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Amaitari-Niger, Michaël. "Les problèmes d'extension des villes nigérianes dans le delta littoral du Niger." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040199.
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Le delta littoral du Niger est une plaine de basse altitude (20 m maximum) et de grande étendu par rapport aux autres deltas en Afrique. Il couvre 36. 269 kilomètres carré mais faiblement peuple, environ 5. 069. 00 h (projection 1989) avec une densité d'environ 140h au kilomètre carré. Il occupe la majeure partie du plateau bas continental nigérian qui plonge de Lagos au Cameroun. Il se situe entre les longitudes 5 et 6 04' e et les latitudes 8 48' n et 4 7' s et limite par les fleuves Bénin à l'ouest et Bonny à l'est. Les problèmes principaux qui se posent au développement, à l'extension, à la planification et à l'aménagement des villes deltaïques sont topographiques, géographiques et humains. Cependant, notre recherche est de mettre en évidence les possibilités d'extension des villes deltaïques sur les axes d'aménagement (qui tiendra compte des réalités économiques locales) et de l'organisation administrative du deltaThe coastal Niger delta is a low-altitude plain (20 meters above sea level at the most), widely spread out as compared to the other deltas in Africa it covers 36,269 square kilometers, but scantily populated, about 5,069,00 (1989 estimate) ie 140 inhabitants per square kilometers. The delta spreads over the main part of the low Nigerian continental shelf which runs from Lagos to Cameroon. It is situated between longitudes 5w and 6 04' e and the latitudes 8 48' n and 4 7' s and is bounded by the Benin river (to the west) and the Bonny river (to the east). The main problems of development, expansion, planning and equipping the delta towns concern the topography, the geography as well as the human aspect. However, our research aims to throw light on the expansion possibilities of the delta towns according to the planning guidelines (which will take into account the local economic situations) and to the delta's administrative organization
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Adetiba, Toyin Cotties. "Ethnic conflict in Nigeria: a challenge to inclusive social and political development." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1006955.
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The question of ethnicity has been one of the most topical subjects of study by social scientists. The controversies around this phenomenon seem to have been heated up by the high visibility of mobilized and politicized ethnic groups in most multi-ethnic states. Therefore, the extent to which ethnic nationalities are able to effectively manage the interplay of ethnic differences determines to what extent a multi-ethnic nation develops without crisis. Historically Nigeria has come a long way from multi-ethnic entity with political differences and background to the amalgamation of 1914 till the present structure of thirty-six states. Ethnicity, no doubt has contributed immensely to ethnic conflicts in Nigeria because of long standing revulsion or resentments towards ethnic groups different from one’s own or fear of domination which can as well lead ethnic groups to resort to violence as a means to protect and preserve the existing ethnic groups. Significantly ethnicity in Nigeria, is a product inequality among the various ethnic groups orchestrated by a long period of colonialism; a period which witnessed the ascendancy of three major ethnic groups to the socio-political domination of other ethnic groups and a period when the three major ethnic groups were used as a pedestal for the distribution of socio-political goods, resulting in the inability of other ethnic groups to access these socio-political goods. This situation has continued to impact negatively on the forces of national integration and cohesion in ethnically divided Nigeria. Considering the relationship between ethnicity and development; socio-political exclusion is not only ethically dangerous to development but also economically unproductive. It deprives groups and individuals of the opportunity for the necessary development that can be beneficial to the society. Thus, it is important to develop an integrative socio-political frame-work that explicitly recognizes the participatory role of every ethnic group in governance. Hence, there is a need for the adoption of inclusive governance to manage ethnicity in Nigeria. Notwithstanding, ethnic conflict still persists and an attempt will be made in this study to identify the reasons. Central to socio-political sustainability in Nigeria is a system that should recognize that differences are important to development and encompass notions of equality. Such a system should acknowledge the socio-political and economic power of every ethnic group and promote a system devoid of ethnocentric and exclusionary socio-political and economic policies.
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Asongwe, Michael N. (Michael Nde). "Population Growth and Socioeconomic Development in Nigeria 1960 - 1984." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501243/.
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This study is directed toward the relationship between population growth and socioeconomic development in Nigeria for the period 1960-1984. A controlled population growth would positively affect every segment of the economic and social environment. With hunger and starvation, disease, poverty and illiteracy plaguing large portions of the world, Nigeria's limited resources would best be utilized if shared among a smaller population, Nigeria, like other developing African countries, does not have an official population control policy. The diversity in the Nigerian culture, the controversial nature of the subject of population control, and possibly, implementation difficulties, account for the absence of a population control policy in Nigeria. This study offers in its concluding section some policy recommendations on how to tackle Nigeria's population problem.
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Mustapha, Abubakar A. "United States-Nigeria relations: impact on Nigeria’s security." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/44629.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThis thesis examines how U.S.-Nigerian relations can be optimized to reduce the growing insecurity in Nigeria and reestablish Nigeria in the strategic calculus of ensuring Africa’s regional stability. It analyzes why U.S. security programs are not achieving their desired outcomes despite increased U.S. assistance. It also assesses the 2012 U.S. Strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa and U.S. security programs with respect to Nigeria’s security challenges. The thesis reveals that poor outcomes are not due to program-problem mismatch, but due to the U.S. bureaucratic bottlenecks in Washington and the incapacity of the Nigerian security agencies. The underlying causes of insecurity in Nigeria, such as low literacy rates, poverty, and weak institutions, also impinge on the program. The remedies lie in repositioning Nigeria’s security agencies and building Nigeria’s institutions to address the underlying causes of insecurity. The U.S. government also needs to prioritize its humanitarian programs to address more specific problems.
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Füllberg-Stolberg, Katja. "Nordnigeria während der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929-1939." Pfaffenweiler : Centaurus-Verlag, 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/40895212.html.
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Akinyoade, Akinbola I. "UNDERSTANDING NIGERIAN IMMIGRANTS ATTITUDE TOWARDS ENGAGING IN TOURISM IN NIGERIA." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1365714631.
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Chukwueke, Chidi. "Quantification des processus sédimentaires, subsidence et flux thermique dans le delta du Niger (partie distale) : Modélisation d'une marge transformante dans le golfe de Guinée." Pau, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PAUU3008.
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Le complexe deltaïque du Niger situé sur la marge africaine du golfe de Guinée est très étendu, de forme arquée, de type destructif et dominé par les vagues. Ce delta prograde durant tout le cenozoïque suivant une direction NE-SW sur plus de 450 km dans l'axe du fleuve actuel du Niger. Dans la partie distale du delta, cinq unités lithostratigraphiques ont été définies à partir de l'étude diagraphique. Leur âge est compris entre 16 Ma et l'actuel. Elles forment une mégaséquence deltaïque régressive, Stratocroissante et granocroissante comprenant successivement un pro-delta, un avant delta, un front de delta et une plaine deltaïque. L'existence de failles synsédimentaires (failles de croissance) et l'influence des variations eustatiques ont été mises en évidence. La subsidence résiduelle du sommet de la formation Akata cumule l'enfoncement propre du socle et la compaction des sédiments. Les accélerations de cette subsidence est provoquée par les remontées eustatiques et l'augmentation des apports sédimentaires. La subsidence résiduelle du sommet de la croûte représente 32 à 39% de l'enfoncement total. Elle montre la présence d'une croûte de type continental sous le delta avec un taux d'amincissement crustal de 1,75 a 2,1. Ces résultats pourraient s'expliquer par une phase de subsidence tectonique (rifting crétacé inférieur) suivie par une phase de subsidence thermique de la lithosphère. Le flux de chaleur au niveau du delta varie de 45 a 85 mwm##2. La valeur minimale du flux géothermique dans sa partie centrale est due à la faible conductivité thermique des argiles. Par contre le flux élevé dans sa partie NW ne peut pas être expliqué uniquement par l'amincissement crustal. Un autre phénomène intervient probablement (radioactivité, flux anormal dans le manteau). Une épaisseur minimale de la croûte de 17 km a été obtenue à partir de la modélisation gravimétrique.
