This article presents a relatively new dimension of kidnapping, known as ritual kidnapping, which has been battling security and polity in Nigeria.The concepts of ritual and ransom kidnapping are explored and analysed within this text through the adoption of a theoretical framework on security with qualitative methods to explain the causes of kidnapping and ritual kidnapping, an overview of security in Nigeria, and a discussion surrounding the challenges regarding implementation of security within ...
Tópico(s): Military and Defense Studies
2018 - | Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues
Despite some tentative internal peace agreements, Nigeria continues to face violence from multiple groups. This violence feeds upon itself, with segments of the population being mobilized both for self defense and for pressing their ideological and practical goals. These multiple sources of violence, which the Nigerian government appears unable to control to any significant degree, have a long term corrosive effect on the country's internal stability. There are few reasons to be sanguine as to any ...
Tópico(s): Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
2011 - Routledge | Small Wars and Insurgencies
Although women in urban households in Nigeria are primarily responsible for sourcing and managing domestic water supplies, their responses to problems with obtaining water have to be negotiated within the context of gender power relations, roles and responsibilities, both within and outside the household. This article, focusing on women in poor communities in Lagos and Benin City, Nigeria, shows that there is some relationship between women's desire to organise for water improvements, and membership ...
Tópico(s): Child Nutrition and Water Access
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Gender & Development
Journal Article Local Government Accountability for Health Service Delivery in Nigeria Get access Stuti Khemani Stuti Khemani Development Research Group, The World Bank 1Correspondence should be addressed to: Stuti Khemani, Development Research Group, The World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA. Tel: +1 202 458 1129; Fax: +1 202 522 1154; E-mail: skhemani@worldbank.org Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of African Economies, Volume 15, ...
Tópico(s): Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
2005 - Oxford University Press | Journal of African Economies
In Nigeria, people have variously described children as the future hope or as leaders of tomorrow. Such attributes are often expressed by parents, social critics, political analysts, and media commentators, who will always offer sentimental obeisance to the notion that children are indeed the greatest human asset. In effect, it means that children are appreciated, recognized, and regarded as valuable human monument worthy of investing upon for the very survival and continuous existence of the human ...
Tópico(s): Gender and Women's Rights
2010 - African Journals OnLine | African Research Review
Although research has considered how poor governance, exclusionary politics and electoral malpractice affect election violence, the effect of hate speech on election violence has not received adequate academic attention. Using a mixed methods approach with qualitative dominance, this study examines the effect of hate speech on election violence in Nigeria during the 2011, 2015 and 2019 presidential elections. The article demonstrates that an entrenched culture of hate speech is an oft-neglected ...
Tópico(s): Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Asian and African Studies
Although the literature has discussed the benefits of precolonial centralization for development in Africa, the findings and the mechanisms provided do not explain the heterogeneity in access to public services of formerly centralized regions. Using new survey data from Nigeria, a significant negative association between precolonial centralization and access to certain public services is observed. While the mechanisms driving these patterns are complex, I use historical evidence to suggest that ...
Tópico(s): Local Government Finance and Decentralization
2019 - Elsevier BV | World Development
Tópico(s): Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
2017 - | International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering
Tópico(s): Policing Practices and Perceptions
2015 - Indiana University Press | Africa Today
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Tópico(s): Medical Coding and Health Information
2011 - American Medical Association | JAMA
A community approach to the management of crimes and criminal behaviour in Nigeria is the latest in the crime fighters' attempt to curb the menace of the rising crime rate in the country. The efficiency of this approach is, however, facing certain challenges, namely: interference of some ‘powerful’ members of society in the course of justice, inertia on the part of some corrupt police officials who want the status quo to be maintained, financial constraints, and the unpleasant image of the police. ...
Tópico(s): Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
2009 - SAGE Publishing | International Journal of Police Science & Management
Abstract: The technocrat, a supposedly apolitical figure who joins government on the basis of technical expertise, looms large in discussions of governance. The empowerment of technocrats has sometimes been taken as a barometer for Africa’s economic and democratic progress. Rejecting this conventional wisdom, this article argues that technocrats are inevitably trapped in a web of politics—politicians leverage the apolitical image of technocrats for political gain, and public debates implicate technocrats ...
Tópico(s): World Systems and Global Transformations
2018 - Cambridge University Press | African Studies Review
One of the common features in Nigeria and indeed in many developing countries is that the impacts of community water and sanitation programmes are limited, because many of them are ill-conceived and are abandoned prematurely due to numerous attitudinal, institutional and economic factors. Thus, there is lack of sustainability in the sense of service delivery and upkeep of services. This paper proposes a set of pragmatic strategy that would involve all stakeholders, by ensuring effective partnership ...
Tópico(s): Water Governance and Infrastructure
2008 - Academic Journals | African Journal of Agricultural Research
Anthony Nyong, Pavlos Kanaroglou,
This paper presents the pattern of domestic water use in Katarko village in north-eastern Nigeria, to improve the understanding of how local communities in the Sahel relate to water. Contrary to popular belief that women are the primary water collectors in rural sub-Saharan Africa, we show that the gender of primary water collectors depends on the custom and culture of the local community. Our results reveal a trade-off between using good-quality water and the effort it takes to obtain it. This, ...
Tópico(s): Water Governance and Infrastructure
2001 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Arid Environments
Analysis of the nature of static allometric changes in seven streams affected by urbanization in Ado-Ekiti, southwestern Nigeria, and their comparison with four natural streams in the region reveals that while the channel capacities of the natural streams increase at the same rate with stream discharge, their urban counterparts exist in varying degrees of disequilibrium, becoming fully adjusted to the urban hydrological situation only when urbanization is complete and stable. The degree and location ...
