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- ItemOpen AccessA review of Toyin Falola "Britain and Nigeria: Exploitation or development?(BOSTON UNIVERSITY AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER, 1989) Babawale, T.Falola's book provides an incisive analysis of the exploitative impact of the British colonial enterprise in Nigeria and raises crucial theoretical questions about existing theories on development relating to Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. The opening chapter, "Colonialism and Exploitation" written by Julius Ihonvbere and Toyin Falola, discusses the various theoretical strands on the impact of colonialism. While existing mainstream studies have emphasized the beneficial impact of colonialism, exemplified in the construction of roads, hospitals, schools and other infrastructures, Ihonvbere and Falola see the basic impact of British colonialism in Nigeria as the subjugation of traditional patterns of state and class formation, the introduction of alien institutions, and the initiation of programs that facilitated the exploitation and extraction of surpluses from the colonies in order to aid the development of the cen
- ItemOpen AccessConflict between bureaucracy and innovation in Nigerian public service(1990) Maduabum, C.P.IN NIGERIA, those charged with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the country had at several times enunciated policies, programmes and projects ostensibly in reaction to environmental pressures. The latest of such policies/programmes is the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). However, the Nigerian Government, just like any other government, implements its policies and programmes through the instrumentality of the Public Service. This government's organ has variously undergone several changes, arguably, to make it more responsive to the demands of a development-oriented society. The latest of such changes is the ."Civil Service Reforms" which is legally backed by Decree 43 (on the Re-organisation of the civil service) of 1988. Our search-light is, thus, ·being beamed on the Public Service which is Federal Government's Central Bureaucracy. Positive changes within a society or elsewhere normally come in the form of innovation. The vital question of interest to us is: How responsive is the Federal Governments Central Bureaucracy-the Public Service--to innovation? To answer this question, we attempt in this study to survey the literature on innovation and bureaucracy and the relationships between them. Variables derivable from such a survey are used to analyse the Nigerian situation; where lapses are identified, possible treatments are prescribed.
- ItemOpen AccessLeadership resistance to the implementation of new ideas acquired through training in the Nigerian Civil Service(1991) Maduabum, C.Staff training and development have received such widespread attention in the Service that it can be safely said that it has become a way of life of Nigeria’s federal bureaucracy. We posit, however, that these efforts will not achieve the desired results if ample opportunities are not provided for the trained to apply skills and ideas acquired from their training. The efforts of those who are their superiors and can thus encourage the implementation of new ideas are the subjects of this study. A survey was conducted of 300 trained officers, and 60 Departmental Training Officers (DTOs) in the Nigerian Civil Service. The emerging data were computer-processed and analysed using 2-variable chi-square k’)statistics and Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r).The findings are that superior officers generally tend to resist innovative ideas emanating from their trained subordinates. However, where superior and subordinate officers are similarly exposed to a training course the tendency is for the superior officer to support the implementation of ideas acquired from the course. To improve the situation, therefore, we prescribe: (a) the expansion of training activities so that more staff can benefit; and (b) the creation of opportunities for the trained to occupy senior positions in the Service.
- ItemOpen AccessNigeria Beyond Structural Adjustment: Towards a National Popular Alternative Development Strategy(CODESRIA, 1996) Babawale, T.; Fadahunsi, A.; Momoh, A.; Olukoshi, A.For all the authoritarianism and repression that have accompanied the implementation of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP), there are very few substantive results to show. All over Africa, in the adjusting countries, the glaring evidence, even by the World Bank's (hereafter the Bank) own reckoning, is that by the end of the 1980s, that is, after over a decade of market-based reforms, a majority of the people are poorer than they were in the 1970s
- ItemOpen AccessNigeria's transition to democracy: Prospects for consolidation(African Institute of South Africa, 2001) Akinboye, S.O.Full texts attached
- ItemOpen AccessIssues and Dilemmas of Globalization in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic(2004) Odukoya, A.; BABAWALE, T.
- ItemOpen AccessTHE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THE QUEST FOR CITIZENS’ DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA(INEC, 2005) Odukoya, A.
- ItemOpen AccessContinuity and Change in Urban Politics(2005) Odukoya, A.
- ItemOpen AccessFederalism and the Management of Diversity in Nigeria(2005) Odukoya, A.
