National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies: Recent submissions
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Refineries in Ruin: A Call for Accountability and Reform in Nigeria’s Oil Sector Authors
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-07)Despite receiving over $18 billion in rehabilitation funds, Nigeria’s state-owned refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna remain non-operational as of July 2025. Recent statements from Alhaji Aliko Dangote and newly ... -
Revitalising Public Schools in Nigeria for Quality Education and Improved Students Performance: An Analysis of NILDS 2024 Secondary Schools Quiz Competition
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-06)Nigerian public secondary schools are experiencing a crisis marked by poor teacher remuneration, inadequate teacher-student ratios, deteriorating academic performance, and poor infrastructure. The growing disparity between ... -
Tackling the Rising Drug Abuse Culture in Nigerian Universities: Areas for Legislative Intervention
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-07)Drug abuse among Nigerian youths, particularly university undergraduates, has reached alarming proportions. A recent disclosure by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA, 2025), Oyo State Command, revealed that ... -
Evaluating Nigerian Government Plan to Deploy Health Workers to Saint Lucia
(NILDS - Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-07)The Federal Government of Nigeria has entered a Technical Manpower Assistance (TMA) agreement with Saint Lucia to deploy Nigerian doctors abroad, offering up to N40.8 million per annum compared to the N 11.9 million currently ... -
Escalating Boat Mishaps in Nigeria: Urgent Need for Legislative Oversight and Action
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-07)In May 2025, a devastating boat accident in Gbajibo community, Kwara State, claimed at least 27 lives, marking the third major tragedy in the region in less than two years. Similar accidents in October 2024 and June 2023 ... -
Contract Trap and the Ordeal of Nigerian Bank Workers: The Need for Legislative Intervention
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-06)Contract staffing in Nigeria's banking sector has become a systematic problem, trapping young professionals in exploitative working circumstances with no job security, benefits, or opportunities for advancement. Nigerian ... -
Combating Illegal Mining in Nigeria: A Call for Legislative Intervention
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-06)This policy brief highlighted the urgent need for legislative measures to address illegal mining in Nigeria, providing a framework to tackle this complex challenge. Illegal mining significantly threatens Nigeria's economy, ... -
Combating Childhood Malnutrition in Nigeria through Effective Implementation of the National Multisectoral Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition (NMPFAN 2021–2025) Beyond 2025: Legislative Recommendations
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-07)Childhood malnutrition remains a critical public health crisis in Nigeria, with 32% of children under five stunted, 7% wasted, and 22% underweight, and 2 million suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), contributing ... -
Cholera Resurgence in Nigeria: Public Health Emergency and a Need for Policy Action
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-06)Nigerian Council for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,149 suspected cholera cases and 28 deaths, with a case fatality ratio (CFR) of 2.4% as of March, 2nd 2025. According to the report, Bayelsa state accounts ... -
Ban on Night-time Movement of Fuel Tankers: Options for Regulating Tanker Operations
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-06)Over the years, the media has been replete of fuel tanker-related accidents that have consumed many lives and leaving many in critical health conditions as a result of injuries sustained. Many factors have been attributed ... -
Addressing the Crisis of Out-of-School Children in Nigeria and Analysing Government Interventions so far: Areas for Legislative Intervention
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-06)Nigeria is faced with the crisis of out-of-school children, which have both economic and social impacts on the country. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 2024 report, Nigeria has approximately 18.3 ... -
Addressing Crude Shortages at the Dangote Refinery: Legislative Actions to Strengthen Domestic Supply
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-07)The Dangote Petroleum Refinery (DPR), launched in May 2023 with a refining capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, was envisioned to revolutionise Nigeria’s fuel supply by reducing imports and promoting energy self-sufficiency. ... -
Flooding and Poor Shoreline Protection in Coastal Communities: Urgent Need for Legislative Actions in Resolving Ecological Challenge in Nigeria
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-06)Flooding has been a recurring ecological problem in Nigeria with attendant consequences of fatalities, injuries, displacements and other impact on infrastructural damage, agricultural loses as well other health hazards. ... -
Electoral Integrity: Assessing the Strides and Slides of Election Technology in Nigeria
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2025-07)Despite the introduction of technology in Nigeria’s elections (BVAS, IReV, etc.), tangible improvements are yet to be witnessed, as these technological deployments in elections have not been able to address the very issues ... -
An Appraisal of Corruption Fight in Nigeria: A Comparative Study of Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari Administrations
(NILDS-Department of Democracy and Governance, 2022)The research conducted a comprehensive analysis of the anti-corruption efforts during the tenure of Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari through a comparative lens. Employing the institutional theory as the analytical ... -
North-Central Development Commission (Establishment) Act, 2024
(National Assembly, 2024)This Act establishes the North Central Development Commission charged with the responsibilty among other things to receive and manage funds from allocation of the Federation Account for the reconstruction and rehabilitation ... -
South-West Development Commission (Establishment) Act, 2025
(National Assembly, 2025)This Act establishes the South-West Development Commission to, among other things, receive and manage funds from the allocation of the Federation Account and international donors for the settlement, rehabilitation and ... -
North-West Development Commission (Establishment) Act, 2024
(National Assembly, 2024)This Act establishes the North-West Development Commission, charged with the responsibility among other things, to receive and manage funds from the allocation of the Federation Account and international donors for the ... -
South-SouthDevelopment Commission (Establishment) Act, 2025
(National Assembly, 2025)This Act establishes the South-South Development Commission, charged with the responsibility among other things, to receive and manage funds from the allocation of the Federation Account to fast track the socio-economic ... -
South-East Development Commission (Establishment) Act, 2024
(National Assembly, 2025)This Act establishes the South-East Development Commission charged with the responsility among other things toi receive and manage funds from allocations of the Federal Account for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of ...
