ABSTRACT It is assumed that, change and continuity can occur within the same administration or after a change of government. Ghana after independence has experienced several changes in government. Accounting for over two decades of Ghana’s foreign policy, foreign policy decisions between the Rawlings and Kufuor administrations have undergone changes and continuities. Therefore, this study sought to explain why such continuities and changes, in the areas of economic diplomacy and good neighb...
ABSTRACT This research investigated the performance of Agona West Municipal Assembly (AWMA) as a District Assembly (D.A.) in the delivery on its developmental mandate in the areas of infrastructure, education and health as well as the contributions of Non Government Organizations (NGOs) in the same areas of developments. The study found out that, concerning infrastructural development, AWMA has been constructing markets, toilet facilities, roads, extending pipe borne water and bore holes and ...
ABSTRACT Globally, there has been a huge outcry on the need to enhance women political participation because women have been marginalized for far too long. In this regard, gender inequality in all sphere of our society has received international attention and acceptance. For many years, women and other feminists’ groups have fought hard to create room for equal participation of both men and women in the political arena. Their effort has come with a marginal improvement of women’s particip...
More than 60 peace operations have deployed in Africa since 2000, including multiple African-led or hybrid African Union/United Nations initiatives. The frequency of these deployments underscores the ongoing importance of these operations in the playbook of regional and multilateral bodies to prevent conflict, protect civilians, and enforce ceasefires and peace agreements. The study presents a critical review of the concept of the mechanism of United Nations operations, as one of the emergent...
The emergence of Abuja as an urban centre today is traceable to the quest for a new capital city for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This quest became pronounced and received government attention in the mid-70s when, the then nation's capital city, Lagos, was increasingly becoming choked up and thus inconvenient to continue serving the nation in that capacity. Inter alia, traffic congestion, housing and environmental pollution, poor topography, etc continued to afflict both the smooth a...
This thesis provides information on the Management of Public Enterprises in Nigeria: A Case Study of Nigerian Telecommunication, a Federal Government statutory public corporation, dealing with communication aspect in Nigeria. It focused attention on all relevant bodies that have connection with communication. This project attempt to explain the general concepts of public enterprises, and its management, thereby relating it to the Nigerian Telecommunication Limited. The constraints of t...
Ever smce Nigeria's independence in 1960, Leaders, Elites and Scholars have engaged in various debates on the notion that political independence without economic independence would be ridiculous. Which simply put, national yearnings and aspirations of Nigerian Leaders and Scholars have both economic and political connotations. There is this general consensus that where economic power is concentrated in the hands of foreigners, the economy 1s undersiege as foreign investors drain the re...
A cursory look at some of the reasons why governments; Federal/ Central, States and Local Governments intervene in the economic and social activities of most countries especially the developing countries gives the impression that these countries are predominantly and ideologically inclined to the pursuit of socialism In fact, planning has been ignorantly misconstrued as connoting socialism. This has been the major propagandist instrument articulated by the Western imperialism to perpet...
Nigeria, which yearns to catch up.lather nations in the race towards socio-economic and industrial development after almost a century of backwardness under British rule. However an effective civil service had eluded us as a result of the imperfections inherent in the nations socio-economic and political systems. Since independence there have been a growing dissatisfaction with civil service, if' there is doubt that Government policies once ronnulated will not he effectively and efficient...
ln most organisations in the orlcl, marn1gc111enl is i11lcrcstcd i11 ,,·orking wilh_.subordinates who arc motivated to perfor111 e.celknt work lo hri11g about high productivity. Thcrcf'orc, there is often an increasing sc;1rch f(>r employees who do not only do what the superior authority but cltl what lhL' superior authority intends to do. Jn other words, management requires cmpln)ccs ,,·110 could nol only perrorm well but who have tlic c;1pahility or using their discretion at all...
ABSTRACT This study examined the three levels of electoral governance and the extent to which they have contributed to the elections that Ghana‟s Electoral Commission has managed under the Fourth Republic. The practical initiatives undertaken by the Electoral Commission in the area of rule making, rule application and rule adjudication in managing elections in Ghana, were the central issues that the study addressed. The study argued that the constitutional leverage granted to the EC to make...
ABSTRACT The current challenge to the democratization process of emerging democracies is disputed presidential elections. A number of disputed presidential elections have been experienced in many African countries lately. Disputed presidential elections have led to political instability in many African countries. Owing to electoral violence which arose out of disputed presidential elections, Zimbabwe recorded 86 death in its elections in 2008, 247 deaths in Cote d‘Ivoire 2010 and 1300 death...
ABSTRACT Ghana is a country endowed with rich mineral resources. However, for many years, Ghana has not been able to translate the mineral resources into broad economic wealth for the people. Therefore, when Ghana discovered oil in 2007, many people did not believe that Ghana would use its oil resources to create wealth for the people. The general fears were that Ghana could fall into the oil curse situation. The study investigated the contribution of Civil Society in avoiding oil curse in Gh...
ABSTRACT Studies on the transition from dictatorship to democracy often argue that democracy provides a great opportunity for the advancement of women‟s political participation. This is premised on the equal participatory opportunity that democracy offers to all adult citizens. However, the extent to which this is borne empirically is yet to be established. This study, therefore, examined the extent to which the Nigerian state, under President Obasanjo, enhanced women political participati...
ABSRTACT Various governments of Ghana both past and present have to deal with one labour unrest or the other most times. The problem is even worst at the education sector, where such unrest affects teaching and learning in schools, colleges and even universities, leading to time lost on academic calendar which can never be regained. To verify these concerns, views were sampled from union members and leadership of NAGRAT through a structured questionnaire, the internet, the press and related s...