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Harvan, Mary Margaret. "Writing resistance : representations of Ken Saro-Wiwa and narratives of the Ogoni Movement in Nigeria /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Umejei, Emeka Lucky. "The framing of China in Nigeria : an analysis of the coverage of China's involvement in Nigeria by Thisday newspaper." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012974.
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This study identified the media frames that dominate Thisday newspaper's coverage of China's engagement with Nigeria and relate these frames to frame sponsors, who articulate and contest these framings. Frame analysis is applied to a sample of 40 news, feature and opinion articles between the sample period of 1 November 2011 and 31 December 2012. The study analysed media content from Thisday newspapers, drawing on the four dimensions of frames identified by Entman: define problems, diagnose causes, evaluate causal agents and their effects, and recommend treatment (Entman 1993). Using an inductive approach to frame analysis, the study identified two overarching mega frames, contested among the ruling elites who sponsor their views on China in the media, which define China's engagement with Nigeria; partner/role model and predator. The two mega frames mirror the broad characterisation prevalent in the academic literature on China in Africa. The primary partner/role model mega frame constructs China's engagement with Nigeria as a mutually beneficial economic partnership while on the other hand the predator mega frame constructs it as unequal and exploitative. The study identified the activities of frame sponsors who are articulating and promoting their views on China's engagement with Nigeria in the media as primarily responsible for these framings. The study also identified the activities of frame sponsors (ruling and economic elites) was key to the exclusion of ordinary peoples' voices, civic organisations, trade unions and human rights organisation in the text. However, the study also attributes the exclusion of ordinary voices, human rights, democracy and civic engagements in the text to the weakness of Thisday journalism in mediating the framings of China being promoted and articulated by elite frame sponsors. This is, however, symptomatic of the fault lines of journalism practice in Nigeria.
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Mann, C. C. P. "Anglo-Nigerian pidgin : a socio-psychological survey of urban southern Nigeria." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.657266.
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Pidgins and creoles are hybrid languages that evolve from situations of language contact (e.g. slave trade); creoles are traditionally regarded as pidgins that have acquired native speakers. Since the 1960s, the contemporary study of pidgins and creoles has grown from strength to strength, and has earned much-deserved academic recognition and respect in the field of linguistics, the subject area being now known as pidginistics and creolistics. Strangely, while some progress appears to have been made in the quest to define, classify and better understood their linguistic-structural dispositions (and possible applications), precious little study has been conducted on the anatomy of social attitudes toward such languages, in spite of the stigmatized statuses they traditionally suffer. To compound this point, equally relatively few language attitude studies have been conducted in Africa. This survey hopes to fill some of the current gap. Consequently, it was decided that a sociopsychological survey would be undertaken on Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin (ANP), a contact variety, which is said to have derived from initial contacts with Portuguese sailors in the 15th century and the diverse ethnicities along the coastline of the geopolitical area now called 'Nigeria', and probably underwent processes of relexification/adlexification with intensified contacts with the British, especially in the 18th century (Hancock, 1968). The findings on ANP appear to demonstrate that social attitudes are mainly based on pragmatic issues of formal and informal instrumentality, as would be the case with any other ('natural') language, and not on sociomoral considerations. The survey also throws up three possibly-viable hypotheses on language attitude orientations (Age of Contact Hypothesis; Source of Contact Hypothesis; and, Language Competence Hypothesis).
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Ihekweme, Fabian C. "State making, nation building, and the civil society Nigeria, 1960-1999 /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2000. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/322948541.pdf.
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Akpan, Wilson Ndarake. "Between the 'sectional' and the 'national' : oil, grassroots discontent and civic discourse in Nigeria." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003082.
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This thesis examines the social character of petroleum-related grassroots struggles in Nigeria’s oil-producing region. It does this against the background of the dominant scholarly narratives that portray the struggles as: a) a disguised pursuit of an ethnic/sectional agenda, b) a 'minority rights' project, and c) a minority province’s protest against 'selective' environmental 'victimisation' by the majority ethnic nationalities. While the dominant scholarly analyses of the struggles are based on the activities of the better known activist organisations operating in the oil region, this thesis focuses primarily on the everyday 'grammar' of discontent and lived worlds of ordinary people vis-à-vis upstream petroleum operations and petroleum resource utilisation. The aim has been to gain an understanding of the forces driving community struggles in the oil region and their wider societal significance. Examined alongside the narratives of ordinary people are the legal/institutional framework for upstream petroleum operations and the operational practices of the oil-producing companies. Using primary data obtained through ethnography, focus group discussions, in-depth interviews and visual sociology, as well as relevant secondary data, the researcher constructs a discourse matrix, showing how grassroots narratives in selected oilproducing communities intersect with contemporary civic discourses in the wider Nigerian context. The thesis highlights the theoretical and policy difficulties that arise when the social basis of petroleum-related grassroots struggles and ordinary people’s narratives are explained using an essentialist idiom. It reveals, above all, the conditions under which so-called 'locale-specific' struggles in a multi-ethnic, oil-rich African country can become a campaign for the emancipation of ordinary people in the wider society. This research extends the existing knowledge on citizen mobilisation, extractive capitalism, transnational corporate behaviour, and Nigeria’s contemporary development predicament. It sheds light on some of the processes through which ordinary people are forcing upon the state a change agenda that could drive the country along a more socially sensitive development and democratisation trajectory.
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Oladeinde, Olusegun Olurotimi. "Management and the dynamics of labour process: study of workplace relations in an oil refinery, Nigeria." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003087.
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The focus of this thesis is on labour-management relations in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Nigeria. The study explores current managerial practices in the corporation and their effects on the intensification of work, and how the management sought to control workers and the labour process. The study explores the experiences of workers and their perception of managerial practices. Evidence suggests that managerial practices and their impacts on workplace relations in NNPC have become more subtle, with wider implications for workers’ experience and the labour process. Using primary data obtained through interviews, participant observation, and documentary sources, the thesis assesses how managerial practices are varieties of controls of labour in which workers’ consent is also embedded. This embeddedness of the labour process generates new types of worker subjectivity and identity, with significant implications for labour relations. The study suggests that multiple dimensions of workers’ sense-making reflect the structural and subjective dimensions of the labour process. In NNPC, the consequence of managerial practices has been an emergence of a new type of subjectivity; one that has closely identified with the corporate values and is not overtly disposed towards resistance or dissent. While workers consent at NNPC continues to be an outcome of managerial practices, the thesis examined its implications. The thesis seeks to explain the effects of managerial control mechanisms in shaping workers’ experience and identity. However, the thesis shows that while workers remain susceptible to these forms of managerial influence, an erasure or closure of oppositions or recalcitrance will not adequately account for workers’ identity-formation. The thesis shows that while managerial control remains significant, workers inhabit domains that are ‘unmanaged’ and ‘unmanageable’ where ‘resistance’ and ‘misbehaviour’ reside. Without a conceptual and empirical interrogation, evidence of normative and mutual benefits of managerial practices or a submissive image of workers will produce images of workers that obscure their covert opposition and resistance. Workers ‘collude’ with the ‘hubris’ of management in order to invert and subvert managerial practices and intentions. Through theoretical reconceptualization, the thesis demonstrates the specific dimensions of these inversions and subversions. The thesis therefore seeks to re-insert “worker-agency” back into the analysis of power-relations in the workplace; agency that is not overtly under the absolute grip of managerial control, but with a multiplicity of identities and multilevel manifestations.
