Nseabasi S. Akpan’s research while affiliated with University of Uyo and other places

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Publications (14)


Decentralizing Rural Development Practice in Nigeria: The Challenges and Opportunities
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September 2015

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Humanities and Social Sciences

Nseabasi S. Akpan
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Women and Rural Development in Nigeria: Some Critical Issues for Policy Consideration

September 2015

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16 Citations

Social Sciences

This paper examines the broad idea of gender and development with specific focus on some critical issues and challenges confronting the involvement of rural women in development activities in Nigeria. The paper addresses this issue through some theoretical and empirical review of literatures. Major impacts of women in rural development in Nigeria have been discussed and situated at historical perspectives through analysis of policies and programmes of government. Although women have served as critical agents of rural economic transformation, such role has been limited in scope, mostly shaped by the dictates of local patriarchy and religious beliefs. Their impacts have been felt indirectly in subsistent agriculture, and directly at the domestic domain. A number of challenges affecting their active involvement in rural development have been discussed to include the prevalence of cultural and institutional barriers as well as limited access to critical infrastructures in the rural areas. Policy recommendations focus on practical, legislative, legal and administrative actions that are particularly targeted at addressing those barriers.


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Figure 2. Relationship between incubator resources and incubator objectives
Figure 3. Nigeria's Vision 20:2020 & Macro-economic Framework
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Humanomics Harnessing the potentials of technology incubation centres (TICs) as tools for fast- tracking entrepreneurship development and actualisation of the Vision 20:2020 in Nigeria

November 2014

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Humanomics

Lukman Akhuemonkhan

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Ashok M Raimi

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Purpose – Entrepreneurship development in Nigeria requires the adoption and assimilation of enterprise development models from nations with replicable success stories. Technology incubation centre (TIC) is one of the potent mechanisms that launched the “BRIC nations” – Brazil, Russia, India and China – to global prominence as the five biggest emerging economies. This paper attempts to unveil the potentials of TICs as novel tools for entrepreneurship development and actualisation of the Vision 20:2020 in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – The authors adopt analytical and discursive approaches using qualitative and quantitative data sourced from Industrial policy documents, Goldman Sachs report, online databases of government agencies, Vision 20:2020 policy document and published articles on the subject matter. The generated data were subjected to content and thematic analyses, on the basis of which relevant conclusions were drawn. Findings – The findings from the research indicate that there are 37 TICs in Nigeria with very weak socio-economic impact on job creation, wealth creation and industrial development in Nigeria. However, for the BRIC nations, adopted as comparative models, TICs have impacted positively on job creation, wealth creation and economic development of the five nations.



Rural Development in Nigeria: A Review of Pre- and Post-independence Practice

August 2012

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28 Citations

Journal of Sociological Research

Rural development practice in Nigeria has spanned over 10 decades from pre-independence to the current decade. This paper attempts a time-series review on rural development practice in Nigeria to see what has changed over a fairly long period of time. Various development plan periods have been examined in relation to rural development practice. The review shows that the greater part of public efforts on rural development was subsumed under agricultural development which was more exploitative to the rural resources and residents than improve their quality of life. Although relatively improved understanding of rural development manifested among policy makers beginning in the late 1980s, the paper argues that such understanding surprisingly did not translate into corresponding improvement in rural development practice because of several factors including weak institutional arrangements, corruption and absence of coordinated practice among competing agencies. A number of recommendations have been highlighted. Keywords: Rural Development practice, pre- and post-independence, Nigeria


From Agriculture to Petroleum Oil Production: What Has Changed about Nigeria's Rural Development?

January 2012

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Rural development in Nigeria has been at the core of public policies over the past ten decades beginning from the colonial up to the post-independence arrangements. The main objective of the study was to make a comparative assessment of the practical impact of long years of policy practice produced on Nigeria's rural areas within the context of two distinguishing economic periods characterized by agricultural production and petroleum oil exploration. The study used a range of secondary materials including the review of relevant literature, analysis of development policy documents, national development plans, local publications and discussions with relevant experts and academics as a way of gaining ideas and opinion to support discussions. The results showed that rural development in Nigeria has not been successful whether viewed from the perspectives of agricultural development or oil resource exploration. While a number of factors such as political instability, corruption and long years of colonial exploitation have been discussed as important factors that work against rural transformation, the paper argues that rural development in Nigeria over the years has not been a conscious policy practice; but largely subsumed under various sectorial and infrastructural policies. The implication of these findings is that the challenge of developing Nigeria's rural areas does not lie on the various agricultural development policies discussed neither does it depend on the exploration of oil resources. The challenge of leadership, absence of institutional capacity and political commitments are the main factors working against the development of rural areas.


