PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 1. THE INFLUENCE OF UNEMPLOYMENT ON YOUTHS INVOLVEMENT IN KIDNAPPING

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Rituals are a feature of all known human societies. They include not only the worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults, but also rites of passage, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential inaugurations, marriages and funerals and many other ritualistic events....Continue Reading »

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• 2. THE ROLE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION (A CASE STUDY OF...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Many authorities have contributed immensely to the success of defining public relations. According to Jerkins (1985), defines public relations as the deliberate, planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain mutual understanding between an organization and its publics. According to International Public Relations Institute (IPRI) has...Continue Reading »

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• 3. STRATEGY FOR GUARANTEED FOODS SECURITY, A CASE STUDY OF EDO STATE, EASTERN NIGER...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to Study Reducing food insecurity continues to be a major public policy challenge in developing countries. Almost 1 billion people worldwide are undernourished, many more suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, and the absolute numbers tend to increase further, especially in Sub Saharan Africa (FAO, 2008). Recent food price hikes have contributed to greater ...Continue Reading »

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• 4. SOCIAL PERCEPTION OF CAUSES OF DRUG ABUSE IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF RESIDENTS ...

  » CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF STUDY Drug abuse is both a global health and social problem with distinct conditions and problems that vary from place to place (WHO, 1987). According to the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental edition (5th ed.) of the american psychiatric association, drug or substance use disorder is a pattern of symptoms resulting from the use of drugs, despite the clear proble...Continue Reading »

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• 5. EXAMINATION OF THE FACTORS IMPEDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OPEN DEFECATION LAW IN...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study Open defecation continues to be a critical health challenge globally, affecting almost 1 billion people worldwide and contributing significantly to an estimated 842,000 people who die yearly from sanitation related diseases. Open defecation is a major environmental health problem facing many countries in sub Saharan Africa. Although open defecat...Continue Reading »

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• 6. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT REVENUE GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT IN KWA...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA Local Government in Nigeria is the third tier of government in Nigeria. The aim and objectives of local government are contained in the local government edits No.8 of 1976 of Kwara State of Nigeria gazette extraordinary “No 33” volume 10. The edit empower the local government council among other thing...Continue Reading »

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• 7. THE EFFECT OF EXCHANGE RATE DEREGULATION ON THE NIGERIA ECONOMY

  » CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study How various individuals, groups, business persons and government have expressed concerns about attitudes of Nigerians towards the deregulation of exchange rate. Basically, the paper shows the relationship between the Nigeria economy and the government recent and past policies to increase the rate of converting Naira to Dollar. Starting up with t...Continue Reading »

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• 8. REASON FOR LACK OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY IN NIGERIA, A CASE STUDY OYUN LOCAL...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Nigeria as federation operates a three tiers system of government: Federal, state and local government. The federal government known as the government of Nigeria has authority and responsibility of governing the territories {though it usually delegates this role to elected territorial governments}. At the state level, there are State Governments...Continue Reading »

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• 9. APPRAISAL OF THE SUCCESSES AND OR FAILURES OF ILORIN EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN DE...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Local Government in Nigeria started during the colonial era when it was vested in traditional rulers and it operated in a very undemocratic manner. Over the year, efforts have been made to democratize local government and make it more responsible to developmental needs. Agagu (1997:18), defines local government by the popularly elected bodies charge...Continue Reading »

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• 10. ROLE OF NATIONAL DIRECTORATE OF EMPLOYMENT (NDE) IN ALLEVIATING UNEMPLOYMENT AMO...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Human being engaged in various works in order to satisfy their wants. Unemployment can be define as a situation in which persons capable and willing to work or unable to find a suitable paid employment. In producing human wants (goods and services) land, labour, capital and entrepreneur are utilized, for this purpose labour being the most dynami...Continue Reading »

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• 11. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE DRUG CONTROL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Computerization is defined as the control of processes by computers and its peripherals. Today it would be difficult to think of any process, business or action that could not have profited from the numerous benefits of the computer system. Controlling process or devices with computer started long ago since the invention of computer. In the 20th cen...Continue Reading »

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• 12. ANALYSIS OF MAINTAINANCE CULTURE EMPLOYED IN PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Over the years, there has been increasing abandonment of building projects and infrastructural facilities which has led to the dilapidation, degradation and deterioration of these building structures within the Nigerian contemporary urban metropolis. Recently there has been a lot of research investigations and analysis of which points unshakeabl...Continue Reading »

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• 13. THE PROBLEMS, CHALLENGES OR HINDRANCES AND PROSPECTS ASSOCIATED WITH REVENUE GEN...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Revenue generation simply means raising funds in the most economic and suitable manner. The history of revenue generation in Nigeria is traceable to eighteen century before the coming of the British, when the Fulani Empire was in place, when the emirates were divided into districts and village and when the hakims districts heads were made tax collectors.Hakims is were to c...Continue Reading »

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• 14. RESTRUCTURING AS A PANACEA FOR RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Any society that aims to make progress must have a government that runs its affairs. However, citizens would perceive government as a burden when its recurrent expenditure is repeatedly higher than its capital expenditure, which should positively affect the economy, most importantly in the areas of employment generation, infrastructural provisio...Continue Reading »

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• 15. EFFECTS OF BANDITRY ON FARMING SYSTEM IN BORNO STATE

  » ABSTRACT This study was carried to examine the effect of banditry on farming system in Nigeria. To achieve this objective, two research hypotheses were formulated to guide this study. The data was collected from primary sources. The primary data were collected with the help of a well structured questionnaire of two sections administered to the selected respondents in Maiduguri Local Government of ...Continue Reading »

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• 16. AN ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN TECHNOLOGICAL AND NON-TEC...

  » CHATER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The phenomenon of business ownership in Nigeria dates back to pre and post colonial era and involved commercial activities such as wholesale and retail trading of which women were predominant. There were also enterprises such as weaving, fishing, food processing, agricultural production, fashion design, etc. which were much more predominant with ...Continue Reading »

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• 17. HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION IN N...

  » Human resource training and development improves employees abilities to perform the task required by an organization. It according to Graham (1981) has the important dual function of utilization and motivation. By improving employees ability to perform the task required by the company training; Allows better use to be made of human resources, by giving employees a feeling of mastery over their wor...Continue Reading »

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• 18. IMPACT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT REVENUE ON SERVICE DELIVERY IN KUDAN AND SABON GARI L...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Local government finance is one of the aspects of public finance. It deals with the generation of revenue, expenditure, and utilization of financial resources in order to bring the impact of government closer to the people at the grassroots. Put differently, finance is essential at enabling local governments to transform the lives of the rural dwellers through the provisio...Continue Reading »

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• 19. WOMEN AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY All through the ages and several millennia – from the Stone Age to modern contemporary times, the struggle for dominance and superiority of the two known sexes has never abated. Deploying ideologies, culture and metaphysical practices has never been more victorious in gender struggle. Ever since, especially, since the emergence of modern d...Continue Reading »

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• 20. ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) ON E...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background to the Study Recent development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has resulted in tremendous progress in the area of communication and information dissemination, which contributed in making the world more interactive. This made transactions to emerge between people who may never meet. Also, the ICT is inexpensive and accessible easily throu...Continue Reading »

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