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Owoyemi, Ajibola Olaoluwa. "Sequence stratigraphy of Niger Delta, Delta field, offshore Nigeria." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2768.
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The Niger Delta clastic wedge formed along the West Africa passive margin. This wedge has been divided into three formations that reflect long-term progradation: 1) pro-delta shales of the Akata Formation (Paleocene to Recent), 2) deltaic and paralic facies of the Agbada Formation (Eocene to Recent) and 3) fluviatile facies of the Benin Formation (Oligocene-Recent). This study combines a three-dimensional seismic image with well log data from Delta field to describe lithic variations of the Agbada Formation and develop a sequence stratigraphic framework. The 5000-feet thick Agbada Formation in Delta field is divided by five major sequence boundaries, each observed in seismic cross sections to significantly truncate underlying strata. Sequence boundaries developed as mass flows eroded slopes steepened by the structural collapse of the Niger Delta clastic wedge. Basal deposits directly overlying areas of deepest incision along sequence boundaries formed by the migration of large, sinuous turbidite channels. Upward-coarsening sets of inclined beds, hundreds of feet thick, record progradation of deltas into turbidite-carved canyons and onto down faulted blocks. Thinner, more continuous seismic reflections higher within sequences are associated with blocky and upward-fining well-log patterns interpreted to reflect deposition in shoreline, paralic, and fluvial environments.
Episodes of structural collapse of the Niger Delta clastic wedge appear to be associated with progradation of Agbada Formation sediments and the loading of underlying Akata Formation shales. Progradation may have been more rapid during third order eustatic sea level falls. Effects of syn-sedimentary deformation on patterns of sediment transport and deposition are more pronounced in lower sequences within the Agbada Formation, and include: 1) incision into foot walls of listric normal faults, 2) abrupt reorientation of channelized flow pathways across faults, and 3) thinning of deposits across crests of rollover anticlines on down thrown fault blocks. Structural controls on deposition are less pronounced within younger sequences and canyon incisions along sequence boundaries are more pronounced, suggesting that the locus of sediment accumulation and structural collapse of the clastic wedge moved farther basinward as accommodation was filled in the area of Delta field.
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Magbagbeola, Olusola Akintayo. "Sequence stratigraphy of Niger Delta, Robertkiri field, onshore Nigeria." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4768.
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Deposits of Robertkiri field, in the central offshore area of Niger Delta, comprise a 4 km
thick succession of Pliocene to Miocene non-marine and shallow marine deposits. A
sequence stratigraphic framework for Robertkiri field strata was constructed by
combining data from 20 well logs and a seismic volume spanning 1400 km2. Major
sequences, hundreds of meters thick, define layers of reservoir and sealing strata formed
during episodic progradation and retrogradation of deltaic shorelines. These deposits
progress upward from fine-grained prodelta and deep water shales of the Akata
Formation through paralic sandstone-shale units of the Agbada Formation and finally to
sandy non-marine deposits of the Benin Formation. The Agbada Formation is divided
into six third-order sequences starting at the first seismic reflection that can be mapped
across the seismic volume. The Agbada Formation under Robertkiri field is complexly
deformed across a succession of major, cuspate, offshore-dipping, normal faults, and
associated antithetic faults and rollover anticlines within down-dropped blocks. Thickening of intervals between some reflections across major faults and away from the
crests of adjacent rollover anticlines suggest syndepositional displacement. Relationships
between major faults and the thickness of transparent seismic facies that comprise lower
parts of the seismic record suggest faulting was associated with movement of
undercompacted shales within the Akata and lower Agbada Formations.
Robertkiri field is located along the proximal margin of the Coastal Swamp I
depobelt, a subbasin within the Niger Delta clastic wedge formed by margin collapse
into underlying undercompacted shale. Accommodation and sequence development in
this setting is controlled by both structural faulting and sea level fluctuations. Upsection,
sequences become thinner, more laterally uniform in thickness, less structurally
deformed and contain less growth strata. Erosion along sequence boundaries becomes
progressively shallower and broader, as accommodation under Robertkiri field declined
and more sediment was bypassed basinward. Incisions along the base of older sequences
(>100 m) is greater than 3rd order sea level falls reported to occur during the Miocene,
which suggests that there were local areas of tectonic uplift within this dominantly
extensional setting.
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Mohammed, Ismaila. "The Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decrees (1972 and 1977) and indigenisation in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1985. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34591/.
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The thesis is a comprehensive examination of the Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decrees of 1972 and 1977, and more broadly of the process of indigenisation in Nigeria. A brief introduction to the historical background of indigenisation before 1970 is followed by an account of the timing of the Decrees in the context of the oil boom in the country's economy. An examination of the problems encountered in implementing the Decrees and their effects, and an analysis of the distribution of benefits, is informed by empirical research including interviews, carried out by the author in Nigeria between 1982 and 1985. The record shows that indigenisation has led to the consolidation of an economy which accommodates the interests of ex-State personnel, the State as an institution, private indigenous businessmen and foreign capital, in an order which is far from certain to bring about the national economic independence which, in official terms, is the chief objective. Nigeria's commitment to capitalism and the promotion of Indigenous private enterprise, on the basis of resources generated initially by the agricultural economy, between the 1940s and 1960s, and then much more spectacularly and more significantly by oil revenues in the 1970s, provides an instructive example of the limits to what a post-colonial society in black Africa can achieve by trying to indigenise the ownership structure of its economy.
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Mann, CC. "Attitudes toward Anglo-Nigerian pidgin in urban Southern Nigeria: The generational variable." Romanian Review of Linguistics, 2010. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001176.
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Abstract. A questionnaire − and interview − based survey of attitudes toward Anglo-
Nigerian Pidgin (ANP) (or ‘Nigerian Pidgin English’) was undertaken on a stratified
random sample of 1,200 respondents in six urban centres in southern Nigeria, in
relation to perceptions of its language status, its possible use as a subject and medium
of instruction, and its possible adoption as an official language in the future, given its
ever-increasing sociolinguistic vitality and preponderance.
An analysis of the generational variable of the survey findings indicate that, contrary to
expectations, the middle age generation (40-49 years) were consistently the most
favourable in their attitudes toward ANP, with regard to: 1) teaching ANP as a subject;
2) using ANP as a medium of instruction in schools; and, 3) adopting ANP as Nigeria’s
official language, whereas the young generation (15-19 years) - currently considered
ANP’s main users and vectors - were the least favourable. The paper discusses and
attempts to explain this apparent paradox.
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Odey, Gregory A. "The Ogoni Uprising in Nigeria: the Niger-Delta Crisis and its Impact on Nigeria’s Unity, 1980-1999." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3973.
