Timothy Onimisi

Federal University Lokoja · Department of Political Science

Electoral integrity is indispensable for democratic survival. It deepens the acceptability of the outcomes of elections and improves the people's acceptability of electoral outcomes. However, the primitive accumulations of votes that have voters available in the market space to be sold and bought tend to invalidate the clamour for electoral credibi...

The local government administration is no doubt central to the democratic process in Nigeria. It provides the training grounds for grassroots mobilization, socioeconomic development, and the cardinal philosophy of representation and political participation in the overall political system of the country. A periodic election, which is the core featur...

Poverty in Nigeria is chronic and on a continuous rise. The total population of the country's citizens living below the $1 a day threshold is on the increase despite the growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in recent years. The ineffective implementation of the various poverty alleviation policies has hindered the investment opportunities in educ...

This study investigated factors affecting effective policy implementation in Nigeria with a focus on the Federal Character Principle. The Federal Character Principle was enacted and captured in Section 14 (3) and (4) to ensure equitable employment distribution in the Nigerian civil service; however, it appears that the implementation of the policy...

Poverty in communities in most developing countries is alarming and still exists. The rise in poverty affects economic growth. The government brings significant efforts to ease poverty but the incidence of poverty still high. The need to historically and review the past policies on poverty alleviation in these developing nations prompted this paper...

The paper examines the challenges of community development in Nigeria. The lofty goals embedded in community development is being hindered by ravaging poverty and illiteracy, lack of information, economic challenges, social inclusion as well as some cultural factors in the country. Relying on qualitative methods of analysis and second sources of da...

Effective implementation of the Federal Character Principle in the Nigerian civil service is faced with several obstacles. This paper investigates the obstacles affecting the effe11ctiveness of the Federal Character Principle in the employment distribution in the Nigerian civil service. The principles were meant to promote national integration and...

This paper presents the experiences of the researcher during the cause of these studies. The researcher used a qualitative methodology approach in investigating the causes of ineffective implementation of Federal Character Policy in Nigeria. This paper provides the procedures through which the researcher goes about this study by describing and prov...

The quest to have an all-inclusive government devoid of marginalization, sentiment, ethnic bigotry, and to promote unity among the citizens led the enactment of Federal Character Policy as a National integrative mechanism as well as State Creation, and National Youth Service Corp in a bit to achieve this target. The paper endeavors to evaluation th...

______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The article focuses on incidents and causes of post-electoral violence in the 2019 general election in Nigeria. The post-electoral violence recorded during the general election is one of the most violent in the history of democratic dispersion in...

One of the major problems confronting Nigeria as a country is the high level of inequality and marginalization across Nigeria. Therefore, the Federal government of Nigeria established the Federal Character Principle as a policy measure to check the problem of inequality and marginalization that has led to the lopsidedness in the country. The object...

This paper seeks to demonstrate the trend in human rights abuse in Nigerian from the 1996 to 2013. The continuous and increasing cases of human right abuse all over the world and in Nigeria particular prompted the enactment of the Human Right Commission of Nigeria. The purposes of this paper therefore the access the complaints of human right abuse...

The role of civil society in the application of the federal character policy in Nigeria is the focus of this study, with emphasis on the opportunities and constraints that civil societies face in promoting and ensuring the adherence of the policy in the country. Considering the fact that task of policy application would become a mirage if the gover...

The Federal government of Nigeria established the Federal character policy as a measure to check the problem of employment distribution, inequality and marginalization as perceived in the civil service of the country. It is against this backdrop that the paper sought to conceptualize the relationship between the Federal character policy of employme...

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has been in existence for thirty one years as Nigeria's major employment agency, having been established in 1986 with the objective of designing and implementing programmes to combat unemployment in Nigeria. Hence, the study aimed at assessing the distribution of the small scale entrepreneurial program o...

Elections is undisputable an essential element of democracy. Election through the ballot is strongly recognized as the only credible barometer to determine power sharing and one of the most important features of democratic transition in free and fair election. However the Nigeria electoral process over the years is characterized by thuggery, intimi...

Globalization is a phenomenon that is fast sweeping through the world and of which Africa is not immune to, and it is very instrumental in molding the world from politics to economy, from religion to culture. In understanding the relationship that existing between the African economy and the wider world some economic indicators will be a useful too...

The rising profile of poverty in Nigeria has been a source of concern to successive government. To this end, various policies and programmes have been formulated to no avail. Today Nigeria ranked among poorest nations in the world. This is embarrassing considering the enormous wealth of the nation both in human and natural resources. This paper ass...

The politics of state creation in Nigeria has assumed a worrisome dimension. The demand for creation of new states is growing in an unfortunate manner, political and ethnic associations are at their best to undo one another a head of the 2014 National Conference. The attention of scholars has being drawn to the continuous demand of some leaders agi...

This paper examines the Nigerian National Security issues and the unethical blood shed caused by the terrorist organization called Boko Haram in the Northeastern Nigeria and the entire country in the era of globalization. This has become imperative in view of the unabated bloodletting done to innocent citizens, especially recent bomb blast at the N...