The Nigerian government has proposed to harmonise the salaries of civil servants as a measure to control the high costs of governance amidst the shrinking revenue base. While the harmonisation of salaries across MDAs is a ...

This policy brief argues that most of the factors hampering the development of the girl-child in Nigeria are institutionalized and require a systematic approach to tackling them. Factors such as poverty, cultural and ...

The title of this dissertation is an examination of the qualities of committee clerks on committees’ performances in the Nigerian 8th Senate. This study examined the extent to which the qualities of committee clerks can ...

This research assessed the performance of the National Assembly Service Commission, with specific objectives to examine the mandate of the Commission in terms of recruitment, promotion and discipline, assessed its performance ...

Ascertaining the working relationship between Civil Society Organizations and the Legislature at the federal level is the focus of this study. While several studies have examined the partnership between CSOs and other ...

This study examined legislative-executive relations in Nigeria 8th National Assembly. The study was motivated by the strained relationship that characterized previous sessions and the need to device an effective mechanism ...

For Democracy to be evident in any Country ,there must be separation of power, adherence to the rule of law and supremacy of the constitution . There are basically two (2) types of governance system in the world namely; ...

This research work was designed to assess the performance of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in curbing corruption in Nigeria. The major objectives of the study include; to examine the compliance of legal and constitutional ...

The Legislature is one of the key arms of Government that is saddled with the responsibility of making law and ensuring good governance. One of the strategies the Legislature adopts to achieve its objective is the committee ...

The study examined the extent to which the Senate Committee on Defence carried out its oversight function from 2015 to 2019. It also assessed the performance of the oversight function by the Senate Committee on Defence in ...

Legislative oversight as one of the core functions of the National Assembly is programmed to check waste, inefficiency, ineffectiveness, corruption and mismanagement of public resources in governance, thus, necessitating ...

The Senate Directorate performed very crucial role in the legislative process of the National Assembly. As a result, the researcher undertook the study on “Bureaucracy and Service Delivery in Senate Directory of the National ...

International trade theorists provide some mechanisms through which trade could be used as a driver of economic growth but nations of the world show different dispositions to these causing variations in economic growth. ...

Nigeria currently has 38 doctors per 100,000 population, far short of the WHO standard of 166 doctors per 100,000 population. The low doctor-to-population ratio is further aggravated by the high emigration of medical ...

Notwithstanding the centrality of the parliament to governance, numerous studies have come to the conclusion that the legislative institution in most African democracies is weak. A report by the UN Economic Commission for ...

This brief discusses the issue of open defecation in Nigeria. It notes that open defecation is a major issue in Nigeria, as more than 47 million Nigerians (or 10 million households) are estimated to defecate in the open.1 ...

This study examined public hearing and citizens participation in law making in Nigeria with reference to the activities of the Senate committee on Judiciary, Human rights and Legal matters in the 8th National Assembly. ...

This Policy Analysis stems from the ongoing conversations in Nigeria about the appropriateness or otherwise of negotiating with terrorists and bandits. It notes that though the refrain, ‘we do not negotiate with terrorists’ ...

This study examined Civil-Military Relations in Nigeria within the context of the phenomenon of parliamentary oversight of the Military within the fortress of the eight (8th) Assembly of the Fourth republic. The study ...

Given a population size of over 210 million people, and the rising trends in injuries to bones, ligaments, and tendons, sustained by road accident victims, and insurgents’ attack victims, amongst others, the need for the ...