» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In a country with mixed economy like Nigeria, the government and the individual are managing the economy together. This means that people, groups and the three levels of government are free to start businesses. The three lowest levels of gov…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The study provides insight into the dynamics of the relationship between political instability and the banking sector in the context of emerging markets. The importance of assessing the political instability of companies investing in emerging markets has increased significantly with the …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In Nigeria the practice of preserving land for exclusive use by livestock existed prior to colonial times. Allocation of grazing grounds to pastoralists around towns and villages for use particularly during the cultivation season were socially sanctio…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Nigeria, a federation of many different nations, is the most populous country in Africa with approximately 160 million inhabitants. The country is divided into 36 states and 748 local government areas. The religious, ethnic and cultural diversity …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY The maxim ubi ius ubi remedium expresses an important legal principle. This means that "if there is a right, there is a legal recourse". In other words: "The existence of a legal provision presupposes that there is a competent authority to g…Continue Reading »
» Abstract The Nigerian federalism has from the inception of managing the allocation of revenue among its component parts met with virulent protestation that has degenerated into perennial crisis. The locus of contention has always been the unacceptable modality or parameter adopted in the allocation …Continue Reading »
» Abstract This study focuses mainly on the criminal manifestations of the youth Donga metropolis under the Fourth Republic, which has become a thorn to the effective workings of democratic values, especially, in the conduct of free and fair elections. Since the re emergence of democratic rule, in Nig…Continue Reading »
» Abstract Agitations for state creation are almost as old as the Nigerian nation. The more states that are created, the more the problem they are intended to solve persists. Just as the exercises enfeeble the constituent units vis à vis the federal government so do they detach the units one from the…Continue Reading »
» Abstract The oil rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been embroiled in crisis between the government forces and some militants elements that are aggrieved over certain fundamental issues affecting the region which has lead to peacelessness. Since the last two decades, militants have fought with g…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This research work is centered on the impact of unemployment on criminal activities in Niger Delta region of Nigeria using Cross River State as a case study. The study adopted the survey research design. A total of 450 research subjects were drawn from the target population using the strati…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The use of social networking sites utilization in politics is obviously continued to grow in recent times. Since Barack Obama broke the world record in the history of social networks use for political purpose during the 2008 US presidential elections, many nations and politicians across the…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Democracy in its true meaning is synonymous with grassroots democracy. Grassroots democracy is a people/community – driven participation in elections, governance and decision making. Grassroots democracy can be seen as a tendency towards des…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Sub Saharan Africa’s growth performance since gaining independence from colonial rule in the 1960s has been quite disappointing and utterly unacceptable. So used are we to this assessment that we forget that Africa was, at least in the f…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study The Igbos are traditionally village people, with social system comprising hundreds of small clans and villages. Among than, it is the family, the title holders, the village head etc that carryout the administrative functions of the soci…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE1.1 Introduction Federation implies the existence of more than one level of government in one country each with different expenditure responsibilities and taxing powers. Nigeria is a federation consisting of states and federal capital territory, federal government, 3…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This study analyzes military rule and the political transition to democracy in Nigeria. It enquires into how military intervenes in the Nigerian politics in the recent time. The study also examines how corruption induces military intervention in Nigerian politics due to the embezzlement of …Continue Reading »
» 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 m…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION: 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The greatest hindrance to development especially in the third world countries has been attributed to corruption and insecurity. Aliu (2010), observed that people in high places are corrupt because of gre…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The research provides a conceptual and theoretical appraisal of corruption in Nigeria as a threat to sustainable economic development. It elucidate the nature and effect of corruption and determine measures to mitigate and eliminate the trend in Nigeria. INTRODUCTION Amuwo (2005) and Ob…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The research proffers a conceptual and theoretical investigation on insecurity a threat to national development. The study is particularly important at such a time of Nigeria’s history. The apparent challenge of insurgency, terrorism, arm trafficking, ethnic crisis, arm robbery etc cons…Continue Reading »
» 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Democracy is a system in which the government is controlled by the people, and in which people are considered equals in the exercise of that control. However, unequal access to political finance contributes to an uneven political playing field. Cam…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT The discourse of godfatherism had so much influenced the socio economic and political life of the nation especially in the fourth republic. It had gained much attention at the present time as a result of its need forms of articulation. It has become almost impossible for an individual to ho…Continue Reading »
» Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study The development of political parties in Nigeria dates back to the days of the struggle for political independent in the late 1940s, when the nationalists were at the pre independence and post independence periods. In the pre independence and the e…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This project is basically on the politicization of religion in Northern Nigeria and its effects on the Nigerian federalism. The essence of this study is to look at how religion is politicized in Nigeria and suggests possible ways of resolving its attendants problems on Nigerian federalism. …Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Nigeria has been an active member of the African union and Ecowas since inception and as such has actively been involved in the formulation, implem…Continue Reading »
