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Can Democracy Help the Almajiri Child in Nigeria?
Get PDFThe all-round anguish an average Almajiri child is suffering in Nigeria has attracted sharp interrogations: internationally and otherwise. The fact that the age-old almajiranci system needs a life-saving reformation is a point that have been made severally by certified child rights activists, the past and current governors of the northern states and the religious authorities. The believe, that, democracy and its “fall-outsâ€, which was recently ushered in as a governance system in 1999 will help to revitalize the almajiranci system towards the liberation of the victims, the children and the adolescents, is still a gospel truth to some authorities. Hence, it was the core focus of this study to interrogate this belief, the trust that, ordinarily and inherently, democracy has the wherewithal to positively help the Almajiri child in Nigeria. The interrogations that were done to answer the central question were done through a comprehensive analysis of the salient tenets of democracy vis-à -vis it Nigerian brand. The study concluded that, until Nigeria decides to practice a kind of welfare democracy that will jettison some extreme capitalistic components of the democracy it is currently practicing, the Almajiri system will be the lot of the nation for a long time.
Keywords: Almajiri, almajiranci, democracy, governance and Nigeria
Capacity Building in the Art and Science of Negotiation: A Panacea to Building Sustainable Peace and Development in Nigeria
No full textKnowledge, as well as skill acquisition in the art and science of negotiation is paramount to the attainment of peace which is conducive to the development of the economy of a nation, particularly such societies that are not properly integrated, diverse in culture and fractionalised. It is also significant that peace and a corrupt free institution are also essential for development. Be that as it may, this paper argued that Nigeria‟s problem today stems from unprofessionalism and lack of proper skills in the art and science of negotiation among the personnel in her institutions. It is evident from the way and manner as well as attitude and absence of pa triotisms on the part of public servants and negotiators alike in strategic areas including, the economic, social and cultural sectors of our society. The paper which adopted the descriptive approach was anchored on Zartman‟s theory of „the weak confront the strong‟ and relied on secondary sources of information for data collection, while content analysis was adopted for data analysis. The paper concluded that until and when public officials are educated and have acquired the relevant skills, gathered the experience, ready and developed the self-will, development and sustainable peace will continue to elude the Nigerian nation and corruption will continue to reign. Finally the paper recommended rigorous education in training and development of skills in the art and science of negotiations in various schools abroad and also for the institutions of government to be able to build in its citizens the culture of patriotism at every level of government
Community Policing: An Essential Strategy for Checkmating Crime and Terrorism in Nigeria: A Case Study Of Gombe State
Get PDFThis study interrogated the philosophy and strategy of community – oriented policing as an instrument for curbing terrorism in Nigeria. The study employed descriptive method and adopted Asset to liability shift theory. The study revealed that community-oriented policing is a potent weapon in the quiver of the government and various communities to stem the flow or tide of terrorism in Nigeria. Community-oriented policing is comprised of three key operational strategies namely, Trust Partnership, Organizational Transformation and problem solving. The study further revealed that the implementation of the operational strategies of community-oriented policing is one besieged by many and various challenges which include lack of trust, corruption, and human right abuses. The study concluded that the adoption of community-oriented policing is warmly welcomed to create safe environment in Nigeria. The study recommended a shift in the culture of the conventional law enforcement agencies to integrate the paradigm of community-oriented policing. A comprehensive training approach involving the community members and law enforcement agencies is also crucial in order to institutionalize the philosophy and strategy of community-oriented policing in the world of law enforcement agencies in Nigeria.
Keywords: Terrorism, Community policing, Community partnership, Organizational Transformatio
Structural Challenges, Police Reform Proposals and Protection of Lives and Property in Nigeria: Insights from SARS
Get PDFThis paper was based on the analysis of the inability of the national police to fulfil its mandate of protection of lives and property within the domestic environment of Nigeria. From the standpoint of the dire level of insecurity in Nigeria, the paper sought to highlight, critically, some basic reasons why police reforms have often failed to produce the expected results in Nigeria, taking clues from the activities of the defunct Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS. The paper adopted a mono-method, qualitative, desk-research approach, which depended on secondary sources of data, structured survey, and interpretive analysis of historical facts relating to the functions of Nigeria Police. It was discovered, among other things, that the poor performance of Nigeria Police is more of an orientational, than structural, problem. It was concluded, therefore, that the right change in the orientation and approach of the police, the government, and other stakeholders to police reforms will make the police function expectedly. So, it was recommended that the process of change of orientation, approach, and, maybe, structure of the police should be designed to be a collective effort of all the stakeholders.
Keywords: Police Reform, Police Reform Proposal, Protection of Lives and Property, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Structural Challenges
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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