POLITICAL SCIENCE PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 1121. NIGER DELTA CRISES AND NATIONAL SECURITY IN NIGERIA: APPRAISAL OF THE AMNESTY PR...

  » Abstract The Niger Delta – the geographical heart of oil production in Nigeria has been a breeding ground for militants for some years now. This is because the discovery of oil and its exploitation has ushered in a miserable, undisciplined, decrepit, and corrupt form of ‘petro capitalism’ which produces conflict accelerating factors. Devastated by the ecological costs of oil spil...Continue Reading »

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• 1122. AFRICAN UNION AND RESOLUTION OF THE POST 2010-2011 ELECTION CRISIS IN COTE D’I...

  » ABSTRACT Cote d’ivoire in the west African sub region, recently faced political crisis that emanated from the presidential election that was conducted in October 2010, this present unique features of armed conflicts that aroused the interest of international community such as the United Nations, ECOWAS, African Union, France etc in the country’s peace process. African Union, a defunct ...Continue Reading »

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• 1123. ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA:THE CASE OF ANAMBRA STATE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS

  » TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE ……………………………………………………….……..iCERTIFICATION PAGE …………………………………………………….iiA...Continue Reading »

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• 1124. FEDERALISM IN NIGERIA PROBLEMS AND PROSPECT

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Federalism, according to K.C Wheare, is the method of dividing powers so that the central and regional governments are each, within a sphere, co ordinate and independent. He said that the characteristics of this Federal Principle are the division of powers among levels of government, a written constitution showing this division of powers and co ordinate not sub ordinate su...Continue Reading »

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• 1125. FISCAL AUTONOMY AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study Nigeria is a federal state made up of three tiers of governments. Accordingly, the constitutional assignment of responsibilities to each of the tiers in both the exclusive and concurrent lists carries financial burden (Edame, 2004:249). Observably, due to the about eighty (80) per cent financial dependent nature of the federating units (states a...Continue Reading »

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• 1126. POST ELECTORAL VIOLENCE AND THE THREAT TO NATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study People have devise and lived under various forms of government in different countries of the world of which democracy has been adjudge to be the best. This explains the democratic appeal to every human organisation from antiquity. Schumpeter (1952:269), defines democracy as that institutional arrangement for arriving at a political decis...Continue Reading »

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• 1127. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION AND THE CONTROL OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERI...

  » 1.1 INTRODUCTION The preponderance of Economic and Financial Crimes like Advance Fee Fraud (419) money laundering have had severe negative consequences on Nigeria including decreased Foreign Direct investments in the country and tainting of Nigeria’s National Image. The menace of these crimes and the recognition of the magnitude and gravity of the situation led to the establishment of the Ec...Continue Reading »

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• 1128. DEPENDENCE AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

  » AbstractDependency and underdevelopment in Africa is our main thrust which we try to relate the above to the Nigerian context. Dependency as we all know is a product of underdevelopment which is prevalent in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. It is certain that Nigeria is an independent nation, but it does not reflect in all the facts in the society since the super structures that form t...Continue Reading »

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• 1129. LABOUR UNREST UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL OF 2000-2013

  » Abstract One of the major impediments to development in Nigeria is labour unrest. This is given the fact that no Nation can develop without human resource because they constitute and play very significant role in Nation building and development. The Nigerian case has been so pervasive that labour unrest extends to every situation when the Government takes major public policy decision that seems to...Continue Reading »

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• 1130. POVERTY AND YOUTH RESTIVENESS IN NIGERIA

  » ABSTRACTOver the years, Nigeria was experienced series of attacks, agitations, restiveness and blests ranging from diverse regions and localities. References are; hostage thing in the south south region, the Niger Delta militancy crisis, the Boko Haram crisis in Northern Nigeria (which is the case study of this research work) etc. most restiveness of youths has often been done under the puise of a...Continue Reading »

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• 1131. POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME AS A STRATEGY OF IMPROVING NIGERIA'S ECONOMY

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY A major global human problem of our time which along with the environmental threats that weighs heavily on our planet and on the future of human society is poverty, poverty generally is a popular research and development topic in recent years at both local and global levels. The local situation is perhaps best captured by the activities of Cente...Continue Reading »

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• 1132. SELF-HELP PROGRAM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

  » ABSTRACT Self help program and rural development, as the title implies is a strategy through the inhabitants of an area co operatively undertaken the building or rehabilitation and provision of their basic needs of their community using their own effort and resources (Onajide et al 1990) based on the back ground, the research was conceived to examine self help approach and rural development in Ibi...Continue Reading »

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• 1133. CAUSES OF FRAUD AND WAYS OF PREVENTING IT IN NIGERIA'S PUBLIC SECTORS

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The problem of fraud in the public sector has assumed immense proportions with the increase in the volume and complexity of the organizations within this sector. No organization appears free from this malaise and there is clearly the need to address the problem seriously. The essence of. this is to equip organizations with a good knowledge of th...Continue Reading »

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• 1134. GODFATHERISM AND ELECTORAL PROCESS IN NIGERIAN POLITICS

  » CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.1 INTRODUCTION The concept of “Godfatherism” has its origin in Christianity. Godparents are chosen as surrogates to help biological (or adopted) parents raise a Christian child to become a Godfearing law abiding adult, Anakwenze (2004). In Nigeria, one of the most dominant features of the Nigerian political arena is the prevalence of the phenomenon...Continue Reading »

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• 1135. ELECTORAL PRACTICES AND VOTING PATTERN IN NIGERIA

  » SECTION ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY INTRODUCTION In any democracy, apart from death and taxes the next logical sure phenomena are elections. Nigeria a 1914 amalgamated entity, gained independence in 1960 became a republic in 1963, fought a civil war from 1965 to 1970, experienced coups and counter coups, returned to civil rule but still plagued by electoral malpractices. The amalgamation of Nigeri...Continue Reading »

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• 1136. CORRUPTION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

  » SECTION ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Corruption is a persistent issue in Nigeria. Corruption is a form of anti social behavior by an individual or social group which confers unjust or fraudulent benefits on its perpetrators, is consistent with the established legal norms and prevailing moral ethos of the land and is likely to subvert or diminish by capacity of the legitimate authoritie...Continue Reading »

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• 1137. NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA.

  » CHAPTER ONE %y;">1.1 INTRODUCTION The pride of any government is the attainment of higher value level of any development in such away that its citizens would derive natural attachment to governance. However, for a nation to be in a phase of development three must be some pre requisites, which include socio political and economic stability. The gap between the developed and the developing countries...Continue Reading »

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• 1138. THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION The pride of any government is the attainment of higher value level of any development in such away that its citizens would derive natural attachment to governance. However, for a nation to be in a phase of development three must be some pre requisites, which include socio political and economic stability. The gap between the developed and the developing countries is t...Continue Reading »

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• 1139. ABURI ACCORD: IT'S IMPLICATION ON THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Many scholars believe the Aburi question and its implication on the Nigerian Civil War has its origin in the creation of the Nigerian state. That is, the debate over the implementation of the Aburi agreement was the problem of how the origin of the Nigerian state became tied to the issue of the future association of the constituent units within the ...Continue Reading »

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• 1140. THE ROLE OF FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY UNDER THE OBAS...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study A critical examination of the role of foreign policy in the management of national security in Nigeria clearly shows that there is no better time than now, to dwell on this subject. This is because in Nigeria today, there are contentions as to whether the system of national security management is functioning effectively or not. Of course, most o...Continue Reading »

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