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In 1956, shortly before Nigeria’s independence, Shell BP found crude oil in Oloibiri Bayelsa State marking a turning point in the socioeconomics and politics of the nation. Since then, oil has grown into a major export commodity comprising over ninety-five percent of the nation’s gross national product. The region is one of the world’s largest ecosystems, but due to the ongoing pollution, a direct result of the oil companies lacks potable water. This study addresses this humanitarian crisis and examines the agency of Nigeria’s federal government and the collaboration with multinational oil corporations’ contributions to the environmental deconstruction in the region. The thesis further investigates the historical moments building towards the uprising in Ogoniland, centered around the leader Ken-Saro Wiwa, who was killed by the Nigerian government. It examines social movements in the region, and aims to tie the local question to the federal question of unity in the country.
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Lompo, Minkiéba Kevin. "Impact de la responsabilité sociétale des compagnies pétrolières sur les populations locales du Delta du Niger." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013VERS042S.
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La puissance publique n’est pas la seule concernée par le défi du développement humain dans les pays en développement, les acteurs privés le sont également. La Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises (RSE) peut-elle être pour les entreprises extractives un moyen de contribuer au développement local des communautés hôtes ? Mon argumentation, dans cette thèse, utilise comme terrain le Delta du Niger. Dans cette région du Nigeria, les compagnies pétrolières, en particulier Total et Agip, réalisent des projets de développement locaux qu’elles considèrent comme s’inscrivant dans le cadre de leurs responsabilités sociétales. Notre étude permet d’opérer une distinction entre les projets RSE directement menés par les compagnies pétrolières elles-mêmes, et les projets impliquant la gestion par les communautés locales. Dans le premier cas, les projets bénéficient davantage aux individus déjà nantis de capabilités qu’à ceux, les plus pauvres, qui en sont encore privés. A l’inverse, les projets impliquant fortement les communautés locales, ont un impact positif sur les capabilités collectives même si leur impact sur les capabilités individuelles des plus pauvres reste faibleIn developing countries, the main challenge is to succeed in human development. Private actors are also concerned by the challenge of human development in developing countries. Could the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) be a tool for extractive companies to contribute to local development in host communities? My argumentation is based on the CSR projects that have been implemented in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, mainly by Total and Agip oil companies. Our work shows that the impact of CSR projects differs according to the strategy of implementation: non-participatory approaches to CSR extend the access to basic capabilities for some privileged socio-economic groups, while participatory approaches positively impact collective capabilities of the whole community, but little effect on the expansion of basic capabilities
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Baumann, Franz Carleton University Dissertation Political Science. "The Bureaucratic state and economic development in Nigeria." Ottawa, 1992.
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Mushwana, Tinyiko. "A critical discourse analysis of representations of the Niger Delta conflict in four prominent Western anglophone newspapers." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007745.
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This thesis explores the manner in which the conflict in the oil-rich Niger Delta in Nigeria is represented in western Anglophone media. Large oil reserves in the Niger Delta have contributed millions of dollars towards the growth of Nigeria's export economy. Despite this, the Niger Delta is the least developed region in the country and is characterised by high rates of inequality. Residents of the Niger Delta have been outraged by the lack of action on the part of the Nigerian government and multinational oil corporations. Their discontent over the inequalities in the region has resulted in the proliferation of armed groups and militants who often use violent and criminal tactics to communicate their disgruntlement. This thesis closely examines the representations of the violent insurgency in the Niger Delta by conducting a Critical Discourse Analysis of 145 news texts selected from four western Anglophone newspapers from 2007 to 2011. The depiction of the conflict as it appears in the four newspapers is discussed in relation to an overview of scholarly literature which explores the portrayal of Africa not only in western media, but also in other forms of western scholarship and writing. The research undertaken in this study reveals that to a significant extent representations of the Niger Delta conflict echo and reflect some of the stereotypical and age-old negative imagery that informs meanings constructed about the African continent. However, the analysis of the news texts also shows that there are certainly efforts amongst some newspapers to move beyond simplistic representations of the conflict. The disadvantage however, is that these notable attempts tend to be marred by the use of pejorative language which typically invokes negative images associated with Africa. This study argues that the implications of these representations are highly significant as these representations not only affect the way in which the conflict is understood, but also the manner in which the international community responds to it.
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Dille, Bibata Claisse Gérard. "Frontières et développement régional impacts économique et social de la frontière Niger-Nigéria sur le développement de la région de Konni /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2000. http://demeter.univ-lyon2.fr:8080/sdx/theses/lyon2/2000/dille_b.
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Ayanlade, Ayansina. "Remote sensing of environmental change in the Niger Delta, Nigeria." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/remote-sensing-of-environmental-change-in-the-niger-delta-nigeria(b649a1f9-8c35-45d5-94ab-3107e4c3b0aa).html.
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This study examines landuse change (LUC) in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, focusing on the drivers of change and the societal implications on the people in the Delta. This study applies both remote sensing and social research methods to evaluate the spatial and temporal change in landuse, population change, deforestation, and degradation within forest reserves; and the impacts of oil production and the effects of the changes on the Delta. A time series of Landsat TM images was used over the period from 1984 to 2011. The study evaluates a number of classification and post-classification change detection methods to examine LUC, while NDVI is used to monitor the degradation of forests. Accuracy assessment shows that Maximum Likelihood (ML) is the most accurate method, but results were still error prone. To improve classification accuracy, a Decision Tree Reclassification (DTR) method was developed that uses prior classifications and simple rules of those LUCs, which occur over time and those that do not. DTR improves the overall accuracy of the classification from 62% to 89%. The social methods used a mixed-method approach (questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions). The methods were carefully selected and used to help explain the results of findings from remote sensing. The results are presented in two phases: (1) results of remote sensing showing the overall changes in the entire Niger Delta and specific case studies (2) results of social science survey showing the drivers of changes and their environmental and societal implications on the people in the Delta. The results show that nearly 9000 km2 forest has been lost in the Niger Delta region between 1984 and 2011, but the extent of deforestation varies from one forest type to another. Lowland rainforest is more exploited than freshwater swamp forest and mangrove forests, with approximately 40% of lowland rainforest areas lost. The urban areas expand by about 50% in lowland rainforest, but less urban expansion is noted in freshwater swamp forest (16%) and mangrove forest (38%). The study finds that assessing oil spill impacts using Landsat TM was not possible, but that oil production infrastructures (e.g. construction of canals) can be an important cause of deforestation in the Delta in exceptional cases. This is evident in the mangroves around Tsekelewu that are reduced from 200km2 in 1984 to 114km2 in 1987, because of the construction of artificial canals that have promoted regular inflow of seawater and the consequent destruction of freshwater mangroves. The results from social survey show also the drivers of LUC and deforestation in the Delta are probably multiphase including unenforced forest protection laws; corruption at all levels; pressure of immigration and increasing population; and indifference of local people to the state of the forest around them.
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Ayanruoh, Kris Odafe. "THE NIGERIA DIASPORA AND INVESTING IN NIGERIA: MOTIVATORS & PERCEIVED INHIBITORS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/506673.
