Investigating the Effects of Micro-Finance Products in Women Empowerment in Dagoretti North Constituency, Nairobi County, Kenya
Abstract The main objective of the study is to ‘Investigate the effects of microfinance products on women empowerment by focusing on Dagoretti north constituency as a case study. Furthermore, the study aimed to investigate the determinants of access of microfinance products in women, assess the contribution of microfinance products in women empowerment, to examine challenges facing microfinance products and lastly to find out measures put in place to address challenges facing microfinance p...
INTER-GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS (BOOK CHAPTER)
DEFINITION AND MEANING OF INTER-GOVERNMENTAL RELATION Inter-governmental relations feature a circuitous evolutionary background in Nigeria. It’s not a 1 time and static configuration of interactions. Over the years, certain constitutional and over-arching political events have configured and reconfigured the relationships among the amount of state. This underscores the dynamism that characterizes inter-governmental relations in Nigeria, especially the vertical dimension. That is, fe...
The Saliency of Ethno-Regional Mobilisation and the Post Electoral Violence of 2011 Presidential Election
The nature, magnitude, and manifestations of electoral violence, the complex dynamics and incentives driving it in Nigeria are subject of extensive analysis in the academic literature. This study interrogates the underlying factor (s) responsible for the post election violence of the 2011 presidential elections. The 2011 presidential election in a comparative sense was generally accepted as free and fair by domestic and international observers than the 2003 and 2007 elections. The bases for ...
THE EFFECTS OF POPULATION GROWTH ON DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA (JOURNAL)
Population and economic growth commonly entails to the study of the costs of population trends on human welfare, socio-economic development, and the natural environment. Though there is a long ritual of scholarship on the costs of population trends, starting with Malthus to modern researchers. However, modern research on population and its impacts on development lack a cumulative research tradition and dominant paradigm. The main limitation of the literature, which lies largely outside the bo...
FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA. A CASE STUDY OF PRESIDENT BUHARI’S AGRICULTURAL POLICY (2015-2018).
Squealing to the discovery of petroleum, Nigeria has rapidly grown into a major food importing nation as the government has become neglectful of the agricultural sector since petroleum is considered a more viable resource for economic development. This situation quickly polarized the nation into high and low income groups. Unfortunately, while only small fraction of the population benefited from the oil wealth, the population suffered the misfortune of food insecurity as they can hardly affor...
SECURITY CHALLENGES IN THE GULF OF GUINEA: ROLE OF THE US AFRICAN COMMAND.
The main objective of this study is to study the security challenges in the Gulf of Guinea and the role of the U.S-African command have played in cobbling activities of terrorist groups in the region. This paper tries to explore the great power hegemony of the U.S and other world powers over Africa and the importance of the USA military presence in Africa. It goes further to expose the root causes of poverty in the Niger Delta and poverty as an influencer of terrorism. This paper concludes t...
SEQUENCING OF THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON CREDIBLE ELECTIONS IN INIGERIA
The set out objectives of the paper was to examine the issue of the credibility of the 2019 election looking at the way the election was sequenced. Relying on purely secondary data, the paper overviewed the 2019 election, looked at the legal framework of election sequence before finally looking the crux of the matter. From the work, it became clear that the 2019 election being the sixth since the return of democracy in 1999 had some improvements from the past elections especially that of vote...
Pressure groups and policy process in Nigeria's fourth republic 1999-2020
The study assessed pressure groups and policy process in Nigeria: a case of 21st century democratic dispensation. The study utilized descriptive qualitative method of content analysis on secondary data. The study was hinged on group theory as its theoretical framework. The study is based on content analysis, the study revealed that in any democratic practices, pressure groups evidently play a powerfully dynamic role in speaking and manipulating public policies during the policy process. The s...
Politics of divisiveness and the resurgence of Biafra agitation in Nigeria
In recent times, separatist movements in South-East geopolitical zone have stepped-up struggles for the actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra through protest and other forms of social mobilization. The protests have triggered tension with security agencies applying excessive force to quell agitations and protests. This paper examines the politics of imbalance played by the Nigerian State towards (Igbo extraction) through non-development of the region and that has triggered the resurg...
THE IMPACTS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE ON NIGERIA (FACULTY-CONFRENCE PAPER)
In the violent and shameless turnout, millions of Nigerians have been denied their right to choose their political leaders. The struggle for democratic offices by politicians is often violently manipulated on the street by a gang of thugs, recruited by same politicians, trained and to help them capture power. Political violence has been a bone of contention from the inception of Nigeria as a Nation-State. The impact of political violence cannot be over emphasized as its effects have grossly a...