Nigeria

"It were worth while to die, if thereby a soul could be born again" - The Fearless Missions Approach of Mary Slessor

by Elke Speliopoulos

Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for CHHI 657 - History of Christian Missions, at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. May 6, 2012.

Women missionaries working alone in Africa was an unheard-of concept when MarySlessor arrived in Africa to serve. It... more Women missionaries working alone in Africa was an unheard-of concept when MarySlessor arrived in Africa to serve. It was not that it was impossible, but that it was deemed toodangerous. Yet at five feet tall and with bright red hair ensuring she would stand out in anAfrican setting, this twenty-eight year old Scottish woman set out to do just that in 1876, startingat the Calabar River of modern-day Nigeria and pushing further and further into the Africaninterior to tribes deemed too dangerous to interact with, even by the indigenous people Slessorencountered. Showing uncommon bravery and challenging tribal traditions propelled MarySlessor to a legendary status even during her lifetime. Her approach to missions shows thathands-on, fearless love of those deemed unapproachable can bear Kingdom results and in turnserves as a model to a new generation of missionaries who face the threat of death from othersources than cannibals.

Curbing Advance Fee Fraud in Nigeria: An Analysis of the Regulatory Framework and Contemporary Challenges

by Uchenna Jerome Orji

[2011] International Company and Commercial Law Review, I.C.C.L.R., Issue 12 © 2011 Thomson Reuters (Professional) UK Limited, pp.407-421.

This article renders a comprehensive analysis of the Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud Act and also examines the... more This article renders a comprehensive analysis of the Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud Act and also examines the institutional regulatory framework for enforcing the Act. It also examines some challenges affecting the control of advance fee fraud in Nigeria and then proposes some measures to curb the crime in Nigeria. This article suggests that there has been a growing trend in the perpetration of advance fee fraud in Nigeria despite the enactment of the Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud Act; which implies that legal measures alone will not suffice to ensure the prevention of the crime in Nigeria. Given this state of affairs, the article proposes a holistic approach to control the crime through the entrenchment of socio-economic and technological measures.

Citizens, "Real" Others, and "Other" Others: Governmentality, Biopolitics, and the Deportation of Undocumented Migrants from Tel Aviv

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2010. “Citizens, ‘Real’ Others, and ‘Other’ Others: Governmentality, Biopolitics, and the Deportation of Undocumented Migrants from Tel Aviv.” In The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement. Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie Peutz, eds. Durham: Duke University Press.

"Illegality," Mass Deportation, and the Threat of Violent Arrest: Structural Violence and Social Suffering in the Lives of Undocumented Migrant Workers in Israel

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2007. “’Illegality,’ Mass Deportation, and the Threat of Violent Arrest: Structural Violence and Social Suffering in the Lives of Undocumented Migrant Workers in Israel.” In Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law, eds. Austin Sarat, Michal Alberstein, and Nadav Davidovitch. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

"Flesh of our Flesh"? Terror and Mourning at the Boundaries of the Israeli Body Politic

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2007. “’Flesh of our Flesh’? Terror and Mourning at the Boundaries of the Israeli Body Politic.” In Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context, ed. Sarah S. Willen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Seeing the "Holy Land" With New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, and the Fluctuating Borders of the Israeli National Body

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2007. “Seeing the ‘Holy Land’ with New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, and the Fluctuating Borders of the Israeli National Body.” In Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine, ed. Sandy Sufian and Mark LeVine. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Birthing "Invisible" Children: State Power, NGO Activism, and Reproductive Health Among" Illegal Migrant" Workers In Tel Aviv, Israel

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2005. “Birthing ‘Invisible’ Children: State Power, NGO Activism, and Reproductive Health among Undocumented Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv, Israel.” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1(2): 55-88.

"Perspectives on Labour Migration In Israel"

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2003. “Perspectives on Transnational Labour Migration in Israel.” Revue Européene des Migrations Internationales. 19(3): 243-262.

Despite its resistance to accepting any non-Jewish immigrants, Israel became home in the 1990s and early 2000s to... more Despite its resistance to accepting any non-Jewish immigrants, Israel became home in the 1990s and early 2000s to approximately 250,000 migrant workers from regions as diverse as South America, West Africa, the Former Soviet Union, and Southeast Asia, between 60-80,000 of whom were concentrated in South Tel Aviv. The present article provides an overview of the phenomenon of transnational labor migration in Israel and builds upon the current literature in three ways, first of all by introducing the central issues to a Francophone readership. Second, Israeli policies toward migrant workers have changed considerably since mid-2002, and it is necessary to bring the literature up to date. Third, it argues that anthropology and its hallmark research method, ethnography, can make a significant contribution to the study of labor migration in Israel as it has in other migration contexts. In addition to foregrounding the perspectives of migrants themselves – in this case, the perspective from South Tel Aviv, ethnography can also elucidate the broader discursive, ideological, and social contexts in which migration trajectories are constructed, negotiated, and experienced by migrants as well as, and in ongoing interaction with, a diverse array of state, municipal, and civil society actors.