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This dissertation investigates the motivating factors as well as the perceived inhibitors to the Nigeria diaspora investing in Nigeria. Two studies address (1) the motivation for the Nigeria diaspora to invest in their country of origin (2) the perceived factors inhibiting them. Not much is known about what motivates diaspora to invest in their country of origin or why investment intensity varies among diaspora communities. To this end, the relationship between the causal factors and Nigerian born diaspora investment interest is examined using Nielsen & Riddle (2007) investment motivation framework. Using this interdisciplinary approach, an individual level conceptual model of diaspora homeland investment is generated. The study shows that members of the Nigeria diaspora community do not invest in their homeland for financial reward. They invest for perceived emotional returns and this is positively moderated by the degree of their social embeddedness in their country of origin as well as in their country of residence. They also invest for perceived social rewards. This is also moderated by their social embeddedness. The second study examined the perceived inhibitors to diasporic investment using the Galetto conceptual framework (Galetto, 2011). According to Galletto, investment is contingent on four main proximate factors; a minimum amount of money remitted or saved; minimum level of local development; the presence of suitable investment opportunities and the existence of specific household arrangement. The study shows that the perceived inhibitors to diasporic investment are: poor physical infrastructure; weak financial system and political instability and risk and that the dominant inhibitor is political instability and risk. Collectively, these two studies examine why the Nigeria diaspora would want to invest in their homeland and what prevents them from doing so. They seek to identify ways to turn diaspora investment and entrepreneurship interest into meaningful investment in the country-of-origin. Understanding why the nascent Nigeria diaspora investor or entrepreneur invest in their homeland and the obstacles they face is an important first step to identifying ways that governments can attract diasporic investment and entrepreneurship through marketing and other promotional efforts. Finally, this research lays a foundation for a stream of future research, building on the findings and data generated in the process of addressing the research questions.
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Igah, Emmanuel. "Kaduna dans le réseau urbain nigérian." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040080.
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"Kaduna dans le réseau urbain nigérian", est un thème d'étude significatif et d'actualité à un moment où les impacts de l'urbanisation rapide et mal maitrisée, préoccupent de plus en plus les citadins et les pouvoirs publics au Nigéria. Ce travail se situe dans le cadre de la recherche d'un système d'outils d'analyse permettant de mieux comprendre le processus complexe du développement urbain au Nigéria. Il s'articule sur trois axes d'étude majeurs, à savoir, -l'étude de la formation et du fonctionnement du réseau urbain national. -l'analyse des facteurs et des paramètres qui entrent en jeu dans l'urbanisation au Nigéria à travers une étude spécifique portant sur une ville typique de la situation urbaine présente. Kaduna, ville dont la population s'élevait à 1,2 millions d'habitants en 1989, a été choisie pour son rôle particulier dans le réseau urbain national. -des réflexions sur les moyens à mettre en œuvre pour maitriser le développement urbain au Nigéria et à Kaduna en particulier. Des propositions ont été faites pour améliorer le fonctionnement du réseau urbain et pour remédier aux problèmes auxquels Kaduna est actuellement confrontée. ""Kaduna in the Nigerian urban network" is a significant and current theme of study at a time when the impacts of rapid and uncontrolled urbanization are increasingly preoccupying urban dwellers and public authorities in Nigeria. This work is aimed at finding a system of instruments of analysis that would help to understand the complex process of urban development in Nigeria. It is articulated on three major axis of study, namely: -the study of the formation and functioning of the national urban system. - analysis of the factors and parameters that come into play in urbanization in Nigeria, through the case study of a city that epitomizes the present urban situation. Kaduna, a city which had a population of 1, 2 million inhabitants in 1989, was chosen for its peculiar role in the national urban network. - reflexions on the means of controlling urban development in Nigeria and particularly in Kaduna. Propositions were made about how to improve the functioning of the urban network and solve the problems with which Kaduna is confronted
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Zeller, Heiko. "Socio-economic characterization of upland rice production in Nigeria : the case of three Nigerian states /." Beuren ; Stuttgart : Grauer, 2006. http://d-nb.info/989987752/04.
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Inamete, Ufot Bassey. "The concept of nonalignment and the Nigerian foreign policy 1960-1983 /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1985.
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Ighoavodha, Frederick J. O. (Frederick J. Ofuafo). "International Political Economy of External Economic Dependence and Foreign Investment Policy Outputs as a Component of National Development Strategy: Nigeria 1954-1980." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331233/.
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This study examined the effects and expectations of external economic dependence on foreign investment policy outputs with particular reference to the Nigerian experience between 1954 and 1980. Three basic kinds of external economic dependence were studied: foreign investment, the penetration of the Nigerian economy by foreign capital through the agency of the multinational corporations (MNCs); foreign trade, a measure of the Nigerian economy's participation in the world market; and foreign aid (loans and grants), a measure of Nigeria's reliance on financial assistance from governments and international financial inst itutions. For the most part, the level of Nigeria's economic dependence was very high. However, economic dependency is not translated into changes in foreign investment policy in favor of the foreign investors in Nigeria as is predicted by the dependency paradigm. The Nigerian case casts doubt on the dependency paradigm as a framework for fully explaining factors that may determine foreign direct investment policy changes that occur in a less developed Third World country. In other words, the dependency paradigm has a limited explanatory power; there is a factor independent of the economic factor operating out of the control of global capitalism (the center of the center in alliance with the center of the periphery); and that factor is the political process in Nigeria. The web of the Nigerian political process involves the various aspects of its internal functioning such as the manner in which needs, interests and demands are conveyed from the individuals and groups in the country to those performing state duties. Thus, Nigerian policy makers were more influenced by those elements than pure economic considerations treated in isolation.
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Ogunrinu, Thomas B. (Thomas Bode). "A Systematic Analysis and Critical Comparison of the Educational Provision for Students in Nigeria with the Available Educational Opportunity for Handicapped Students." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332313/.
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The problem of the study was the inadequate education of handicapped students in Nigeria. The primary purpose of the study was to develop a construct based on the United States models and research on special education, and to compare educational provisions for Nigerian students with the available educational opportunity for handicapped students. In order to achieve the stated objectives of the study, two methodological approaches were utilized: (1) Likert scale for opinion questionnaires, and (2) personal interviews. Both of these instruments included demographic information about the participants. The questionnaire was categorized into three areas (differences between educational opportunities for non-handicapped and handicapped students, formal learning opportunities for handicapped Nigerian students, and factors for being attentive or not being attentive to special education). The interview instrument focused on special education constraints, responsibility for special education provision, and improvement in education for the handicapped. Based on the findings of the study, the following conclusions were reached. 1. Handicapped Nigerian students do not have equal educational opportunities, as compared to non-handicapped students. Therefore, equal instructional opportunities should be provided for handicapped and non-handicapped students. 2. The federal and state governments of Nigeria should be financially responsible for special education. Therefore, the administration of special education must be taken over from private organizations. 3. Lack of funds, personnel and specialists, equipment, and adequate facilities hinders education for the handicapped in Nigeria. In order to improve education for the handicapped, therefore, the following provisions should be made: (1) build more schools, (2) train more specialists, (3) make funds available for special education, (4) provide more facilities and equipment, (5) intensify efforts in early detection of handicaps in children, and (6) educate parents on the importance of special education.
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Déléris, Jacqueline. "Plutonisme bimodal en contexte décrochant panafricain : étude pétro-structurale du complexe de Toro (Nigeria)." Toulouse 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995TOU30212.
