The paper examines the role played by the legislature in the appropriation and budget process in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic from 1999 to 2019. Using data generated from primary source such as interview and reports and ...

The implementation of the National Automotive Policy has generated divergent views among major stakeholders in the industry. While the Association of Motor Dealers of Nigeria (AMDON) argues that the policy has led to loss ...

The morbidity and mortality rates of the coronavirus, otherwise called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or COVID-19, ignited the urgency of developing and ensuring access to affordable, safe and ...

This paper interrogates the postponement of the 2019 general elections in Nigeria and the attendant international responses it elicited. It noted that Nigeria’s national elections had been similarly postponed in 2011 and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to exacerbate Nigeria’s current housing deficit and limit access to affordable housing and long tenured mortgage financing. Social distancing protocols and lockdown rules have exerted ...

This paper examines the role of the fourth and fifth Nigerian National Assembly in interparliamentary diplomacy. Using historical method, the paper established that the re-entry of the National Assembly into the global ...

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’ ...

The brief captures the declining state of security in Nigeria, with specific focus on herders-farmers conflict that has taken new shapes and dimensions in recent times. It demonstrates that herdsmen activities are among ...

This paper interrogates the influence of leadership personality on legislative stability in Nigeria’s National Assembly from 2007 to 2015. The study deployed descriptive research design in analysing the personality of ...

As Nigerians look forward to the general elections in 2023, there is growing concern that the nation’s pervasive insecurity condition could offer a significant barrier, if not an obstruction, to those elections. This is ...

The legal framework governing the offer, acceptance, and performance of employment in Nigeria consists of a number of statutes. The most pivotal of these legislations, arguably, is the Labour Act, which covers the fine ...

Various forms of multiparty political systems have been introduced around the world since the start of the third wave of democratization in 19741. Today, we live in times when more countries elect their leaders through ...

This brief adds to the discourse on insecurity in Nigeria by providing data on violent attacks and deaths across the nation for the year 2020. In its analyses, the brief shows that over 3,300 Nigerians lost their lives in ...

One of the major challenges facing the power sector in Nigeria currently is the inability of the Distribution Companies (DisCos) to live up to expectations to comprehensively bridge the metering gap within electricity ...

Access to quality and affordable housing is one of the fundamental needs that is crucial to achieving a number of social policy objectives, including reducing poverty, enhancing standard of living and social inclusion. ...

This paper examines public health activism and the role of civil society in good governance in Nigeria. Using historical method spiced with empirical observation, the paper attempt to establish that public health activism ...

Government’s ability to harness public trust is crucial for managing the COVID-19 pandemic and resolving the crisis. This brief takes a look at what drives the widespread skepticism about government's coronavirus response ...

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 ...

Fifty years after independence, Nigeria still confronts several basic problems of insecurity, underdevelopment, electoral malpractices, corruption and poverty, poor standard of education, infrastructure deficit, religious ...

How have variables of terrorism, politics and ethnicity complicated the increasingly devastating conflicts between farmers and herders in Nigeria? What short and long term policy suggestions can aid the management of ...