Paul Omoyefa

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University of Regina

South Africa emerged from the apartheid system in 1994 with great hopes for the transformation of the country from a crisis-ridden one to a more united and truly ‘rainbow’ country that would cater for the interests of the different races and groups that make up the nation. Shortly after independence, the country developed various programmes to tran...

Public sector reform (PSR) has been quite popular in African. However, the inadequate understanding of the philosophical basis of the reforms has led to many African countries to equating PSR with privatization and commercialization of public enterprises, downsizing of the public service workforce and the war on corruption. While many African count...

This paper is about doctors reneging on the oath of their profession to save lives because of other secondary reasons that are antithetical to the ethics of their profession. In this paper, I intend to bring up some ethical issues arising from common occurrence in some developing countries especially in Nigeria where the sanctity of life is sacrifi...

The Niger Delta conflict started less than a decade after Nigeria began producing and exporting oil in commercial quantities. The conflict began with non-confrontational and nonviolent agitation by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) against the degradation of the Niger Delta area. Later the conflict developed into a conflagra...

The clamour for democracy worldwide is premised on the fact that it allows citizens’ active involvementin the way they are being governed. Being a representative system of government, democracy is expected to makepolitical leadership responsive and responsible to the entire citizenries of the state. However, experiences in theSouthern African regio...