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Le complexe de toro, situe dans la province nord du nigeria, est un pluton bimodal calco-alcalin faisant partie des older granites panafricains. Il est constitue d'un corps principal de granite porphyroide (75 km2), entourant un corps basique de diorite a hyperstene (25 km2). Le contact entre ces deux magmas est complexe ; roches hybrides tonalitiques temoignant de melanges complets (mixing) ou partiels (mingling), roches provenant de l'encaissant, refusion partielle du granite porphyroide en un granite equigranulaire, bordure microgenus de la diorite. La technique de l'anisotropie de la susceptibilite magnetique, fournissant l'intensite et l'orientation de la fabrique des mineraux magnetiques de la roche, a permis d'acceder a la fabrique interne des plutons, reflet de leur mise en place. Les donnees structurales mettent en evidence deux stades majeurs: (i) mise en place du granite de toro, a l'etat magmatique, le long d'un plan moyennement pente vers l'ouest et selon une direction ouest-est et, (ii) mise en place de la diorite a l'etat magmatique, accompagnee d'hybrides et d'enclaves d'encaissant, lors d'un cisaillement dextre submeridien d'echelle regionale. Enfin, un episode plus tardif de cisaillement dextre n30 echarpe la bordure nord-ouest du complexe de toro. Ainsi, le granite s'est mis en place dans une croute deja fortement structurees et ductile. Il est ensuite poinconne par la diorite qui ramonne l'encaissant et emporte du magma hybride. Les deux signatures structurales, reflet de deux cinematiques differentes mais rapprochees dans le temps, sont reunies dans un meme modele, qui combine decrochement et transpression ou transtension, expression de la tectonique cisaillante nord-sud dextre caracteristique des temps fini-panafricains
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Nuhu, Habib M. "Entrepreneurship and Institutions in Innovation systems research: Evidence from the Nigerian film industry." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15907.
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As the innovation systems approach becomes increasingly transferred from developed to developing countries as a framework for achieving increased productivity, the notion of deficient institutions becomes more important. Prior research on innovation systems has adopted a broad treatment of institutions that has resulted in an omission of the impact that deficient institutions have on implementing innovation. Towards providing a treatment of institutions that is more specific and by extension, accounts for the impact of deficient institutions within developing country innovation systems, this thesis on the account of both the personcentric characteristic of the entrepreneur and the entrepreneur’s ability to deal with uncertainty focused on answering the research question: How do entrepreneurs deal with deficient institutions in developing country innovation systems in order to introduce innovation? By considering the context of the Nigerian film industry innovation system, this thesis showed that entrepreneurs dealt with the deficient institutions by substituting them with informal institutions during their interactions with Nigerian actors, and with formal institutions that looked to be external to the Nigerian environment when interacting with international actors. In addition to this, the decision to use these institutions was seen to have been influenced by both the situations that the entrepreneurs faced and their personal experiences personal experiences. By showing this, the thesis contributed to the literature on innovation systems by providing a more nuanced understanding of institutions in comparison with what previously existed. Another contribution was the introduction of agency (through analytical focus on the entrepreneur) within innovation systems research.
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Emuka, Samuel Uzo. "35 ans de production, 35 ans de pollution par les hydrocarbures dans l'est du delta du Niger : bilan & perspectives (1958-1992)." Paris 8, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA081949.
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Les hydrocarbures constituent le plus important secteur de l'économie du Nigéria. Ils affectent la vie de toute la population d'une façon ou d'une autre. A part l'impact positif des hydrocarbures dans l'économie, ils affectent aussi négativement les moyens d'existence de la population par les problèmes de pollution, surtout dans les zones d'activités pétrolières du pays. En effet, malgré l'amélioration technologique dans la production d'hydrocarbures, les opérations de l'industrie pétrolière sont souvent accompagnées de dégradation de l'environnement. Ces problèmes varient en intensité et en gravité, allant des fuites et décharges mineures aux dommages sévères à l'environnement provoqués par les explosions de puits, de pipelines, par les accidents de tankers etc. Ils sont directement liés aux activités quotidiennes de la production d'hydrocarbures, du raffinage et du transport d'hydrocarbures brutes et produits raffinés. . .
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Duman, Leyla Mehtap, and Dafe Eghagha. "Networking and knowledge creation in Nigeria : A case study of a Swedish company’s establishment in Nigeria." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-176065.
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In this study the authors wanted to find out what role networking and knowledge play for a Swedish company that wants to enter the Nigerian market. This was done by using a qualitative approach and conducting interviews with HQS AB a Swedish company that entered Nigeria, the Swedish Trade Council and the Nigerian Embassy. No studies have previously been done about the internationalization process for a Swedish firm entering Nigeria therefore this essay provides empirical findings that can be useful for Swedish firms that want to enter Nigeria and for researchers within international business. The result from this study indicate that HQS AB had a successful market entry to Nigeria mainly because networking help them get in touch with partners that could add value by providing valuable connections that eventually helped HQS AB to start their business in Nigeria. Moreover, by attaining tacit knowledge in Nigeria, HQS AB managed to handle challenges in Nigeria such as the complex bureaucracy system and the business culture in the country.
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Da-Wariboko, Biobele. "Investigating the effects of the proliferation of commercial broadcasting on public service broadcasting: the case of Rivers State of Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002876.
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1992 marked a turning point in Nigeria’s broadcasting history as the country formally deregulated her broadcast space. However, it was not until March 2002 that the first commercial radio station was established in Rivers State, a broadcast environment hitherto monopolised by Radio Rivers. The coming of the first independent radio station in Rivers State in March 2002 was followed by the establishment of two other stations in October 2003 and November 2003 respectively. As important as these events in broadcasting in Rivers State are, however, media scholars have argued that in most societies where such change has taken place, public service broadcasters have tampered with their values of being an open space where individuals and groups can come together to be educated, informed, and entertained. This study investigates the extent to which the proliferation of commercial broadcasting outlets has affected Radio Rivers’ public service programming and scheduling. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods, through in-depth interviews and analysis of the mandate and programme schedules, the study established that while Radio Rivers still maintains some public service values, its current programming policy is driven by the need to compete with the commercial broadcasters. This is evidenced in the decrease in the programme space allocated to current affairs and educational programmes on the schedule, (the genre of public service broadcasting), and the increase in attention to advertisements and entertainment programmes, (the genre of commercial broadcasting). The study also confirms the adverse effects of dwindling financial resources as forcing public service radios to compromise on their public service values, as majority of programmes on Radio Rivers current programme schedules are now geared towards attracting advertisers rather than serving the public good and interests. However, the study proved that it is not in all cases that the entry of commercial broadcasters into Rivers State broadcast space has undermined Radio Rivers public service values. Indeed, in leading to the expansion of interactive, news, and the diversification of entertainment programmes spaces on Radio Rivers’ programming schedules, the proliferation of commercial broadcasters has yielded some positive effects on Radio Rivers public service values and contribution to the public sphere. The study further highlights the need for some policy reforms at Radio Rivers, such as the introduction of licence fees, increased government funding and loosening government’s current control over the station. In addition, there is the need for the edict establishing the station to be amended to reflect the current trends in broadcasting in Rivers State, and above all to reposition Radio Rivers to sustain public good and public interests in its programming.
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Acho, Onyebuchi S. (Onyebuchi Sunday). "Love Attitudes and Marital Adjustment Through Five Stages of the Marital Life-Cycle in Protestant Nigerian Society." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331089/.
