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Nigeria’s Housing Deficit and Mortgage Financing: Challenges and Possible Solutions
(National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, 2020)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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Closing the Gender Gap in Nigeria’s Agriculture Sector
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021-02)The agriculture sector plays a crucial role in the Nigerian economy, in terms of its contribution to GDP, employment, household income and poverty alleviation. However, statistics have shown that the sector’s performance ... -
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 ... -
Citizens’ Lack of Trust in State Management of COVID-19 Pandemic: How does the Legislature bridge the Gap?
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021-01)Government’s ability to harness public trust is crucial for managing the COVID-19 pandemic and finding ways out of the crisis. This brief takes a look at what drives the widespread skepticism about government's coronavirus ... -
Addressing the Burden of Open Defecation in Nigeria: Some policy recommendations
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021-07)This brief discusses the issue of open defecation in Nigeria. It notes that open defecation is a major issue in Nigeria, as more than 47 million Nigerians (or 10 million households) are estimated to defecate in the open.1 ...