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THE NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION AND THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA, 1959-2023
Full text linkThe Niger Delta Development Commission was established by the Federal government of Nigeria in year 2000 to address the socioeconomic and infrastructural problems and foster development as well as address the several agitations by the people of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Despite its mandate, the area still faces significant underdevelopment. The efforts by successive governments to tackle most of the problems have had limited impact and the Niger Delta Development Commission is still struggling to reduce poverty and improve the system in over several years of its existence. The indigenous people of the oil rich region are asking for the provision of basic amenities, portable water, roads, safe water transportation, healthcare services, schools for their children, employment opportunities and the mitigation and remediation of the ecological degradation of the region among other needs. Despite the enormous allocations of money running into trillions of naira given to the Commission by the Federal Government of Nigeria, the region continues to grapple with underdevelopment and poverty. Factors such as lack of accountability, transparency, financial recklessness and an all-pervading corruption have made the Commission unable to meet its mandate. This study used primary and secondary sources to research this problem and concludes that the impact of the Niger Delta Development Commission in the region has been abysmal. The paper therefore recommends a total overhauling of the Commission with the appointment of a management team and board that are competent with records of accomplishment of achievements and accountability and devoid of ethnic coloration.
Research problems: The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is paradoxically of the richest in the world, yet is remained underdeveloped. Despite its natural rich resources of oil and gas, the region suffers poverty, socio-economic meltdown, environmental degradation, marginalisation and lacks infrastructural development. Over the years the Federal government of Nigeria has established agencies such as the Niger Delta Development Board (NDDB) 1959, The Oil Mineral Producing Area Development Commission, (OMPADEC), IN 1992, The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), in 2000. All these commissions were primarily to address the challenges of the people, yet the Niger Delta continue to grapple in abject poverty with environmental degradation. The NDDC who was meant to proffer solutions to all these problems have serval allegation on corruption and with abundant projects. The persistent underdevelopment in the region despite the various interventions by government is deeply worrisome. Despite the hug allocations of funds and the initiative it has remain the same. This unwarranted situation has arisen some fundamental problems such as why has NDDC not fulfilled it mandate to the address the persistent underdevelopment and poverty. The research problem lies on why the Niger Delta has remains underdeveloped.
Methodology: The study adopted a qualitative and historical-descriptive research. It examines the Niger Delta Development Commission and its activities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria with a wider context of the underdevelopment in the Niger Delta region. the design allows for a critical look on the failures and achievements of NDDC. The research adopted two sources primary and secondary sources. The primary sources deal with oral interviews with stakeholders, leaders and NDDC officials among others and the secondary sources deal with books, journals, newspapers and online publications.
Results: It is pertinent to noted that the result of the study reveals a paradox between the Niger delta Development commission and the underdevelopment of the region as a result of corruption and lack of managerial ability. The failure of the NDDC has resulted to lack of infrastructure delivery, environmental neglect and degradation, social unrest, criminality and poverty among others. While NDDC was mandated to bridge the development gap in the region. Its failed performance to achieve since 1959-2023 has been largely undermined b weak governance, transparency, corruption, environmental degradation, lack of infrastructural delivery and poverty among others.
Conclusion:
NDDC as a commission assigned to facilitate development in the oil rich region of Nigeria over the years has not lived up to its mandate. Some roads, hospitals, bridges, schools among other amenities have been built and delivered to the appropriate authorities, but these cannot be compared to the huge amounts of funds released to the commission over the years. The core mandate of the commission has not been realized across the entire Niger Delta area because the people are still aggrieved and disgruntled because their standard of living has not improved. The recent inquiries into the commission’s activities by the government and security agencies point to the failure of the commission. The problem with the NDDC remains deep-rooted corruption leading to poor performance that has further underdeveloped and impoverished the region. Corruption is therefore the greatest obstacle preventing the Niger Delta people from realizing the development of their area despite its enormous potentials. It is unfortunate and regrettable that the commission over the years has been given trbillions of naira for the development of the Niger Delta region but this money found its way to the private pockets of corrupt politicians, government officials and community leaders in the region. Nigerians and the people of the Niger Delta have no confidence even in the so-called forensic audit of the commission, because they believe that the findings of the forensic audit will not see the light of day. The Federal government of Nigeria should as a matter of urgency reorganize the commission as well as appoint credible and competent Nigerians with a record of accomplishment of excellent performance to pilot its affairs
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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