- ItemOpen AccessConceptual Issues in Civil Society in Nigeria(2005) Odukoya, A.
- ItemOpen AccessOil and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: A Case of Study the Niger Delta(KAMLA-RAJ, 2006) Odukoya, A.The centrality of oil in the Nigerian political economy is well established. The paper examines the implications of oil exploitation’ for the possibility of sustainable development in Nigeria. The paper also explicates the contradictory tendencies of wealth and poverty in Nigeria despite her massive oil resources. It further conceptualizes the class contradictions of the Nigerian state, with particular emphasis on the commonalities of interest between the domestic ruling class and foreign capital. It posits that the political economy engender by oil is such that renders the nation’s rural majority population irrelevant to the task of capitalist accumulation by the ruling class, hence their continuous neglect and suppression. The lack of concern for the development of the instruments of labour by the ruling class is equally problematized against the non-entrepreneurial basis of capital accumulation in the country. The issue of development nay its sustainability the paper argues is essentially the issue of power. Given a social relation of production at the apex of which the international imperialist capital and their local collaborators preside, the disempowerment, alienation, impoverishment of the ordinary people across spatial boundaries is an expected outcome. To this end, the paper calls for a multinational class action amongst all the oppressed people of Nigeria irrespective of ethic affinities. The paper did not have any illusion that this would be an easy task. The first assignment is to provoke the consciousness of uniform social action amongst the people of Nigeria in general and Niger Delta in particular.
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- ItemOpen AccessOil and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: A Case of the Niger Delta(2006) Odukoya, A.
- ItemOpen AccessLeadership Idiosyncrasies and Environmental Factors as Foreign Policy Variables: An Examination of Obasanjo’s Two Tenure(2006) Odukoya, A.; ODUBAJO, T.
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- ItemOpen AccessGlobalization: Its Content, Context and Contest(2006) Odukoya, A.
- ItemOpen AccessTheoretical and Empirical Issues in Privatisation: A Comparative Study of the British and Nigerian Experience(KAMLA-RAJ, 2007) Odukoya, A.The paper undertakes a comparative critique of two privatisation programmes: Britain and Nigeria. It argues that privatisation entails the appropriation and expropriation of the national surplus created by labour, and represented in the social wealth of the public enterprises being put up for sale. Consequently, central to the problematic of privatisation the paper posits are the issues of power, the authoritative allocation of resources, and the decentralization of the role of the state in development. To this end, the paper avers that privatisation goes beyond the “transfer” or “change of ownership” of SOEs, it entails the redefinition of class boundaries, sharpens class contradictions and antagonism by skewing resources and power in favour of private capitalist claimants, as well as the ascendancy of neo-liberal ideology. The paper further opines that market based corporate governance which privatisation enforce has the propensity to weaken both the trade and labour unions, as well as impoverish the citizenry. And since they constitute the leading lights of the civil society, then, the civil society in turn stands the risk of being emasculated, and democracy threatened.
- ItemOpen AccessLeadership, Governance and Corruption in Nigeria(2007) Ologbenla, D.K.Nigeria gained independence in 1960 from Britain. The political elite who inherited political power have since found that corruption, bad governance and poor leadership only result in underdevelopment and political instability. Corruption and bad governance in the era of military rule has been so bad that the civilian government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (1999 to 2007) attempts to control corruption and demonstrate good leadership has not yielded much desired results. We examine the effect of corruption on governance and leadership in nation building and the instrumentality by which the Obasanjo’s government has being trying to curb or eradicate corruption and install good governance/leadership in Nigeria since the return to civil rule
- ItemOpen AccessFiscal Arrangement and Inter-governmental Relations in Three Federations: Nigeria, Pakistan and Canada(2007) Onah, E.I.Texts attached
- ItemOpen AccessDemocracy, Elections, Election Monitoring and Peace-Building in West Africa(CODESRIA, 2007) Odukoya, A.This essay explores the linkages between elections, democracy and peace-building in West Africa. It engages in a radical critique of neo-liberal democracy and its ramifications for peace and development. This provides the context for explaining some of the limitations of multi-party democracy, elections and election monitoring in Africa. Drawing on illustrations from Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Ghana, the nature of democracy in West Africa is explored, and some suggestions are then made towards strengthening the democracy–peace linkage in the region.