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• 1. LABOUR UNREST UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL OF 2000-2013

  »   AbstractOne of the major impediments to development in Nigeria is labour unrest. This is given the fact that no Nation can develop without human resource because they constitute and play very significant role in Nation building and development. The Nigerian case has been so pervasive that labour unrest extends to every situation when the Government takes major public policy decision that seems ...Continue Reading »

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• 2. FEDERALISM AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA

  »   AbstractThe problem of federalism and the associated crises of national integration in Nigeria raise serious alarm. The situation attracts growing interest and concern. The crises are very severing such that they culminate in a strong force being mounted on the federation with tendency to disintegrate the country. The works addresses this phenomenon by investigating and analysing the problem. D...Continue Reading »

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• 3. DEPENDENCE AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

  »   AbstractDependency and underdevelopment in Africa is our main thrust which we try to relate the above to the Nigerian context. Dependency as we all know is a product of underdevelopment which is prevalent in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. It is certain that Nigeria is an independent nation, but it does not reflect in all the facts in the society since the super structures that fo...Continue Reading »

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• 4. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION AND THE CONTROL OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERI...

  »   1.1    INTRODUCTION           The preponderance of Economic and Financial Crimes like Advance Fee Fraud (419) money laundering have had severe negative consequences on Nigeria including decreased Foreign Direct investments in the country and tainting of Nigeria’s National Image. The menace of these crimes and the recognition of the magnitude and gravity of the situation led to th...Continue Reading »

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• 5. POST ELECTORAL VIOLENCE AND THE THREAT TO NATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY IN NIGERIA

  »   CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION   1.1   Background of the Study         People have devise and lived under various forms of government in different countries of the world of which democracy has been adjudge to be the best. This explains the democratic appeal to every human organisation from antiquity. Schumpeter (1952:269), defines democracy as that institutional arrangement for ar...Continue Reading »

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• 6. GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR ASSESSMENT OF STATE RESPONSES TO TERRORISM AND INSURGENCY I...

  »   CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION1.1 Background of the StudyA fundamental responsibility of the state is the security of the life and property of its citizens. Others include the protection of its territoriality and sovereignty and the guarantying of its socio economic and political stability. However, since the mid twentieth century, this protective function of the state, its sovereignty and territorial...Continue Reading »

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• 7. FISCAL AUTONOMY AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

  »   CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1       Background to the study Nigeria is a federal state made up of three tiers of governments. Accordingly, the constitutional assignment of responsibilities to each of the tiers in both the exclusive and concurrent lists carries financial burden (Edame, 2004:249). Observably, due to the about eighty (80) per cent financial dependent nature of the federating u...Continue Reading »

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• 8. DEMOCRACY SUSTENANCE IN A POVERTY-RIDDEN SOCIETY

  »   CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY It is unarguably that democracy is the best form of government for any nation. And democracy is not a potted plant which can be transported into any soil and without work or effort. As aptly summed up by Larry Diamond (1992); it is one thing to get democracy. It is another thing, often more difficult, to sustain it, to consolidate it, to breathe real life and...Continue Reading »

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• 9. EFFECT OF POST MERGER PERFORMANCE OF NIGERIAN BANKS

  » Abstract This study investigates post merger performance of Nigeria banks. The broad objective of the study is to examine the relationship between post and pre merger financial performance of Nigeria banks. Business organizations are recently seeing consolidating (mergers and acquisitions) as an alternative means of recapitalization. Some of the merged banks are still failing and facing those chal...Continue Reading »

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• 10. FEDERALISM IN NIGERIA PROBLEMS AND PROSPECT

  » CASE STUDY OF NATIONAL INTEGRATION       CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION   Federalism, according to K.C Wheare, is the method of dividing powers so that the central and regional governments are each, within a sphere, co ordinate and independent. He said that the characteristics of this Federal Principle are the division of powers among levels of government, a written constitution showing this divisio...Continue Reading »

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• 11. ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA:THE CASE OF ANAMBRA STATE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS.

  »   ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA:THE CASE OF ANAMBRA STATE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS (2003 AND 2007)         PREFACE The research work examined the concept of Electoral Violence as perceived by some analysis of democratic elections. It traced the history of Electoral Violence in Nigeria. It also examined Electoral Violence during Governorship Elections in 2003 and 2007 with particular referenc...Continue Reading »

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• 12. AFRICAN UNION AND RESOLUTION OF THE POST 2010-2011 ELECTION CRISIS IN COTE D’I...

  » AFRICAN UNION AND RESOLUTION OF THE POST 2010 2011 ELECTION CRISIS IN COTE D’IVOIRE.       ABSTRACT Cote d’ivoire in the west African sub region, recently faced political crisis that emanated from the presidential election that was conducted in October 2010, this present unique features of armed conflicts that aroused the interest of international community such as the United Nations, ...Continue Reading »

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• 13. NIGER DELTA CRISES AND NATIONAL SECURITY IN NIGERIA: APPRAISAL OF THE AMNESTY PR...

  » TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page i Approval page ii Dedication iii Acknowledgments iv Table of contents v List of Tables viii List of Figure ix Abstract x CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Statement of the problem 3 1.3 Objectives of the study 6 1.4 Significance of the study 7 CHAPTER TWO 2.1 Literature review...Continue Reading »

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• 14. FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: 1999 – 2012

  » ABSTRACT Fuel subsidy is critical to the Nigerian economy. It is argued that fuel subsidy for years has remained the only avenue through which the Nigerian government lived up to its socioeconomic responsibility to its citizenry; and the attempt to withdraw this policy has been interpreted as a move by the government to default on its responsibility. This study, therefore, investigates the effects...Continue Reading »

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• 15. THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT’S POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMMES IN NIGER STATE:

  » A CASE STUDY OF SULEJA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, FROM 2006 TO 2008 ABSTRACT This study examined the Impact of Government’s Poverty Reduction Programmes in Niger State; A case study of Suleja Local Government area, between 2006 and 2008. Here some programmes like the training of women in beads making,provision of micro finance loans to the poor and the establishment of various women/youths ...Continue Reading »

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• 16. GODFATHERISM AND OFFICIAL CORRUPTION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

  » – A CASE STUDY OF THE STATE/ LOCAL GOVERNMENT JOINT ACCOUNT SYSTEM IN ENUGU STATE (MAY 1999 – MAY 2007).       ABSTRACT One of the serious headaches that plagues the Nigerian political process is the phenomenon of godfatherism and its attendant official corruption. Since the inception of the 4’ Republic, the problem of godfatherism had become so pronounced and very disturbing as many s...Continue Reading »

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• 17. POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NIGERIA-CHINA RELATIONS (1999 – 2013)

  » POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NIGERIA CHINA RELATIONS (1999 – 2013)       Abstract That China has positioned itself as a country to reckon with in today’s world economy is no longer contestable. This reflects in the influx of economic activities from various foreign investors who are attracted to the existence of a market for their products and services in the over one (1) billion populatedcount...Continue Reading »

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• 18. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND INTERNAL PARTY DEMOCRACY:

  » A STUDY OF 2007 PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY ELECTION IN RIVERS STATE         ABSTRACT The democratization process is a continuous one and political parties play an integral role in it. Nigerian political parties are no different. However, since the inception of the Fourth Republic in 1999, Nigerian political parties have betrayed a very low rate of internal democra...Continue Reading »

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• 19. UNITED STATES-ISRAELI RELATIONS AND SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 2008-2015

  » UNITED STATES ISRAELI RELATIONS AND SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 2008 2015       ABSTRACT The historical ties between the United States and Israel is a crucial factor in determining the United States Middle East policy. The policy thrust of successive American leaders in the Middle East has been to preserve the state of Israel and help it to maintain military and economic advantage over...Continue Reading »

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• 20. ASSOCIATED GAS FLARING AND RE-INJECTION POLICY MAKING AND IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGE...

  » ASSOCIATED GAS FLARING AND RE INJECTION POLICY MAKING AND IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA (1960 2010)     ABSTRACT A number of oil producing countries in the World (Norway, Britain, Venezuela, Canada, Brazil, etc) have successfully implemented regulatory policies and put in place gas reinjection technologies to curb gas flaring and venting in their offshore/onshore oil fields. Conversely, since 196...Continue Reading »

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• 21. ELECTIONS AND REPRESENTATIVE RULE IN AFRICA:

  » A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NIGERIA’S 2007 AND GHANA’S 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS       ABSTRACT There are different conceptions of democracy and their diverse practices produce a similarly varied set of effects. The specific form democracy takes is contingent upon a country’s socioeconomic conditions or social production relations as well as its entrenched state structures and policy practic...Continue Reading »

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• 22. THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY (NEEDS) AND SUSTAINAB...

  »         ABSTRACT The National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) was initiated and implemented under Olusegun Obasanjo administration to strengthen the entire sectors of the Nigerian economy. This study therefore, critically evaluates the impact of the NEEDS on sustainable human development in Nigeria between 2003 and 2014. Using the Marxist instrumentalist theory a...Continue Reading »

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• 23. THE ENFORCEMENT OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES LAWS AND THE REDUCTION OF ECONO...

  » A FOCUS ON ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION (EFCC)         Abstract Corruption is recognized as the bane of the Nigerian society as it undermines governance. The Economicand Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was established to mitigate the menace of economic and financial crimes in Nigeria. This was informed by the upsurge of corruption by government officials andthe need to enth...Continue Reading »

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• 24. The effect of television advertisement on children Mental development

  »       CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Television is incorporated within the child’s experience as it becomes part of the child’s inner world. In discussing about television and evolutional development of T.V, someone may wonder how television affects a child of ten to eighteen year. But it is apparent that the young child is dominated by this TV. Children learn to read ...Continue Reading »

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• 25. TERRORISM AND NIGERIANS ECONOMY AN ASSESSMENT OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY

  »       CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION   1.1 Background of the study Terrorism according to lodge is an illegitimate means of attempting to effect political change by the indiscriminate use of violence (Lodge 1988:5). Also Madunagu (2001:51) maintains that terrorism is “the use of violence to achieve political objectives”. The bottom line of the above definitions is that terrorism is an aspect of ...Continue Reading »

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