Abstract In this thesis I have confined myself to the social and economic position of the I ndi ans i n Uatal , the cour se of IndoEuroP. ean rel ations , the attempts to solve f r iction - and t h eir effe cts up on t he Inda-European situa tion. I have touched onl y broadly on economic policy and its effects . I shoul d like to thank Professor H.R. Burrows , M.C., M. Com. , William Hudson Professor of Economics, Nat al Universit y College, for a l l his hel p . I am indebted to him fo r mos...
ABSTRACT This study interrogates the role of politics in tuberculosis (TB) control services in Rivers State, Nigeria. It raises questions about how the exercise of political power through the nature of the allocation and distribution of resources affects the effective implementation of the tuberculosis control programme in Rivers State, and its attendant implications for the populace. It draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods such as content analysis of documents and questionnair...
ABSTRACT At inception, oil industry operations in Nigeria were limited to upstream and midstream activities comprising exploration, production, marketing and transportation of crude oil. Downstream refining activity commenced in 1965 as a joint venture between British Petroleum and Shell but with 50 percent equity participation by the Nigerian government. The technology of oil exploration and production, the transport and marketing infrastructure of Nigeria’s crude oil, as well as the cons...
ABSTRACT The study examines the oil exploration and environmental degradation in Rivers State, with particular reference to Ogoniland. The resultant effect of MNCs activities has destroyed underground water, farmland, and fresh water ecosystem, killing animals and endangering human life. The unfortunate part of it all is that the Nigerian state has pitched its support with the MNCs and tries to use the instrument of force and coercion to bring the oil bearing communities to submission and ac...
ABSTRACT A major economic policy of the first military regime in Nigeria, 1966-79, was the indigenisation of the national economy. The aim was to put Nigerians, to a greater extent, in control of the economy of the nation. The history of the nation's indigenisation policy, close to policy flirtation by the colonial masters, was broached in 1946, and again in 1956. In 1964, under a post-colonial government, the policy was mooted, but a concrete formulation, perhaps delayed because of the polit...
ABSTRACT This Dissertation analyses the functionalist assumptions and evaluates then in the light of ECOWAS experience. An important retionale for this is to ascertain the degree to which a European based origin of functional ist theory despite the underdevelopment character of the ECOWAS sub-region makes functionalism as a theory of integration an attractive policy guide in the sub-regions developmental process. An important proposition investigated in this dissertation is the contention tha...
ABSTRACT Since the colonial era, Africa has remained a victim of circumstances such that it has been affected by a range of problems that make its population suffer in many ways. One of the problems that continue haunting Africa, particularly most of its third world countries is poverty. Zimbabwe is one of those countries that have been deeply affected by crippling poverty levels. The problem of hunger has been exacerbated by the volatile political atmosphere, tremendous socio-economic upheav...
ABSTRACT Whereas non-state actors seem to have contributed towards removing obstacles to citizens’ engagement in public policy process, their actual role in public policy process remains unclear particularly, how they have opened public policy process to make it more inclusive. This study set out to investigate the contribution of non-state actors to making public policy process in Kenya inclusive. It examines how non-state actors have used their power, policy networks, policy learning and ...
ABSTRACT This research work studied the Economic Community of West African States Cease-Fire Monitoring Group's (ECOMOG's) experience, against the backdrop of regional security and conflict resolution in West Africa. It tried to establish a relationship between economic integration of ECOWAS and the resolution of regional conflict in West Africa. In other words, it attempted to establish an understanding of the prospects, possibilities and limitations of using an economic integration body, li...
Introduction In an age of intersecting revolutions - military, political, economic, social - as we have in Africa today, the problems of maintaining peace and international order, inevitably become more complex. Yearly, events in Africa stress the urgent need for African states to intervene in African affairs. The acquisition of sophisticated and unlimited force by African nations is certainly as terrifying as it is new. But it must be borne in mind that this transforms conflicts rather than ...
ABSTRACT The comparative study of the foreign policy of Republics of Benin and Niger reveals a Franco-Nigerian tussle over who dominates the external behaviour of the two Francophone States. The French Republic claims an almost absolute right to determine the direction of the foreign policy of these two states with imperialistic machinery as her weapons. Nigeria the other hand. Since 1970 has been seeking to influence the foreign policy of Benin and Niger through a lot of means including aid,...
Abstract This study is motivated by the raging debate between the speaker and the hearer of political utterances on mutually acceptable interpretations of meaning in political utterances on hate speech in Kenya. This debate between the speaker and hearer of political utterances on hate speech reflects a variance on interpretation of meaning in political utterances on hate speech. This study sheds light on this variance by offering a pragmatic interpretation of political utterances on hate spe...
ABSTRACT Most studies in political protest lack behavioral content. They focus on group actions such as industrial strikes, street demonstrations, riots and sit-ins; without explaining the behaviour of the individuals who partake in them. They also lack perspectives on the dynamics of factors that influence the behaviour of individual protesters as well as the forms that their protests take. Consequently, scholarly understanding of political protest appears narrow, and most theories that evo...
ABSTRACT The post-Cold War saw the emergence of small arms control treaties as a major framework for promoting global peace and security. However, the implementation of some of these instruments has to date proven ineffective and, thus, a central issue in scholarly debates on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) control. SALW continued to flow to areas of conflict, and to non-state armed groups around the world. Extant literature suggested that structural imbalance in international configurati...
ABSTRACT The major political challenge in Africa and many other developing countries today is how to deal with the national question and democratic consolidation. There is a general feeling that the developing nations’ past had been squandered, and the present mortgaged by the elites, thereby making the future so uncertain. Consequently, the disadvantaged group demands a renegotiation of relations between the power elites and the people to enable them to be fully involved in the process of ...