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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION ISSUES AND REASONS FOR REGIONAL INTERGRATIONS Regional integration is not a new idea or initiative in Africa. Along with the creation of African common market it has been fueling division of African leaders for the past 45 decade. In fact, the creation of the 0rganisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1964 reflected the awareness, by the leaders of the day that Africans strength was rooted in Pan-Africa ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION ISSUES AND REASONS FOR REGIONAL INTERGRATIONS Regional integration is not a new idea or initiative in Africa. Along with the creation of African common market it has been fueling division of African leaders for the past 45 decade. In fact, the creation of the 0rganisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1964 reflected the awareness, by the leaders of the day that Africans strength was rooted in Pan-Africa ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Literature in South Africa during the time of Jack Mapanje was protest literature. It has it roots in the unique political situation of the country. The political Rhythm in South Africa is a policy of discrimination, which is also know as Apartheid and deceptively called a policy of separate development by the whites in South Africa. By this policy of colour segregation, ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Oro is a town in Irepodun Local Government Area in Kwara State. It lies on the Ilorin-Lokoja highway, and is about fifty four kilometers West East of Ilorin, the State capital. Oro force within the middle belt region and a transition zone between the Northern savannah belt and the Southern tropical rainforest. Oro has a fairly undulating topography with a sparse population which ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION This work is aimed at ensuring that socio-economic development of Odo-Owa in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State during the colonial period is articulated and written down for historical purpose, thus ensuring that the basic information about the socio-economic activities of the people is documented. It also aims at examining the colonial rule system, the various changes and activities during the colonial period. It hopes to ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1       Background of the Study The local government system is a system of government established as a third tier of government after the federal and state governments. The local government is a government at the grassroots level of administration meant for meeting peculiar grassroots needs of the people (Agagu, 1997). Put succinctly, the local government system is that tier of government closest to the people; it is vested ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The motivation to undertake this study on “the survival of Igbomina indigenous political structure under Ilorin emirate system in the 20th century” is born out of increasing question on the identity and tenacity of the culture of Igbomina people and more especially their political system. For over a century, the Igbomina people were under different powerful political authorities. While places like Oke – Ode and Babanloma were under ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1  BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY According to oxford Advance Learners, Dictionary, Migration is the movement of large numbers of people from one place to another1. Which characterized human existence from the time immemorial for food; shelter and security? However, There are two main perspectives of the theories of migration economic and non economic determinants of migration. Firstly, migration is usually from low income areas with few job opportunities ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1. 1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY In 1997, FDI accounted for about half of all private capital and 40% of local capital flows to developing countries. Following the virtual disappearance of commercial bank lending in 1980’s, policy makers in emerging markets eased restrictions on incoming foreign investment. Many countries even tilted the balance by offering special incentives to foreign enterprises including lower income taxes or income tax ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     Background to the study Local governments are potentially effective instrument for rural transformation and delivery of social services i.e. health care delivery. This is because of local governments proximity to the people and the relative ease with which they can communicate with the local jurisdiction. The constitution guarantees the existence of system of democratically elected local councils and each State must enact legislation to establish ...

ABSTRACT Given the fact that communication is chiefly achieved through language, it is therefore important to study and account for how speakers encode their utterances and how meanings are decoded from the utterances during communication. This has made us to attempt a pragmatic analysis of President Goodluck Jonathan’s inaugural speech, Nigeria: Our Nation in Mourning, because of its socio-political importance with a view to accounting for how the president has ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      Background of the study Inconclusive election has been a hydra-monster on Nigeria electoral process this is so due to many factors which attribute to the origination of the word inconclusive election. Prior to 2015 general election, the term inconclusive election was not a popular slogan in Nigeria. The word inconclusive election became popular during the tenure of Professor Yakubu who is the current Chairman Independent National Electoral ...

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION  Language is an instrument of thought or concept which gives clear and vivid meaning of human expression for the purpose of human interaction.  In any speech community, if there must be interaction, language must be in use.  Human language is said to be communicative when language users are able to use words as appropriate to context.  Quirk (1962, P.42) sees language as a “human instrument of ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS   TITLE…………………………………………………………………i CERTIFICATION…………………………………………..………ii DEDICATION……………………………………………………....iii ACKNOWLEDGMENT……………………………………………iv TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………..….vi CHAPTER ONE General Introduction…………………………………….…….1 1.1     Statement of the Problem…………………………….……….2 Purpose of the Study…………………………………….……3 Scope of the Study……………………………………………4 Methodology………………………………………………….4 Literature review……………………………………………..5 CHAPTER TWO The Origin of Civil State…………………………………….11 2.1     The State of nature……………………………………..…...........11 The right to private property……………………………………..15 The social contact…………………………………………..........19 CHAPTER THREE The Lockean Civil State…………………………………..............24 3.1     The purpose of civil state…………………………………………24 The Separation of powers………………………………………...29 The Extent and ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The history of political godfatherism is traceable to the colonial epoch through independence era, military interregnum and towards the restoration of democracy in Nigeria in what came to be known as the fourth Republic in 1999 following the terminus of military junta. The staggering posture of godfatherism in Nigerian democratic experiment leaves much to be desired. This stems from the fact ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background to the Study Foreign policy has become a useful component that defines relations between and amongst states. Generally, we may say, a country‟s foreign policy thrust bottles the totality of the acts, strategies and manipulations by a given state in her process of launching her domestic resolve in the international arena. Chibundu (2003:1) crisply notes that foreign policy is “a country‟s response to the world ...

ABSTRACT Over the last quarter century, many developing countries have turned towards electoral politics. Democracy indicators for Sub-Saharan Africa made substantial gains after 1990 at the end of the Cold War. At the same time, political rights and civil liberties have mostly remained stuck around the middle of the scale. Even if they have implemented multi-party elections, many countries have not transitioned fully towards liberal democracies. Elections have often been ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Women attempting to enter into politics in Nigeria face numerous obstacles. Those who have aspired to office must often deal with a lack of funds to run an effective campaign, a discriminative use of party zoning, low education and a slew of cultural and religious barriers. The marginalization of women in politics is certainly not new to Nigeria, having dated back to ...

Abstract The main objective of this study is to ascertain the effect of inconclusive election on the credibility of electoral process in Nigeria. But for the successful completion of the study the researcher intend to achieve the following sub objective in other to aid decision making; to ascertain the causes of inconclusive election in Rivers state. to evaluate the effect of inconclusive election in the democratic process,  to ascertain the ...

ABSTRACT The idea of pet projects by Nigerian former first lady Mariam Babangida was borne out of the fact that there was need for them to help in the administration of the  nation and to also aid in assisting her husband. This project extensively analyses the impacts and achievements of  Mrs. Mariam Babangida’s pet project (Better life programme) in 1985. Its challenges and criticisms the programme faced.   CHAPTER ONE ...