Local Government Areas of Nigeria

decision making arrangement. The Nigerian state therefore created local government as the third tier of government whose objective is to ensure effective, measurable and efficient service delivery to the people. Local government is faced with various difficulties. The major concern of this paper is to dwell on these difficulties and illuminates the factors that are responsible for them. In achieving this, the paper relies

in Netherlands could get out of hand one day and cause problems that might lead to ciaos in the country. In away this is true but in the other hand I disagree because from my understanding the government provides proper health care system and security for the people just like in Switzerland. The government of this countries has provided an atmosphere for peace

Introduction Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa, and currently its most populous country. After the oil discovery in the Niger Delta area of Oloibiri in 1956, the country has had oil has its main income producer. Before this, agriculture had the center stage; it accounted for 50% of revenue. Most of the oil exploration is done in the Niger Delta;a region that’s made up of nine states which includes; River, Cross River, AkwaIbom, Delta, Edo, Bayelsa, Imo, Abia, and Ondo. This region has

ABSTRACT In the last few decades Nigeria has experienced violent conflicts and antagonism rooted in religion, ethnicity, and economics. communal conflicts in Tiv land area of the Middle Belt region of Nigeria are not an exception. This paper (1) examines the causes of communal conflict in Tivland (2),challenges,as well as the(3) strategies of resolving and managing conflicts in Tivland and society in general. Introduction The African continent has been, and continues to be engulfed in

www.ccsenet.org/gjhs Global Journal of Health Science Vol. 4, No. 1; January 2012 The Effects of HIV/AIDS Scourge on Production and Income among Rural Households in Adamawa State of Nigeria Iya, I. B., Purokayo, S. G., & Gabdo Yusuf Department of Economics Federal University of Technology, Yola, Nigeria Received: October 12, 2011 doi:10.5539/gjhs.v4n1p245 Abstract The paper investigates the determinants and the impact of HIV/AIDS on households in Adamawa State. 120 respondents affected with HIV/AIDS

Olawusi-Peters et al., (2015)got the means of 14.36cm and 12.92cm for the same speciesin Ologe Lagoon, Lagos, Nigeria and Badagry Lagoon, Nigeria respectively which are lower than the mean Total Length observed in this study. This discrepancy may be due to seasonal variability of the environment, food availability (Mommsen, 1998; Henderson, 2005), sampling size and the length interval within different areas (Morey et al., 2003) or habitat suitability (Nieto-Navarro et al., 2010). Length-weight relationships

Introduction Boko Haram is a terrorist extremist group that fights against Christianity. Their goal is to turn the world into Islam believers. Right now they have focused on Africa, Nigeria in particular. In order to do this, they have taken over towns, stolen girls from schools and brought terror to Nigeria. Boko Haram promotes a version of Islam which makes it "haram", or forbidden, for Muslims to take part in any political or social activity associated with Western society. This includes voting

in the Arabic school Yusuf established in Yobe state (Okemi 2013, Babalola). Teaching these kids to learn how to perpetuate evil in the name of God is brainwashing. How do they receive their training? History, religion and ethnicity link northern Nigeria to

the crisis in Plateau State to people. He opines that, “the settlers” feel they were being labeled as such in order to be further marginalized”. This feeling among the people instigated the debate on the ownership of Jos. Also, the creation of Local Governments and Federal Constituencies by the Babangida administration in a lopsided manner gave “the minority Muslim Hausa/Fulani economic and political advantages over the indigenes; this further fueled the crisis” (the International Conflict Group 2012)

Nigeria and indeed almost all the African countries are now facing an unprecedented debt crisis never known in the history of the continent. The rationale for raising external loan has always been to bridge the domestic resource gap in order to accelerate economic development. This is because nations just like individuals need loans to augment domestic resources. Nigeria decides to borrow in order to finance specific projects. As at today, Nigeria Local and international debt stands at US $60 billion