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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 ... -
Crude Oil Politics and Electoral Violence in Bayelsa State, 1999 – 2019
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)Since the return to civilian government in Nigeria on May 29th, 1999, elections in Bayelsa state have been characterised by violence. This intensification of the struggle for power often results in election related violence ... -
Look Before Leaping, A Cautious Note on Nigeria’s E-Voting
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)Both institutional and procedural uncertainties have marred electoral practices and resulted into gross misconduct in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. In 2015, the Smart Card Reader (SCR) was introduced to Nigeria’s elections ... -
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 ... -
In-Feminism and Women-Women Marginalisation in Ogun State, Nigeria
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)The importance of women in the society cannot be downplayed. Today, what has become a social problem is women-women marginalisation in politics and political process despite the fact that women constitute significant ... -
E-Government Implementation in Nigeria: Building a New Paradigm for Public Trust
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)This study investigated how the online delivery of public services (e-government) has impacted public trust in the Nigerian government. This was done using an electronic survey conducted with 13,743 users of online government ... -
National Assembly, Federal Budget and Appropriation in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic: 1999-2019
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)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 ... -
Climate Governance and Legislation in Nigeria: Matters Arising
(Department of Democratic Governance, 2021)Climate governance in Nigeria is a new entrant to the domain of public interest and attempts at legislating on it through agenda setting in-roads and eventual attainment of the list of state responsibilities for public ... -
Dominant Power Politics and Democratic Consolidation in Zimbabwe Circa, 1980-2017 A.D
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2021)This paper examines issues in principles and practices of democratic consolidation in Zimbabwe. The political system in Zimbabwe theoretically upheld a multiparty system and has held periodic elections since 1980 but ... -
Constituency Representation in Nigeria: An Assessment of Taraba State Federal Legislators (2013 – 2019)
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2021)This paper interrogates the representation of Federal legislators in Nigeria using Taraba Federal Legislative Constituencies as the area of study. The objective was to establish coherence between the actions and functions ... -
Democratic Governance, University Education and Economic Development: Rethinking Possibilities
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2021)This paper presents a strong advocacy for change and advancement. It argues that understanding the extent to which the symbiotic relationship between democratic governance and university education impacts the Nigerian ... -
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 ... -
Conflict and Distortion in Resource Utilization and Peace-Building in Kogi State, Nigeria
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2021)Conflict always generates insecurity. Peace scholars recognise conflict as a non-economic factor that impacts negatively on economic growth and development. The conflict escalated by resource control is prevalent partly ... -
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 ... -
Xenophobic Attacks on Foreign Nationals in South Africa: A Threat to International Relations
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2021)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 ... -
Transparency, Probity and Accountability: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Treasury Single Account (TSA) in Nigerian Public Sector
(The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies, 2021-03)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. ... -
Dynamics of Change in Legislators' Quality and Effectiveness in Nigeria's 4th To 6th National Assembly
(2021-07)Notwithstanding the centrality of the parliament to governance, numerous studies have come to the conclusion that the legislative institution in most African democracies is weak. A report by the UN Economic Commission for ... -
Investigating the Legacies of Violence and Conflict in Transitional Justice and Peace: The Values of Law in Politics
(African Journal of Political Science, 2022)Violations of law, human rights abuse, and socio-economic and political grievances are legacies of violence and conflict-affected politics. In recent times, the aggravation of violence and conflict has hindered political ... -
Citizen Diplomacy and Development: Re-evaluating Nigeria's Afrocentric Foreign Policies for Sustainable Peace in West Africa
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2022)Recent events on the African continent show that the Nigerian government has played significant hegemonic roles in the African region without really paying adequate attention to her internal domestic contradictions. To ...