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    Devolution of Power and Revenue Mobilization: Imperative for Effective Public Service Delivery in Nigeria
    (2018) ABASILI, C.O.; AKINBOYE, S.O.
    The question of devolution or distribution of power and responsibilities among the tiers of government has been a heated debate for years. The debate has been able to gather more proponents than opponents. It is therefore safe to argue that devolution of power looks like the most appropriate path to be toured by our political leaders. As convincing as the arguments for it are, especially the appeal to the quick distribution of public service to the citizens, this debate has not be successfully translated into reality such that the citizens can effectively claim to have been beneficiaries of effective public service delivery in Nigeria. This paper therefore, without reawakening the whole debate (because the discourse is still ongoing in the literature), addresses the paradigmatic effects of devolution of power and revenue mobilization in effectively alleviating the socio-economic pains of the Nigerian people. Thus, this paper relies on existing literature (mainly secondary sources of data) in order to successfully drive out its points.
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    Role of ICT in Election Coverage by the Nigerian Print Media: A Study of the 2007 General Elections
    (University Press of America, 2010) AKINBOYE, S.O.; POPOOLA, I.S.
    Information Communication Technology (ICT) has emerged as the greatest human inventory of our time, exerting tremendous impact on news production and dissemination across the world. In Nigeria of yesteryear, messages were transmitted across the length and breadth of the community through interpersonal channels, such as the gong, folktales, festivals, mirrors, gunshots, town criers, wooden flutes, horns, drums etc. These early communication technologies were deficient in a number of areas. According to Schramm (1972:28) "Some factual news might be spread very rapidly while more complete information might be disseminated at a much slower pace and with great variety in repetition". This paper therefore takes a look at the impact of ICT in election coverage in Nigeria with specific reference to the 2007 general elections The paper used the survey method in gathering information from senior journalists in the Nigerian print media. It arrives at the conclusion that ICT has assisted the Nigerian print media in reporting timely information to their audience.
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    Students Union, University Administration and Political Development of Nations
    (2015) AKINBOYE, S.O.; EESUOLA, O.S.
    Many countries have not appropriately interpreted the role of students union in effective administration of their universities and the development of their polities in general. Nigeria, particularly, has some universities that still, in this century, regard students union as an impediment to peaceful administration; with old ones proscribing and new ones avoiding it; while the government does nothing to check the situation. After a content analysis of literature on global reasons for establishing universities, the peculiarity of university students as elites in training, as well as a trajectory of students’ union activities in university administration and political development around the world, this paper asserts, resting on the reciprocal determinism of the social learning theory, that students union makes university administration smooth. It also strategically assists university students to acquire the skills they need for developing the politics of their countries. The paper recommends, among other things, that universities all over the world, whether owned by governments, individuals, trusts or even religious bodies, should be mandated to have students union for effective administration of their institutions and continuity of their countries’ political development.
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    Two Track diplomacy and early warning: an overview of Governance styles in West Africa
    (2014) AKINBOYE, S.O.; SALAWU, M.L.
    The recognition accorded Track Two diplomacy, otherwise known as Non-governmental Organizations, is due to the waning impact of Track One diplomacy in satisfying the inevitable needs of salient diplomatic interaction. The resultant weakness of Track One diplomacy, which is restricted to the interaction between governments and predicated on rigid foreign policies of each nation-state, has created major problems concerning issuance of Early Warning to prevent conflict emergence. This is in spite of an avalanche of privileged information channels available to any government, such as the state or military intelligence services, diplomatic missions, the mass media and many others. This is a far-cry from the operations of Track Two, which are non-partisan and apolitical, an attribute that encourages freedom and non-adversarial interaction between feuding nations and communities. Besides, NGOs are a reservoir of privileged information concerning issues that often serve as catalyst to violence. The endemic catastrophe in the West Africa sub-region generally is due to the disdain and to ambivalence in decision taking which point to the need for embracing early warning signals by various non-governmental organizations in order to reduce the overall costs of intra-state conflicts. As it is cheaper and cost-effective to tackle any conflict before graduating into an armed conflict which is lacking in West Africa, this paper will examine the governance styles of some conflict prone West African States, taking into account the role of non-governmental organizations in areas of early warnings, with a view to recommending strategies for sustainable peace-building in West Africa.