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This study examined the relationship between love attitude and marital adjustment across five stages of the marital life-cycle in Nigerian society. The subjects for this study were 202 volunteers from six protestant churches representing six cities in the southern part of Nigeria. An average of 20 couples were representatives of each of the five marital life-cycles. Each of the subjects completed the Love Attitude Inventory (LAI), and the Marital Adjustment Test (short form) (MAT). Wilk's multivariate analysis revealed no significant differences between husbands' and wives' love attitude and marital adjustment across the five stages of the marital life cycle. Multivariate analysis split-plot 5.2 with repeated measures revealed no significant difference for the total sample among the groups, but indicated a significant difference between love attitude and marital adjustment for the total sample using sex as a factor. A univariate test of the MAT and LAI indicated that the MAT accounted for the difference. A canonical correlation indicated a significant positive relationship between husbands1 and wives' marital adjustment and love attitude within each of the five groups. The findings suggest that husbands and wives included in this study have a good understanding of their roles in the marriage relationship and that the partners have general agreement regarding those roles. The marriage partners apparently have strong influences on each other's perceptions of love attitude and marital adjustment.
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Agboaye, Izilin Christiana. "Nigerian Military Government and Problems of Agricultural Development." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504109/.
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This thesis attempts to analyze the military government's role in solving the country's agricultural problems. This analysis is essential because it was during the military's stay in power that Nigeria's potential as a selfsufficient and food exporting nation declined. Materials collected to analyze the above problems reveal that the military government's lack of adequate personnel to supervise and implement decisions taken on agriculture, unplanned schemes, and unresearched projects were partly responsible for the government's inability to solve Nigeria's agricultural problems. While it may be necessary to blame the military government for not being able to completely solve the country's numerous agricultural problems, the presence of global political and economic decisions seriously hampered measures taken by the military government.
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Olayiwola, Rahman Olalekan. "Political communications in Nigeria." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1991. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1089/.
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This study of the Nigerian Political Communications examines the patterns of mass media ownership and their impact on the coverage of selected national issues - the census controversy, ethnic problems and the general elections of 1979 and 1983. The contents of 21 newspapers of variegated ownership pattern involving governments, partisan and private interests are analysed and "live" illustrations of stories are given. This is to demonstrate empirically the thesis argument that the criterion of ownership is the key factor which determines how the Nigerian mass media are used for moulding the citizens' perception of political reality. The thesis seeks to answer questions such as: (a) what role have the Nigerian mass media played in promoting and/or compounding the problems of national integration in the Nigerian society since independence. (b) what role should the Nigerian mass media play to promote national integration and political stability. (c) what changes are necessary and desirable with the present situation to allow the mass media perform such integrative and stabilizing functions. Located within a comparative political communication approach to the study of mass media and politics in developing countries, this thesis seeks to contribute to knowledge in the areas of the theory, methodology and practice of political communications in Africa - with Nigeria as a case study. The question of media ownership has remained central to the Nigerian political communications with the attendant intrigues, ethnic violence, character assassination, political vilification, personal vendetta, coups and counter coups, general violent political disagreement and perennial problems of political instability culminating in fragmentation and disintegration that threaten the continued existence of Nigeria. The thesis also highlights a host of other factors which work in collaboration with media ownership to influence the Nigerian political communications - ethnicity, economic position, religion, legal limitations, circulation, transportation, audience reach, freedom of the press or lack of it, linguistic barriers and literacy. The thesis argues, in conclusion, that as Nigeria approaches a third attempt at democratic rule in socio-economic conditions which are less propitious than on past occasions, there is a need for the Nigerian mass media to operate in a way which contributes to national integration. It questions the existing pattern which is elitist and urban in orientation, ignores the rural majority and divides the Nigerian people rather than unites them. To achieve integration through political communications, the thesis suggests the need to restructure the media ownership pattern and to establish a Nigerian Media Advisory Council with some regulatory powers and authority to impose punitive sanctions on media practitioners and institutions for any professional misconduct.
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Павличева, Світлана Володимирівна, Светлана Владимировна Павлычева, Svitlana Volodymyrivna Pavlycheva, and O. Udoka. "Malaria epidemic in Nigeria." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2011. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/15950.
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The incidence of malaria is very high in Nigeria due to its tropical location. A number of factors appear to be contributing to the resurgence of malaria: rapid spread of resistance of malaria parasites to chloroquine and the other quinolines; frequent armed conflicts and civil unrest in many countries, forcing large populations to settle under difficult conditions, sometimes in areas of high malaria transmission
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Lovina, O. O. "Population demography of Nigeria." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/36345.
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The most populous country in Africa, Nigeria accounts for approximately one sixth of the African population (or one fifth of Sub-Saharan African population). Approximately 50 % of Nigerians are urban dwellers. At least 24 cities have populations of more than 100,000. The variety of customs, languages, and traditions among Nigeria's 389 ethnic groups gives the country a cultural diversity. Nigeria suffers from a population explosion, with a current population in excess of 170 million (2012) and a growth rate of more than 2 % p.a. (or a doubling time of about 30 years), with all the associated problems such as youth bulge, crime, ethnic tension and high emigration.
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Ebiziem, V. "Urban environmental problems (Nigeria)." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/31071.
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While there is now widespread agreement that urban environmental issues are important, there is little coherence in how international agencies and others define the urban environment and identify its critical problems. This is not just a semantic question, as it is intimately related to how and where funds are allocated and to who can expect to benefit from the resulting environmental improvements. Most of the confusion arises from the qualifier ‘environmental’ and what it should mean in an urban context.
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Anosike, Charles Afam. "Sustainability Efforts of One Oil Company in Niger Delta of Nigeria." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3617725.
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Environmental degradation and socioeconomic dilemma continue to stigmatize oil production in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Sustainability programs of oil companies often determine the improvement of living conditions in the region. This explanatory qualitative case study, guided by systems thinking theory and sustainable value framework, explored practitioners' perceptions of sustainability programs to identify its impact on business and the host communities. The research question was designed to address how sustainability efforts of a single oil company in the Niger Delta contributed to the business performance and the livelihood of the local people. Research data were gathered from a sample of 20 experienced sustainability practitioners of the oil company, partnering nonprofit organizations, and community leaders through face-to-face semistructured interviews. Data were segmented and categorized. The data analysis process revealed several themes regarding the challenges and shortfalls of sustainability programs in the region. The oil company's understanding of sustainability as programs and projects focused on preserving resources for future generations was not evident in practice. Findings from the study suggested the need for improved inclusiveness of people in driving sustainability projects. Inclusive sustainability should enhance the oil company's contemplation mechanism to ensure eco-saving thinking and processes, which could result in improved quality of life and business performance in the region. The research findings underscore the need for oil multinational corporations (MNCs) to use a business lens in viewing sustainability to achieve sustainable value.
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igwe, chinyere Emmanuel. "Urban Development of a City in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7478.
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The issue of indiscriminate urban expansion is not uncommon in Africa. It has created haphazard, unplanned, and unapproved development that negatively affected urban planning for cities in the Niger Delta Region in Nigeria. Using Stone's urban regime theory, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore from the perspective of developers, associations, and government agencies (referred to as stakeholders), the roots causes of indiscriminate urban development and their activities in the process in the Niger Delta Region. Data were collected through semi structured telephone interviews with 10 participants who had at least 5 years experience working in public and private organizations in the urban setting. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed using Braun and Clarke's procedure for thematic analysis. Findings included six themes of limited knowledge, passive role, recognition of experiencing the problem, contributing to the problem, weakness of regulatory framework, and lack of synergy in the process. The principal theme was limited knowledge of the roles and obligations of participants which impede participation in the planning process. The recommendations, if implemented, may result in positive changes and bring many benefits to city residents such as better housing and traffic systems, adequate sanitation and improved access to public services. To do so, government agencies in the urban sector should engage the stakeholders to create synergy. Following these recommendations may help resolve the issue of indiscriminate urban expansion, promote effective planning and management, and ensure good governance and sustainable development in the urban setting.
