The intricacies and challenges in the realization of public housing delivery in Nigeria. By G. O.Mudashir and M.D. Ahmed‚ phD. Department of Architecture‚ Ahmadu Bello University‚ Zaria. e-mail: gafarmudashir@yahoo.com mdahmed58@ yahoo.com Keywords: Housing‚ development plan‚ housing quality‚ housing quantity and housing finance. ABSTRACT While decent housing is important to every individual and nation‚ housing crisis remains one of the global problems and a grave and rising challenge
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THE PROBLEM OF NIGERIA: A CRITICAL EXPOSE OF THE EFFECTS OF 1914 AMALGAMATION ON NIGERIA. INTRODUCTION Chinua Achebe citing an Igbo proverb in his “There was a country” tells us that a man who does not know where the rain started to beat him cannot say where he dried his body. The rain that beat Nigeria began more than a decade ago‚ from the resolutions of the Berlin conference of 1884/1885 to the economic–driven amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates of Nigeria in 1914 by Lord
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as cheques‚ wire transfers‚ debit and credit cards‚ online transactions‚ and mobile banking. The advantages of a cashless society are enormous; from regulating‚ controlling‚ and securing the financial system of any economy. The Central Bank of Nigeria‚ led by its Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi‚ has put forward a policy requiring that all cash withdrawals and deposits be set at a daily limit of a maximum of N150‚ 000 while pegging that of corporate entities at N l‚ 000‚000‚ with penalty fees of N100
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SOCIO-POLITICAL EFFECT OF MILITARY RULE IN NIGERIA In most developing countries‚ there is a disruption of the civil-military equilibrium usually assumed in liberal democracies. In liberal tradition‚ the military is insulated from politics and subject to civilian control. In several developing countries‚ however‚ the military has not only intervened in the political process and overthrown the constitutional civilian authority‚ but it also often has established its supremacy over elected politicians
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situation at hand. All necessary factors should be taking into consideration such as: the level of skill; the time-frame for the achievement of an objective‚ etc. Nigeria is a country with a variety of cultures. Nigeria‚ being a very cultural nature means that most western management styles are non-applicable. We can view the management style in Nigeria from two perspectives: • Management style of the Nigerian Government • Management style in the Nigerian Business Environment We would be talking briefly about
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Head Counts and House Census to Nigerian Sustainable Development Kofo A. Aderogba Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences Tai Solarin University of Education Ijebu-Ode‚ Ogun State‚ Nigeria kofoaderogba@yahoo.com Key words Population census‚ Limitations‚ Sustainable development‚ Virtues‚ Nigeria Abstract The 2006 population censu was scheduled‚ planned and executed. The objective of this paper is to highlight the uniqueness and credible attributes of the exercise: and to make recommendations
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EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES AS THREATS TO QUALITY ASSURANCE IN EDUCATION IN NIGERIA‚ BY OGUNDEPO‚ A. O. Background to the study. Examination is one of the ways through which students’ academic achievements are measured. It is a means of assessing students’ academic abilities with a view to taking decision on their progression on the academic ladder and determining their suitability for position of responsibilities (Ogundepo‚ Olatayo‚ and Akinteye 2009). A student would be adjudged to have
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contain it? As far back as eight to nine years ago‚ we observed that the institution of the Nigerian army became a target of the intelligentsia behind what we called Boko Haram. They have known that the Nigerian army was the last institution in Nigeria that could practically bind the country. But now‚ the army seems divided. What I know is that the Nigerian army cannot handle this people because the sophistication with which the sect operates is beyond the training of the Nigerian army. You argue
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Schedule to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria‚ which states that the Commission is to “review‚ from time to time‚ the revenue allocation formulae and principles in operation to ensure conformity with changing realities. Provided the any revenue formula which has been accepted by an Act of the National Assembly shall remain in force for a period of not less than five years for the commencement of the Act” Nigeria system of government has three levels namely‚ Federal‚ State
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF KIDNAPPING IN NIGERIA: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY Abstract This study analyzed and reviewed the Nigerian print media coverage of kidnapping cases between 2005 and 2011. The focus of the study was to determine socio-economic and demographic features of kidnapping in Nigeria. Content analysis was adopted for the study as well as use of frequency tables for analysis of data. Anomie theory of crime based on Robert K. Merton’s analysis of Durkheim’s theory provided
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