The Menace of Child Abuse in Nigeria: A Case Study of Street Hawking in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State

September 2010

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Journal of Social Sciences

In Nigeria, children face the menace of abuse ranging from physical injuries, abandonment, sexual abuse to child labour. In fact, child abuse is becoming alarming in the country. Government’s efforts to combat the problem have yielded little or no result. This study therefore, examines street hawking (a form of child labour) and its consequences on children in Uyo, a city in Nigeria. It also appraises recent intervention to the problem. The result showed that unemployment and poverty are the major causes of child hawking in the area. It recommended that punitive measures should be taken against children who engage in hawking as well as their parents.


Kidnapping in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: An Exploratory Study

July 2010

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Journal of Social Sciences

Nigeria’s Niger Delta region has attracted global attention over the years both in the positive and negative dimension. On the positive side, the region harbours one of the largest world’s oil reserves. It constitutes the engine room of Nigeria’s economy through foreign exchange earnings and revenue generation to the government. On the negative side, the region has witnessed various forms of militancy, violence and crime, including kidnapping. This study explores the crime of kidnapping in the region. The study uses available news reports as well as personal and neighbourhood witnesses, in addition to the review of literature. In the result, various forms of kidnappings were identified in relation to economic and political motivations as well as kidnapping as instrument of liberation fight. The study gave an overview of developmental implications of kidnapping on the state economy. In the recommendation, the study emphasized on the need for inclusive governance whereby all layers of stakeholders have the benefit of empowerment and capacity building as opposed to the current practice of elitist governance.


Oil and conflicts in the Niger Delta region, Nigeria: Facing the facts

May 2010

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Journal of Social Development in Africa

THE NIGER DELTA Region of Nigeria is the storehouse of Nigeria’s crude oil, which accounts for approximately 90% of the country’s revenue, providing more than 90% of total exports. Despite this, the people remain poor, marginalized and restive. Resort to conflicts has been taken as the only way of expressing grievances in oil-rich communities in the region. The conflict situation has been cause for alarm since 1999 with kidnapping of oil company workers, bombing of oil facilities and confrontation with state law enforcement agents, being common occurrences. These happenings have had serious implications for the economy. The paper reports on the results of a study employed interviews, stakeholder meetings and consulted news reports to assess issues central to the persistent conflicts in the region. The results indicated that both the government of Nigeria and the oil multinationals have failed to recognize communities in the Niger Delta as the third stakeholder in the oil industry The relationship has been characterized by unfavorable state policies, politicking’ and lack of standard practices. The study thus noted that the government of Nigeria has not approached the question of the Niger Delta in an open manner, and hence it recommends that stakeholder participation/partnership predicated on transparency is a key to the solution of the Niger Delta problem.KEYWORDS: Oil exploitation. stakeholder relationship. conflicts. Niger Delta. Nigeria, multinationals


Governance and communal conflicts in a post-democratic Nigeria: A case of the oil-producing Niger Delta Region

May 2010

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The Niger Delta Region of Nigeria is the store of Nigeria's crude oil, which accounts for a substantial part of Nigeria's revenue and exports. Despite this, the people remain poor, marginalized and restive. Resort to conflicts is the only way of expressing grievances in oil-rich communities in the Region. The conflict situation has been alarming since the present democratic dispensation in 1999. Most studies on conflicts in the region have not actually addressed the issue of inter and intra-communal clashes in relation to oil resources and Governance. The study sets out to address this through stakeholder meetings. In the result, various forms of communal conflicts were identified as inter or intra community conflicts or community against Governments and oil multinationals. The sources of these conflicts were mostly linked to struggles for sharing oil benefit, absence of standard practice among oil multinationals, Governments and competition for power. Implications of these were discussed with useful recommendations.


Citations (13)


... This is because of variations in a nation's jurisprudence and moral viewpoints as well as the availability of other variances such as hostage-taking and hijacking. Akpan (2010)attempted to differentiate between hostage-taking, hijacking and kidnapping. Practically, kidnapping involves abduction. ...