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Brunner, Markus. "The unfinished state : Demokratie und Ethnizität in Nigeria /." Hamburg : Inst. für Afrika-Kunde, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/363856218.pdf.
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Danjuma, Benjamin Angyu. "House form in the Nigerian savanna : an analysis of housing and city structure in the Housa tradition." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61691.
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Gleria, Assunta. "La mise en œuvre d'un dispositif technique d'assainissement (eaux usées) approprié à Ile Ife, Nigéria." Paris 12, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA120059.
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Parmi les causes des retards de developpement dans les pvd il peut y avoir la contradiction entre persistance des anciens systemes de production et le mode de production industrielle. En ce qui concerne l'assainissement des eaux usees, la culture yoruba, dont ile ife etait le centre spirituel, prevoyait des dispositifs specifiques au niveau de l'unite d'habitation et le dispositif institutionnel garantissait la mise en oeuvre et l'entretien des dispositifs de drainage au niveau de la ville-etat. Aujourd'hui a ile ife les pratiques traditionnelles survivent partiellement seulement dans le centre ville ou existe encore l'ancienne organisation sociale; dans les habitats neufs, l'initiative des particuliers est limitee et celle du dispositif institutionnel moderne est presque absente. L'etat federal nigerian, malgre les demarches de formulation de politique en matiere d'assainissement, n'a pas reussi a rendre operantes les indications relatives aux programmes. Les gouvernements des etats, sauf quelques exceptions, montrent un vide d'organisation encore plus grand et les gouvernements locaux, qui sont charges de la mise en oeuvre des dispositifs d'assainissement dans leurs territoires, n'ont pas les moyens ni les techniques pour accomplir ces taches. .Contradictions between traditional and modern system of production seem to be the most important cause of the delay in the implementation, of technical devices for sanitation of wastes water in ile ife, nigeria. Traditionally the yoruba culture dealed with specific devices for waste water sanitation, centered in the housing unit (compound). The public power of the city -state was charged of the implementation and maintenance of drainage devices at the town level presently in ile ife, traditional practices still exist, in the ancient core of the town, where still survives the traditional social organisation. In the new urbanized areas of the town, only the private initiative operates, beeing the role of the local gover nement quite absent. The implementation of sanitation policies by the federal governement of nigeria has been, up to now, almost a failure. The states governements, with some exceptions, failed to organize sanitation services; the local councils, charged of the implementation of sanitation devices in their area of governement have not financial and technical tools to reach their tasks. .
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Olorunfemi, Christianah Oluseyi. "Perspectives on HIV/AIDS: American-Based Nigerian Women Who Experienced Polygamy in Rural Nigeria." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1350.
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Traditionally, in Nigeria women play a subservient role in relation to men. While a man can practice polygamy by marrying many wives, women cannot marry more than one husband at a time. Although researchers have documented the effects of polygamy on the spread of HIV/AIDS, little is known about the experiences of polygamy by Nigerian women who stopped practicing polygamy by immigrating to the United States without their husbands. It is important to know the experiences of these women as they pertain specifically to the spread of HIV/AIDS so as to develop a preventive intervention for HIV/AIDS among Nigerian women in polygamy. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the perspectives on HIV/AIDS held by 10 Nigerian women who practiced polygamy in Nigeria before immigrating to the United States. Recruitment was done through purposive sampling at a faith-based organization. Guided by the health belief model, interview transcripts from the 10 women were analyzed to reveal recurrent themes that expressed the women's lived experiences in polygamy with their perspectives on HIV/AIDS. Findings revealed that these women had a basic knowledge of the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS by engaging in polygamy but needed to comply with the terms of sexual encounters as dictated by their husbands; therefore, they were at risk for HIV/AIDS. The results of this study can be used to increase awareness among Nigerian women in polygamy and Nigerian health policy makers regarding the transmission of HIV/AIDS and the preventive measures available for HIV/AIDS. Understanding the experiences of women in polygamy may lead to greater understanding of the impact of polygamy on HIV/AIDS and may help to decrease the prevalence of this disease.
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Kalu, George Okoro. "Towards environmental sustainability in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria : a theological framework for broader involvement of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2017. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/22559/.
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The Niger Delta environmental crisis fuelled principally by the degration from oil and gas exploration activities has had negative impact on the sustainability of the region into the long-term future. The fallout of the frequent confrontations between the government and oil companies on one hand and the communities (supported by the so-called Niger Delta militants) on the other has had adverse consequences on the wellbeing of the people and the environment. Tracing the issues that posed threats to the sustainability of the Niger Delta environment led to the discovery of a complex mix of bio-physical, economic, and socio-political factors. These factors have compounded the state of degradation. In this thesis, the response of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (PCN) to these problems was brought under scrutiny in the light of the failure of key stakeholders, namely, the government, the oil companies and the local communities, to resolve the issues. The results from the fieldwork show that the PCN is not engaging with these issues in a rigorous and systematic manner. The thesis unravels factors militating against the PCN’s participation, and reveals opportunities open to the church. However, what is lacking is a conscious effort by the PCN to pull together a local ecological theology of creation from its inherited theology and from local wisdom. A framework for such a local holistic ecotheology (LHE) is therefore suggested to drive PCN’s involvement, and potentially step into the void left by the earlier-mentioned stakeholders. The LHE is designed to be practical and contextual, having its starting point in the local socio-cultural, economic, political, and ecclesiastical context. It draws from elements of local cultures and tradition, the lived experiences of the people at the grassroots, and from Christian theology. It is proposed as a holistic framework that factors in the challenges facing the people and the environment, and proffers practical suggestions towards resolving the problems.
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Harneit-Sievers, Axel. "Zwischen Depression und Dekolonisation : afrikanische Händler und Politik in Süd-Nigeria, 1935-1954 /." Saarbrücken ; Fort Lauderdale : Breitenbach, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37018292h.
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Motaze, Dorothy. "Utilisation du français dans les écoles et universités du Nigéria : un point de vue sociolinguistique sur la notion de compétence." Paris 5, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA05H066.
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L’étude sociolinguistique du Nigeria révèle que le français est utilisé non seulement comme langue d'enseignement dans les écoles et universités, mais aussi comme une langue de culture et d'interactions quotidiennes dans les universités. L’auteur se pose la question de savoir quel est le contenu culturel du "français nigérian" et comment peut-il être lie aux locuteurs du français à l'extérieur du Nigeria afin de pouvoir servir de moyen de communication entre ces groupes. Après un examen des situations d'utilisation de la langue, l'auteur propose une étude par l'approche intégrationniste globale des unités sociales et linguistiques dans des interactions de face-à-face. Selon cette démarche, une connaissance technique et conceptuelle d'interprétation est requise pour permettre d'y mobiliser les lois universelles d'implication qui gouvernent la structure des languesSociolinguistic research in Nigeria reveals that French is not only taught and used in schools and universities for academic purposes, but also used in university centers for everyday conversations. One wonders what the cultural content of "Nigerian French" would be, and how related it is to speakers of the language outside Nigeria for communication purposes. According to the author's point of view, analysis of speech relations requires an integrative approach of social and linguistic features. This needs technical and conceptual skills so as to bring into play universal cultural normes of language by which particular sociolinguistic units could be interpreted and understood
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Okafor, Bernard E. "The Relation between Demographic Factors and Attitudes about Seeking Professional Counseling among Adult Nigerians Living in the United States." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1258571590.
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