Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law, Dec 31, 2022
This paper interrogates administrative law as organized lawlessness by engaging in the necessary ... more This paper interrogates administrative law as organized lawlessness by engaging in the necessary theoretical expositions. The central research question of the work borders on the aptness or logic of depicting administrative law as organized lawlessness. Under a qualitative research design, the study relied on internet materials, book sources, journal articles and other secondary sources of non-numeric data to conduct its interrogations. It traced the source of delineating administrative law as organized lawlessness to Ferdinand Lundberg, an influential American social philosopher, journalist and scholar. The study found immense reason in the thesis of Lundberg. The incidence of administrative tribunals and the embedded practice of administrative adjudication (occasioning apparent detractions from the rule of law ideals) are central to the surrounding issues. Even at that, administrative law has remained an integral and critical aspect of law and administration in contemporary times. Hence, the work recommends the consideration of diverse perspectives in the relevant analyses, and continuing discussions to ensure the nonstop improvement and proper functioning of administrative law within broader legal frameworks.
This study raises some fundamental issues in the relationship between public debt and sustainable... more This study raises some fundamental issues in the relationship between public debt and sustainable national development in Nigeria. The work is significant in highlighting the position of public debt in the subject area of public administration. The study finds a very weak linkage between public debt and sustainable national development in the Nigerian state. The theoretical framework of the investigation is the bureaucratic theory. The work finds that the bureaucracy is as guilty as the politician in the country, in the transmutation of public debt into a brand of national bazaar. It is finally recommended in the paper that taxation-increases be adopted as alternative to public debt, in ensuring that the current generation of the country's citizens, in meeting their immediate needs do not invariably endanger the capacity of future generations in the same regards.
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Dec 1, 2015
The electricity sector is an immensely critical component of the equations in a 21 st century eco... more The electricity sector is an immensely critical component of the equations in a 21 st century economy. Economic security on the other hand is the essence of national development. The crucial question in this study therefore borders on the extent to which the electricity sector in Nigeria positively relates to economic security and how these variables ultimately link with national developmental dreams in this nation-state. We have made use of secondary sources of data and the elite theoretical framework in the conduct of the study. The methodology of the study is the critical mode of research. Our findings indicate that there are immense weak-linkages between Nigeria's electricity sector reality, economic security and national developmental aspirations in the country. And this is principally (un)driven by elite insensitivity. The paper emphasizes that a critical leadership challenge in Nigeria hinges on the appreciation of the import of these linkages by current and subsequent generations of national development planners in the Nigerian state.
African Social Science and Humanities Journal, Oct 25, 2021
The general objective of this article is to locate a nexus between management and political busin... more The general objective of this article is to locate a nexus between management and political business. An apparent eccentricity is noticeable in the placement of the research variables. The paper studies this scenario as surface eccentricity and attempts to provide the conceptual linkages. Political business is positioned in the paper as the important matters and affairs of civil administration or government which actually diverges from the notions of profit and loss accounts, tardy receivables and diminishing stock holdings usually associated with business and business management. The theme of inseparability of management theory and practice is further deeply explored in the article. In contextualizing this notion of inseparableness and then locating an empirical trajectory for the embedded analyses, the study became located within the setting of a specific political economy and the nation-state of Nigeria. The thesis of the paper is that management theory and practice are obligatory in the purposeful and effective political business, which borders on consummate decision-making.
This paper essentially interrogates the language factor in identity politics. It perceives identi... more This paper essentially interrogates the language factor in identity politics. It perceives identity politics as inevitable in societal affairs. Language is viewed from the paper's functionalist perspective, whereby the language concept is interwoven with human existence. The work further investigates what it sees as a dilemma in language deployment under identity politics. The problem of the study thus centers on how language achieves its communicative purposes in its deployment under identity politics. The paper accordingly hypothesizes that the language question is intertwined with identity issues. The methodology of the research is nonquantitative, basically relying on nonnumerical presentation. The theoretical framework is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Under this theoretical template, the article focused on how group power dealings are determined and strengthened through language utilization. The contribution finally concludes that language's communicative purposes ...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 16, 2023
The paper studied political corruption and 'one chance' democracy in Nigeria. It is acknowledged ... more The paper studied political corruption and 'one chance' democracy in Nigeria. It is acknowledged in the work that corruption is a universal disorder present in different dimensions in all modern states. The Nigerian trajectory of corruption is denoted as atypically challenging in the analysis, as corruption is even communally tolerable in the country. Under the template of the elite theory, the paper explored how corruption has engendered in Nigeria, the brand of democracy denotable as one chance democracy. Under this practice, voters are functionally robbed of their votes through vote buying, by corrupt and moneyed politicians. The antics of these political elites are in tandem with the operational bravado of the original one chance practitioners, who use their commercial cabs to rob, maim or kill unsuspecting commuters. Corruption and one chance democracy have accordingly left the citizenry bewildered at best, and invariably endangered as members of a purposeful nation. The paper concludes that by and large, the aboriginal one chance operators will close in on their political elite counterparts for an epic confrontation that would cause the return of the Nigerian state to the path of true democratic ethos.
