The paper examines the role played by the legislature in the appropriation and budget process in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic from 1999 to 2019. Using data generated from primary source such as interview and reports and ...

This paper interrogates the postponement of the 2019 general elections in Nigeria and the attendant international responses it elicited. It noted that Nigeria’s national elections had been similarly postponed in 2011 and ...

This paper examines the role of the fourth and fifth Nigerian National Assembly in interparliamentary diplomacy. Using historical method, the paper established that the re-entry of the National Assembly into the global ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This study focuses on the effectiveness of Treasury Single Account (TSA) for promoting transparency, integrity, and responsibility among public sectors in Nigeria. A TSA is an important tool for managing government activities. ...

The 1990s marked a watershed in the transition to democracy in West Africa. However, after three decades, democracy is yet to be rooted in the region due to frequent military interventions (coup d’états) and the subsequent ...

Monetary inducements has been part of the electoral process in Nigeria in recent years but the incidence of vote buying became so glaring and discredited the democratic process in the 2019 General Election. This study ...

This study examines the concept of discrimination based on Xenophobia, and its history as well as the factors that led to its growth in contemporary South Africa. Migration of people from other African countries and outside ...