If you’ve ever laced your fingers together‚ turned your palms away from you and bent your fingers back‚ you know what knuckle popping sounds like. Joints produce that CRACK when bubbles burst in the fluid surrounding the joint. Joints are the meeting points of two separate bones‚ held together and in place by connective tissues and ligaments. All of the joints in our bodies are surrounded by synovial fluid‚ a thick‚ clear liquid. When you stretch or bend your finger to pop the knuckle‚ you’re causing
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arrangement. The Nigerian state therefore created local government as the third tier of government whose objective is to ensure effective‚ measurable and efficient service delivery to the people. Local government is faced with various difficulties. The major concern of this paper is to dwell on these difficulties and illuminates the factors that are responsible for them. In achieving this‚ the paper relies on descriptive approach and unstructured interview. It concludes that problems of local government
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Two‚ the cost and efficiency gains from the consolidation of the present 39 state-structure could be channelled towards improved provision of public services and better quality of governance. A computerised national identity card scheme has become an imperative. Three‚ states should invest in smart security‚ especially preventative security‚ which could involve phone tapping‚ extensive use of moles‚ and possible use of private armies and private military companies in protracted conflict areas
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CRIME AND POLICING IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND OPTIONS Etannibi e.o. ALEMIKA Innocent c. Chukwuma CLEEN Foundation Page 2 6/29/2005 © CLEEN FOUNDATION 2004 ISBN: 978-35160-9-4 CLEEN FOUNDATION 1A Afolabi Aina street Off Allen Avenue Ikeja‚ Lagos – Nigeria Telephones: 234-1-4933195; 4935338; 4935339 E-Mail: cleen@cleen.org CLEEN Foundation Page 3 6/29/2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS Aknowledgements v Preface Etannibi E.O. Alemika and Innocent C. Chukwuma vi Welcoming Address
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3. The Revenue Cycle The revenue cycle is a set of four business activities: Sales order entry‚ shipping‚ billing and cash collections. To each of these activities there are related administrative organisational activities. It is all associated with providing the goods and services of a company to their customers and collecting the payments for these sales. Information about the revenue cycle activities also flows to the other accounting cycles which are: the expenditure cycle‚ the production
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breakdown of statutory allocation of N196.4 billion‚ Debt Servicing of N532 billion‚ N2.4 trillion recurrent expenditure‚ N1.5 trillion capital budget‚ exchange rate of N150/$; joint venture cash calls of $5.4 billion and N2.53 trillion for total revenue. He promised that with the oil benchmark projected to be $65 per barrel at production rate of 2.3 million barrel per day‚ GDP among Nigerians would increase to 7.85 per cent in 2011. Jonathan‚ who promised that the proposed budget is also aimed
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Revenue allocation formulae: The current revenue allocation formulae is 52.68%‚ 26.72% and 20.60%.for the F.G‚ States and L.Gs respectively | FEDERAL GOVT. | STATE GOVT. | LOCAL GOVT. | | | | | |52.68% |26.72%
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it needs to provide services that are responsive and financially fair‚ while treating people decently. (www.who.int/healthsystems/about/en/) SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS The poor state of health systems in many parts of the developing world is one of the greatest barriers to increasing access to essential health care. However‚ problems with health systems are not confined to poor countries. Some rich countries have large populations without access to care because of inequitable arrangements for social protection
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INTRODUCTION Crime and punishment are two concepts that are vital to the harmony and peaceful co-existence of a state. The goal of every society is that every inhabitant should pursue his interest and aspirations without fear or hindrance from another co-inhabitant. In securing this‚ every community of man has always put in place rules and norms that regulate the interaction of the inhabitants. Certain conducts in the society that threatens the societal goals are collectively frowned at. Such
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Nigeria Essay Located in West Africa‚ Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous worldwide. Thanks to its natural resources‚ especially oil‚ its economy is among the fastest growing in the world. From 1901 until its independence in 1960‚ Nigeria was a British colony. Great Britain decided to grant Nigeria its independence because after World War II Nigeria’s economy was very poor. Comprised of over 250 ethnic groups‚ as well as a population that is split religiously
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