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Ondo State Government’s Ultimatum to Fulani Herdsmen: Matters Arising
(2021-03)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 ... -
Personality and Legislative Stability in Nigeria’s 6th and 7th National Assembly
(Hyuku Journal of Pol. & Dev. Studies, 2019-01)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 ... -
Pervasive Insecurity and the Challenges Facing the 2023 Elections in Nigeria
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2022)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 Place of Non-Workers in the Nigerian Labour Equation: Addressing the Lacuna
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2020-06)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 ... -
Politics of De-Registration of Political Parties in Nigeria: Court of Appeal Judgment and the Way Forward
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2020-08)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 ... -
Profile of Insecurity in Nigeria, 2020: Considerations for the National Assembly
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021-03)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 ... -
Protecting the Rights of Electricity Consumers in Nigeria: A Call for Complete Abolition of Estimated Billing and Total Installation of Pre-Paid Meters for Consumers
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021-06)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 ... -
Providing Solution to Housing Problems in Nigeria: The Need for National Housing Database
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2020-09)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. ... -
Public Health Activism and the Role of Civil Society in Good Governance: Some Reflections on the Nigerian Experience
(2019)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 ... -
Public trust and state management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria
(Frontiers in Political Science, 2024-06)The COVID-19 pandemic generated an unprecedented global crisis with long lasting consequences. In this study, I examine the bi-directional nexus between public trust and the management of the pandemic in Nigeria. I argue ... -
Public Trust and the Management of COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of the Legislature
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021-02)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 ... -
Reducing the Cost of Governance: Alternative Policy Options for Economic Sustainability
(2021-06)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 ... -
Repositioning the Nigerian State Through the Synthesis of Arts, Religion and Politics
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)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 ... -
Resurgent Violent Farmer-Herder Conflicts and ‘Nightmares’ in Northern Nigeria
(National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), 2020)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 ... -
Review of Duncanson, C. (2016). Gender and Peace building. Cambridge: Polity Press. 157 pages and preliminaries
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A Review of Some Discriminatory Laws against Women and the Need for Legislative-Gender Responsive Actions in Nigeria
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)This brief provides insight into some of the discriminatory laws against women in Nigeria, and suggests steps that may be taken to address them. Some of the existing laws that discriminate against women are the 1999 ... -
Rising Drug Use and Youths in Nigeria: A Need for an Urgent Legislative Action
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)The objective of the brief is to identify the causes of rising drug intake among youths in Nigeria. Rising cases of drug intake in Nigeria is alarming which has caused huge and unquantified damage to the society There ... -
Rising Insecurity and the Need to Enact the National Security Agencies Welfare and Protection Act
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)This Brief has brought to the fore the need for the government, both federal and state, to adequately cater for and appreciate security personnel in the country. This Brief suggests that: The three Bills (viz. 2020/HB.1047, ... -
The Role of Delegates and Emergence of Credible Leaders from Party Primaries in Nigeria
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2022)The delegates system in any democratic setting always helps to nurture good ethics and democratic values that produce credible leadership in the country. The practice however, in Nigeria, has not brought about the emergence ... -
The Role of the National Assembly in Budget Process in Nigeria
(National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), 2020)This paper examined the various stages in the budget process in Nigeria such as the budget preparation and submission, budget authorization, budget execution and budget evaluation/audit report; and highlighted the role ...