CAN NIGERIA ’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY SURVIVE? BY Emmanuel 0. Ojo (Ph.D) Department of Political Science University of Ilorin‚ Nigeria P. F. Adebayo (Ph.D) Lebanese Emigration Research Center‚ Notre Dame University‚ Lebanon ABSTRACT By May 2009‚ Nigeria ’s nascent democracy should have been a decade. Thus‚ the thrust of this paper is an in depth analysis of the possibility of sustaining democratic values beyond any sudden reversal. The. paper however‚ takes a cursory look at the daunting challenges
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Agreement has been implemented ten years after it was signed and six years after Nigeria ceded the Bakassi Penisula to Cameroon : Going by the procedural rules of the International Court of Justice ‚ ICJ by October 10 this year Nigeria will lose its right to appeal against the judgment of the International Court of Justice‚ ICJ‚ which had in 2002‚ ceded the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula in Cross River State‚ Southern Nigeria to the Republic of Cameroon. By the terms of the 2005 Green Tree Agreement
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In the United States‚ social media sites are currently being used by two out of three people‚ and search engines are used daily. Social media is helping America to stay informed‚ to stay organized‚ and to react rapidly. Not only can users on social media sites communicate with their friends‚ but they can also communicate with other users whom they connected with through shared use of political groups and pages. During the 2006 and 2008 election seasons‚ new technologies emerged that enabled individuals
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EJISDC (2002) 10‚ 2‚ 1-8 The Effect of Information Technology on the Growth of the Banking Industry in Nigeria P. A. Idowu Dept of Computer Science and Engineering Obafemi Awolowo University Ife-Ife Nigeria A.O. Alu Dept of Management and Accounting Obafemi Awolowo University Ife-Ife Nigeria E.R. Adagunodo Dept of Computer Science and Engineering Obafemi Awolowo University Ife-Ife Nigeria ABSTRACT The advent of Information Technology (IT) is rapidly changing the banking
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NIGERIA AND THE BOMBER: THE GENESIS TO REVELATION Nigeria is a country in the West of Africa with an interesting population of over 160 million people. A British Colony‚ Nigeria was hitherto peaceful and seen as key to African development and interests. Such has been the opposite of the true state of the supposed Giant of Africa since gaining independence in 1960 and declaring a Republic in 1961. After years of Military Dictatorship and coups left the country under-developed for much of her early
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ENTREPRENUERSHIP IN NIGERIA Entrepreneurial forces are relatively strong in this country‚ as the lack of jobs and a rise in poverty leave few other options for the Nigerian people. Although difficult due to a lack of resources‚ there are non-profit organizations such as the Fate Foundation in Nigeria that are dedicated to promote entrepreneurship. Apart from the information about Nigeria that is so widespread and often negative‚ there appears to be a recognition of the critical role and place of
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Chapter 2 Protest movement in Nigeria In democracy‚ having a wide spread number of people tell the government that they do not like its practices could herald to protest movements. As thus‚ it is a very effective way of getting changes made and raising or revisiting issues. History of protest movement During the 19th and early 20th century‚ Nigerians sought and found ways to oppose the foreign rule. As the middle classes and the working classes became more educated‚ there came with it‚ the desire
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) takes a number of monetary policy decisions‚ including a change in the level of money supply (M2)‚ the Minimum Rediscount Rate (MRR)‚ or a change in the exchange rate. The central bank defines money supply in two ways: narrow and broad money. Narrow money (M1) is defined to include currency in circulation plus current account deposits with commercial banks. Broad money measures the total volume of money supply in the economy and is defined as narrow money plus savings
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permanently block the annoying junk mails. Even though the companies¡¦ intention is to promote sales and increase publicity‚ their ways of advertisement can often bring many problems to many innocent computer users. Another problem that the mass media causes is the excessive and frustrating telemarketing phone calls many households receive everyday. These phone calls serve the same purpose as the advertisement emails; however‚ the only difference is that the phone calls are less impersonal that
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Larson flew to Kano‚ Nigeria‚ to begin a two-year term in an agricultural ministry in the Kano area. He returned to the United States in 1981 and enrolled in the Interdisciplinary track of Wheaton Graduate School. In June 1982 he returned to Nigeria under SIM‚ where he planned to complete his graduate degree while continuing mission work. In August 1984‚ Larson returned to Wheaton College Graduate School and received an M.A. in 1986. Larson established a joint venture in Nigeria in 1994‚ with local
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