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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 ...
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 ...
Human Insecurity and the Challenge of Voter Turnout at Elections in Nigeria 1999-2019
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2022)
Nigeria’s Fourth Republic has successively witnessed decline in voter turnout at elections. This is in spite of the humongous amount of money expended on the conduct of elections in the country. Although authors have ...