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المؤلفون: Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo, Victor Ojakorotu
المصدر: Resource Conflict and Environmental Relations in Africa ISBN: 9789811973420
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::2134a0e3a8d758b71d7a26bb958d57ab
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المصدر: African Journal of Governance and Development (AJGD). 10:336-355
مصطلحات موضوعية: media_common.quotation_subject, Political science, Local government, Institution, Foundation (evidence), Context (language use), Public administration, Centrality, Constructive, Decentralization, media_common, Meaning (linguistics)
الوصف: Satisfactory nationwide development without constructive local governments’ input is mutually exclusive. Meaning that institution of effectual local administrations not to produce deleterious interaction-effect of development is essential. This paper evaluates published articles between 2010 and 2020 on Nigerian context to comprehend what undermines impactful local governments’ participation in national development to pinpoint lessons for African nations. It addresses the question of how abject local government in place do not support its positive involvement in overall national development. The intrinsic purpose of local government according to the classical theory’s logic is the paper’s theoretical foundation. Deriving from a literature review methodology, the paper proffers reform agendas to enhance optimal efficacy of local administrations in the intergovernmental relations schemes for development in Africa from literature insights of the Nigerian situation. The analysis parallel the three thematic codes evolved from the classical theory’s justification of local government: optimization of local governance, enhancement of local democracy, and facilitation of efficient local services delivery. It observes that implementation of ineffectual decentralization policies and lack of local autonomy are critical factors undermining optimum development in Nigeria, viz African countries. Whereas, decentralization and local autonomy accentuates the centrality of local government in the national developmental trajectory.
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المؤلفون: Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo, Francis Amenaghawon
المصدر: e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities. 19
الوصف: Studies acknowledge that COVID-19 is a game-changer resulting in an operational “new normal” across organizational endeavours including university governance. One effect of COVID-19 on social change organizations like universities in Africa is that it intensified operational disruptions. The study utilizes narrative analysis to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on university governance using South Africa-Nigeria settings as a template to generalize for Africa. Its data stems from a methodological qualitative orientation, implying that the narrations derive from unstructured interviews with key players within the university system. It is anchored on a conceptual framework founded on the ontology of African administrative and organizational culture that dialectically prompts epistemological analysis. The ontology facet deals with the status quo of university governance before COVID-19, denoting universities as mini societies reflecting the continent’s general operational culture. The epistemology aspect dealt with knowledge generation, indicating innovation African universities need to adopt to operate effectually during and aftermath of COVID-19. It finds that e-university governance application in Nigeria is underdeveloped compared to South Africa’s model which is basic. However, it concludes that improved investment in digitalizing operations of universities is imperative for their successful governance in a postCOVID-19 pandemic epoch in Africa.
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4SURMOUNTING NIGERIA’S PRESENT INSECURITY: ESSENTIALITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS’ POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
المؤلفون: Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo, Abiodun Salawu
المصدر: e-Bangi Journal of Social Science and Humanities. 19
الوصف: Nigeria’s present insecurity situation has compelled various theories aimed at surmounting the condition. However, most of the theories emphasize ethno-religious dimensions than the character of policymaking to overcome the insecurity. Pundits barely deliberate the nexus between Nigeria’s present insecurity and relegation of local governments’ political communication (LGPC) in intergovernmental policymaking relations (IPR) to neutralize the circumstance. Incidentally, the overwhelming victims of Nigeria’s present insecurity domicile within local government jurisdictions. Consequently, the study aims to accentuate what LGPC offers the Nigerian state to overcome the recent insecurity. Its all-encompassing objective is to promote consideration of LGPC in IPR to effectively overwhelm the current insecurity. It eclectically deploys political communication theory, a constructed Functional Intergovernmental Relations Model and political culture theory as its theoretic framework of analysis. The study’s methodological orientation is explorative qualitative research design, based on secondary analyzed textual and interview qualitative data. It finds that non-consideration of LGPC as inputs – utilizing Nigerian local governments’ experiences, advocacies, activisms, human cum material resources and policy suggestions - in the IPR to mitigate the insecurity ultimately worsens the circumstance. Incessant discounting of local government inputs in the problem-solving policymaking schemes by the higher tiers demonstrates why Nigeria's present insecurity remains intractable. The reality of IPR in Nigeria is that feedback of local governments for the resolution of societal disorders like insecurity is habitually disregarded. Conclusively, the study theorizes that Nigeria's present insecurity will continue to exacerbate if local government contributions are not considered in the alleviation dynamics.
