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Democratic Governance, Sustainable Development and Insecurity in Africa: The Nigerian Experience
(International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), 2021-01) Gubak, Happy Daniel; Gubam, Dimas Solomon; Piwuna, Phidelia Zacharia
Abstract: The paper assesses the responsibilities of the government to its citizens and the state participation in provision of basic or essential amenities for the citizens. It argues that aside from economic challenges, corruption, ignorance, insecurity and illiteracy remain some of the major hindrances to welfarism and consequently democratic governance in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. The paper therefore, assesses the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) efforts at ensuring democratic governance in the continent and the sub-region respectively. The paper concludes that the Nigerian state, Economic community of West
African states (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) need to take important steps in stabilizing the economy of member states such as Nigeria towards promoting democratic governance in the sub-region of West Africa and the African region in general. Findings from the study reveals that despite the lofty objectives of the AU and ECOWAS, they lack the institutional machinery and capacity to fully ensure good governance in member states and that bad governance or corrupt leadership has been the bane of democratic governance in Africa and Nigeria in particular among other various challenges of democratic consolidation. They often focus more attention and energy on issues such as monitoring elections, peace keeping activities and discouraging illegal overthrown of governments, especially through coup d’état than fostering a culture of good governance. It recommends among others that welfarism should be the watchword of governance in Africa and there should be strong commitment by the government to the achievement of MDGs/SDGs. The study employed solely the qualitative method of data analysis. As such, information were drawn from secondary sources of data collection such as text books, journal articles, Newspapers, workshop and conference papers and reports.
A CASE FOR THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY
(1998) Achi Vincent Balat
he economy is the center of life of every nation. A government is judged as good based on ils economic successes and a nation is graded as belonging to the first, second and third world, based on its economic growth. The economy determines the growth in science and technology. It is no wonder that Edwin contends that Western diplomats and Nigerians as well, on seeing the size of Nigeria; the diversity and enterprise of her people in the 1960s, expressed the most optimistic hopes for Nigeria’s economic u-turn! Odiogor and Njoku reiterated this fact when they made it clear that, “Nigeria and Asian countries such as Mafaysia and Indonesia were in the same social and economic group in the 1960s".?. That made the world to envisage Nigeria as the future giant of Africa. Today, Nigeria is nothing more than a bastion of economic ruins. She has been out paced by her Asian counterparts and her citizens only live in the reminiscence of her glorious economic past. But then, is there any hope of revamping and liberating our economy tromits ruins? This work seeks to explore this question.
A CASE AGAINST THE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMME PROPOSAL OF THE WEST AFRICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
(78 JOURNAL OF THE WEST AFRICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, 2012) AJAO OG,; UGWU BT
Following the meeting held in Accra, Ghana in September 2012, a draft proposal on Harmonization of Surgical Training was submitted for final consideration by the four Colleges in the West African Sub- region. The Council of the West African College of Surgeons (WACS) was mandated to produce a Membership Curriculum separate from the Part 1 programme of the Fellowship Examination. This, in essence, means that there is a proposal to have a Membership Examination and certification in addition to the well established Fellowship Examination and certification. This means that there will be a lower standard of examination for Membership certification than the Fellowship Examination. The President of WACS in the presidential address in Liberia at the 52™ annual meeting made an allusion to “the reluctance of Faculty of Surgery to go along with the Membership” plan. We fully support the reluctance of the Faculty of Surgery in this regard, and the following will explain our position. It was George F. Will writing for Newsweek Magazine some years back that stated that what people learn
from History is that people do not learn from History. This statement could not be truer when we consider this proposal.
UNDERSTANDING ERROR LOG EVENT SEQUENCE FOR FAILURE ANALYSIS
(Science World Journal, 2018) Nentawe Gurumdimma1 , Desmond Bala Bisandu
Due to the evolvement of large-scale parallel systems, they are mostly employed for mission critical applications. The anticipation and accommodation of failure occurrences is crucial to the design. A commonplace feature of these large-scale systems is failure, and they cannot be treated as exception. The system state is mostly captured through the logs. The need for proper understanding of these error logs for failure analysis is extremely important. This is because the logs contain the “health” information of the system. In this paper we design an approach that seeks to find similarities in patterns of these logs events that leads to failures. Our experiment shows that several root causes of soft lockup failures could be traced through the logs. We capture the behavior of failure inducing patterns and realized that the logs pattern of failure and non-failure patterns are dissimilar.
A Comparison of Iron and Folate with Folate Alone in Hematologic Recovery of Children Treated for Acute Malaria
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2010) Samuel N. Gara; Aboi J. K. Madaki; Tom D. Thacher
Concern has been raised that iron supplementation for treatment of acute malaria may worsen the severity of malaria. We compared the effect of iron and folate with folate alone on hematologic recovery in children treated for acute malaria. We randomized 82 children 6-60 months of age from Nigeria with smear-positive malaria and anemia (hematocrit < 33%) to receive iron (2 mg/kg/day) plus folate (5 mg/day) or folate alone in addition to antimalarial drugs. The mean ± SD hematocrit at baseline was 28.5% ± 2.9%. At four weeks, the mean hematocrit increased by 2.5% ± 1.6% in the iron plus folate group and by 1.4% ± 1.0% in the folate alone group (P = 0.001). Baseline hematocrit, iron supplementation, weight for height, and weekly meat intake were significant predictors of final hematocrit. The effect of iron was not significantly modified by baseline hematocrit, weekly meat intake, nutritional status, mother's education, sex, or age of the child. Iron supplementation improved hematologic recovery in children with malarial anemia.