Good Governance as Panacea to the Socio-Economic Crises in Nigeria

Abdullahi, Danjuma

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“…Furthermore, the insecurity situation painted a bad picture to foreign investors resulting in many of them leaving the shores of Nigeria to other safer countries. Exchange rates were up, inflation rates increased and so did unemployment and poverty (Abdullahi, 2012).…”

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Educational and political leadership challenges: Exploring implications on security in Nigeria

Nnaji

Igbokwe-Ibeto

Ukeje³

et al. 2022

WAJESP

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Fraught with insecurity in recent years, lack of political and educational leaders’ adoption of sound approach to governance in the state is revealed. This manifest in serious humanitarian crises: a threat to national security and the corporate existence of the country. It is against this background that the paper within the framework of systems theory examined the relationship between leadership and security challenges in Nigeria and how it has turned Nigeria into a fragile system. The universal content analysis and qualitative research design were adopted for the study, and secondary sources of data explored to collect facts. The study unveils and traces insecurity in Nigeria to bad political and educational leadership. There is no sound execution of mutual roles by the executive, legislative and judicial arms of the government. Checks and balances as well oversight functions, including rule of law are flouted. The universities have not achieved their goal of moral and mental transformation of the graduates to desist from assisting bad political leaders as thugs. Incessant Academic Staff Union of Universities' strike action caused by bad leadership also undermines sound education. The populace and leaders alike lack knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 target 4.7 on promotion of non-violence and peace, world citizenship, and cultural differences acceptance, which explains sound governance approach. Based on this, the study recommended among others, revitalisation of roles of the three arms of government, reformation of educational governance, and reorientation of both leaders and the led on sound governance and SDGs prescriptions.

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Educational and political leadership challenges: Exploring implications on security in Nigeria

Nnaji

Igbokwe-Ibeto

Ukeje³

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“…Consequently upon this finding, it can be factually drawn that there is direct relationship between insecurity and indicators of governance in Nigeria. Also, study by Abdullahi (2012) on -good governance as panacea to socio-economic crises in Nigeria‖. The study used descriptive statistics on the secondary data obtained from various documented sources.…”

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An Empirical Investigation of the Indicators of Governance and Insecurity in Nigeria: 1984-2018

Aminu¹,

Aminu²

2015

IJAAR

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Governance particularly poor governance is a syndrome that is incentivizing security crime in Nigeria and that has constituted impediments to the Nigerian development process. In this regard, this study decentralises governance to its six indicators namely: government accountability; government stability and absence of internal conflicts; control of corruption; bureaucratic quality and rule of law and therefore investigating the impact of each of the six indicators on insecurity in Nigeria. The study utilized Johansen Cointegration and FMOLS to essentially reveal that, poor nature of all of the six indicators of governance except absence of internal conflicts impacts positively on insecurity in Nigeria. Also, among all the poor five indicators that impact positively on insecurity, corruption, government accountability and rule of law are of significant positive impact on insecurity in Nigeria. The study therefore concluded that the bad shape of the indicators of governance contribute to the weak governance system that consequently exacerbate insecurity situation in Nigeria. The study then recommends among others, strengthening and advancing the Nigerian anti-corruption war to match the changing ways of perpetrating corruptions by public office holders particularly officers of the Nigerian security departments should be strictly enforced so as to abate the upsurge of corruption among public office holders thereby suppressing the hiking level of insecurity in the country due to corruption; ensuring full application of law on the insecurity culprits irrespective of the social status and connections so as to serve as deterrent to other defiant in the mix of conformists in the society.

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“…Unfortunately, the youths have shifted their achievements, skills, attention and techniques to criminal activities including crimes in technology commonly called cybercrimes. This is the wrong use of technological innovation, invention and creativity which ordinarily should have been channeled towards technological advancement as witnessed in developed countries that are the largest world producer and economic power (Danjuma, (2012).…”

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Causes and Effects of Youth Idling on Urban Streets in Kenya

BALONGO,

OKUTO (Ph.D),

WACHIRA (Ph.D)

2019

strategicjournals.com

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The purpose of this study was to look into the causes and effects of massive youth idleness in Kenyan urban streets. The rate at which idle graduates roamed the streets after higher education or so constituted social malice to the whole country. This paper relied basically on secondary data sources and adopted descriptive approach and analysis of researches of other scholars in empirical data gathering. From the findings it was revealed that idleness among youths in Kenya was caused by five major challenges and five major effects created tension and hatred between the haves and have not in society, thus leading to communal clashes and the rise of communal associated gang groups such as mungiki, chinkororo, bagidad boys, musumbiji and Al shaabab. More so these militant groups were characterized by; armed robbery, public mugging, extortion, prostitution and child trafficking. All these constituted hiccups to security of lives and properties. Furthermore, the findings revealed that idleness among Kenyan youth increased from 17.1% in 2015 to 20.1% in 2017 with youth unemployment rates at over 55% a group that constitutes 67% of the population. More significantly, this study tried to urge the government through its recommendation to create labour market that would work better for the youths absorption hence reducing idleness. There was need for heavy investment in education that catered for modern issues to enable the youth becomes self-reliance instead of job seekers through skills development and training.

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Good Governance as Panacea to the Socio-Economic Crises in Nigeria

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Educational and political leadership challenges: Exploring implications on security in Nigeria

Educational and political leadership challenges: Exploring implications on security in Nigeria

An Empirical Investigation of the Indicators of Governance and Insecurity in Nigeria: 1984-2018

Causes and Effects of Youth Idling on Urban Streets in Kenya

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