ABSTRACT 7 Poverty is general phenomenon in less developed countries including Nigeria. It is a common problem that cannot be easily wiped out but can be alleviated through concerted effort by stake holders. The problem of poverty has brought about low standard of living of people in both rural and urban area that attention of individual, Federal, States and Local Government has been drawn to alleviate it to better the living standard of the rural area. This work was undertaken to look into t...
ABSTRACT Conflict management is inherent in any organization since conflict is inevitable in our contemporary organizations. Effective management of conflicts had become a problem in Nigerian tertiary institutions. Tertiary institution where solely established to meet the needs of human resources required for national development. In regard to the current context of higher educations, the essences of instituting the tertiary institutions seem to have eluded Nigeria. As a result of interdepend...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the Niger Delta Crisis and its Impact on Socio-economic Development in Nigeria. The region accounts for the huge revenues to the government generated from its oil wealth. Despite the fact that the region’s major resources serves as the mainstay of the economy, the region is characterized by lack of social infrastructure, poverty, unemployment and environmental degradation, which is usually as a result of oil spillages and leaks from the oil exploration activit...
ABSTRACT Somalia has been confronted with the challenge of object poverty that lasted well over two centuries. Local government decentralization is one of the strategies adopted by its government in the hope that its implementation could engenders a downward review of the nation’s poverty profile.This study is aimed at investigating the role of local government decentralization in poverty alleviation in Galmudug-Somalia. The objectives of the study were; to determine the nature of local gov...
ABSTRACT Globally, prominent among the current greatest threats to human existence, are poverty and hunger. In fact, to state that the scourge of poverty has assumed the dimension of a global epidemic, is a repetition of the obvious. We have a situation where a greater of the world population lives below one dollar a day or can hardly afford a meal. In the third world countries, of which Nigeria is one, the situation remains pathetic and pitiable. Subsequently, the 189 United Nation member-St...
ABSTRACT The study was an assessment of the Implementation of Millennium Development Goal Two (Universal Basic Education) in Enugu State of Nigeria. The poor infrastructural facilities in the school system and high rate of school drop out in the state necessitated the study of the implementation of the UBE in Enugu State. The research was guided by three hypotheses which were drawn from the problem statements and objectives of the study. Related literatures were reviewed in the study. The dat...
Abstract The study examined staff training and utilization in the Nigerian civil service with specific focus on the Ministry of agriculture, Enugu. Specifically, it investigated whether the staff of the Ministry of agriculture, Enugu undergo training, whether the selection of staff for training is informed by training needs of the Ministry as well as whether the selection of staff for training is based on merit. Utilizing the system theory and randomly selected sample size of 274, the study a...
Abstract The role of security agencies in the management of elections in Nigeria occupies a significant and strategic position in the election process, and, by implication, the consolidation of electoral democracy. Since such agencies play significant roles in organising democratic elections, their actions and inactions could make or mar elections. Owing to this glaring fact, this study was aimed at ascertaining the impact of the role of security agencies in Nigeria elections, using the 2011 ...
ABSTRACT Following the enactment of the Infrastructural Concessions Regulatory Commission (ICRC) Act in Nigeria, Abia state government keyed into the framework of the PPP in 2007. This was in a bid to bridge the infrastructural gap in the state and to actualize the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially as it affects the development of a global partnership for poverty reduction through provision of basic infrastructures and industries. Despite policy efforts made to...
ABSTRACT The aim of this thesis is to assess the leadership and human resource development with a focus on Okrika Local Government Area (LGA). Interestingly, despite the numerous reforms, which had granted autonomy to the local governments for good performance, not much success has been achieved by the local governmTent. The study highlighted the importance of human resource development in building the leadership capacity of local governments in Nigeria using Okrika Local Government of Rivers...
Abstract One of the fundamental challenges facing civil society organizations around the world is how to make democratic consolidation possible. While these organizations, in their various types and categories, in most countries of the world, continue to mediate and respond appropriately to emerging political imperatives, between the state and the individuals, civil society organizations’ effort towards the consolidation of democratic ideals in Nigeria appeared to be undefined, ambiguous an...
ABSTRACT This study examined the role of labour in the downstream petroleum products pricing in Nigeria, from 2003 to 2010. Downstream petroleum products are characterized as Premium Motor Spirit (PMS, i.e. petrol), Automotive Gas Oil (AGO, i.e. diesel), Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK, i.e. domestic kerosene), to mention but a few. The specific objectives of the work were to: (i) investigate the main issues that orchestrated the problems of the downstream petroleum products pricing in Nigeria: (i...
ABSTRACT The issues of bribery and corruption have taken a central stage in the polity as a matter of grave concern to all well-meaning citizens and Nigerian government. This is in view of the endemic nature of the phenomenon in our society which hinders growth and indeed development. Concerned with the issue of bribery and corruption, the Nigeria government has set up the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other institutions designed to combat the malaise and to promote good...
ABSTRACT The study examined the implications of private funding of political parties to national development in Nigeria, 2001-2010. The specific objectives of the study were to: (i) as certain the rationale for private funding of political parties, (ii) determine the sources of funds to political parties, (iii) identify the level of electoral fraud/rigging that occurs to ensure that private funders of political parties do not lose, (iv) verify the implications of private funding of political ...
ABSTRACT The focus of this study was on the role played by information and communication technology on the social, cultural and economic lives of the people and its impact in areas of public concern such as education, political, cultural and environmental management. Policy aspect of electronic media was also assessed, for example concerning government plans of action on “government business”, improvement in the lives of Nigerians in general and Ika North-East citizenry in particular. To ...