Halting The Upsurge Of Future Pandemics: The Role Of Nigerian Government

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulrahman Adetunji
Keyword(s):  
Nigerian Government

Concealment of Illegally Obtained Assets in Nigeria: Revisiting the Role of the Churches in Money Laundering

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-121
Author(s):  
Kato Gogo Kingston
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Financial Crime ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Nigerian Government

Financial crime in Nigeria – including money laundering – is ravaging Nigeria's economic growth. In the past few years, the Nigerian government has made efforts to tackle money laundering by enacting laws and setting up several agencies to enforce the laws. However, there are substantial loopholes in the regulatory and enforcement regimes. This article seeks to unravel the involvement of the churches as key drivers in money laundering crimes in Nigeria. It concludes that the permissive secrecy which enables churches to conceal the names of their financiers and donors breeds criminality on an unimaginable scale.

ASR FORUM: ENGAGING WITH AFRICAN INFORMAL ECONOMIES

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunilla Andrae ◽  
Björn Beckman
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Political Event ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
Fuel Prices ◽  
Supportive Role ◽  
Informal Economies ◽  
Nigerian Government

Abstract:In January 2012 a broad spectrum of popular groups staged an unprecedented protest against the removal of what has been termed a “subsidy” on fuel prices by the Nigerian government. The participation of tailors in this national political event suggests that self-employed artisans were prepared to transcend their narrow nonpolitical agenda to promote their interests and demands for decent social and economic conditions. Interviews with participating organization representatives in Lagos indicate the supportive role of alliances with labor unions and organized informal workers at large. We see current global developments in the textile industry as conducive to this outcome.

scholarly journals The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Stock Market Development in Nigeria: A Test of Complementarity

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Gbenga Festus Babarinde ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Granger Causality ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Stock Market Development ◽  
Nigerian Government

This paper examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in stock marketdevelopment in Nigeria for the period 1981-2018 via Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares(DOLS)and pairwise Granger causality techniques. Empirical Öndings indicate that FDI plays apositive signiÖcant role in the development stock market in Nigeria. Also, a unidirectionalcausality áows from FDI to stock market development. This study concludes that FDI con-stitutes a catalyst to stock market development in Nigeria, which implies the complementaryrole of FDI in stock market. Therefore, Nigerian government should ensure investors-friendlymacroeconomic framework and implement policies to encourage ináows of FDI in Nigeria.

scholarly journals The Role of Islamic Banks in Tackling Financial Exclusion in North-East Nigeria

10.26414/a102 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Tijjani Muhammad ◽  
Zanna Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
North East ◽  
Financial Exclusion ◽  
Nigerian Government

The purpose of this study is to explore the level of financial exclusion in North-East Nigeria and determine the reasons and barriers behind the huge percentage of financial exclusion. The contemporary Islamic bank is considered as a solution to tackle financial exclusion. The paper uses a quantitative approach in which 2500 questionnaires were distributed out of which 2352 were received back from the respondents. The data was gathered and analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling, and descriptive, correlation and regression analyses. The findings revealed that awareness, literacy, and religiosity are considered as the key barriers to financial exclusion and the need of Islamic banks with Shariah-compliant products is highly felt to address religious motivation in North East Nigeria. Since Islamic banks are compliant with Shariah principles, the Nigerian government should facilitate the creation of more Islamic banks to tackle financial exclusion.

Harmful Traditional Practices, Laws, and Reproductive Rights of Women in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Yomi Rasul Olukolu
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Agent ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
Nigerian Government ◽  
International Instruments ◽  
Harmful Traditional Practices ◽  
Islamic Marriage

There are many traditional practices in Nigeria that literally affect women's reproductive rights within and without marriages ranging from genital mutilation, harmful traditional practices to control women, early girl marriage, one sided divorce rights in Islamic marriage to men alone, nutritional taboos and other uncouth pregnancy related practices, to unfavorably widowhood practices and inheritance. This chapter intends to bring to the fore these traditional practices which impede the women's reproductive rights in Nigeria with emphasis on the study of the role of law as a therapeutic agent within the therapeutic jurisprudential context. This is done with a view to calling on the Nigerian government to wake up to its responsibility by enacting local laws specifically on women's rights generally or domesticating the various international instruments which the country had so far voluntarily ratified on women's reproductive rights.