Journal of Contemporary International Relations and Diplomacy
Post-colonial Africa is fraught with myriads of endogenous and exogenous challenges. This paper a... more Post-colonial Africa is fraught with myriads of endogenous and exogenous challenges. This paper argues that decades of deplorable democratic experience in Africa have rather reincarnated some sorts of discontents and rebellious confrontation in some states in Africa. This is exemplified in the recent military coups in Sudan, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso and the failed coups in Guinea Bissau and Gambia. The study utilizes documentary methods of data collection and adopts frustration-aggression theory in explaining the contradictions that appeared to have stultified democracy in Africa which apparently have denied the people the corresponding gains embedded in democratic practice. It concludes that ending the resurgence of military coups in Africa demands urgent steps to enthrone good governance in Africa’s democratic states. The paper recommends the institutionalization of governance in lieu of the prevailing personalization of state institutions in Africa.
Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law, 2022
This paper examined issues in democratic consolidation in Nigeria by focusing on the nature of th... more This paper examined issues in democratic consolidation in Nigeria by focusing on the nature of the linkages among competitiveness of elections, regularity of elections and democratic consolidation in the country. The haunting experience of a protracted period of military rule in the West African state makes the subject matter of democratic consolidation in the country usually engaging. Even at that, extant literature has not adequately covered issues bordering on the linkages among the competitiveness of elections, regularity of elections and democratic consolidation in Nigeria. What then is the nature of the linkages among these research variables? The methodology of the work is qualitative and relies on secondary sources of non-numerical data for analyses. The paper found a position of disarticulated relationship among the study's variables. In addressing the embedded issues, it is recommended that independent candidature be constitutionally introduced as part of the electoral culture of the local government system in Nigeria. So that under such scenarios, as many citizens as possible at the local government level would usually become candidates during council elections. In so doing, competitiveness would have become totally practicalized and locally epitomized in democratic consolidation in Nigeria.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 4, 2022
Voter apathy is a subdivision of political apathy and has become one of the foremost democracy qu... more Voter apathy is a subdivision of political apathy and has become one of the foremost democracy quandaries especially in developing polities. Participation in politics is an important part of decision making in a democratic setting. Therefore, when voters do not come out to participate in voting, it dsefinitely impacts negatively on the electoral process and sometimes undermines the outcome of an election. It may mean that the majority who did not vote indirectly empowered the minority who voted to make decision on their behalf. This paper argues that the increasing manifestation of voter apathy in the last two decades of Nigeria's democracy leads to a poor democratization process and governance failures in the Nigerian project. It has promoted a condition in which individuals still remain more powerful than institutions. The paper employed documentary methods for data collection, while anchoring its discourses on the decision making theory as theoretical framework. The paper concludes that if the increasing level of voter apathy is not controlled in the country, it will continue to constitute a challenge to democratic consolidation in Nigeria. It recommends among other considerations that the Electoral Management Body (EMB) needs to critically inspire citizens through massive enlightenment and must restore trust and confidence in the electoral process by ensuring that people's verdicts are not thwarted by any means.
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LEADERSHIP RESEARCH
This paper examined the domestic environment of international relations by conducting a study of ... more This paper examined the domestic environment of international relations by conducting a study of the Nigerian state, under the Buhari administration. It investigated the nature of the linkages between the domestic environment and international altercations or cooperation. Where previous works concentrated on how the domestic setting influenced foreign policy-output and consequent international reaction(s), this contribution focused on how the domestic environment begot foreign policy reaction from the other actors on the international podium. The general objective of the study was to determine the character of the international relations which Nigeria’s domestic environment begets. A specific objective of the work was to identify some trajectories of these general tendencies under the Buhari administration. The study was framed on behaviouralism, bordering on man and his behaviour in states and organizations. The work adopted a qualitative methodology with secondary sources of data ...
Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, Oct 1, 2014
This paper has critically examined the relationship between energy security and sustainable devel... more This paper has critically examined the relationship between energy security and sustainable development in Nigeria. We applied elite theory as theoretical framework for the study. We further adopted as methodology, the critical mode of research. The paper highlights that energy security prospects in Nigeria would require beneficial specificities in the form of incremental modeling. Furthermore, the study underscored the most critical challenge to energy security in the Nigerian state as the character of national politics, as dictated by the elite. The paper has furthermore, highlighted the plausibilities in the solar energy option for Nigeria's energy-mix in particular and in an overall context, the country's energy security. Energy security and sustainable development the paper concludes are positively interrelated. The realization of this laudable position requires all institutions and communities to renew and reinvent themselves, and begin to listen and resonate with each other, whereby individual members and the group as a whole, would begin to operate with a heightened level of energy and sense of future possibility. Consequently, they begin to function as an intentional vehicle for an emerging future. It is such an emerging future of energy security the paper concludes, that guarantees sustainable development.
African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research, 2021
The issue of national language and national development has been at the forefront of language iss... more The issue of national language and national development has been at the forefront of language issues in nation-states. The persistent demand for a national language seems to stand from the point of view that it will engender national development. The present study critically examines the case of Nigeria from the historical perspective, the case of a single national language and its role in national development, or otherwise, in a densely multi-linguistic and pluralistic Nigeria. Finally, the paper makes an attempt at formulating an appropriate and comprehensive choice of language policy that recognizes the language of the people across geographical boundaries and the exogenous language in order to foster generic development, national cohesion and accelerated national development.
This contribution interrogates contemporary globalization, the social sciences and the challenge ... more This contribution interrogates contemporary globalization, the social sciences and the challenge of scholarship in the emerging world regions. It identifies contemporary globalization as a synonym for the third wave of globalization, commencing post World War II, with a large American globalism measure. It is accepted in the paper that “any discipline or branch of science that deals with human behaviour in its social and cultural aspects” is classifiable as a social science. In this work, a reference to social science scholarship is specifically to Africa, Asia, Latin American, and the Middle Eastern nations in the emerging world regions. The paper's thesis is on the global need for new interdependencies and sensitivities in social science scholarship under contemporary globalization.
ABSTRACT: The French judge and political philosopher, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brèd... more ABSTRACT: The French judge and political philosopher, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, otherwise, simply known as Montesquieu, propounded the theory of separation of powers, currently implemented in many democracies across the world. Implicit in the terminology of separation of powers, is the desire for a seamless democracy or the type of democracy with minimal national bitterness. None of the three arms of government was ever envisaged to be a possible source of discontent in democracy. What then is to be done when one of these tripartite coequals (specifically the judiciary) becomes the source of discontent in an assumed democratic polity? This paper interrogates the embedded issues. KEYWORDS: judiciary, judicial discontents, democracy, democratic regimes, Nigeria
This study fundamentally highlights that ethnicity (as a non-pejorative concept) has indeed once ... more This study fundamentally highlights that ethnicity (as a non-pejorative concept) has indeed once contributed remarkably to the leadership highpoints of Nigeria. The current national position however is that ethnicity has been generally sidelined in the open leadership configurations of the country but without definitive positive replacements. Ethnicity (by populist consent) has thus become immensely abhorrent in the national developmental thoughts of the Nigerian nation. Consequently, the paradoxes that mark ethnicity and the Nigerian leadership narrative are greatly deep-rooted and intriguing. Development, which ethnicity was claimed to have stunted, nonetheless currently remains highly elusive. National developmental strides have in this regard also, continued to gravely border on national experimentation. The study adopts logical argumentation as its methodology and the elite theory as theoretical framework to postulate that the country’s political class should see as its most cr...