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المؤلفون: Victor Ojakorotu, Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo
المصدر: Politikon. 48:135-152
مصطلحات موضوعية: Sociology and Political Science, media_common.quotation_subject, Corporate governance, 05 social sciences, 0507 social and economic geography, 050701 cultural studies, 0506 political science, Irony, Politics, Political science, Political economy, Political Science and International Relations, 050602 political science & public administration, Nexus (standard), media_common
الوصف: The attainment of development is largely consequent upon the throes of political governance as a fragment of public administration. In truth, the nexus between political governance and development ...
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6دورية أكاديمية
المؤلفون: Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo
المصدر: International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science. 5(11):366-375
الوصف: This study promotes the belief that Africa’s local electoral democracy is rooted more in an ideology of centralism and hegemonic desires of the higher tiers’ political elites over local administration. In this study, we contend that the local electoral democracy across Africa is in a state of crisis, producing practices at variance with the philosophy of Western liberal democracy which the continent pretends to imitate. Utilizing the political culture theory, the study’s argument is anchored on the evidence that the process of local electoral democracy across Africa rather emanates from an espoused political culture dictated by a desired centralizing ethos and inclinations of dominance of the local government by the higher political authorities, especially the state/provincial level. Its methodological construct is akin to the descriptive phenomenological qualitative research design. By analyzing observed experiences and documentary data using the qualitative content analysis approach, we contemplate the ingrained philosophy behind local electoral democracy in Africa as different from the idealistic sense of the democratic theory. The study’s findings accentuate the thesis that the actual African philosophy of local electoral democracy is not rooted in the ethos of Western liberal democracy, and thus democracy is largely lacking in African local government areas.
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المصدر: Journal of Nation-building & Policy Studies. 4:43-60
مصطلحات موضوعية: Political science, Nation-building, Federalism, Public administration
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المؤلفون: Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo, Itumeleng Mekoa
المصدر: Journal of African Union Studies. 9:9-28
مصطلحات موضوعية: Sociology and Political Science, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Abandonment (legal), Public sector, Development, Public administration, Modernization theory, Politics, Good governance, Political science, Service (economics), General partnership, Political Science and International Relations, Bureaucracy, business, media_common
الوصف: This paper evaluates Nigeria's Service Compact with All Nigerians (SERVICOM) policy as a derived policy of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) project to generalize the advancement of Africa's public sectors' functionality in the 21st century. The cardinal policy thrust of NEPAD, of which SERVICOM is consequentially from, is partly to ensure that the continent's public services are poised to deliver accelerated social, economic and political development, as well as ensure the facilitation of good governance. Anchored on Max Weber's bureaucratic theory, the paper notes the lack of political will to commit to purposeful public sector reforms, which undermine the realization of the SERVICOM-cum-NEPAD initiative for public sector effectiveness and efficiency. It also notes that Nigeria‘s public sectors in the 21st century have tended towards underperformance due in part to the abandonment of the tenets of Weber‘s bureaucratic theory in their operations. The paper concludes that greater politics-administration cooperation than dichotomy will improve adherence to the precepts of Weber‘s bureaucratic theory as well as the modernization of public servants through investments in training and re-training. It also concludes that the public should seek to resolutely pursue remedies for infractions by public servants rather than overlook ineffectual operational performances as a way to strengthen attainment of the SERVICOM objectives for accelerated capacity development of public servants.
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المصدر: Journal of Nation-building & Policy Studies. 3:5-23
مصطلحات موضوعية: Focus (computing), Economic growth, Political science, Nigerians, Nation-building, Sustainable energy
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المؤلفون: Itumeleng Mekoa, Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo
المصدر: African Renaissance. :57-74
مصطلحات موضوعية: Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, Political science, Political Science and International Relations, Thread (computing), Development, Public administration, Human security
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