Reference:

Psychology of Kidnapping.
Kidnapping in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: An Exploratory Study
  • Citing Article
  • July 2010

Journal of Social Sciences

... Children bear a significant burden of inadequate social services, exemplified by the rising number of out-of-school children in the state, estimated at 581,800 (Federal Ministry of Education, 2017). Some out-of-school children are engaged in economic activities (e.g., street hawking) to supplement household incomes (Akpan and Oluwabamide, 2010). A growing number of children live on the streets due to poverty, accusations of witchcraft and parental abuse and neglect (Ekpenyong and Udisi, 2016). ...

The Menace of Child Abuse in Nigeria: A Case Study of Street Hawking in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
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  • September 2010

Journal of Social Sciences

... Administrative decentralization has emerged as a critical topic in third-world development legislation over the last three to four decades. This was due to discontent with centralized fiscal management, which led management advocates of change to see administrative decentralization as an alternative means to mitigate centralized power in authority and encourage larger engagement with democratic processes for advancement (Akpan, 2015;Ogunnubi, 2022;Basiru, 2019). In the 1980s and 1990s, there was an overwhelming unity on power decentralization as one of the criteria for reforming governance for development (Adegbami & Kugbayi, 2019). ...

Decentralizing Rural Development Practice in Nigeria: The Challenges and Opportunities

Humanities and Social Sciences

... Rural development practices encompass various activities that attempt to enhance the standard of living and stimulate socio-economic progress in rural regions [1]- [3]. This involves implementing diverse strategies and policies to address the unique challenges faced by rural communities. ...

Rural Development in Nigeria: A Review of Pre- and Post-independence Practice

Journal of Sociological Research

... In women's empowerment and gender equality studies in agriculture and rural areas main geographical focus has been on African (Akpan 2015;Uduji, Okolo-Obasi, and Asongu 2019;Asongu and Odhiambo 2021;Osinubi and Simatele 2024) and South Asian countries (Abrar-ul-haq, Jali, and Islam 2017;Akter et al. 2017;Akram 2018;Ahmed et al. 2023;Haque et al. 2024). Less attention in empirical analysis of gender equality and gender critical issues for policy and practices has been on countries from other regions (Oedl-Wieser 2015; Černič Istenič 2015; Marangudakis 2022, 2024). ...

Women and Rural Development in Nigeria: Some Critical Issues for Policy Consideration

Social Sciences

... This cultural distinction in itself is not anomalous except when it becomes an important factor within a political society. There are certain definitions of ethnicity which speak to its criticality in a political system thus forming the basis for political engagements (Nnoli, 1978;Odeyemi, 2014;Efemini, 2005). The in-group attachment and attitude towards out-groups have become social facts in Africa, especially Nigeria, today. ...

Oil and conflicts in the Niger Delta region, Nigeria: Facing the facts
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  • May 2010

Journal of Social Development in Africa

... TICs can help startups to access funding by providing them with connections to investors, by helping them to write business plans, and by providing training on financial management. A study by the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) found that TICs that provide access to funding are more successful in helping startups to grow (Ashok and Fadipe, 2020). Networking is also important for the success of startups. ...

Humanomics Harnessing the potentials of technology incubation centres (TICs) as tools for fast- tracking entrepreneurship development and actualisation of the Vision 20:2020 in Nigeria

Humanomics

... Etche is one of the 23 Nearby Government Ranges of Waterways State [1] and among the 13 government voting public speaking to Waterway State in Nigeria's National Gathering and portion of the Waterways East Senatorial Area. Nowadays, Etche has over 250 creating oil wells and a have of stream stations It is additionally said to have the biggest store of common gas, south of the Niger waterway. ...

Power supply and environmental sustainability in the University of Uyo: An agenda for full-blown research in Nigeria

... There are several studies indicating that inappropriate feeding practices can have greater consequences for the growth, development and survival of infants and children in Asian countries [8,11,26]. Foods are "gifts" of nature; human beings only cultivate the crops and rear or hunt for the animals as the case may be [20]. Nonetheless, economic growth and industrialization in recent decades led to increased production of food in India. ...

Environmental and Cultural Dynamics in Nutrition: A Comparison of Food Patterns in Two Nigerian Societies

The Anthropologist

... Overtime, the Nigerian economy became mono-economy, having been transformed from a country that is dependent on fairly diversified portfolio of agricultural and solid minerals exports to a country dependent on crude oil (Akeem, 2011, Akpan, 2012. The need to correct the existing structural imbalance and put the economy on the path of sustainable growth has called for new thoughts and initiatives. ...

From Agriculture to Petroleum Oil Production: What Has Changed about Nigeria's Rural Development?
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  • January 2012