Over the years, legislative scholars have designed different approaches, indicators, benchmarks and assessment toolkits for evaluating the legislature. These range from self-assessment guide to minimum criteria for ...

Legislative ethics is pivotal to guiding the conduct of legislators in combating corruption in any legislature. This study examines the effects of ethical standards in guiding the conduct of legislators to averting ...

The National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is widely perceived by the public to be inept in the area of legislative oversight. This study understand the basis for this reputation, by identifying the problems ...

Legislative oversight and executive accountability are implicational-related concepts so much that the presence of one means a presence of the other and vice versa. Hence, an examination of the performance of oversight ...

This research work examined Legislative oversight and good governance a case study of the Nigerian National Assembly. Survey research methodology was adopted for this study and questionnaires were administered to respondents ...

Numerous laws and regulations have been enacted by the Nigeria legislators for the operations of the telecommunication industries, in spite of these laws and regulations recent periods have beheld several reckless misconducts ...

In the modern-day constitutional democracy, (ideal situations) effective and efficient legislative oversight functions ensure executive compliance with legislative intent, improves, efficiency and effectiveness in conduct ...

The presentation addresses Legislative research. It addressed research definitions, typology of research, and clarified Legislative Research. It also discussed research design and methodology, Legislative Research versus ...

This policy brief focused on issues of selective compliance with resolutions passed by the legislature and its negative implications on the image and effectiveness of the legislative institution in Nigeria. It is worrisome ...

The presentation provides an overview of legislative-executive relations, especially in relation to the core functions of parliament, highlighting the difficulties of measuring legislative-executive relations, and considering ...

This paper tries to establish the state of functionality of Anambra State House of Assembly as a Legislative organ of government in the State. Its assessment is based on the common practices of the legislature, isolating ...

This study “The Legislature and the Budget Process: A Case Study of Borno State House of Assembly”, was designed to assess the impact of the role of Borno State House of Assembly in the budget process. Thus, while the ...

The principle of checks and balance requires that the three arms of government are autonomous and operate as a watch dog to one another. This relationship can however, be dampened when the financial autonomy of these organs ...

Nigeria has witnessed diverse forms of insecurity and conflicts in the past ten years. This ranges from farmers-herders conflicts, Boko Haram insurgency, ethnic violence, religious extremism, kidnapping, and political ...