The state of education in Nigeria is describable as perilous. It is indeed, characterized by an u... more The state of education in Nigeria is describable as perilous. It is indeed, characterized by an unnecessary capitalist tendency. Yet, education is central to the progressive advancement of every civilization. In the Nigerian state, it has therefore been a scenario of a nation hoisted on monumental promises. These promises have however remained hanging on seemingly developmental mirages. The nation-state of Nigeria is accordingly depictable as a nation of destroyed promises. Consequently, the notion of destruction introduces the necessity for reconstruction. In this study, reconstruction translates to national reconstruction. We therefore argue in the study that national reconstruction in Nigeria truly necessitates the placement of education on a national emergency scale. We argue that the present attitude of Nigerian leaders towards education is highly pretentious. We have demonstrated with secondary sources of data that such attitudes inhibit the necessity for national reconstructi...
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 2016
This study raises some fundamental issues in the relationship between public debt and sustainable... more This study raises some fundamental issues in the relationship between public debt and sustainable national development in Nigeria. The work is significant in highlighting the position of public debt in the subject area of public administration. The study finds a very weak linkage between public debt and sustainable national development in the Nigerian state. The theoretical framework of the investigation is the bureaucratic theory. The work finds that the bureaucracy is as guilty as the politician in the country, in the transmutation of public debt into a brand of national bazaar. It is finally recommended in the paper that taxation-increases be adopted as alternative to public debt, in ensuring that the current generation of the country's citizens, in meeting their immediate needs do not invariably endanger the capacity of future generations in the same regards.
Kuwait Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, 2016
We have principally examined in this study the dialectics of the political economy and the troubl... more We have principally examined in this study the dialectics of the political economy and the trouble with Nigeria. We have analyzed how the political economy has constituted a specific segment of the trouble with the Nigerian postcolonial state. The Nigerian narrative is depicted in the study as a saga of corrupt practices. The Nigerian state has further been characterized in the analysis as a vacuous entity for the feeding of the greed of the elite, as the result becomes a political economy of inefficiencies and disorder. Hence, the trouble with Nigeria in a way, hinges on the siege laid on the political economy by an unrepentant elite, which blatantly continues to articulate, implement and defend self-serving policies as public policies. The political economy challenge in Nigeria it was concluded is for the elite in generic categorization, to arrive at the realization, that the elephantine Nigerian state cannot possibly be propelled in the forward direction, while ignoring the co-citizenship-status of the masses of the state.
Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law, Dec 31, 2022
This paper interrogates administrative law as organized lawlessness by engaging in the necessary ... more This paper interrogates administrative law as organized lawlessness by engaging in the necessary theoretical expositions. The central research question of the work borders on the aptness or logic of depicting administrative law as organized lawlessness. Under a qualitative research design, the study relied on internet materials, book sources, journal articles and other secondary sources of non-numeric data to conduct its interrogations. It traced the source of delineating administrative law as organized lawlessness to Ferdinand Lundberg, an influential American social philosopher, journalist and scholar. The study found immense reason in the thesis of Lundberg. The incidence of administrative tribunals and the embedded practice of administrative adjudication (occasioning apparent detractions from the rule of law ideals) are central to the surrounding issues. Even at that, administrative law has remained an integral and critical aspect of law and administration in contemporary times. Hence, the work recommends the consideration of diverse perspectives in the relevant analyses, and continuing discussions to ensure the nonstop improvement and proper functioning of administrative law within broader legal frameworks.
This study raises some fundamental issues in the relationship between public debt and sustainable... more This study raises some fundamental issues in the relationship between public debt and sustainable national development in Nigeria. The work is significant in highlighting the position of public debt in the subject area of public administration. The study finds a very weak linkage between public debt and sustainable national development in the Nigerian state. The theoretical framework of the investigation is the bureaucratic theory. The work finds that the bureaucracy is as guilty as the politician in the country, in the transmutation of public debt into a brand of national bazaar. It is finally recommended in the paper that taxation-increases be adopted as alternative to public debt, in ensuring that the current generation of the country's citizens, in meeting their immediate needs do not invariably endanger the capacity of future generations in the same regards.
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Dec 1, 2015
The electricity sector is an immensely critical component of the equations in a 21 st century eco... more The electricity sector is an immensely critical component of the equations in a 21 st century economy. Economic security on the other hand is the essence of national development. The crucial question in this study therefore borders on the extent to which the electricity sector in Nigeria positively relates to economic security and how these variables ultimately link with national developmental dreams in this nation-state. We have made use of secondary sources of data and the elite theoretical framework in the conduct of the study. The methodology of the study is the critical mode of research. Our findings indicate that there are immense weak-linkages between Nigeria's electricity sector reality, economic security and national developmental aspirations in the country. And this is principally (un)driven by elite insensitivity. The paper emphasizes that a critical leadership challenge in Nigeria hinges on the appreciation of the import of these linkages by current and subsequent generations of national development planners in the Nigerian state.
