Lhebade Agwadu

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer I at Federal University Wukari

Since 2017, conflicts between crop farmers and animal herders have resurged in Benue state.

In recent years, hundreds of thousands of Nigerians have fallen prey to various, devious antics of money-doubling platforms known as Ponzi schemes, resulting in the tragic loss of their hard-earned money and other valuable resources in the process. The proliferation and prevalence of these schemes in Nigeria have taken a worrisome dimension, as the...

Since the rise of the modern industrial economy, the middle-class has been an essential driver of economic activities. It supports consumption, revenue generation, and innovations that expand the economy or start new industries. In Nigeria, the middle-class has been shrinking over time. The shrink worsened since the beginning of the fourth republic...

Governance is a series of public activities that entail making choices in the public interest for the well-being of a nation. Corrupt practices have polluted these activities. Corruption in Nigeria is not just widespread but also systemic and responsible largely for the country's underdevelopment. The main objective is to probe the implications of...

Since the rise of the modern industrial economy, the middle-class has been an essential driver of economic activities. It supports consumption, revenue generation, and innovations that expand the economy or start new industries. In Nigeria, the middle-class has been shrinking over time. The shrink worsened since the beginning of the fourth republic...

Social media has connected people and issues across the globe and its increasing access to Nigerian youths for political discourse has a bearing in shaping voting behaviour during elections. The study examined the impact of social media on youth voting behaviour in Nigeria. It is anchored on Marshal McLuhan's Technological Determinism Theory. Using...

Since Nigeria's return to democracy in 1999, identity-based politics has been on the rise. Contestations have shifted away from an ideological to a regional basis. This study attempts an analysis of the shift in Nigeria's politics from ideological to regional considerations in the Fourth Republic. It adopted a qualitative research method with relie...

This paper examines the nexus between education and class stratification in Nigeria through the Marxian theoretical lenses. The paper argues that education is a critical component of human progress; regrettably, colonialism codified and perpetuated class divides in Nigeria in manners that underlying structures and patterns of material production an...

Ideologies are embodiments of different pictures of the ideals of society. Different ideologies represent different, mentally created pictures of good societies and how to arrive at them. Different ideologies serve as options for choosing paths towards building the good society. This is particularly important in politics, especially democratic poli...

In recent years in Nigeria, civil society of different ideological orientation have become integral purveyors in specific development issues in the country. Their activities cover various areas of human endeavours that the government and institutions see them as partners in progress. With international linkages that offer both financial and moral l...