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- ItemAssessment of Academic Staffs’ Political Participation using the Social Media during the 2015 Nigeria General Elections(Being a paper presented at the 1st International Conference and Doctoral Colloquium Organised by the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, Bayero University, Kano from 16th November, 2015 to 19th November, 2015. Published in Taguwa Multi- Disciplinary Journal, Faculty of Humanities, Umaru Musa Yar‘adua University, Katsina., 2015-11)The rapidly expanding accesses to the internet have redefined methods of mobilising citizens and candidates towards active participation in the political process. Though, it has also ignited Social media war‘ on the various social media platforms. This paper investigates whether the Social Media contributes greatly to political participation during the 2015 general elections among academic staff of Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. The study is anchored on the Uses and Gratifications Theory while the survey research method was used. The sample of the study was the academic staff and the data collected was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings show that the Social media have positive influence on the academic staff thereby affecting their political participation. The study recommends urgent review of the various media laws to address the peculiar technicalities involved in monitoring and moderating the use of the social media, which would enhance political participation and widen the political space
- ItemASSESSING YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CHIKAJI COMMUNITY, SABON GARI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA(A Paper presented at the Meeting/Workshop/conference of the International Association For Community Development (IACD) held at Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, 2018-09)The trend and rise of a robust national economy especially the Asian give weight to the notion that the capacity to solve the problems of low income areas lie within the communities. This implies the use by the community of its current human, socio-economic, institutional, allocated and physical resources to build a self-sustaining economic system at the local level. This study is to establish whether or not the activities of the youth have any effect on the community economic development of Chikaji Community, Sabon Gari, Kaduna State. The issue is to what extent do the youth community development associations in Chikaji understand the felt-needs of the community that have bearing on local community economic development? The study is anchored on the participatory development theory and Frischman‟s economic theory of infrastructure and commons management. The study employed both primary and secondary data. The data was analyzed using the highest mean score, Chi-Square and a decision ruled was used to test the hypothesis. The findings indicated that the youth community development associations have contributed to the development infrastructures that have impact local community economic development in spite of lack of counterpart funding. The study, recommends that the youth community development association have to embark on serious mobilization of the community members including those staying outside the community, towards the realization of the essence and relevance of developing infrastructures. The state and local government should be more proactive on the issue of counterpart funding towards infrastructural development in the Chikaji community development
- ItemRe-examining Local Government fertilizer distribution in Kaduna and Katsina States Nigeria.(2019)Nigeria is an agricultural state with more than seventy percent of its population depends on agriculture as a means of subsistence and contribute to forty two percent to the country’s economy, yet majority of farmers have no access to fertilizer despite series of efforts to make it available to local farmers. The work is set to examine how LGs in Kaduna state deliver fertilizer to farmers and the challenges associated with the distribution. The results indicated that in adequate fertilizer at the local level is largely due to the politicization of the distribution and suggested adequate support of local fertilizer companies in the country, prudent fertilizer distribution and the need for government at all level to increase their support on fertilizer supply.
- ItemOIL, SECURITY IN THE NIGER DELTA AND NIGERIAN ECONOMIC DEVLOPMENT(BEING A PAPER PRESENTED AT THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND NIGERIA ’S DEVELOPMENT, 2009-12)The issue of oil and insecurity in the Niger Delta are among the critical issues that have continued to threaten our corporate existence as one, our socio-economic development as well as our nascent democracy. The problem has it origin since colonial period; several efforts by successive governments were made to curtail the menace. However the problem continued to reincarnate in regime after regime. The paper attempted to find out silent issues that bedevilled security in the Niger Delta, and its impact to our socio-economic development. Secondary data was used for our investigation. Our study revealed that, there is mismanagement of resources meant for the development of Niger Delta by the federal, states of the region and their local governments. It is recommended that, proper and efficient management of resources by all governments concern
- ItemLOCAL GOVERNMENT, DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA(2nd International Conference and Doctoral Colloquium on Development in Africa: Perspectives, Issues and Trends. Organized by the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, Bayero University Kano, 2022-02)Among the motives for creating Local Governments is to promote democracy and bring government closer to the grassroots communities. Several efforts have been made to improve grassroots development, however studies shows the contrary, grassroots people in Nigeria are the most downtrodden citizens and with difficult access to infrastructural facilities. While there are several studies on Local Government and Development, we know little about how Democracy in Nigeria improves grassroots development. The study utilizes secondary source of data. Findings of the study indicate that though democracy has been entrenched in Nigeria, but the perceived benefits of democracy are yet to be seen at the grassroots level due to mismanagement, corruption and inadequate autonomy. The study recommended the need to enhance LG autonomy, transparency and accountability in the management of public funds.