scholarly journals ADULT EDUCATION AND NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION IN NIGERIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Musa Usman Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
National Development ◽  
Developmental Changes ◽  
Literacy Rate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nigerian Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Transformation

This is a discussion on Adult Education programmes and National Transformation in Nigeria. The study was necessitated by observing the various efforts made by the Nigerian government, local and international interventions from 1980s to date and the present literacy rate and the present level of development in Nigeria. Adult education connotes a desirable change that can improve the role of adult population in their community and national development. It is not the children, but the adults who hold in their hands the destiny of a society. The paper reviewed the various transformational plans implemented in Nigeria from 1980s to date. It also reviewed how the Chinese and American governments implemented and used adult education programmes to bring developmental changes in their countries. It concluded that, being  a means of acquiring general knowledge, skills, values, social and political changes by adults, the Nigerian government did not give adult education due priority and that was why most of the government programmes and plans failed in the past.. Some of the recommendations include: to adequately finance adult education programmes and give sustainable and effective priority to achieve the desired objectives.  

The Second World Black Festival of Arts and Culture

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
Alahaji Yussuf Maitama Sule
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Nigerian Government ◽  
Black Man ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

In 1974 Nigeria will host the Second World Black Festival of Arts and Culture in Lagos. The first World Festival of Negro Arts was held in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966, and Nigeria was then honored with the role of “Star Country.” In agreeing to host the Second Festival, the Nigerian government is fully aware that the 1974 Festival will be the greatest concourse of black peoples from different continents in the entire history of the black man, and it is therefore determined to ensure that the Festival will contribute significantly to the enhancement of black communion and the resurgence of the artistic and cultural civilization of the black peoples of the world.

scholarly journals Repositioning Entrepreneurship in Economics Education: A Veritable Tool for Achieving Education for Sustainable Development (Esd) In Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ede O Maxwell ◽  
◽  
Kingsley Akarowhe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Economics Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Education ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Nigerian Government

Global economic realities of recession, depression and unemployment tend to put nations in setback, in terms of retarding their sustainable development. The global community in recent times adopted entrepreneurial education as a tool to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). The Nigerian government has overtime formulated, enacted policies and adopted varied strategies for a favorable sustainable development which have yield little or no benefits. Economics education play the role of inculcating skill and depositions on learners for managerial functions; self-reliance and in the long-run sustainable development. In same vein, entrepreneurship is an outfit whose benefit in sustaining development of a nation cannot be fathom. This however draws the attention of this paper which is directed on the need to reposition entrepreneurship in Economics education a veritable tool for achieving education for sustainable development (ESD) in Nigeria. The paper highlighted the concepts of entrepreneurship, Economics education, sustainable development, as well as the place of entrepreneurship in Economics Education in achieving sustainable development in Nigeria. The paper recommended among others that government should provide soft loans to enable Economics Education graduates with entrepreneurship skills establish entrepreneurship outfits

scholarly journals Governance failure and the formation of Anti-State Organisations: The Impact of the Amnesty Policy on the Development of Nigeria’s Niger-Delta, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-374
Author(s):  
AGUNYAI SAMUEL CHUKWUDI ◽  
◽  
OJAKOROTU VICTOR ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Oil Pipelines ◽  
Nigerian Government ◽  
State Organizations ◽  
The Impact

The Amnesty policy was devised by the Nigerian government to take-off militants from attacking oil pipelines in Niger-Delta. This was with the view to promoting development in the region. While studies have examined the influence of the Amnesty policy on the empowerment of repentant militants, little is known about how governance failure in the implementation of the policy provokes the formation of anti-state organizations and its contributions to development in the region. This research addresses this gap by examining the role of the Nigerian government in the implementation of the amnesty policy, and identify, if any, failure in the implementation of the policy, provokes the resurgence of anti-state organizations in the region. The study used a qualitative research design and findings indicated that the formation of the Niger-Delta Avengers; an anti-state organisation, was due to the government's inaction to effectively implement the amnesty policy as expected. Furthermore, results showed that the Nigerian government was more interested in protecting its oil pipelines and wells than the development of the area. The paper concludes that the Amnesty policy is a conduit pipe for corruption by successive representatives of Nigerian government.

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