26 research outputs found
Democracy and Development Nexus: Assessing President Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda and Welfare of Nigerians, 2023-2025
No full textNigeria’s experiment with democracy has always carried both longing and tension, a nation reaching for development with one hand while steadying its fragile democratic foundations with the other. This study revisits that delicate dance by examining President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda (2023-2025) as a contemporary lens into the democracy-development nexus. Grounded in a mixed-methods design and inspired by a pragmatic research philosophy, the study weaves modernization theory, the democratic-advantage thesis, Rudebeck’s vision of substantial democracy, and Dudley Seers’ human-centered development standards into a single analytical tapestry. Using empirical indicators from national and international datasets, complemented by qualitative insights from policy actors, civil society voices, and lived experiences of citizens, the study reveals an unfolding narrative of reform, sacrifice, and fragile possibility. The early reforms, notably subsidy removal and exchange-rate liberalisation created economic turbulence and widespread distress. Yet beneath the hardship lie subtle signs of rebalancing, institutional correction, and cautious recovery. The findings show that while technical reforms may stabilise macroeconomic foundations, they do not automatically translate into tangible welfare gains. Development under democracy must be more than a policy agenda; it must be a lived assurance, a people-centred promise. The Renewed Hope Agenda therefore stands at a crossroads: its legitimacy will depend not on boldness alone, but on whether democratic governance can turn sacrifice into shared progress, and policy ambition into human wellbein
The War Against Corruption In Nigeria: The Problems with The Solution
No full textCorruption has become the most popular issue that is subjected to discussion by individuals, organisations and government officials in Nigeria. This is based on the position the cankerworm has occupied in the political system and its nefarious effects on the entire citizenry. The various administrations in Nigeria have put in place certain measures to curb corrupt practices among public officials having noticed the negative implications of the menace on the entire system. This work undertakes the conceptual clarification of corruption and proceeds to showcase the various anti corruption measures that have been put in place by succeeding regimes in Nigeria. These measures which represent the solutions by the government have yielded little or no positive impact on corrupt practices in the nation. This paper therefore discusses the problems with these anti corruption measures and finally submits that while administrative capacity is imperative in the fight against corruption, political will supersedes.
 
Ethnicisation of Democratic Dividends in Nigeria and Its Implications for Good Governance and Nation-Building
No full textSince the return to democratic rule in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, the allocation of democratic dividends has often mirrored ethnic affiliations. This development has sparked widespread concern about fairness, good governance, and the integrative promise of democracy. This study interrogates the ethnicisation of democratic gains, where policies and public resources—including projects and appointments—are disproportionately channelled towards ethnic groups with close ties to those in political power. Rather than being shaped by merit or national interest, state decisions increasingly reflect ethnically driven strategies designed to build local support and secure electoral advantage. Consequently, democracy becomes entangled in narrow loyalties, eroding national unity and weakening public trust. Anchored in a qualitative research approach and supported by multiple case studies, this paper examines the consequences of ethnic-based resource distribution on good governance and sustainable nation-building. It raises key questions: How does this pattern affect public service delivery? What meanings does democracy assume when filtered through ethnicity? And how might such practices alter the foundations of collective national identity? The study provides theoretical reflection and practical insight, recommending reforms to recentre democracy as a unifying enterprise for all Nigerians
Peacebuilding Strategies in Nigeria’s Ethnic Space: Specific Focus on Conflict-Spot in Kaduna Communities
No full textThis paper contextualised the subject matter and its strategies by providing insights on the development, peace and conflict in the Nigerian environment; explicating the peace and conflict impact assessment; exposing the causal factors for communal conflict; and analysing the strategies across the main tribes in Nigeria with specific focus on Kaduna communities. It drew largely on secondary sources whose contents were explicitly analysed for this contextual discourse. It found out that there were internal mechanisms put in place towards engendering peace building across the major tribes in Nigeria. It enlisted obtainable peacebuilding strategies in Kaduna communities. It concluded that a remarkable feature of the peace building strategies is that it does not only aim at conflict resolution, but also ensures peaceful co-existence scenes and harmonious relationships between and among conflicting people or communities. However, the latter still remains challenging owing to a low human development index and civic orientations
Responsible conduct of Research: Concept and Issues in Authorship
No full textIn scholarly publication, authorship defines the roles played by an individual or a member of a team in creating and circulating an original work. It is therefore important to clearly understand who deserves to be an author in a publication. Also, the order or position of authors in a scholarly publication often leads to conflict among members of research teams. This is not helped by the advent of more technical reward systems for promotion, tenure and grants in many institutions, some of which give advantage to the position of some authors. In this paper, some common issues on authorship and peer review processes are discusse
Electronic Customer Relationship Management (eCRM) : Customers` perception of value from eCRM features of Ehmeth Websites
No full textThe purpose of this research work was to identify how customers` perceive value of pre-usage, usage and post-usage features of Ehmeth Websites. Ehmeth UK Limited is a small company of ten employees which deals with numerous customers in helping them to send their money to and from London to Nigeria.
Qualitative research methodology was utilized in this study. The qualitative research data consisted of three in-depth interviews with key managers of Ehmeth UK Limited. The respondents who are directly involved in customer relationship management gave the in-depth analysis of the good, the bad and the ugly side of the websites they used in money transfer from London to Nigeria and vice versa.
