Political Science and History Research Papers/Topics

Cybercrime And Its Implications On Secondary Education In The Tamale Metropolis Of The Northern Region Of Ghana

ABSTRACT This research is about the study of cybercrime and its implications on secondary education in the Tamale metropolis. Cybercrime activities have several implications on the various facets of students’ academic career at the Senior High School level and hence the main objective of this study was to examine the implications of cybercrime on secondary education. Differential association and general strain theories anchor the study. The 120 participants (respondents) in the study were ...

Teacher Behaviour And Its Effects On Pupils’ Attendance In Basic Schools In The Northern Region Of Ghana

ABSTRACT “There is no exaggeration that a spacious building, costly equipment and very sound syllabus will serve some useful purpose only when there is a teacher in the classroom who is alive to the nobility of the profession” Agarwal 2005. This paper empirically examines the importance of a teacher and how his behaviour in school negatively affects attendance in basic schools in Northern Region of Ghana. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative methods and also used primary ...

Social Protection For Persons With Disabilities In The Nadowli-Kaleo District

ABSTRACT Social Protection provisioning for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Ghana is highly inadequate. Despite the passage of the Persons with Disability Act of 2006 (Act 715) to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [UNCRPD], PWDs in Ghana still face substantial barriers of entry into the workplace and for social and political participation. PWDs lack material supports; including health care, education and training, credit facilities and transp...

Social Protection And Vulnerability Reduction: An Assessment Of The Impact Of The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme In The Lawra District

ABSTRACT Over the past decade, there has been a somewhat convergence in thinking regarding the contributions of cash transfers to social protection and vulnerability reduction. As a result, governments of most developing countries in Asia and Africa have begun embracing the idea of cash transfer through a rollout of various schemes all in a bid to address issues of poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion. This study analyses the contributions so far made by the Livelihood Empowerment Aga...

The Outcomes Of Female Adolescents’ Future Aspirations In A Patriarchal Society: A Study In The Wa Traditional Area In The Upper West Region Of Ghana

ABSTRACT The adolescent stage is a critical transition period in the human development cycle in which a person undergoes personal, physical, and psychological development which shapes his or her goal attainment in life. However, in a patriarchal society which is characterised by a preference for a male child and male dominance over a female, most female adolescents’ future aspirations are hindered. The study was conducted to explore the future aspirations of female adolescents, life experi...

Contested Politcs in Ethiopia, Post of 2018; Challenges and Prospects of the Ruling Party

The theme of this paper is to highlighting the political, economic, democratic, historical dilemmas and realities that occurred in the Ethiopian political system in 2018 through popular rebellion; futuristic hinders and chances of the ruling party to sustain its popularity and prosperity of the country. Talk of Ethiopia conjures a whole range of metaphors and contradictory perceptions and misconceptions. With the ascendance to power of Dr. Abiy Ahmed, as Prime Minister of Ethiopia on Apri...

The Morality of Compliance, A major Barrier to Nigeria’s Economic Sustainability.

Nigeria marks its 60thanniversary on the 1st of October 2020. As a country marking its 60thanniversary, the world expects to see a country on its feet running, but all they see is a country on its knee plagued and crippled by flagrant corruption, abuse of public office, and a high state of insecurity. Unfortunately, the present state of Nigeria is the consequence of our values and how we moralise compliance. It is obvious that non-compliance is endemic in Nigeria, and Nigerians have accept...

The Policy of Grazing Reserve Bill as a solution to Farmers and Herders Conflic

This project looks into the recurring crises between Farmers and Herders in Nigeria, which has stagnated the development of the areas affected. The paper tries to look into the source, the effects, and also proffer solutions to the crises. It also assesses the impacts of agencies that were set to solve the problem.

TORTURE AND INHUMAN ACT IN NIGERIAN:WHAT IS THENIGERIAN GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION & THE IMPACT OF DEMOCRACY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN THE LIFE OF INDIVIDUALS

ABSTRACT Democracy is a legendary system of government in which every country, today their desires to have democracy or claims to be one. Today if truly democracy and human rights are incompatible in certain situation, it means freedom and justice and equality for all branches of people are guaranteed. Democracy ensure human rights to be primarily virtuous, balance and adequate of moderation, furthermore , democracy ensure human rights broadly, human rights include: right to life, liberty, ri...

HISTORICISING NATIONAL ELECTIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTEGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN STATE: A CENTENARY DISCOURSE

This paper attempts a historical exploration of issues of national elections as it impinges on Nigeria’s  security and integration one hundred years after the famous 1914 amalgamation of the Southern and  Northern protectorates. Against the backdrop of the country’s challenges of imbalance or lopsided  federal structure, the usually elevated problems of ethnicity, absence of broadminded leadership,  minority-majority tussles among others, the nation’s politics has been frequently ch...

NIGERIA FOREIGN POLICY IN THE FOURTH REPUBLIC

CHAPTER 1 NIGERIA FOREIGN POLICY IN THE FOURTH REPUBLIC 1.1 INTRODUCTION The year 1999 is very significant in the history of politics in Nigeria. It marks the beginning of a new political generation in Nigeria which is the birth of democracy. The birth of democratic system of government in Nigeria was greeted with high hopes and expectations in the belief that a new dawn has eventually been ushered. Such expectations were informed by the fact that democracy is reputed as the best form of gove...

ELECTORAL PROCESS AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN NIGERIA. A CASE STUDY OF THE 2007 GENERAL ELECTION UNDER OLUSEGUN OBASANJO’S ADMINISTRATION

The linkage between the elections and democracy is clear, far, no other method for selecting the leadership of a democratically ruled   society has been proved or crown to be superior but it remain a fact that there is no political system that is conflict free. Even the advanced democracies political participation, citizenship rights, the role of global governance and the media. Western democracy and the American also have fundamental flaws. (Onu and Momoh, 2003: 11) In Nigeria, after a lon...

Nigeria youths are a disappointment

My generation in Nigeria is a failure having been seen playing a key role in the under development of the Nation

The Benue state problems

The reasons behind the stunted growth and development of Benue state


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