Category: AJPAS Vol 4(1)

JOSEPH, C. EBEGBULEM Department of Political Science University of Calabar, Calabar ABSTRACT Throughout history, individuals, groups and nation-states have appealed to the national interest of their states to justify the policies that they preferred. In their bid to defend the national interests, nations have taken various actions towards one another in the international system. All…

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BARR. ODIKE E. A. Faculty Of Law, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki In the enriching words of an Irish-American writer Oscar Wilde, a map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at, for it leaves out      the one country at which humanity is always landing. And when humanity lands there,…

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UDEUHELE GODWIN IKECHUKWU Department of Political Science Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki ABSTRACT Electoral process and democracy in Nigeria; a behavioral perspective is important, because the Nigeria political pedigree shows that we are still in a learning process, and that, this may have accounted for the numerous electoral oral problems   that made   some   scholars   to call …

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FRANK, E. O. Department of Political Science/ Public Administration Benson Idahosa University Benin- City Abstract The paper described poverty as the plague of our time and conceptualized it as a state of lack of command over existential issues. It then requests a paradigm shift in the identification of poverty from the Wo rid Bank standard…

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JOSEPH OBOH1  Department of Public Administration Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma Edo State,Nigeria. RUFUS AISEDION2 Centre for Strategic and Development Studies Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria. ABSTRACT The International world has been described as a failure. This is because the world has been experiencing unprecedented levels of crises arising from bad governance. The implication…

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EGWU IBIAM .O. Department of Political Science Faculty of Social Sciences Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. ABSTRACT This seminar paper on “Elements of sustainability in Igbo Communal Socio Economic life: A Political economy perspective”, “is an exposition of the communal mode of socio-economic production system of the Igbos of Pre-industrial Africa. It is a retrospective journey…

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Chinwe, Nwogo Ezeani Ph. D Principal Librarian NnamdiAzikiwe library 234703856098 chinweezeani@yahoo.com Abstract organization operates in a constantly changing environment. The success or failure of an organization therefore depends on its ability to recognize and adapt to internal and external changes. This article, therefore,takes a look at the management of change at the University of Nigeria, …

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DR, S.C UGWU1 Enugu State University Of Science And Technology (ESUT) Eme Okcchukwu2& Okeke Martin Ifeanyi3 Department of Public Administration & Local Government Studies University of Nigeria, Nsukka E-mail: okechukwunnent@yahoo.com E-mail: martinokekeifeanyi@yahoo.com INTRODUCTION It is axiomatic to posit that the severity of Nigeria’s socio-economic and political crisis dictates that all available human and material resources…

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Dr Felix, Asogwa Department of Political Science Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki Abstract The Fifth African Development Forum (ADF-V) held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in November 2006 on “Youth and Leadership in the 2T’ Century” depicted Africa as a continent of the young, with more than 60% of the total population below the age of 35….

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Chinwe, Nwogo Ezeani Ph. D Principal Librarian NnamdiAzikiwe library 234703856098 chinweezeani@yahoo.com Abstract organization operates in a constantly changing environment. The success or failure of an organization therefore depends on its ability to recognize and adapt to internal and external changes. This article, therefore,takes a look at the management of change at the University of Nigeria, …

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