African Social Science and Humanities Journal, Oct 25, 2021
The general objective of this article is to locate a nexus between management and political busin... more The general objective of this article is to locate a nexus between management and political business. An apparent eccentricity is noticeable in the placement of the research variables. The paper studies this scenario as surface eccentricity and attempts to provide the conceptual linkages. Political business is positioned in the paper as the important matters and affairs of civil administration or government which actually diverges from the notions of profit and loss accounts, tardy receivables and diminishing stock holdings usually associated with business and business management. The theme of inseparability of management theory and practice is further deeply explored in the article. In contextualizing this notion of inseparableness and then locating an empirical trajectory for the embedded analyses, the study became located within the setting of a specific political economy and the nation-state of Nigeria. The thesis of the paper is that management theory and practice are obligatory in the purposeful and effective political business, which borders on consummate decision-making.
This paper essentially interrogates the language factor in identity politics. It perceives identi... more This paper essentially interrogates the language factor in identity politics. It perceives identity politics as inevitable in societal affairs. Language is viewed from the paper's functionalist perspective, whereby the language concept is interwoven with human existence. The work further investigates what it sees as a dilemma in language deployment under identity politics. The problem of the study thus centers on how language achieves its communicative purposes in its deployment under identity politics. The paper accordingly hypothesizes that the language question is intertwined with identity issues. The methodology of the research is nonquantitative, basically relying on nonnumerical presentation. The theoretical framework is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Under this theoretical template, the article focused on how group power dealings are determined and strengthened through language utilization. The contribution finally concludes that language's communicative purposes ...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 16, 2023
The paper studied political corruption and 'one chance' democracy in Nigeria. It is acknowledged ... more The paper studied political corruption and 'one chance' democracy in Nigeria. It is acknowledged in the work that corruption is a universal disorder present in different dimensions in all modern states. The Nigerian trajectory of corruption is denoted as atypically challenging in the analysis, as corruption is even communally tolerable in the country. Under the template of the elite theory, the paper explored how corruption has engendered in Nigeria, the brand of democracy denotable as one chance democracy. Under this practice, voters are functionally robbed of their votes through vote buying, by corrupt and moneyed politicians. The antics of these political elites are in tandem with the operational bravado of the original one chance practitioners, who use their commercial cabs to rob, maim or kill unsuspecting commuters. Corruption and one chance democracy have accordingly left the citizenry bewildered at best, and invariably endangered as members of a purposeful nation. The paper concludes that by and large, the aboriginal one chance operators will close in on their political elite counterparts for an epic confrontation that would cause the return of the Nigerian state to the path of true democratic ethos.
Journal of Contemporary International Relations and Diplomacy
Post-colonial Africa is fraught with myriads of endogenous and exogenous challenges. This paper a... more Post-colonial Africa is fraught with myriads of endogenous and exogenous challenges. This paper argues that decades of deplorable democratic experience in Africa have rather reincarnated some sorts of discontents and rebellious confrontation in some states in Africa. This is exemplified in the recent military coups in Sudan, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso and the failed coups in Guinea Bissau and Gambia. The study utilizes documentary methods of data collection and adopts frustration-aggression theory in explaining the contradictions that appeared to have stultified democracy in Africa which apparently have denied the people the corresponding gains embedded in democratic practice. It concludes that ending the resurgence of military coups in Africa demands urgent steps to enthrone good governance in Africa’s democratic states. The paper recommends the institutionalization of governance in lieu of the prevailing personalization of state institutions in Africa.
Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law, 2022
This paper examined issues in democratic consolidation in Nigeria by focusing on the nature of th... more This paper examined issues in democratic consolidation in Nigeria by focusing on the nature of the linkages among competitiveness of elections, regularity of elections and democratic consolidation in the country. The haunting experience of a protracted period of military rule in the West African state makes the subject matter of democratic consolidation in the country usually engaging. Even at that, extant literature has not adequately covered issues bordering on the linkages among the competitiveness of elections, regularity of elections and democratic consolidation in Nigeria. What then is the nature of the linkages among these research variables? The methodology of the work is qualitative and relies on secondary sources of non-numerical data for analyses. The paper found a position of disarticulated relationship among the study's variables. In addressing the embedded issues, it is recommended that independent candidature be constitutionally introduced as part of the electoral culture of the local government system in Nigeria. So that under such scenarios, as many citizens as possible at the local government level would usually become candidates during council elections. In so doing, competitiveness would have become totally practicalized and locally epitomized in democratic consolidation in Nigeria.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 4, 2022
Voter apathy is a subdivision of political apathy and has become one of the foremost democracy qu... more Voter apathy is a subdivision of political apathy and has become one of the foremost democracy quandaries especially in developing polities. Participation in politics is an important part of decision making in a democratic setting. Therefore, when voters do not come out to participate in voting, it dsefinitely impacts negatively on the electoral process and sometimes undermines the outcome of an election. It may mean that the majority who did not vote indirectly empowered the minority who voted to make decision on their behalf. This paper argues that the increasing manifestation of voter apathy in the last two decades of Nigeria's democracy leads to a poor democratization process and governance failures in the Nigerian project. It has promoted a condition in which individuals still remain more powerful than institutions. The paper employed documentary methods for data collection, while anchoring its discourses on the decision making theory as theoretical framework. The paper concludes that if the increasing level of voter apathy is not controlled in the country, it will continue to constitute a challenge to democratic consolidation in Nigeria. It recommends among other considerations that the Electoral Management Body (EMB) needs to critically inspire citizens through massive enlightenment and must restore trust and confidence in the electoral process by ensuring that people's verdicts are not thwarted by any means.
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LEADERSHIP RESEARCH
This paper examined the domestic environment of international relations by conducting a study of ... more This paper examined the domestic environment of international relations by conducting a study of the Nigerian state, under the Buhari administration. It investigated the nature of the linkages between the domestic environment and international altercations or cooperation. Where previous works concentrated on how the domestic setting influenced foreign policy-output and consequent international reaction(s), this contribution focused on how the domestic environment begot foreign policy reaction from the other actors on the international podium. The general objective of the study was to determine the character of the international relations which Nigeria’s domestic environment begets. A specific objective of the work was to identify some trajectories of these general tendencies under the Buhari administration. The study was framed on behaviouralism, bordering on man and his behaviour in states and organizations. The work adopted a qualitative methodology with secondary sources of data ...
Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, Oct 1, 2014
This paper has critically examined the relationship between energy security and sustainable devel... more This paper has critically examined the relationship between energy security and sustainable development in Nigeria. We applied elite theory as theoretical framework for the study. We further adopted as methodology, the critical mode of research. The paper highlights that energy security prospects in Nigeria would require beneficial specificities in the form of incremental modeling. Furthermore, the study underscored the most critical challenge to energy security in the Nigerian state as the character of national politics, as dictated by the elite. The paper has furthermore, highlighted the plausibilities in the solar energy option for Nigeria's energy-mix in particular and in an overall context, the country's energy security. Energy security and sustainable development the paper concludes are positively interrelated. The realization of this laudable position requires all institutions and communities to renew and reinvent themselves, and begin to listen and resonate with each other, whereby individual members and the group as a whole, would begin to operate with a heightened level of energy and sense of future possibility. Consequently, they begin to function as an intentional vehicle for an emerging future. It is such an emerging future of energy security the paper concludes, that guarantees sustainable development.
African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research, 2021
The issue of national language and national development has been at the forefront of language iss... more The issue of national language and national development has been at the forefront of language issues in nation-states. The persistent demand for a national language seems to stand from the point of view that it will engender national development. The present study critically examines the case of Nigeria from the historical perspective, the case of a single national language and its role in national development, or otherwise, in a densely multi-linguistic and pluralistic Nigeria. Finally, the paper makes an attempt at formulating an appropriate and comprehensive choice of language policy that recognizes the language of the people across geographical boundaries and the exogenous language in order to foster generic development, national cohesion and accelerated national development.
