deprivation. A previous article demonstrated that these hardships vary across different cultural contexts, given that institutional ...

Abstract The civil society and civil society organizations, have sacrificed their existence, goals and objectives to the course of the fight towards socio-political development in Nigeria. To this effect, they have made relentless effort and provoking arrangements, to ensure that the goals and objectives for which they are set up are achieved to a considerable extent. Hence in the course of their activity towards achieving this goal, they discovered that ...

ABSTRACT Revenue generation is the nucleus and the path to modern development. Thus, the study was to assess the effect of revenue generation in rural development in Nigeria,  a case study of Ihiala Local Government Areas, Anambra state This is because local government as the third tier of government and the closest to the people especially in the rural areas needed revenue to provide basic social amenities to the people. ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background Of The Study The menace of domestic violence on national security can never be over emphasis seeing to the fact that it’s a pattern of abusive behavior in a relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner (Office on Violence against Women 2015). An intimate partner may be a current or former married spouse, common-law or ...

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNEMTN IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page         -           -           -           -           -           -           - Approval Page -           -           -           -           -           - Declaration      -           -           -           -           -           -           - Dedication       -           -           -           -           -           -           - Acknowledgement       -           -           -           -           -           - Abstract           -           -           -           -           -           -           - Table of Contents        -           -           -           -           ...