Browsing by Author "Agaptus Nwozor"

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    Digital Transformation and the Fight against Corruption in Nigeria’s Public Sector
    (PERSPEKTIF, 2022) Agaptus Nwozor; Modupe Ake; Oladapo Joy Oluwakemi; Ayanrinde Racheal Tijesunimi
    Abstract Digital transformation is an increasingly strategic theme in public sector governance throughout the world. The advancement in information communication and technology (ICT), especially its expansion to every area of life, has elicited great interests due to its capacity to contribute to efficient service delivery generally. Across the world governments have embraced the digitalization of their operations, and have therefore achieved greater efficiency in government business. In this paper content, digital transformation of the public sector of Nigeria entails the application of modern information technology to its operational processes with a view to enhancing its capacity for efficiency, and thus deal with leakages that conduce to corrupt practices. Digital transformation offers the opportunity for an intelligent use of the ICT for organizational efficiency. Corruption has remained one of the most complex problems impeding Nigeria’s development. The overarching objective of this paper is to assess the nature of digital transformation in the Nigerian public sector, mechanisms and challenges of fighting corruption. Using primary data generated through key informant interviews and complemented with secondary data, this paper specifically interrogates the factors that conduce to, or inhibit the digitalization of Nigeria’s public sector as well its overall implication in the fight against corruption. This paper finds that the digitalization of public sector will likely improve transparency in the operating activities of the public sector and thus lead to the elimination of corruption. This paper recommends, among others, the digitalization of public sector operations and the strengthening of institutions having direct and indirect mandate to fight corruption. Keywords: Anti-corruption; Corruption; Digital transformation; Governance; Public sector; Nigeria.
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    Has anything changed with illegitimate electoralfinancing and political power contestation inNigeria?
    (POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | RESEARCH ARTICLE, 2021-07-25) Agaptus Nwozor; Segun Oshewolo; Solomon I. Ifejika; John Shola Olanrewaju; Modupe Ake
    This paper examines the monetization of politics through the manipula-tion of the loopholes in the electoral funding architecture of Nigeria. It evaluateswhether the ceiling placed on individual and group donations to candidates andpolitical parties by Nigeria’s Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) was adhered to inmobilizing election funds in recent presidential elections. In other words, this paperinvestigates whether election funding in Nigeria’s recent elections followed theprescribed protocols as indicated in the Electoral Act and the extent to whichadherence or otherwise contributed to the monetization of the electoral contestsand its implication for electoral integrity. Using data generated from key informantinterviews and qualitatively analyzed in the tradition of logical inductive method the paper finds a contravention of the legal provisions for electoral funding. Thevarious political parties leveraged their political structures to raise funds withoutdue recourse to the prescriptions of the Electoral Act, thus compromising the level-playing ground necessary for electoral integrity. The paper contends that the con-solidation of democracy in Nigeria must entail the plugging of the capillaries andstreams of illegitimate electoral funding and the establishment of critical institu-tional framework that would drive adherence to constitutionally prescribed provi-sions on electoral funding
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    National Insecurity and the Challenges of Food Security in Nigeria
    (Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2019) Agaptus Nwozor; John Shola Olanrewaju; Modupe B. Ake,
    Abstract Nigeria has been overly dependent on oil for its foreign exchange earnings and government revenue since the oil boom of the 1970s. Prior to this period, the country was reasonably self-sufficient in food production and carved a respectable niche for itself as a major exporter of several cash crops. However, as agriculture lost its primacy to oil, it went into steady decline due to neglect by successive governments. The neglect led to mass abandonment of farms resulting in extreme peasantization of the sector. A related negative fallout was Nigeria’s transition from food self-sufficiency to food-dependency and attendant massive importation to bridge food gaps. However, efforts are being made by the government to reposition the agricultural sector to boost its productive capacity and make it competitive. The major task of this study is to evaluate Nigeria’s quest to achieve food security against the backdrop of national insecurity. Considering the categorization of Nigeria as food insecure, the study examines the interconnection between national insecurity and food production as a prelude to the actualization of food security. The study relies on primary and secondary data to evaluate the feasibility of food security in the face of sustained insecurity across the country. The study finds that the achievement of food security would be impossible if the insecurity that pervades and envelopes farming communities is not resolved. Keywords: food security, national insecurity, agricultural sector, food insecure, Nigeria
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    Return migration and the challenges of diasporic reintegration in Nigeria
    (Journals Third World Quarterly, 2022-01-31) Agaptus Nwozor; Segun Oshewolo; John S Olanrewaju; Ake Modupe Bosede; Onjefu Okidu
    Nigeria is among the countries in Africa with the largest emigrant population as well as an impressive pool of annual remittances. Despite the importance of remittances in the matrix of national development, they are no substitute for the expertise and skills needed to drive the various sectors of the economy. Thus, since 1999, successive Nigerian governments have emphasised return migration as an important strategy to tream its diaspora into national development. In this vein, diverse policy efforts hu _been initiated to ensure its actualisation. The paper interrogates the continued urrency and feasibility of return migration in the face of transnationalism and iasporic integration dilemmas. The paper uses qualitative data generated from rimary and secondary sources to critically examine Nigeria's migration architecture.finds that return migration is fraught with several integration dilemmas for eturnees as they are confronted with adjustment crises on return. The paper ontends that the transnational character of the Nigerian diaspora necessitates the doption of policy options that recognise the universality of their contributions and nus do not require their relocation to the country.
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    State Capture and Elective Dictatorship in Nigeria's Democratic Space: A Critical Analysis
    (African Renaissance, 2021-03) Agaptus Nwozor; John S Olanrewaju; Modupe B.Ake; Michael B Aleyomi; Ejalonibu Ebenezer Lawal
    Nigeria has run democratic governance consecutively for twenty-one years.Within this timeframe, democracy has demonstrated signs of maturation and consolidation. Nigeria has witnessed administration-to-administration and party- to-party transitions. However, the political system tends to lack certain fundamental political culture,especially the entrenchment of the supremacy of institutions rather than personalities. The key question that this paper interrogates is the extent to which the democratic,ethos of elective principles and institutional independence have been entrenched. Adjunct to this question is whether state capture by political elites through elective dictatorship has compromised Nigeria's democratic space in terms of circumventing people's electoral powers. The paper finds that democratic processes have been short-changed through the instrumentality of elective dictatorship. It also finds that the primacy of the electorate as the motorising force of democratization has been undermined. It recommends political inclusiveness through the modification of the electoral system to confer primacy on elective principles.