FISCAL AUTONOMY AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
ABSTRACT: The focus of this study is to examine fiscal autonomy and service delivery in Nigeria local government using Ikot-Ekpene Local Government in Akwaibom State as case study. Fourty-seven respondent who are civil servant was purposively selected form t...
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FISCAL FEDERALISM IN NIGERIA: THEORY AND DIMENSIONS
ABSTRACT: The dynamism and complexity of Nigeria’s federalism has attracted academic scrutiny. This is because it has generated so many problems capable of threatening the corporate existence and continuity of the Nigerian state. This research, therefore, inquired into the...
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AN ASSESSMENT OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS AND ITS IMPACT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
ABSTRACT: When a state has more than one level of government, it is assumed that there will be some existing framework and procedures in place to deal with the interdependence that will occur. Intergovernmental relations are describes the interactions betwee...
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AN EVALUATION OF THE PROBLEM AND PROSPECT OF FEDERALISM IN NIGERIA
Background of the study: Federalism has developed as one of the most popular models of governance because to its integrative ability to assess the various political life of multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and multi-lingual countries. Federalism, on the other hand,...
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ANALYSIS OF IPOB AGITATION AND THE NEED FOR NATIONAL RESTRUCTURING IN NIGERIA
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: When a country's institutions deteriorate, warlords, terrorists, and other perpetrators seize power and use violence against civilians from other nations, as the terrorist attacks in New York, London, Madrid, Nigeria and Mumbai demons...
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ATTITUDES OF UNDERGRADUATE YOUTHS TOWARD DEMOCRATIC VALUES: IMPLICATION FOR SOCIAL STUDIES
Background to the Study: Citizens are the hearts and soul of democracy and hence there must be active and informed involvement of the people at all levels of governance as willing participants in defining and maintaining their democracy. The youths of...
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BRITAIN AND NIGERIA’S INDEPENDENCE IN 1960
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The territory known as Nigeria was a British creation. Its coastal areas have for some three to four hundred years been involved in trade, particularly slave trade with Britain. With the abolition of slave trade and the setting up of indu...
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FEDERALISM AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA (1960-2010)
ABSTRACT: The history of mankind in all generation has been a struggle dominated by the need to enhance his material condition either as an individual or as a collectivity. The struggle for material condition has led to the evolution of different types of politic...
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A COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION ELUCIDATING THE JUXTAPOSITION OF NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND FEDERALISM IN THE CONTEXTS OF NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: A very striking feature of every federal state is the existence of diversities. Whether federations are formed by integration of previously independent entities or through differentiation of a single entity into many components, the...
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THE POLITICIZATION OF RELIGION IN NORTHERN NIGERIA AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE NIGERIA FEDERALISM
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION: Before Nigeria became independent on October 1, I960, the nation went through a long period of colonial administration. This, what is today known as Nigeria wa...
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THE ROLE OF CIVIC EDUCATION IN CURBING ELECTORAL MALPRACTICES IN NIGERIA
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study: Civic education is a vital component of adult education because it equips citizens with the skills, mindset, and information...
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THE IMPACT OF ETHNICITY ON NIGERIA PUBLIC SERVICE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY: The term ‘ethnicity’ has its roots in the Greek term ethnos/ethnikos, which was commonly used to describe pagans,...
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THE CONTROVERSIES AND DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED IN FEDERALISM AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study: The problems with national integration in Nigeria are so severe that the country's federation is on the verge of dissolving altogether. Both antagonistic and integrat...
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A STUDY OF EXECUTIVE–LEGISLATURE RELATIONSHIP IN THE BUDGET PROCESS OF THE 7TH AND 8TH NIGERIA’S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONCEPT OF FISCAL FEDERALISM AND TAX LEGISLATION IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF LAGOS STATE
ABSTRACT
This work is prompted by the shortage of revenue accruing to the federating units in Nigeria. It exposes the potential of taxation as an alternative and or additional revenue source to the federating states in Nigeria. Using the doctrinal method of research, this work espouses...
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE TAXING POWERS OF STATES UNDER THE NIGERIAN LAWS: A CASE STUDY OF KADUNA STATE.
ABSTRACT
Tax or taxation whether from Personal Income or Company Tax forms part of the items in the National Income required for the servicing of the economic activities and development of any country, Nigeria inclusive. Tax is a compulsory exaction of money by a public authority for pu...
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FEDERAL CHARACTER PRINCIPLES AND THE CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA
1.1Background of the Study
Federal character principles or quota system of representation became an issue and as a part of constitutional arrangement following major serious disagreement between Northern and Southern leaders over the issue of self- government for Nigeria. In the 1950s,...
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FEDERALISM AND NATIONAL INTERGRATION IN NIGERIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Abstract
The problem of federalism and the associated crises of national integration in Nigeria raise serious alarm. The situation attracts growing interest and concern. The crises are very severing such that they culminate in a strong force being mounted on the federation with tendency...
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