1. PARENTS EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Over the years, the nation has been experiencing a drastic fall in the academic achievements of pupils and students at the various level of education. Scholars of different school of thought has attributed this ugly trend t...
2. CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORMS IN NIGERIA
BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The system of local government administration practiced anywhere in the world, is dependent largely on the historical, geographical, sociological, political and economic life of the people. This is no less true of Nigeria with a long...
3. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION (EFCC) AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: AN ASSESSMENT
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Close to a decade after the inauguration of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the war against corruption in Nigeria continues to rage with the anti-graft body clearly not having the upper hand. The bulk of the...
4. EFFECT OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIAN POLICE
Background of the study
One of the challenges facing national development and economic growth in Nigeria is corruption. The former military regime of 1983-1998 justified their overthrow of the government on the basis of corruption. In addition, t...
5. PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THE ROLE OF MASS MEDIA IN REPORTAGE OF RECOVERED LOOTED FUNDS
Background of the Study
It is well known that corruption has a negative influence on countries all around the world. Corruption is likely the most significant impediment preventing the world's developing or least developed countries' (LDCs) soci...
6. ASSESSMENT OF TOURISM CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF OSUN STATE)
Background of Study
The United Nations of World Tourism Organization defines tourism as the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside his/her usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for any purpose includin...
7. A STUDY OF FAKE NEWS IN SOCIAL MEDIA: DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AS AN INVESTIGATION
Background to the Study
The term "fake news" refers to "false information that has been purposefully spread by individuals who have minimal regard for the truth but intend to further certain (sometimes extremist political objectives and e...
8. AN INVESTIGATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE AND ITS IMPACT ON STUDENTS EXPOSURE TO CYBERCRIMES
Background of the study
Technology has been the success story of our century and has opened doors for beneficial inventions. Technology has countries interconnected and the world has now become a global village (Ojo 2019). he information of...
9. ENDSARS PROTEST AND POLITICAL AWARENESS OF STUDENT (A CASE STUDY OF AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY, EKPOMA)
Background of the Study
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, often known as SARS, is a special police force that was founded in 1992 to combat the rising number of armed robberies and kidnappings for ransom committed by criminal groups operating throughout N...
10. GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF FORMER PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO (1999-2007)
Background of the Study
Democratic practices, which the political leadership must promote across the institutional landscape of governance, are the conceptual vehicle that unites the aspects of social transformation indicated above in democratizing coun...
11. THE CHALLENGES AND PROSPECT OF NIGERIA-CHINA TRADE RELATION
Background of the study
Over the past several decades, the economies of the world have become greatly connected through international trade and globalization. Foreign trade has been identified as the oldest and most important part of a country’s e...
12. THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON THE NIGERIA ECONOMY(1999-2015)
BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Corruption is a global issue which is an endemic to government all over the world. The World Bank website cites corruption as the single most important obstacle to development. It is a subversive force that can topple the most entrenched regimes, it...
13. A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY (NEEDS) AND HER CONTRIBUTION TO POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN NIGERIA
INTRODUCTION
National Economic Empowerment Development strategy (NEEDS) is described as a Nigeria’s plan for prosperity, popularly Christened a “Home grown programme” by the formal president of Nigeria Chief Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo, it is a four years...
14. THE MILITARY AND NIGERIA POLITICS: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE DOMINATION OF THE MILITARY OF THE NIGERIA POLITICAL SPACE 1999 TO 2015
ABSTRACT
This study was carried out to examine the military and nigeria politics: an assessment of the domination of the military of the nigeria political space 1999 to 2015. Specifically, the study examine the historical antecedent in Nigeria from 1966 to 1976. t...
15. THE INFLUENCE OF ACCOUNTANT IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BEST PRACTICE IN GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Corruption and looting of public treasury is a major problem in the public sector accounting. Report from office of statistics Lagos show that our accounting records are balanced in arrears and our financial records are hardly balanced daily, weekly, quarterly, h...
16. NIGERIAN FEDERALISM AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY
Background of the Study
Federalism, according to K.C Wheare, is the method of dividing powers so that the central and regional governments are each, within a sphere, coordinate and independent. He said that the characteristics of this Federal Principle are the division...
17. AN ANALYSIS OF OBASANJO ADMINISTRATION IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY
This paper explores the analysis of Obasanjo administration in International diplomacy. Since independence Nigeria’s foreign policy remains the same but however there was significant change to its foreign policy under the government of Presi...
18. THE UNWANTED METAMORPHOSES OF THE USMAN DAN FODIO’S JIHAD AND SHARIA IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA
Background to the Study
It is the view of some scholars and authors like Danjibo (2012), that in the middle years of the twentieth century, it was assumed that secularism would make religion irrelevant in the politics of mankind. This is because human beings were expect...
19. AN ASSESSMENT OF NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS’ COVERAGE OF THE NIGER DELTA
Background to the Study
The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is very strategic to the country‟s economic and political existence. This is explained by the fact that the country‟s oil resources which account for 90 per cent of her foreign exchange earnings and about 80 per...
20. POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT- EVALUATION OF NIGERIAN PRESIDENTIAL RHETORICS AND PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY (1999-2015)
Background to the Study
Rhetorics is a form of political communication that concerns the strategies used to construct persuasive arguments in formal public debates and in everyday political disputes. The study of political rhetorics therefore touches upon the fundamental activities of d...
21. An Analysis of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area, Ogun State, Nigeria
Statement of Problem
The United Nations declared 1996, the international year of eradication of poverty and 1997 to 2006, decade of poverty eradication. The year of achieving Millennium Development Goal was also set for 2015. In pursuance of these targets, governments in both developed...
22. ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS IN UKWA EAST – UKWA WEST FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY, ABIA STATE FROM 2011 – 2019
Background to the Study
The parliament or legislature is a prominent institution in a democratic government and is composed of elected representatives of the populace. Thus, it occupies a special position in contemporary democracy. The ancient Roman Republic which exist...
23. AN ASSESSMENT OF PENSION REFORM AGENDA OF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO ADMINISTRATION 2004 (A STUDY OF FEDERAL MINISTRY OF INTERIOR, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA)
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
A pension is a fund into which a sum of money is added during an employee's employment years and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payme...
