POLITICAL SCIENCE PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 81. THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCE IN NIGERIA: (2009-2013)

  » Chapter One: General Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Nigeria as a nation state is under a sever internal socio economic and security threat. As a more general level, the threat has social, economic, political and environmental dimensions. Each of these dimensions has greatly affected the nation‘s stability, and can be traced to the ethnic militia armies, ethnic and religious conflic...Continue Reading »

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• 82. EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

  » CHAPTER ONE; INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Leadership is commonly seen as an important variable affecting organizational performance. In organizations of any size, it is likely that organizational performance should be related to the aggregate effects of leaders at different hierarchical levels (Ibid). An understanding of the interplay between leadership, organizational culture and organiza...Continue Reading »

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• 83. THE ROLE OF UNITED NATIONS PEACE KEEPING MISSION IN AFRICA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study For donkeys of days, the world has witnessed armed conflicts marked by systematic violence and mass atrocities against civilians, and has increasingly looked to the United Nations, and in particular to UN peacekeeping operations, to prevent and or to halt such crimes. The failures of missions to provide security in complex crises such as Somalia...Continue Reading »

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• 84. UNEMPLOYMENT AND SECURITY CHALLENGES IN AFRICA

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRDUCTION Unemployment is a serious macroeconomic problem which poses great danger to the peace, security and even the existence of this African continent particularly in Nigeria. Because some people are of the views that even the crisis Sect Boko Haram in North East and Niger delta militant has connection with unemployment. This is because in every negotiation between government...Continue Reading »

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• 85. THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL CONFLICT IN NIGERIA DEMOCRACY

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION The human race will never see the end of troubles until political power is entrusted to the lover of wisdom “PlatoRepublic”. My first approach to the challenge of this topic, is that we have no choice but to seed to return to the basic context in which Nigerians see the godfather or the conflicts as a segment of the political process as well as the figure, ...Continue Reading »

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• 86. ETHNO-RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT AND VOTING BEHAVIOR IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.1. Introduction Ethnicity and religion are two phenomenon that can hardly be divorced from a human being, while Ethnicity gives humans the sense of belonging to a group which fosters solidarity and unity, Religion plays a vital role in human lives by connecting them to the spiritual and giving them hope of a better life on earth and after death (Conroy, 2013)....Continue Reading »

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• 87. THE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF REVENUE GENERATION IN NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT SY...

  » Abstract Local governments in Nigeria are faced with many difficulties in generating adequate finance to perform their constitutional responsibilities; such problems are a cog in the wheel to the smooth running of local government administration. These challenges include dishonesty on the part of officer collecting the revenues such as cases of printing receipts by the officers. This development h...Continue Reading »

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• 88. IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  » The study examined the Impact of Corruption on the Socio economic Development in Akwa Ibom State, with specific attention on Ikot Ekpene local Government Area. To achieve the stated objective, the study adopted a descriptive and survey design method and thus, data were collected from both the primary and secondary source. The hypotheses of the study were subjected to statistical test using the chi...Continue Reading »

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• 89. POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

  » ABSTRACT At independence, the economies of Nigeria and India were dominated by primary production, mainly agriculture. However, within some decades, India transformed and overtook Nigeria, emerging as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, while Nigeria’s development lagged behind considerably. This research comparatively assessed the role of leadership in economic development ex...Continue Reading »

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• 90. LEGISLATION AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study The co ordination of the system, people, and the polity is the responsibility of government who is the custodian of the sovereignty of the entire citizenry which collectively and willingly they have submitted to it in return for peaceful and meaningful co existence propelled by law and good government. It is therefore pertinent to say that the r...Continue Reading »

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• 91. MILITANT INSURGENCY AND OIL EXPLOITATION IN THE NIGER DELTA

  » ABSTRACT Oil exploitation and exploration which has its root in the Niger Delta was celebrated February, 2008 as fifty (50) years of oil exploitation in Nigeria. In spite of wealth generation by oil exploration and exploitation, opinions of observers on the performance of the oil production sector especially its developmental relation with oil host region/communities has not been impressive. Niger...Continue Reading »

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• 92. ECONOMIC CRIMES AND SECURITY CHALLENGES: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES FOR NIGERIA

  » Abstract A popular slogan used in various association all over the country say “Unity and Progress” another says “Peace and Unity”. One thing stands out for these two slogans, and that is the fact that the actualization of one thing depends on the other. There can not be unity without peace as such no nation is bound to see incredible progress when there is absence of Unity...Continue Reading »

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• 93. POLITICAL ACTION AND SECESSION MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Change in political administration plays a significant role in the proliferation of conflicts in Nigeria; ranging from Boko haram, Niger delta crises and Biafra agitation. Many keen observers of political development in Nigeria will agree to the fact that, one of the greatest challenges the country is currently facing is the seemingly unending s...Continue Reading »

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• 94. INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN NIGERI...

  » ABSTRACT This study investigated the impact of the INEC as an electoral management body on democratic consolidation in Nigeria. This was premised on the observation Nigeria continues to witness with growing disappointments and apprehension as to its inability to conduct peaceful, free, fair and open elections in which results are widely accepted and respected across the country. The objectives of ...Continue Reading »

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• 95. GLOBALIZATION AND NIGERIA’S SOVEREIGNTY

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Introduction “Globalization represents the reality that we live in a time when the walls of sovereignty are no protection against the movements of capital, labour, information and ideas nor can they provide effective protection against harm and damage” (Higgins, 1999). This declaration by judge Rosalyn Higgins, the former president of the International Court of justice,...Continue Reading »

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• 96. POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLITICS OF SECOND TERM

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY A political party is an association of people who hold similar views about what should be a community or society’s social and economic priorities and come together to establish these priorities by gaining control of the machinery of government (Derbyshire & Darlyshire, 1991:13a). Modern political parties, whose predecessors were clique...Continue Reading »

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• 97. ECOWAS: THE IDEALS AND PRACTICE OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study One of the most discussed themes over the past two decades in scholarly studies, political discourse, and international media is regional integration. The extent of the emergence of regional integration remains closely linked to the rise of globalization and the need for countries to negotiate agreements to facilitate all forms of exchanges and ...Continue Reading »

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• 98. POLITICAL LEADERSHIP CRISIS AND SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA FOURTH REPUBLIC

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Africa is currently experiencing the paradox of her being. Poverty and squalor are but hallmarks of a great continent that has richly being blessed by nature. A continent that often has been spared of untold natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes (except for few landslides in pockets of places) and the likes. In various states...Continue Reading »

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• 99. YOUTHS AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.1 INTRODUCTION One of the challenges facing Africa today is how to provide opportunities for the continent’s more than 200 million youths so that they can have decent lives and contribute to the socio economic and political development of their countries (G. Genyi, 2016). According to the United Nations (2010), Africa’s population as of 2011 was es...Continue Reading »

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• 100. IMPACT OF INTER GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 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 trans...Continue Reading »

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