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UN PEACEKEEPING IN AFRICA: EFFECTIVENESS AND PROBLEMS   CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The UN Security Council authorizes peace operations by an affirmative vote of nine of the fifteen members without a veto from the five permanent members: the United States, China, France, Russia, the UK. The Security Council has authorized more than fifty peace operations in the years since the Cold War. The UN deploys peacekeeping forces ...

THE ROLE OF TELEVISION IN POLITICAL PERSUASION   CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Mass communication is defined as message directed towards a large group people using a mass medium. It involves disseminating information to a large and widely dispersed audience mass communication is made possible through the help of mass media. That is to say mass media makes mass communication a reality mass media include television, radio newspaper magazines etc. Researchers in ...

THE ROLE OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN PEACE BUILDING IN MAIDUGURI   CHAPTER ONE 1.1.INTRODUCTION Highest on the list of prime value for Maiduguri a town in Bornu state, Nigeria, is peace. Peace is the most valuable public commodity, yet the most elusive (Francis David, 2006). These four years (2009-2014) of Insurgency has brought loss of lives and halted economic activities in various parts of Maiduguri. The activities of bokoharam have ...

RELEVANCE OF TRADITIONAL RULERS IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA’S GOVERNANCE   CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     Background of the Study Prior to 1861 when Britain annexed Lagos, governance in what is known as Nigeria revolved around Traditional rulers. There is no doubt that traditional rulers in Nigeria have witnessed the erosion of their powers. This political scenario had elicited so many arguments among stakeholders and traditional rulers on their role and relevance in the ...

THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON VOTING BEHAVIOUR IN NIGERIA   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 ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Presently, the crisis of development is the most serious problem facing Nigeria and Africa as a whole. This is because the country has remained largely underdeveloped despite the presence of huge mineral and human resources. Several decades after the end of colonialism, most parts of Africa with Nigeria inclusive is still fighting with problems such as high poverty rate, lack of basic ...

PERCEPTION OF UNDERGRADUATES ON CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA   CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY According to Transparency International (2014), Nigeria is ranked 136th out of 182 countries surveyed in its corruption perception index indicating the level of corruption in the country as compared to other countries. Although this came as an improvement from the previous years, it did not result from an improved system of governance; rather it ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Richard A. Joseph… is usually credited with first using the term prebendalism to describe patron-client or neopatrimonialism in Nigeria. Since then the term has commonly been used in scholarly literature and textbooks. The Catholic Encyclopedia defines a prebend as the “right of member of chapter to his share in the revenues of a cathedral.” Joseph used the term to describe the sense of ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background of the Study Corruption is unarguably one of the most topical issues in the discourses of the deepening crisis and contradictions of post-independence Nigeria. The level of attention devoted to it ·may not only be due to its rapid and unprecedented expansion to all facet of human Endeavour and its menacing consequences, but also because of the seeming fecklessness of successive attempts at combating it. ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION Introduction 1.1 Background to the study 1.2 Statement of the problem 1.3 Aims and objective 1.4 Scope and limitation 1.5 Research methodology 1.6 Definition of terms 1.7 Conclusion     Endnotes CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Literature review 2.2 Conclusion      Endnotes CHAPTER THREE: RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN NIGERIA 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Religious conflicts in General 3.2 Religious conflict in Nigeria 3.3 Conclusion     Endnotes CHAPTER ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF STUDY The Nigerian state assumed a new governance status in 1999 following the demise of authoritarian regime in the country. Military dictatorship was replaced by representative democracy with the hopes and aspirations of good governance much higher than what the seemingly collapsible democratic institutions could fulfill. The source and nature of transition in 1999 was later found to constitute threat to the foundation ...

ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS FOR THE LOW IMPACT OF FOREIGN AID ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA, 1960 – 1985   ABSTRACT Foreign aid inflows in Nigeria have grown significantly in the independence period. Many studies have tried to examine the effectiveness of aid on the socio- economic development. While some evaluations have found that in many cases aid does not ‘work,’ others are ambiguous. This paper assesses the factors ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Rebuilding public administration becomes an urgent reform of government in nations like Liberia recouping from civil war, insurrections, or outside military invasions. Rebuilding a vibrant administration is at the crux of post-conflict reconstruction (Rondinelli, 2006). The assertion offered by Rondinelli (2006), is confirmed by the creation of the Governance Commission of Liberia in August 2003 amid the Accra Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA). ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Africa, especially the Sub-Saharan region has been plagued by conflict for many decades now (Clempson, 2012). There has been a great deal of war and bloodshed since the colonial masters left the continent. According to De Ree and Nillesn (2009), the last six decades has experienced up to 47 civil wars in sub –Saharan Africa which in turn has resulted in over ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Climate change, long-term transmutation in the earth’s climate, especially a transmutation due to an expansion in the normal barometrical temperature, is not an incipient phenomenon. Most of these climate changes are attributed to minutely diminutive variations in Earth’s orbit that transmute the amount of solar energy our planet receives (Peterson et. al, 2009). The present warming pattern is of particular consequence on the ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1       Background to the Study “Try to imagine the Civil Rights Movement without “We Shall Overcome,” or the opposition to the Vietnam War without “Give Peace a Chance”’ (Zax, 2011). From antiquity to the contemporary African society, music and other arts such as dance, theatre, poetry, literature, painting, and sculpture have been recognised as dynamic forces and useful strategies for fighting tyrannical and authoritarian regimes. As methods ...

  CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background to the Study Human’s existence is highly connected to the environment and the importance of the environment cannot be overemphasised. The environment has created a comfortable habitat for man through science, technology, religion and politics. Albeit the environment is a pre-requisite for good and sound health, ignorance of humans to laws of nature and over-exploitation of natural resources have negatively impacted on the environment. ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Technical know-how for construction of weapons, either by means of handcrafting or through industrial production, is the most significant cause of massive availability and proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) in the world. The latter inversely correlates with internal security (IS) of most countries. As weapons technologies (WTs) increase in sophistication and circulation, so do the production and circulation of ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Content Page Title Page i Certification ii Dedication iii Acknowledgments iv Abstract v Table of Contents vi Acronyms xi Codes, Statutes and Declarations xiii Cases xv Appendices xvi CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study 1 1.2 Statement of the Problem 3 1.3 Objective of the Study 4 1.4 Research Questions 5 1.5 Justification for the Study 5 1.6 Scope of the Study 6 1.7 Methodology ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Content Page Title page i Certification ii Dedication iii Acknowledgements iv Abstract v Table of Contents vi List of Tables x List of Appendices xi CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.0Backgroundto the Study 1 1.1Statement of the Problem 3 1.2Objective of the Study 4 1.3Research Questions 5 1.4Hypotheses 5 1.5Significance of the Study 6 1.6Scope of the Study 6 1.7Operational Definition of Terms 7 1.8Organisation/Plan of Study 8 CHAPTER ...