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National Integration: A Panacea to Insecurity in Nigeria
Full text linkNigeria is currently confronted with myriads of challenges which is rapidly stagnating the development and progress of her core productive and sensitive sectors. One of the most piercing problems is that of insecurity; in fact, this problematic question has gone beyond disorganizing the domestic environment, it has succeeded in labelling Nigeria repulsively in the international community. However, till present, government efforts toward this challenge has not recorded substantial outcomes; it is within the premises of this condition that this paper considers a more propitiatory means of achieving sustainable national security in national integration. While the paper is conscious of the preceding efforts toward integration in the country, it still beholds untapped resources in it for sustainable security in Nigeria. Hence, the paper strongly advocates a New Crusade on National Integration (NCNI) which will immensely guarantee unity, peaceful co-existence and security in Nigeria
Corruption-Drug Trafficking-Terrorism Nexus: Understanding West African Security-Development Quandary Beyond European Inferiority Propaganda
Full text linkThis study examines the West African security-development quandary and raises a poser as to whether this quandary is a practical validation of the European colonial propaganda and theoretical conception of Africans as inferior people. For epistemic answers, the study identifies corruption-drug trafficking-terrorism nexus as more reasonable explanation of human security and sustainable development predicament in postcolonial West Africa. Arising from a thorough interrogation of the trends, nuances and shapes of this nexus, the study concludes that the European conception of Africans as inferior is untrue and baseless as Africans have always been fully human with capacity for effective social organisation and robust governance. However, the most ingenious solution to the problems of insecurity and underdevelopment in West Africa is to frontally break the nexus by functionally and structurally addressing the problems of corruption and drug trafficking as a means to ultimately reduce the spate of terrorism in the sub-region
MILITARY IN POLITICS AND NIGERIA’S POLITICAL EVOLUTION, 1966-1979
Full text linkBeginning from the sixties of the twentieth century, military ascendancy was a major feature that exerted masculinity on Nigeria’s political evolution. This accounted for the different experiences of military intervention and administration almost throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Essentially, the long-term impact of military governance in Nigeria’s socio-political and economic development trajectory warrants more critical analysis. In light of this, the paper explores the military in the Nigerian political landscape from 1966, when the first military coup took place, to 1979, which marks the end of its first phase, which was succeeded by the second Nigerian republic. The paper adopts the conventional historical method, relying on secondary sources for its exploration. The paper found out that beyond the usual alibi of civilian incompetence, socioeconomic underdevelopment, corruption as well as electoral crisis; insurgent tendencies arising from ethnic nationalities as well as secessionist agitation were central to military intervention and administration in Nigeria during the period under evaluation. The paper concludes with reflections on the vestiges of military intervention and administration on Nigeria’s civilian political culture and thereby recommends that attempts to address Nigeria’s contemporary political acrimonies must necessarily appreciate the historical context and experiences of the nation’s military governance, particularly between 1966 and 1979
MILITARY INTERVENTION AND ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA’S POLITICAL EVOLUTION, 1966-1979
Full text linkBeginning from the sixties of the twentieth century, military ascendancy was a major feature that exerted masculinity on Nigeria’s political evolution. This accounted for the different experiences of military intervention and administration almost throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Essentially, the long-term impact of military governance in Nigeria’s socio-political and economic development trajectory warrants more critical analysis. In light of this, the paper explores the military in the Nigerian political landscape from 1966, when the first military coup took place, to 1979, which marks the end of its first phase, which was succeeded by the second Nigerian republic. The paper adopts the conventional historical method, relying on secondary sources for its exploration. The paper found out that beyond the usual alibi of civilian incompetence, socioeconomic underdevelopment, corruption as well as electoral crisis; insurgent tendencies arising from ethnic nationalities as well as secessionist agitation were central to military intervention and administration in Nigeria during the period under evaluation. The paper concludes with reflections on the vestiges of military intervention and administration on Nigeria’s civilian political culture and thereby recommends that attempts to address Nigeria’s contemporary political acrimonies must necessarily appreciate the historical context and experiences of the nation’s military governance, particularly between 1966 and 1979
Pugnacious Reformation or aoCivil Wara? A Reconsideration of the American Civil War
Full text linkCivil war in its generic outlook implies a war between citizens of the same nation or a war within a nation This article is a reflection on the American civil war in its origins nature scope and aftermath The thesis in the paper conflicts with the label American Civil War given to the violent upheaval that featured between the Southern and Northern states of America in the 1860s It posits that the label emanated from a facile outlook that a more in-depth and critical analysis of the occurrence will occasion the birth of a healthierdepiction of the event The paper therefore clinches within the premises of the aforementioned that the label- American Civil War is a misnomer it suggests that a more befitting term could be American Pugnaciou
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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