"No Person is Illegal"? Configurations and Experiences of" Illegality" Among Undocumented West African and Filipino Migrant Workers In Tel Aviv, Israel

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2006. "No Person is Illegal"? Configurations and Experiences of "Illegality" among Undocumented West African and Filipino Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv. PhD thesis. Department of Anthropology, Emory University. Atlanta, GA.

The Pedagogical Subject of Neoliberal Development

by Alvin Lim

Under review

I first started to seriously consider the pedagogical subject of neoliberal development when I began drafting a... more I first started to seriously consider the pedagogical subject of neoliberal development when I began drafting a proposed course on the challenges of development. In order for me to develop a syllabus for my proposed course, I had to understand the development challenges which emerged from Nigeria’s neoliberal transformation in the 1980s. After considering this history of neoliberal development in Nigeria, I describe a visit to the underdeveloped Koma Hills to see first hand the challenges faced by a traditional community facing the encroachment of "development." I conclude with a consideration of community service learning as a methodology for introducing my proposed students to the challenges of neoliberal development.

Modeling the impact of financial innovation on the demand for money in Nigeria

by Wale Okunrinboye

Co-authored with G.O Odularu

The demand for money is a very crucial variable in determining of the effectiveness of monetary policy. This study... more The demand for money is a very crucial variable in determining of the effectiveness of monetary policy. This study attempts to analyse whether financial innovations that occurred in Nigeria after the Structural Adjustment Programme of 1986 has affected the demand for money using the Engle and Granger Two-Step Cointegration technique. Though the study revealed that demand for money conforms to theory in that, income is positively related to the demand for cash balances and interest rate has an inverse relationship with the demand for real cash balances, it is discovered that the financial innovations introduced into the financial system have not significantly affected the demand for money in Nigeria. Based on the results obtained, a policy of attracting more participants (non-government) and private sector funds to the money market is necessary as this will deepen the market and make the market more dynamic and amenable to monetary policy.

Spatial and Temporal Variations in Water and Sediment Quality of Ona River, Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria

by Azubuike Ifejoku-Chukwuka

The worldwide deterioration of surface water quality has become a growing threat to human society and natural... more The worldwide deterioration of surface water quality has become a growing threat to human society and natural ecosystems hence the need to better understand the spatial and temporal variabilities of pollutants within aquatic systems. This study was aimed at evaluating water and sediment parameters of Ona river to identify major pollutant sources using multivariate statistics. Accumulation Factor (AF) indicated that BOD and COD significantly built up with an accumulation factor of 7.70 and 4.83 respectively. Heavy metals Cu, Pb, Mn, Cd and Cr accumulated significantly in the sediment and water. The river recovered significantly from a number of physicochemical parameters: EC (58%), TDS (64%), TS (61%), Chloride (65%), COD (79%) and BOD had the highest recovery value of 87%. All the heavy metals measured showed a high level of recovery in both water and sediment except for  Zn (41%  in both water and sediment) and Fe  (38%)  in the sediment. Factor analysis (FA) showed that sediment factor accounted for 39.95% of the total  variance  in  water  quality,  while  the  second  factor,  labelled  as  seasonal  factor accounted for a complementary 21.94%. Discriminant analysis (DA) highlighted sediment factors as the major determinant of water quality, with seasonal factors playing an augmenting role.



Keywords:  Physicochemical  parameters,  sediment  quality,  water  quality,  Ona  river, accumulation factor, river recovery capacity,

The Clean Development Mechanism and Community Forests in Sub-Saharan Africa: rethinking the “moral position” on carbon sinks in the climate change regime (2010)

by Mark Purdon

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Purdon, M. (2010). The Clean Development Mechanism and Community Forests in Sub-Saharan Africa: rethinking the “moral position” on carbon sinks in the climate change regime. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 12(6): 1025-1050.

Negotiations of the Kyoto Protocol reached what has been called a moral position on biocarbon sinks which saw... more Negotiations of the Kyoto Protocol reached what has been called a moral position on biocarbon sinks which saw important limitations on their use in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the Protocol’s main carbon offset system. After outlining this moral position, this article examines the consequences of these limitations on the viability of community forest participation in the CDM through a case study of three community forests in West Africa. Results suggest that there is significant carbon mitigation potential from forest conservation, reforestation as well as from improved fuelwood cookstoves at the community level. Yet under the current rules of the CDM, little of this overall carbon mitigation potential is able to be realized. Using qualitative research methodologies, it was learned that community respondents showed a pragmatic, yet cautious interest in the CDM while also emphasizing a need for land-use flexibility. The paper closes with a political discussion of the “‘moral position” on biocarbon sinks in the carbon market and concludes with policy recommendations for biocarbon sinks, in both the CDM and REDD, in the post-Kyoto climate change regime.

Rock Firefinch Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis in the Mandara Mountains, north-east Nigeria: a new subspecies?

by Keith Larson

http://www.africanbirdclub.org/bulletin/17-2.html

Abalaka, J. L., U. Ottosson, T. Tende, and K. W. Larson. 2010. Rock Firefinch Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis in the... more Abalaka, J. L., U. Ottosson, T. Tende, and K. W. Larson. 2010. Rock Firefinch Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis in the Mandara Mountains, north-east Nigeria: a new subspecies? African Bird Club Bulletin 17:210–211.

