ABSTRACT The study investigated the link between North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Politics of Humanitarian Intervention in Libya. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as a geopolitical region controls a large share of the world’s crude oil deposit, which guzzles easy money into the hands of its leaders. This enables the leaders to constantly have strong grip on state power by either buying off or silencing opposition and dissent voices. The study explains how economic interest ...
ABSTRACT The post-Cold War saw the emergence of small arms control treaties as a major framework for promoting global peace and security. However, the implementation of some of these instruments has to date proven ineffective and, thus, a central issue in scholarly debates on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) control. SALW continued to flow to areas of conflict, and to non-state armed groups around the world. Extant literature suggested that structural imbalance in international configurati...
ABSTRACT The major political challenge in Africa and many other developing countries today is how to deal with the national question and democratic consolidation. There is a general feeling that the developing nations’ past had been squandered, and the present mortgaged by the elites, thereby making the future so uncertain. Consequently, the disadvantaged group demands a renegotiation of relations between the power elites and the people to enable them to be fully involved in the process of ...
ABSTRACT Succinctly, the theory an practice of the rule of law is a concept which replete with other phenomena. This research study is established to evaluate the type of politics going on in Ebonyi state, also to verify whether the constitutional provision reigns supreme in Ebonyi State during the democratic regime. The rule of law and its correlative preservation for human right had been customary to the people from the primordial and time immemorial, prior to Igbo Ethnic origin vis-à-vis ...
ABSTRACT The sea by its very nature is international and has remained an object of intense competition and scramble among maritime nations at different epochs in history. The Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOSIII), in 1982 is not only a comprehensive legal instrument that embodies one of the latest codifications and progressive development of international law, but is also a legal base for the Ocean policies of nationstates. This study examines the implications of t...
ABSTRACT Since Ghana attained independence in 1957, successive Governments have pursued, with varying degrees of success, policies, programmes and projects to accelerate the growth of the Ghanaian economy and raise the living standards of the people. These are policies, programmes and projects around which national and development partner’s efforts are coordinated. The discovery and exploration of oil, no doubt has increased Ghana revenue but this has not fully translated to socio-economic ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated Intergovernmental financial relations and local government autonomy in Nigeria : A case study of Igbo-Etiti local government Area of Enugu State. To accomplish this task, we were able to determine if the structure of Intergovernmental financial relations in Nigeria enhanced autonomy of Igbo-Etiti local government; ascertained whether the structure of Intergovernmental financial relations undermined infrastructural development in the local government and examin...
Abstract The Niger Delta – the geographical heart of oil production in Nigeria has been a breeding ground for militants for some years now. This is because the discovery of oil and its exploitation has ushered in a miserable, undisciplined, decrepit, and corrupt form of ‘petro-capitalism’ which produces conflict accelerating factors. Devastated by the ecological costs of oil spillage and underdevelopment, the Niger Delta has become a centre of violence. In an attempt to solve the Niger ...
ABSTRACT The study is a comparative analysis of SAP and NEEDS in economic planning and management in Nigeria. It seeks to understand if there is any relationship between SAD and NEED in economic planning and management and the prospect that NEEDS will succeed were SAP failed. Documentary data sources of textbooks, journals, newspapers and magazines among other secondary sources were used extensively in the study. Anchoring analysis on the depending theory, the study noted that NEEDS is an oil...
ABSTRACT This study evaluated manpower training and utilization in Nsukka local government area, Enugu State, 2009-2015.The objectives of the study are: to determine whether manpower training has translated to infrastructural development in Nsukka local government area and to examine whether inappropriate placement of trained staff undermine the level of infrastructural development in Nsukka local government area. The study used both the quantitative and qualitative methods for data collectio...
Abstract The State as a political entity is confronted with several crosscutting challenges that often times transcend formation boundaries the post-Formation emergent contradictions, complexities and paradoxes are usually adequately amplified by political power relationships. This is even more so in multicultural States where the logic of standard majoritarian democratic philosophy, a la ancient Greece, has failed many times. This thesis is about devising structures and institutions suitable...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the contributions of Multi-national oil companies in Nigeria to indigenous human capital development in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria between 1993 and 2002. Interest on this contemporary issue emerged as a result of complaints by indigenes of Host Communities of Multi-national oil companies in Niger Delta Region in Nigeria. They complained of not being equipped with relevant skills for employment or self-employment. To address this research problem, the study out...
ABSTRACT The issue of public service performance and productivity whereby public officials are required to provide the public with the best service possible is a major challenge for the modern civil service. The Nigerian federal civil service which has grown bulky in the last decade after Independence faces the problem of utilizing its manpower to meet public demand for increasingly better service. The general motion still persists that government staff work less and that the services they re...
ABSTRACT Nigerian leaders since independence in 1960 have proclaimed adherence to the universal convention of predicating the foreign policy of the country on the domestic policies which should emphasize citizens‟ welfare and good governance. With the inception of globalization that has integrated the various countries of the world reducing their distinctiveness over the last three decades, Nigeria‟s foreign policy has transformed but this has not been sufficiently addressed by scholarly...
ABSTRACT In contemporary scholarship, the discourse on local government system has shifted from the debate on the requisite level of autonomy for local government administration, to the more topical issue of the impact of the local government system on grassroots development. Whereas scholars are agreed on the import of local government in any form of governmental contraption, however, there are divergent views on the extent of the role of the local government system in community development...