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The Performance of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the Fight against Corruption in Nigeria: A Critical Appraisal
Get PDFThis very article is essentially geared towards evaluating the performance of the EFCC as an anti-graft agency in Nigeria. The benchmark for this evaluation is a few selected functions of the agency as enumerated in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004 (section 6). Based on the sensitivity of the topic, secondary analysis is strictly used. The data generated for the study are both quantitative and quantitative. The study revealed, with pictorial evidence as well as names of culprits and properties confiscated, that the EFCC is actually carrying out its functions as mandated by the parliamentary Act of its establishment. However contrariwise, the findings revealed that the commission is yet to be fully independent in the discharge of its assignment. It is also yet to effectively reduce crime rate in the country. The study recommended among other things that the independence of the Commission should not be compromised; that is, it should not be used by any government in power as a ridiculing, incapacitating machine against the opposition
Paranormal Activity in Africa:The Art of Rain Making and Prevention in Igbo Society
No full textOne of the vagaries of ancient times, that is, prior to the advent of science, technology and sophisticated technologies of today, is weather, or rain. The African man, in his search and quest to influence weather conditions, resorted to, as partly revealed in this study, using esoteric or supernatural power as a means to an end. With the help of supernatural power, which can be used generally for good or evil, the African man was [and is still] able to cause the sky to unleash water on the earth and its inhabitants, and to cause rain to cease when it’s probably not needed by the ‘rain-maker or the people. Be that as it may, this work is a qualitative research that seeks to investigate how the [ancient] Igbo people were able to handle the vagaries of weather prior to the advent of science and technology. The objective of the study is to analyze in detail, using primary and secondary data, the concepts of rainmaking, the impact of Religion and whether rainmaking and prevention is paranormal activity, in Igboland precisely? The theory of incantation is employed for a proper analysis of the subject matter
Paranormal Activity in Africa:The Art of Rain Making and Prevention in Igbo Society
No full textOne of the vagaries of ancient times, that is, prior to the advent of science, technology and sophisticated technologies of today, is weather, or rain. The African man, in his search and quest to influence weather conditions, resorted to, as partly revealed in this study, using esoteric or supernatural power as a means to an end. With the help of supernatural power, which can be used generally for good or evil, the African man was [and is still] able to cause the sky to unleash water on the earth and its inhabitants, and to cause rain to cease when it’s probably not needed by the ‘rain-maker or the people. Be that as it may, this work is a qualitative research that seeks to investigate how the [ancient] Igbo people were able to handle the vagaries of weather prior to the advent of science and technology. The objective of the study is to analyze in detail, using primary and secondary data, the concepts of rainmaking, the impact of Religion and whether rainmaking and prevention is paranormal activity, in Igboland precisely? The theory of incantation is employed for a proper analysis of the subject matter
Gender Imbalance in Nigeria's Legislature: A Peep Into the 7th and 8th Assemblies
Get PDFMarginalization of women in politics is very apparent most especially in Africa, where women are deemed by many as having no business with politics. In Nigeria, the above statement is also a fact when one considers the number of female parliamentarians in the country's National Assembly. Ever since Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999, there have not been a substantial number of women in the legislature when compared to the number of their male counterparts. In the 7th and the 8th assemblies the problem still persisted. Howbeit, there are several factors responsible for this issue and these factors are what this study tries to look at. But before that, this paper looks briefly at the 7th and the 8th assemblies. To achieve the above however, secondary data is purely used
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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