Summary. We provide a description and photographs of firefinches from the Mandara Mountains, north-eastern Nigeria, which had a call similar to that of Rock Firefinch Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis, a species previously reported from the area, but lacked the male’s typical grey crown. Could this be a new taxon?

Elites' Survival and Natural Resource Exploitation in Nigeria and Niger

by Yvan Guichaoua

Published in: Rosemary Thorp, Stefania Battistelli, Yvan Guichaoua, Jose Carlos Orihuela and Maritza Paredes (ed). 2012. The Developmental Challenges of Mining and Oil Lessons from Africa and Latin America. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan

‘ENERGY SECURITY AND THE RESOURCE CURSE IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF OIL IN THE NIGER DELTA (1990-2010)’

by Osso Nyaknno

Recent Developments in the Niger Delta of Nigeria: Enforcing UNEP EA Report of Ogoniland

by Saheed Alabi

International Union for Conservation of Nature Academy of Environmental Law eJournal, Vol. 1, p. 162, 2012 (http://www.iucnael.org/en/e-journal/current-issue-.html)

The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) requested the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to carry out an... more The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) requested the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to carry out an environmental assessment of Ogoniland due to perpetual oil spillages and gas flaring by the multinational oil companies, specifically Shell Petroleum Development Company (Nigeria) Ltd (SPDC). The Environmental Assessment Report (EA Report) was finalised and submitted to the FGN in August 2011 for review and implementation.

The aim of this country report is to determine the sincerity of the FGN in finding the lasting solution to the severe environmental degradation in Ogoniland. This is imperative because of the historic failures of the Nigeria Government to implement recommendations contained in environmental assessment reports of this nature and to enforce judicial decisions.

It is also necessary so as to ascertain whether the commissioning of the EA Report was simply a political gimmick to project to the world that Nigeria is working in the interest of establishing a healthy environment for the people of the Niger Delta, following civil unrests in the area which have been partly responsible for lowering crude oil exports. Another potential area of concern is whether there is any provision within Nigeria’s domestic legislation for compelling the Government to implement the EA Report’s recommendations should it fail to do so. Alternatively, would it be more desirable to invoke provisions of international laws to compel Nigeria to implement these recommendations? Whilst it has been suggested that SPDC and the FGN should contribute US$1 billion as starting capital for the implementation of the EA Report’s recommendations, it is unclear whether the SPDC and FGN are under any obligation to do so. What is furthermore unclear is the implication of their failure to make such a contribution.

Political cartoons as a vehicle for setting social agenda: The newspaper example

by Faiz Sathi Abdullah

Co-published with Iro Sani, Mardziah Hayati Abdullah and Afida Mohd Ali.

In recent years, the cartoons genre has gained considerable research interest across disciplines; for example,... more In recent years, the cartoons genre has gained considerable research interest across disciplines; for example, communication, media studies and health sciences. More so, cartoons serve as potent source of data used to study social phenomena. This paper aims at illustrating how political cartoons are used as a vehicle of setting social agenda in Nigerian newspapers to reorient and shape the public opinion through recurrent depictions mirroring current socio-political issues at a given period. The cartoons texts were excerpted from two major Nigerian newspapers, Daily Trust and Vanguard during the period 2007-2010. One-hundred cartoons were selected using purposive sampling technique. Fifty cartoons were taken from each newspaper magazine. Specifically, content analysis was used to identify the themes contained in the cartoons depictions. Qualitative method was used to analyze the cartoons through semiotic analysis. The analysis is mainly concerned with the interpretation of the sign system based on the connotation and denotation elements in the cartoons. The results indicated that 80% of the themes focused on substantive issues through which social agenda is set to reflect social practices in the Nigerian social political contexts. Also, the results showed that Nigerian political cartoons set social agenda by mainly encapsulating current and sensitive issues that people are much concerned about. Finally, the study has identified the lack of supportive and clearly defined theoretical background in analyzing political cartoons as a major problem in previous cartoons research. Thus, this paper contributes to the cartoon research by offering theoretical insight to the cartoon genre through agenda setting theory of media effect.

Nigeria - Country Report, May 2011

by alexis stergakis

Nossal Institute - University of Melbourne, 2011

COUNTRY PROFILE – OVERVIEW

Nigeria is a federal republic comprised of one capitol territory and 36 states.... more COUNTRY PROFILE – OVERVIEW

Nigeria is a federal republic comprised of one capitol territory and 36 states. Nigeria's population is 140 million, with the majority of the poor living in the urban metropolis such as Lagos experience increased death rates, diseases, poor sanitation, health care and access to clean water, as a result of ultra-condensed slum living. Corruption due to the privatisation of most traditionally public institutions such as schools, transport, communications and utility companies, has resulted in 70.2 per cent of Nigerians living below the poverty line living on less than 1 US dollar a day, unable to meet basic needs. Lack of the norms of good governance has seen an continuing increase of mass poverty in Nigeria.

National museums and production of memories in Nigeria

by Jide Ololajulo