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The Demographic Imperatives in Educational Planning: The Case of Nigeria
The Demographic Imperatives in Educational Planning: The Case of Nigeria
Son Preference Among Nigerian Mothers: Its Demographic and Psycho-Social Implications
The study explores son preference among Nigerian mothers and tis implications not only on desired fertility, but on other aspect of social life (eg. Socialization, position, position based on gender etc).
Transformative Education: The Role of African Universities in the 21st Century
Transformation is a multifaceted concept. It does not lend itself to a precise definition and its meaning, nature and content have been understood differently by various audiences and stakeholders (Khosa, 1999:87)
Issues in Child Welfare Intervention: A Study of the Rehabilitation Programme for War-Displaced Children in Ni
In times of war, as in most disaster situations, people suddenly come to realize that established patterns of behaviour which hitherto have guided their lives are no longer adequate.
Prospects of Fracture Mechanics – Stress Intensity Factors for Elliptical Cracks
Prospects of Fracture Mechanics – Stress Intensity Factors for Elliptical Cracks
The combined use of a solution for an e l l i p t i c a l crack subjected to internal pressure, which is represented by a polynomial expression, together with a free surface solution for the alternating method is reviewed and methods for improving the efficiency of t h i s numerical technique are proposed.
Factors Sustaining Behaviours In The Institutions Of Higher Learning In Nigeria
The history of antisocial behaviours in the higher institutions in Nigeria is a long -draw out phenomenon and its existence has been sufficiently documentation, as well as the gnat dangers it portends lo the growth of education in the country
Factors Sustaining Behaviours In The Institutions Of Higher Learning In Nigeria
The history' of antisocial behaviours in the higher institutions in Nigeria is a long draw out phenomenon and its existence has been sufficiently documented, as well as the gnat dangers it portends lo the growth of education in the country.
Strategies for National Integration in Nigeria
There is no topic more important today for its linkage to thee overall Nigerian development than Nation Integration. The truth about the Nigerian state today is that it remains largely unintegrated after half a century of existence.
Nigeria and the Economic Community y of West African States (ECOWAS)
The major problem in the discussion of Nigeria's role in the Economic Community of West African States can be traced in the level of analysis problem.
Nigeria’s Policy in Angola
Since Nigeria obtained her independence, there is no foreign policy arena in which she has tried to distinguish herself as such as is the case in Angola especially in the Angolan civil war.
A Critical Appraisal of Nigeria’s Foreign Policy, 1960-1986
this essay is divided int three parts. The first part shows that the dominance of our national economy by foreign monopolies because of the incapacity of the ruling class of winning flag .
Perestroika, Glasnost and the Transition Civil Rural
Those academics who are interested in soviet studies were thrilled with the phenomenon of Mikhail Gorbachev. At first, there was the thinking that thee reforms which he had launched were in the same mould of Kruschev's in 1956 when East European communist parties especially in Hungary, borrowed a fig leaf from him and want to withdraw from the Warsaw fact and the soviet bloc, they were clobbered.
Nuclear Weapons and National Security
The question of Nigeria's acquisition of nuclear technology for both peaceful and poweful political purposes has been addressed bt policy-makers, academics and technicians.
ECOWAS, Regional Integration and a New World Order
At this point of tie in the history of mankind, we think it wise to dwell on a topic as this in order to find out if there is something new in a world order that is said be new to apply to regional integration especially in West Africa.
The Democratic Imperative for Africa: Lesions for and from Nigeria
The decade of the 1990s has witnessed an unprecedented surge in political activities on the part of African masses in the direction of plural democracy in the African continent. Since the post-independerrce decade, the masses in Africa were doused each time they rose up to challenge an authoritarian, dictatorial regime. What therh is responsible for this new found "freedom" to seek a plural political order? Is this search for plurh democracy, Africa-wide or is it locked in some enclaves in the African continent? What are the recurring themes around which this quest for plural democracy converge? What are the possibilities that e truly plural political system would be enshrined on the African continent? What is the role of the army in all these ongoing processes? In treating these questions, I sought recourse to a political economy approach which sees the prevailing African condition as one in which the absence of a state and thus a class with a messianic development attributes causes a political system whether pluplism or otherwise to be dictated to her from elsewhere. I examined all the following attributes in a comparatiie perspective: multipartyism, nature of foreign pressure, pressure by civil society and the role of the army.
