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An Analysis of Nigeria's Position in the 2020 Corruption Perception Index
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021-02)
This data brief analyses Nigeria’s position in the 2020 Corruption Perception Index. The brief reveals that despite all the measures taken to fight corruption by the present and past administrations, not so much has been ...
Modern and Refreshed Approaches for Operationalizing Community Policing Model in Nigeria
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)
Community policing is a model of policing or strategy adopted by Nigeria to curb crime from the grassroots, starting from the local level. The strategy is based on the idea that local police have local responsibility to ...
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 ...
Leveraging equity and fairness in the distribution of political positions to promote unity and security in Nigeria
(National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, 2021)
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 ...
Historic Patterns of Democratisation in Ghana And Nigeria
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2021)
The paper examines the historic pattern of democratisation in Ghana and Nigeria, respectively. Election management and subsequent transfer of power have been largely problematic in Africa. It also follows the trend that ...
Democracy Without The People: Interrogating Low Voter Turnout in Nigeria’s 2019 General Elections
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2021)
This paper examined low voter turnout in the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. The paper utilized both secondary as well as primary data sourced through a purposively administered questionnaire on a total of 260 respondents ...
Electoral Reforms And Democratic Stability in Nigeria: A Critical Review of the 2022 Electoral Act
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2021)
The paper interrogates the prospects of attaining democratic stability in Nigeria, via the instrumentality of electoral reforms, taking the Electoral Act 2022 into perspective. Electoral reforms have been generally observed ...