Aduku A Akubo

Kogi State University · Department of Political Science

This study attempts to draw attention to the Boko Haram insurgency and its implications for national security in Nigeria. Using a historical method of research and content analysis, it adopts a descriptive and exploratory approach. It shows how the Boko Haram insurgency has resulted in a dire humanitarian situation evident from the human casualties...

This paper examines the concepts of human security, political parties and democratic sustainability in Nigeria"s fourth republic. In doing this the nexus between human security, which is a departure from the state centric notion of security (survival of the state), to human centric security (survival and welfare of the people), was interrogated. Th...

The legislature as First Estate of the realm represents citizens and sovereignty. It makes the law, serve as checks on the activities of the executive (oversight) and represent the citizens in constituencies. The responsibility of the Parliaments is to guarantee that accountability and transparency of government activities are maintained in order t...

Energy Security has returned to the top of the international agenda in ways not seen since the oil embargoes of the 1970s. Energy security has emerged as a major object of the energy policy agenda and policy makers have engaged in a wide ranging debate over how best to address future energy requirements. Industrial powers like the United States are...

A wide range of theories, approaches, paradigms, Notions and Models were developed over the years in the study of international relations and by extension Foreign Policy Analysis and devoted to the study of foreign policy. This study sought to analyze the National Role Conception Model. The methodology adopted for this work is qualitative analysis,...

This paper assesses the deliberate effort made by African Union in her quest for appropriate conflict-prevention and conflict-management mechanism. The African continent continues to experience a high incidence of violent conflict, which not only derails its development trajectory, but also hinders peace and progress, have brought about death and h...

Political parties play very critical roles in democratization of any nation. Central to the successes and failures of electoral politics is the cardinal and strategic functions of this all important and an integral organ of democratization which is core to its development. The dawn of the Nigerian fourth republic has witnessed renewed and sustained...