Abubakar Jibril

• B.Sc. M.Sc. Sociology
• Lecturer at Usmanu Danfodiyo University

Social policy entails the provision of social welfare services by the government to the people. Laissez-faire and Fabianism are models of social policy which seek to explain how a policy of a state on the provision of social needs of the population should be. The Laissez-faire model advocates that social policy should exclude government interventio...

The phenomenon of sex preference has become a permanent feature of most societies, including Nigeria. The existence of sex preference among parents, is linked largely to the benefits expected to be derived from child of a particular sex. Due to the patriarchal of many societies, which, in most cases, favour sons and place them above daughters, sex...

Observational research is a qualitative research technique used for over a century in variety of disciplines in the Social Sciences, particularly in anthropological (ethnographic) studies. The technique involves systematic observation and recording of the behavior of individuals for the purpose of describing such behavior. Thus, observational resea...

This paper attempts to analyse the gender imbalance existing in the Nigeria's democratizing process. Gender imbalance has been a permanent feature in the democratic politics of most countries of the world, including Nigeria, with women being relegated to the background. Thus women remain the marginalised gender. This marginalisation, the paper argu...

Societies have historically pursued efforts aimed at attaining and maintaining social order which by extension engenders development. According to Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), one of the fundamental attempts made by societies in order to realize an orderly living is by ensuring political rule. In today's world, democracy has been conceived to be the...

The social attribute accorded to humans is derived from their ability to work as a team in order to ensure their biological and social existence. Even in the early civilizations of hunters and gatherers, humans learned to conduct their activities as a team and since then, they have always formed teams in the furtherance of their goals and aspiratio...

The paper is on Nigeria police leadership and insecurity implications for national development. Despite police are established to protect lives and properties of all citizens, ensure law and order, our society today is witnessing higher rate of insecurity beyond control of Nigeria Police Force. It was argued that, if police did not killed Muhadmmed...

Many scholars and international observers were of the opinion that Boko Haram insurgency is the major threat to the socioeconomic and political development of northern Nigeria. The paper traced the origin of insurgency to Muhammad Yusuf whose Islamic ideology and extremism sees many aspects of Western education as going contrary to Islamic teaching...

Nigeria is the most populous black nation on earth and since the country’s independence, its leaders have tried several times to make the life of its citizen better and by extension, be among the developed countries of the world. However, achieving these goals require consciously and carefully formulated development plan. Conscious of this, therefo...

This study attempts to explore some of the factors motivating the job performance amongst academic and non-academic staff of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. The objectives of the study include to examine the contributions of the motivational factors in enhancing job performance amongst academic and non-academic staff of Usmanu Danfodiyo Univer...

Development plan is critical and essential to the sustenance and growth of any nation. However, for such development to be sustainable and of greatest benefit to the people, it has to be adequately planned, hence the need for a development plan. Nigeria was not left behind in formulating plans toward the course of its development, because since the...

Violence is not a recent phenomenon in human history. It is therefore an old accomplishment of mankind. The violence, in their rudimentary forms, might have started as disputes between families and transcend to disputes between clans, communities, villages, states, nations, races, etc and have become seemingly persistent in human societies with man...

Sustainable development (SD) is one of the leading issues in the contemporary development discourse. It is an approach to development that takes the environmental dimension and which owes its origin to various debates and environmental movements in 1970s and 1980s regarding the connection between environment and economic development. The approach s...