The results of the interviews revealed that customers were not oriented enough to use and enjoy money transfer features of Ehmeth websites. Also, the study revealed that Ehmeth websites lacks the post-usage features, feedback link and yet to integrate loyalty club into her company website. The interview also revealed that Ehmeth website has a lot of under utilizing features that can benefit both customers and the company.
The author recommends that management within Ehmeth reevaluate their eCRM practices and endeavour to modify the whole website. It is recommended that Ehmeth should create more awareness to her customers in different part of the world on the importance of electronic web portal. It is also recommended that further research be carried out on Mobile Customer Relationship Management and Social Customer Relationship Management
Pneumatic conveying of cohesive dairy powder: Experiments and CFD-DEM simulations
No full textWe performed an experimental and numerical investigation of pneumatic conveying of cohesive dairy powder. The experiments with fat-filled milk powder (FFMP) fines with an average particle size of 94 μm were carried out in a 2-inch diameter stainless steel pipe consisting of two 2.5 m horizontal sections connected to a 0.65 m vertical section by two bends of 0.4 m radius each. In addition to measurements of pressure drop and powder deposition, an optical technique was used to measure the dynamics (probability densities) of local particle volume fractions as a function of operating conditions. Numerical simulations were performed with a commercial discrete element modelling (DEM) software, EDEM®, coupled with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, FLUENT®. The simulation results in terms of pressure drops and particle volume fractions were compared with the experimental data. A very satisfactory agreement was found. At low gas velocities, cohesive dairy powders easily re-agglomerate after the second 90° bend and then deposit at the bottom of the horizontal pipe. At higher gas velocities, results show intermittent dispersion of particles and less particle deposition is observed even at higher loading ratio.ChemE/Transport Phenomen
A porous-crust drying model for a single dairy droplet
No full textThe development of a novel numerical model for droplet drying is the topic of this paper. The three main stages of droplet drying are distinguished, viz. unhindered evaporation of a ’wet’ particle (the droplet), restricted drying at a falling rate due to the formation of a crust around a wet core, and inert heating of the dry porous particle. Each stage is mathematically detailed to replicate all phenomena occurring throughout the drying process. The focus, however, is on the falling rate drying regime which is described in terms of Stefan diffusion of water vapour through the pores of a thickening crust. To this end, the model needs the material properties. This permits the droplet characteristics to be determined by composition rather than through single-droplet drying experiments. Finally, the model is validated against five of such experiments from literature using skim milk. Good agreement is found at each comparative case for the particle mass and temperature throughout the various drying regimes providing that for good reasons in three cases a lower drying air temperature is applied than reported for the experiments. The model is capable of predicting the entire drying process at low computational cost and without requiring empirical input.ChemE/Transport Phenomen
Intra-Communal Conflict Resolution in Southwest Nigeria: Why are the Traditional Institutions being Confronted with Challenges?
No full textJournal Article. Department of Public Administration and Local Government, School of Government Studies, Faculty
of Humanities, North West University, Mahikeng CampusStudies have shown the significant roles of traditional institutions in the resolution, transformation and management of intra-communal conflict. Yet, the institutional strides on intra-communal conflict resolution are not without persisting challenges. Hence, this necessitates the need to investigate why traditional institutions are still being confronted with challenges on intra-communal conflict resolution. Using Southwestern States as a case study, the paper adopted the descriptive survey method. Quantitative and qualitative data were sourced and analysed for the purpose. This paper found out that organisational resources, poor communication and information networks and possibility of trade-offs among the traditional authorities constitute the challenges confronting the traditional institutions on intra-communal conflict resolution. This paper concluded that the potentiality of traditional institutions could only be harnessed if the challenges are addressed with corrective, creative and contextual measures. It further recommended that commitment of the traditional structure of governance, proper guidance, organisational resources and inspectoral supervision from higher levels of government as well as the provision of operational facilities and modern logistics would strengthen the traditional institutions in tackling aforementioned challenges bewildering the intra-communal conflict resolution processes
The Soil Organic Matter Decomposers: A Bibliometric Analysis
No full textThe growing global concern about sustainable food systems has driven the search to know the impact of Soil Organic Matter (SOM) decomposers on SOM formation, stabilization and loss. Soil organic matter is the major inorganic nutrient pool for agricultural productivity and longterm soil sustainability. Globally, scientists use bibliometric analysis to map the body of knowledge and identify the trends in research topics by understanding the development and scientific contribution of a particular field of knowledge. This article provides a bibliometric examination of the effectiveness and development of soil organic matter during the period 2012 to 2022 based on documents published in journals indexed in SCI-Expanded in the Web of Science. According to the survey, the 1723 documents under examination were written by 5886 authors. The annual growth rate of research on soil organic matter is declining (-12.82%). From 1723 documents examined, Kuzyakov Y (n = 35) was the most prolific author, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (n = 98) was the most active institution, and Soil Biology & Biochemistry (n = 126) was the most popular journal. The USA and the Peoples' Republic of China are the most prominent nations with the strongest collaboration in soil organic matter related research. The results of this study can guide future research and provide crucial details for sustainable soil management