This contribution interrogates contemporary globalization, the social sciences and the challenge ... more This contribution interrogates contemporary globalization, the social sciences and the challenge of scholarship in the emerging world regions. It identifies contemporary globalization as a synonym for the third wave of globalization, commencing post World War II, with a large American globalism measure. It is accepted in the paper that “any discipline or branch of science that deals with human behaviour in its social and cultural aspects” is classifiable as a social science. In this work, a reference to social science scholarship is specifically to Africa, Asia, Latin American, and the Middle Eastern nations in the emerging world regions. The paper's thesis is on the global need for new interdependencies and sensitivities in social science scholarship under contemporary globalization.
ABSTRACT: The French judge and political philosopher, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brèd... more ABSTRACT: The French judge and political philosopher, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, otherwise, simply known as Montesquieu, propounded the theory of separation of powers, currently implemented in many democracies across the world. Implicit in the terminology of separation of powers, is the desire for a seamless democracy or the type of democracy with minimal national bitterness. None of the three arms of government was ever envisaged to be a possible source of discontent in democracy. What then is to be done when one of these tripartite coequals (specifically the judiciary) becomes the source of discontent in an assumed democratic polity? This paper interrogates the embedded issues. KEYWORDS: judiciary, judicial discontents, democracy, democratic regimes, Nigeria
This study fundamentally highlights that ethnicity (as a non-pejorative concept) has indeed once ... more This study fundamentally highlights that ethnicity (as a non-pejorative concept) has indeed once contributed remarkably to the leadership highpoints of Nigeria. The current national position however is that ethnicity has been generally sidelined in the open leadership configurations of the country but without definitive positive replacements. Ethnicity (by populist consent) has thus become immensely abhorrent in the national developmental thoughts of the Nigerian nation. Consequently, the paradoxes that mark ethnicity and the Nigerian leadership narrative are greatly deep-rooted and intriguing. Development, which ethnicity was claimed to have stunted, nonetheless currently remains highly elusive. National developmental strides have in this regard also, continued to gravely border on national experimentation. The study adopts logical argumentation as its methodology and the elite theory as theoretical framework to postulate that the country’s political class should see as its most cr...
The state of education in Nigeria is describable as perilous. It is indeed, characterized by an u... more The state of education in Nigeria is describable as perilous. It is indeed, characterized by an unnecessary capitalist tendency. Yet, education is central to the progressive advancement of every civilization. In the Nigerian state, it has therefore been a scenario of a nation hoisted on monumental promises. These promises have however remained hanging on seemingly developmental mirages. The nation-state of Nigeria is accordingly depictable as a nation of destroyed promises. Consequently, the notion of destruction introduces the necessity for reconstruction. In this study, reconstruction translates to national reconstruction. We therefore argue in the study that national reconstruction in Nigeria truly necessitates the placement of education on a national emergency scale. We argue that the present attitude of Nigerian leaders towards education is highly pretentious. We have demonstrated with secondary sources of data that such attitudes inhibit the necessity for national reconstructi...
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 2016
This study raises some fundamental issues in the relationship between public debt and sustainable... more This study raises some fundamental issues in the relationship between public debt and sustainable national development in Nigeria. The work is significant in highlighting the position of public debt in the subject area of public administration. The study finds a very weak linkage between public debt and sustainable national development in the Nigerian state. The theoretical framework of the investigation is the bureaucratic theory. The work finds that the bureaucracy is as guilty as the politician in the country, in the transmutation of public debt into a brand of national bazaar. It is finally recommended in the paper that taxation-increases be adopted as alternative to public debt, in ensuring that the current generation of the country's citizens, in meeting their immediate needs do not invariably endanger the capacity of future generations in the same regards.
Kuwait Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, 2016
We have principally examined in this study the dialectics of the political economy and the troubl... more We have principally examined in this study the dialectics of the political economy and the trouble with Nigeria. We have analyzed how the political economy has constituted a specific segment of the trouble with the Nigerian postcolonial state. The Nigerian narrative is depicted in the study as a saga of corrupt practices. The Nigerian state has further been characterized in the analysis as a vacuous entity for the feeding of the greed of the elite, as the result becomes a political economy of inefficiencies and disorder. Hence, the trouble with Nigeria in a way, hinges on the siege laid on the political economy by an unrepentant elite, which blatantly continues to articulate, implement and defend self-serving policies as public policies. The political economy challenge in Nigeria it was concluded is for the elite in generic categorization, to arrive at the realization, that the elephantine Nigerian state cannot possibly be propelled in the forward direction, while ignoring the co-citizenship-status of the masses of the state.
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