Tópico(s): Water Governance and Infrastructure
1989 - Elsevier BV | Applied Geography
(1988). Environmental sanitation in Nigeria: colonial and contemporary. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 15, No. 42, pp. 19-31.
Tópico(s): Water Governance and Infrastructure
1988 - Taylor & Francis | Review of African Political Economy
Tópico(s): World Systems and Global Transformations
1987 - Athabasca University Press | Labour / Le Travail
Peter Adebayo, Oluwakayode Ojo,
There is a kind of consensus in the extant literature on democracy, democratization and democratic consolidation generally that maintenance of law and order is a sine qua non to the stability of any polity in all regions and climes. All societies require a body of men and women whose sole occupation is that of protecting them from the dangers of external invasion, internal subversion, or irredentist claims that may tear a society into shreds. It is important to note that right from independence ...
Tópico(s): Crime Patterns and Interventions
2009 - Academic Journals | International NGO Journal
Olatomide Waheed Olowa, Adebayo M. Shittu,
The paper studies the effect of remittances on inequality in rural Nigeria using the Nigeria Living standard survey collected in 2004 by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics. This study decomposed income inequality in rural Nigeria using the Gini-decomposition and regression-based approaches to investigate the contribution of remittance to income inequality in Rural Nigeria. Results shows Domestic remittances seem more likely to be income equalizing than foreign remittances. Education is associated with ...
Tópico(s): World Systems and Global Transformations
2012 - | E3 Journal of Business Management and Economics
The author examines the law and practice concerning contraception and abortion in Nigeria in the context of the impact of these factors on women's rights and status. She concludes that both the law and current practices are designed to continue the subordination of married women to their husbands.
Tópico(s): International Human Rights and Reproductive Law
1986 - Taylor & Francis | Review of African Political Economy
The study examined the effects of Occupational stress on psychological well-being of police employees. The study adopted the descriptive survey, using 250 police employees from five local government areas of Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria. The three instruments used were authored-constructed questionnaires by adapting relevant scales to measures the studied variables. Data were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) statistical method. Results obtained from this study showed that there were ...
Tópico(s): Policing Practices and Perceptions
2014 - African Journals OnLine | African Research Review
Ibrahim Haruna, Iyabo Mabawonku,
The paper examines the information needs and seeking behaviour of lawyers in Lagos, Nigeria. Results reveal that many lawyer is perceived the need to know the latest decisions of superior courts as their greatest professional information need. Other expressed needs include knowing recent legislation, obtaining information on local and international seminars and conferences, and on acquisition and application of legal “know-how”. The library has been identified as the most heavily consulted information ...
Tópico(s): Artificial Intelligence in Law
2001 - Taylor & Francis | The International Information & Library Review
Adeniyi Gbadegesin, Olatubosun Ayileka,
In recent times, the roles of local participation in what was previously perceived as pure public- service delivery has come to the forefront of policy debate and academic research. In this connection, this paper focuses on the roles of local communities in the management of protected ecosystems using the proposed Abuja national park as a case study. Based on the analysis of the results of a socio-economic survey of the communities in the study area, the paper argues that the sustainable conservation ...
Tópico(s): Water Governance and Infrastructure
2000 - Elsevier BV | Land Use Policy
Tópico(s): World Systems and Global Transformations
1988 - Taylor & Francis | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines
This paper examines the perception and motivation of inwardly internationalized Nigerian SME entrepreneurs towards the importation and distribution of imitation, fake, counterfeit, and sub-standard products from China, the disposition of Nigerian consumers towards such fake and sub-standard products, and factors that sustain counterfeit trade in Nigeria. Direct participation was triangulated with key informant technique and depth interviews to extract relevant information from Nigerian SMEs importers ...
Tópico(s): Indian Economic and Social Development
2009 - | African Journal of Business and Economic Research
How do public health crises affect peace? Guided by the understanding that peace has situational and relational dimensions, this study explored the impact of public health crises on peace using the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria as a case study. Data collected between March and July 2020 through in-depth interviews with 37 Nigerians, Nigerian media sources, and the website of Nigeria Interreligious Council (NIREC) indicate that the COVID-19 outbreak and state response to it had mixed effects on ...
Tópico(s): Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
2021 - Taylor & Francis | African Security
The phenomenon of the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria has generated many security concerns. This article explores the implications of the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria for internal security. The article, which relies on a study of secondary sources of data, reveals that the insurgency has spawned varied implications such as an international image crisis, huge economic losses, a health and humanitarian crisis, a huge burden on the security apparatuses, arms proliferation, and ...
Tópico(s): Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
2013 - Routledge | Small Wars and Insurgencies
Tópico(s): African history and culture analysis
2006 - Brill | Journal of African Archaeology
Tópico(s): Crime Patterns and Interventions
1993 - Springer Science+Business Media | Crime Law and Social Change
Johnson Olusegun Ajayi, Olukayode Longe,
The image of the Nigerian Police as a corrupt and inefficient institution with penchant for human rights abuse has not yet been redressed.Thus, this study investigates the public perception of the police and crime prevention within the Nigerian society.The participants in the study were 1350 members of 15 professional groups in strategic partnership with the Police, selected through the use of both multi-stage and purposive sampling techniques.However, 1125 respondents fully participated in the ...
Tópico(s): Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
2015 - Sciencedomain International | British Journal of Education Society & Behavioural Science