Background of the study

The connection between democratic government and economic progress at the national level is recognized and valued by many. This is due to the fact that democracy plays an extremely significant and significant part in nurturing national growth and supporting effective governance (Alapiki, 2021). The primary focus of democratic governments is on enhancing the social and economic well-being of their populations, which is associa...

Background of the study

Foreign policy is a necessary activity engaged in by each sovereign State in the international system because no State is an island unto itself, nor can any State be insulated from the actions of others whether favourable or adverse. Bilateral and multilateral inter-State relations have therefore become part of the basic ingredients of contemporary international relations Each State in the international system has to fashion out a policy that...

Abstract: World over, political aspirants adopt the use of diverse campaign strategies such as political advertising in order to sensitize the electorates to vote in their favor. These advertisements often present an exaggeration of what the society stand to gain by voting for the aspirant, as well as antagonize the opposition party. In view of the 2015 elections in Nigeria, the mass media has been flooded with advertising messages from numerous political parties. It is based on this that thi...

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Our country Nigeria was created by the British colonialist who performed the task of bringing the various ethnic nationalities together in 1914 to form a single nation state, right from creation Nigeria has been a plural society made up of three major groups of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, while the minority groups include, Efik, Igala, Tiv, Jukun, Urhobo, Ijaw, Ibibio etc, infact, recent studies puts the figure at about 374 ethic groups (Otite, 1990:...

​​​​​​Background of the Study: The development of political parties in Nigeria dates back to the days of the struggle for political independent in the late 1940s, when the nationalists were at the pre-independence and post-independence periods. In the pre- independence and the early post independence periods, political parties in Nigeria wer...

ABSTRACT: This study assesses the inadequacy of the BVAS on the electoral outcome of the 2023 general election in Nigeria. Specifically, the study determines whether the effectiveness of BVAS in transmitting result from polling unit during the 2023 general election in Nigeria, ascertains the factors which affected the effectiveness of BVAS during the 2023 general election in Nigeria, determines whether the ineffectiveness of BVAS and IReV...

INTRODUCTION: The human race will never see the end of troubles until political power is entrusted to the lover of wisdom “Plato Republic”. 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, standing against the intellectual extrapolations originating in, and also sustained by, the media.

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Background of the study: Beginning from the early 1950s, various models have been used in the government of Local Communities in our country.  Among the models which have at one time been adopted for all or some parts of the Country include:The Lugardian native authority system, the American Council manager model and divisional administrative system.  These various systems were however abolished following the 1976 nation-wide local government by General Murtala Moha...

ABSTRACT: This study was carried out on a critical analysis of the national youth service corps programme and its effect on national integration. Specifically, the study examined corp members in Lagos state, Nigeria. The study employed the survey descriptive research design. A total of 230 responses were validated from the survey. The study adopted the social communication theory. From the responses obtained and analysed, the findings from the tested hypothes...

​​​​​​BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY:Conversation analysis is a broad phrase for the several traditions that may be used to analyse discourse. It is a cognitivism critique that emerged in the 1970s, however it has its origins in the 1950s' "turn to language" (Horvath 2016). Whereas cognitivism speaks of objective, observable, and knowable reality, discourse analysis speaks of numerous versions of reality, different 'truths,' which are formed th...