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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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Nigeria as a democratic country like every other nation needs the media to drive or sustain good governance and engender national development. But the media often regarded as the fourth estate of the realm have an enormous task to accomplish this role as the watchdog of the society. The task or role of the media has to a large extent not been effectively accomplished. It is important here to state that the primary role of the media in any given society is to inform
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Geert Hofstede defined that culture is "collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from another". (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012a) Human culture derives from people’s background‚ education‚ gender and so on. Therefore‚ different people have various cultures. Culture can influence employees’ relationship in workplaces. (HOFSTEDE‚ 2012b) Geert Hofstede studied this question for more than six years‚ and found six groups of national cultural dimensions. The first
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ECONOMY OF NIGERIA Nigeria is a middle income‚ mixed economy and emerging market‚ with expanding financial‚ service‚ communications‚ and entertainment sectors. It is ranked 30th in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) as of 2011‚ and its emergent‚ though currently underperforming manufacturing sector is the third-largest on the continent‚ producing a large proportion of goods and services for the West African region. Previously hindered by years of mismanagement‚ economic reforms of the past decade
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2013 Date:Jan 15‚ 2013 For the youths or u and me to strive we need; 1 Date:Dec 20‚ 2012 Nigerian govt shld pay much attention on the security of its citizens. Date:May 07‚ 2012 Kidnapping in Nigeria is a very bad business as they celled it to be a business in which people go into Date:May 07‚ 2012 nigeria should not clam to be ignorant of the problem Date:May 07‚ 2012 it is dishearthing n so depressing......... Date:Dec 06‚ 2010 Date:Nov 21‚ 2010 LET THE POLITICIANS THAT BROUGTH THEM TO STOP OTHER
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The Positive and Negative Effects of Globalization in Nigeria Globalization according to Clark and Wallace (2003) refers to a “greater interconnectedness of the world’s financial‚ economic‚ technological‚ political‚ cultural‚ sociological‚ ecological‚ and geographical systems” (p. 447). Globalization has various effects both positive and negative on the countries that choose to achieve the worldwide connection. In the case of Nigeria‚ which is classified by the U.S Department of State as a developing
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the demographic profile of your country based on the latest census data including: size of population‚ sex composition‚ age structure‚ racial composition‚ educational achievement composition‚ employment status BRIEF INTRODUCTION: Nigeria‚ located in West Africa‚ Nigeria is the population giant of Africa‚ with more than 140 million people. The terrain changes from the oil-rich Niger Delta in the south to a belt of rain forests inland and to high savannah-covered plateaus in the north. With her Federal
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COUNSELLING IN NIGERIA: AN OVERVIEW BY C.N. UGWUEGBULAM‚ Ph.D.‚ JP. ALVAN IKOKU COLLEGE OF EDUCATION‚ OWERRI – IMO STATE‚ NIGERIA AND CUUU KADURUMBA (Ph.D.) COLLEGE OF FOOD PROCESSING AND STORAGE TECHNOLOGY‚ MICHAEL OKPARA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE‚ UMUDIKE‚ ABIA STATE‚ NIGERIA HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING IN NIGERIA Man from pre-historic times have been having challenges and solving them. Nigerians in the traditional set-up before the advent of formalized guidance and
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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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