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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This paper examines the role of the Nigerian National Assembly in the economic diplomacy of external debt relief between 1999 and 2006. Using secondary data, the findings show that the National Assembly played a critical ...