3 research outputs found
Women Education and Political Empowerment in Nigeria: A Tool for a Sustainable Development
No full text<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Despite the obvious merits of women education and political empowerment, they have always been hindered by numerous factors in Nigeria. This study focused on women education and political empowerment. Specifically, the study pursued the objective of examining the rationale of women education and political empowerment, its instrumentality towards sustainable development in Nigeria. The study abstracted the basic assumptions of socialist feminist theory as its framework of analysis and employed the documentary method of data collection and the qualitative descriptive method of data analysis. The study concluded that women education and political empowerment are prerequisites for long-term development and pro-poor progress. Though women education and political empowerment are issues of human rights and social fairness, they also help to alleviate poverty and promote economic growth and development. The study also found that despite the obvious merits of women education and political empowerment and its instrumentality towards sustainable development and nation-building, women education and political empowerment has always been hindered by numerous factors in Nigeria Consequently, the study recommended among others that the Nigerian states should institutionalize programs that combine other factors such as health, the environment, and the economy to progress and improve women's education and political involvement, particularly in rural areas. The elimination of impediments to female entrepreneurship, as well as the promotion of inclusive financial services and trade policies that encourage business training, start-up services, mentorship, and woman-to-woman support.</p>
Globalisation in Africa: Examining if Economic Integration and Privatisation of Most Public Enterprises in West Africa Instigates Migration Crisis in the ECOWAS Sub-region
No full textThis study broadly examined if globalisation instigated migration crisis in the West African sub-region. Specifically, the study investigated the role of economic integration in the rise of migration and the positive link between privatisation and increased movement in West Africa. The Growth Pole theory was adopted to explain the interconnection between globalisation and migration. The study employed the documentary method of data collection and the qualitative descriptive method of data analysis otherwise known as content analysis. The study found that the paucity of implementation of economic integration schemes adopted in theWest African sub-region has led to the rising trend of various forms of migration, ranging from irregular migration, forced migration, labour migration etc. It also found that privatisation measures in West Africa have been implicated in the increased movement of people across the sub-region, especially intra-regional movement, from rural to the urban area. Consequently, the study recommended that since rising trend of various forms of migration within the West African sub-region is traceable to the paucity in the enforcement of the economic integration schemes adopted in the sub-region, the Economic Community of West AfricanStates (ECOWAS), among others, therefore, should strengthen enforcement structures, collaborate with member states, and establish an ECOWAS Cross-border Cooperation Fund
NEO-LIBERAL CLASS WAR AND HOBBESIAN STATE OF NATURE IN NIGERIA
No full textEvidently, divergent literary exploration has attributed the Hobbesian state of Nature in Nigeria to various reasons like tribalism, mixed cultural heritage, corruption, among others. This study microscopes Neo liberalism as the major political and social melee affecting the country. The research investigates how neo-liberalism in the feature of global capitalism and imperialism forms an extreme division between top elite 1% and bottom struggling 99% which results in huge inequality while promoting corruption and weakening institutions. The research bases itself on neo-liberal theory to disclose how elite groups achieve resource control and economic instability while destroying national sovereignty and ethics. A qualitative study of secondary reports and economic indices and journal entries confirms that Nigeria experienced 32.5% inflation in 2024 alongside a 76–77% corruption index between 2022 and 2025 and 735 mass abductions and 24,720 recorded rapes from 2023 to date. The privatization process benefits wealthy individuals while electricity reaches only 30% of people and homelessness affects more than 4.5 to 5 million people in the country. The research finds that Nigeria became a Hobbesian state because neo-liberal policies increased class conflicts while demanding judicial changes alongside fair resource distribution and economic expansion to stop the development of permanent chaos. The research calls for rebuilding Nigeria’s approach to fairness and stability by confronting the world's current economic model of liberalism
