process and undemocratic political parties‚ the stage is set for flawed elections. Thus‚ the 1999 and 2003 elections‚ like virtually all the preceding elections in Nigeria’s post-colonial history‚ were classic cases of electoral fraud. In broad terms‚ there have been two kinds of elections in Nigeria’s post-colonial history. These are the ‘transition’ and ‘consolidation’ elections[1]. The transition elections are those organized by a departing political authority‚ which include those organized by the departing
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Abstract Rural development of the grassroots has been the concern of every responsible and responsive political system. This is because development and participation have continued to elude people of the grassroots. Development remains insignificant if it does not positively affect the lives of those in the periphery of decision making arrangement. The Nigerian state therefore created local government as the third tier of government whose objective is to ensure effective‚ measurable and efficient
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INTRODUCTION The development of any nation depends on the amount of revenue generated by the government for the provision of infrastructural facilities. One major source of generating this revenue is taxation. According to Azubike (2009)‚ tax is a major source of government revenue all over the world‚ including Nigeria. Government use tax proceeds to render their traditional functions such as the provision public goods‚ maintenance of law and order‚ defense against external and internal aggression‚ regulation
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The Nigeria Ecological Fund Office Aroboinosen Hillary Department of Agricultural and Bio-Resources Engineering‚ Federal University of Technology‚ Minna‚ Niger State‚ Nigeria E-mail:aroby_hillary@yahoo.com Abstract Nigeria has a total land area of 983‚213 km2 occupied by about 140 Million people: The interaction of these millions of people with their environment has left indelible mark on the landscape. Deforestation‚ desertification‚ flooding‚ erosion and all kinds of pollution as well
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INTRODUCTION The 2008 economic crisis affected African nations in the developing world in a very similar way. Nigeria suffered a fall in oil prices ‚ reduction in exports and a downward trend in the stock market whilst South Africa suffered the same effects but rather than crude oil they suffered in the fall of commodity prices. Policies to stimulate the economy are different in terms of trade where Nigeria is more free trade and South Africa became more protectionist after the crisis. The Nigerian economy
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” This is because any single one of them (the manipulators) “cannot appear as what he really is in the political economy of Nigeria. He has to find a cover. He cannot claim political leadership openly on the grounds that he is‚ or wants to be‚ an exporter-importer‚ a contractor (etcetera)… he has to take cover as a Muslim or Christian … the manipulation of religion in Nigeria today is essentially a means of creating the context for this
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POPULATION GROWTH The absence of virtually any reliable current demographic data has not prevented national and international bodies from generating estimates and projections of population and population growth in Nigeria. The World Bank estimate of Nigeria’s 1990 population was 119 million‚ with an estimated annual growth rate of 3.3 percent. Although other sources differed on the exact figure‚ virtually all sources agreed that the annual rate of population growth in the country had increased from
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Law‚ Corporate Objective and Social Responsibility: The Nigerian Situation Background Information Corporate associations largely influence the lives of humans and economies of nations. Confederation of British Industry rightly notes that human ‘...lifestyle is determined by the activities and the style of businesses’. [1] These businesses are in turn largely determined by the activities and styles of companies.[2] Therefore‚ the impacts of businesses and their organisations on
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Impact of Cashless Economy in Nigeria By Omotunde M. Sunday T. John-Dewole A.T. Greener Journal of Internet‚ Information and Communication Systems Vol. 1 (2)‚ pp. 040-043‚ April 2013. Research Article Impact of Cashless Economy in Nigeria *Omotunde Muyiwa1‚ Sunday Tunmibi‚1 and John-Dewole A.T.2 1 School of Computer Science‚ Mathematics and Information Technology‚ Houdegbe North American University‚ Republic of Benin. 2 Department of Computer Science with Electronics
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Definitions of Language Many definitions have been given to language by language scholars. Alo (1995) cites some of these definitions‚ which we reproduce below: “Language is the primary and most highly elaborated form of human symbolic activity…made up of symbols made by sounds produced by the vocal apparatus….” (A. A Hill) “Language is any set of system of linguistic symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with
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