POLITICAL SCIENCE PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 21. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND LOCAL GO...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.5 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Akuku Toru Local Government Area came into existence with the creation of Local Governments nation wide by General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida's regime on the 29th of September 1991. It was carved out of the former Degema Local Government Area with Abonnema as its headquarters. Akuku Toru Local Government Area is typically riverine with a land of...Continue Reading »

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• 22. THE PROBLEMS OF EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF REVENUE AVAILABLE TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACK GROUND OF THE STUDY Nigeria as a sovereign nation operates a federal system of government i.e the federal government, state government and the local government councils. Onwo (1992) Observed that each level of the three tiers of government derive its powers not from the magnanimity of the central government but from the constitution; each level of government has defined respon...Continue Reading »

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• 23. THE IMPACT OF POOR REVENUE GENERATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARE...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Development is a sine qua non for modern civilization. In a crusade and struggle to carryout development at all nooks and crannies of the society, the local government as the tier of government that is nearest to the people is saddled with the responsibility of direct development of the people to a certain level. Development is highly associated with fund, m...Continue Reading »

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• 24. INTER-GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN NIGERIA. (A CASE STUDY OF N...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR THE STUDY The concept of Intergovernmental relations is associated with states having a Federal Administration system where the relationships between the Federal, Central or National Governmental and major sub national unit (province, region or state) formally spect out in constitution. Intergovernmental relations have been seen as a system of t...Continue Reading »

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• 25. POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: AN OPINION SURVEY OF THE THREE SENATORIA...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY The history of political party in Nigeria can be situated within the context of the two party and multi party political system (Adejumobi, 2007), which can be traced to the development of nationalist consciousness, awareness and political movements (Agarah, 2004), that began in Nigeria in the 1930s. This activity specifically, is what Coleman (1986:...Continue Reading »

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• 26. THE IMPACT OF BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN NIGERIA(STUD...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The safety of lives and property has been a major source of concern for Human right from time immemorial, the search for security forms part of the reasons why ―people aggregated into bands, tribes, kingdoms, and nation states to join international organizations (PadelFord, 1976). Even in ancient times, the need for security was expressed in t...Continue Reading »

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• 27. TERRORISM AND NIGERIAN ECONOMY: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background of the Study Terrorism and insurgency is globally becoming a household word as there is no nation that is completely absolved from its effect. This is the reason why Rourke (2008) observes that war, terrorism and other forms of transnational political violence are in many ways more threatening today than ever before as civilian casualty has been on increase....Continue Reading »

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• 28. POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION AND VIOLENCE FREE ELECTIONS IN KOLOKUMA/OPOKUMA LOCAL GO...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Elections in Nigeria have always been accompanied by violence even after the return to civilian rule in 1999 that ended fifteen years of military dictatorship (International Crisis Group, 2014). Electoral violence refers to the use or threat of force against an opponent within the context of electoral competition for state power. It is bad for d...Continue Reading »

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• 29. A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF INEC SMART CARD READERS, IN REDUCING IRREGULARITIES DURI...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything. – Joseph Stalin (1949), former USSR Communist leader In tandem with the above assertion; – Ken Nnamani, Nigeria’s former Senate President The problem we have had in Nigeria is that every succeeding election is worse than the previous one. In other words, the election of ...Continue Reading »

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• 30. EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP PANACEA FOR CONTROLLING GREED AND CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA. .

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Nigeria was colonized by the British in the 18th century, but later got its independence in 1960. Prior to that time, Nigeria was noted for its richness in agricultural produce through which she earned its foreign exchange, and built its reserve. In the 19th century, Nigeria was the world‟s largest exporter of cash crops such as cocoa, groundn...Continue Reading »

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• 31. ROTATIONAL PRESIDENCY AND POWER SHIFT AS AN INSTRUMENT OF NATIONAL INTEGRATION I...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Since the attainment of independence in 1960, Nigeria has been haunted by general political instability. Her political history has been punctuated by social upheavals, deepening ethnic cleavages, attempted secession, and threats of secession, military coups and corruption. The atmosphere of the Nigerian politics has been assailed by ethno Politi...Continue Reading »

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• 32. THE EFFECTS OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCEDURES ON THE EFFICIENCY OF THE PUB...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Fatiregun (1992) sees recruitment as that process of assessing a job, announcing the vacancy, arousing interest and stimulating people to apply. Recruiting, according to Mathis and Jackson (1997), is the process of generating a pool of qualified applicants for organisational jobs. Balogun (1980) defined recruitment or employment as the process b...Continue Reading »

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• 33. INFLATIONS IN NIGERIA CAUSES, CONSEQUENCE AND CONTROL

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Inflation can be defined as the persistence rise an prices of goods and service due to the volume of money in circulation. This is an increase in the money and credit relative to available goods and service resulting in a general price level. In order to observe that there is inflation there should be a rise in the volume of money credit. Th...Continue Reading »

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• 34. ELECTORAL MALPRACTICE AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN NIGERIA.A STUDY OF FOURTH ...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Elections have not only become an instrument for the demise of authoritarianism or a transition to democracy but the credibility of electoral process has equally become the instrument for determining the integrity and legitimacy of a democratic regime. Credible election is the general acceptance of its conduct as free and fair by citizens and in...Continue Reading »

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• 35. EFFECT OF POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS MODES ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT AND RETENTI...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of study Education is the key that enable the public to move with time and attain excellence in science and technology. This is why the Federal Republic of Nigeria (2004) stated clearly in the National Policy on Education, that education as an instrument could be used to meet the needs of people and determine the kind of society which would evolve. However, ther...Continue Reading »

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• 36. ELECTORAL VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF GHANA (1992-2012).ELECTO...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY The end of the Cold War gave a major boost to the democratic movement in Africa. Multi party democracy with its dominant feature of conducting periodic elections thus became prominent on the continent. This was the period when international financial support especially from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), became conditional in orde...Continue Reading »

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• 37. EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNAL CONTROLS BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HOS...

  » ABSTRACT In the current economic environment, the trend of business activities and an ever changing business has made it imperative for all forms of entities be it public or private to maintain and ensure internal control systems that are effective and can achieve optimum results for the entity in question. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of internal control syste...Continue Reading »

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• 38. EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF INTEREST MARGIN ON THE PROFITABILITY OF BANKS IN GHANA:...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the study Interest rate is one of the critical factors that determine the financial performance of banks (Maigua & Mouni, 2016). According to Crowley (2007), interest rate is the “price paid by a borrower on the money they borrow from a particular financial institution or a lender”. In other words, it is a fee that one is expected to pay on a ...Continue Reading »

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• 39. ASSESSING STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION IN POLICY FORMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION: TH...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study The study seeks to examine the role of stakeholder engagement in the implementation of the Free Senior High Policy (FSHS) in Ghana. This chapter therefore introduces the main study. Specifically, the chapter starts with the background to the study and the statement of the problem. It also contains the objectives of the study, the research questions,...Continue Reading »

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• 40. AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OF LEFT- BEHIND CHILDREN OF GHANA POLI...

  » CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Introduction Migration has become a common phenomenon. Migration refers to movement across different boundaries of territories which mostly involves a change in a place of temporarily or permanent residence. Migration according to Golscheider (1974) can also be described as the separation from the organized activities of one area and the total shift or movement ...Continue Reading »

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