Browsing by Author "Bot, M.D."

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    CONTRIBUTORY PENSION SCHEME AND PENSION FUND ADMINISTRATION CHALL NIGERIA (2014 Pension Reform Act in Focus)
    (Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Nigeria Police Academy, Kano, 2023-04-24) Bot, M.D.; Olorunsuwa, E.O.; Kajang, E.M.; Stephen CD
    The study mutually assesses the features, prospects and challenges of the new Contributory Pension Act enacted as an important aspect of retirement planning. To achieve this, the study adopts the qualitative enquiry while depending on secondary materials for data. The study equally juxtaposed in terms oj principles and core values the new pension scheme with the past pension schemes. The values of the scheme are ideally laudable and superior to those of the past schemes, giving that the scheme consolidated loopholes in the previous schemes especially in creating a uniform system of pension administration i and public sector. In this light, the National Pensions Commission (PENCOM), which regulates the two principal agents in the new pension scheme: Pension Fund Custodians (PFCs) and Pension Administrators (PFAs) should determine to be anti-corrupt, so as to be able to regulate the activities PFAs, more so, with zero tolerance for any form of financial misappropriation. The study found throwing tantrums to the government for enacting The Pension Reform Act (PRA) 2014, the Act is facing sensitive challenges that has impeded on the actualization of its initial goals. The study found that silent about the pension of organizations with a workforce of 3-14. Secondly, it was found that pension and gratuity are not mutually exclusive in the CPS 2014.
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    Executive-Judiciary Conflict in Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Implication for Democratic Consolidation
    (Faculty of Social Sciences, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, 2020-05-09) Olorunsuwa, E.O.; Bot, M.D.; Oko L.I.
    Nigeria has being faced with numerous challenges since her return to civil rule on the 29 of May, 1999; while some of these challenges are carried over from the military era, a few are new and as such are linked with the new democratic regime in the country. Peculiar attention has being taken by issues of inter-governmental conflicts as well as conflicts involving various arms of government. States machineries have at some times being grounded on the bases of tortuous conflicts between the three arms and tiers of government alike. Of particular interest is the issue of disharmony and conflict involving the arms of government especially the executive and judiciary arms of government. The long period of military occupation of the national political space provides an explanation for this ugly trend. This trend has often time thrown spanner into the wheel of democracy and its consolidation, thereby, taking the country several steps backwards in her journey towards effective governance and democratic consolidation. The paper while relied on secondary data collection methods; it adopts the theory of checks and balances as framework of analysis .The paper seeks to examine conflicts that involve the executive and judicial arms of government in the Nigeria's Fourth Republic democratic experiment. The study provides an in-depth analysis into the causes of such conflicts and its effects on democratic consolidation of the Nigerian nascent and fledgling democracy. It however goes further to offer solutions to stem such ugly trend.
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    Free Press and Good Governace in Nigeria: A Review of Muhamadu Buhari Administration
    (Department of Political Science, Federal University, Dutsinma, 2020-05-09) Olorunsuwa, E.O.; Bot, M.D.; Bitrus D.I.
    Taking explicitly into cognizance 20 years of uninterrupted democracy in Nigeria after the return of democracy in 1999, this paper seeks to explore, as well as analyze the continuous abuse and onslaught by the Nigeria government officials on media practices. This paper while relying on secondary sources reveals that ever since the transition from the military regime to a democratic government, in spite of the expectation that the level of harassment and abuse on the media should have been a thing of the past; rather , the trend has continued unabated, especially under President Muhammadu Buhari led administration. Noting from the relationship that exists between a free media and good governance, assessing the administration of President Buhari with instances that are verifiable, and with the fact that good governance is a sine qua non for development and growth in fledgling democracy such as Nigeria's, it is not yet time to celebrate for Nigerian press and Nigeria. This paper recommends that the Nigerian government should make laws that would protect as well as give leverage to the media to carry out its responsibility without fear of intimidation and harassment. The future of free media is highly dependent on good laws, as much as good governance depends on free and unbiased media
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    Free Press and Good Governace in Nigeria: A Review of Muhamadu Buhari Administration
    (Department of Political Science, Federal University, Dutsinma, 2020-04-24) Olorunsuwa, E.O.; Bot, M.D.; Bitrus, D.I.
    Taking explicitly into cognizance 20 years of uninterrupted democracy in Nigeria after the return of democracy in 1999, this paper seeks to explore, as well as analyze the continuous abuse and onslaught by the Nigeria government officials on media practices. This paper while relying on secondary sources reveals that ever since the transition from the military regime to a democratic government, in spite of the expectation that the level of harassment and abuse on the media should have been a thing of the past; rather , the trend has continued unabated, especially under President Muhammadu Buhari led administration. Noting from the relationship that exists between a free media and good governance, assessing the administration of President Buhari with instances that are verifiable, and with the fact that good governance is a sine qua non for development and growth in fledgling democracy such as Nigeria's, it is not yet time to celebrate for Nigerian press and Nigeria. This paper recommends that the Nigerian government should make laws that would protect as well as give leverage to the media to carry out its responsibility without fear of intimidation and harassment. The future of free media is highly dependent on good laws, as much as good governance depends on free and unbiased media
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    Freedom of Information Act and accountability in public sector output in Nigeria
    (Department of Mass Communication, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, 2021-05-09) Bot, M.D.; Olorunsuwa, E.O.
    The most talked about Freedom of Information Act was passed a few years earlier, to encourage, improve and advance our perilous democracy. The Act (which is an addition of Section 39 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria), was engaged into law on 28th May, 2011 by the former President Goodluck Jonathan government. The drive of the Act is to create public proceedings and materials more freely accessible, afford for public access to public records and material, guard public records and information to the scope reliable with the public concern and the defense of delicate privacy, protect serving public officers from hostile penalties for revealing certain types of authorized information devoid of endorsement and institute procedures for the attainment of those goals. The Act advanced means of receiving access to registers by Court, resources and documents underneath the security cataloging. The basis of a rigorous democracy comprises accountability of the Government and its organizations. Accountability is a vital factor for the running of our political structure, as accountability means that those who are accused with conscripting and or carrying out strategy should be indulged to give clarification of their activities to their people. It is hope that with the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act, this would be assured.
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    The Freedom of Information Act and Accountability in Public Sector Output in Nigeria
    (2021-04-24) Bot, M.D.; Olorunsuwa, E.O.; Tanko, S.P.; Nwaenyi, S.O.
    The most talked about Freedom of Information Act was passed a few years earlier, to encourage, improve and advance our perilous democracy. The Act (which is an addition of Section 39 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria), was engaged into law on 28th May, 2011 by the former President Goodluck Jonathan government. The drive of the Act is to create public proceedings and materials more freely accessible, afford for public access to public records and material, guard public records and information to the scope reliable with the public concern and the defense of delicate privacy, protect serving public officers from hostile penalties for revealing certain types of authorized information devoid of endorsement and institute procedures for the attainment of those goals. The Act advanced means of receiving access to registers by Court, resources and documents underneath the security cataloging. The basis of a rigorous democracy comprises accountability of the Government and its organizations. Accountability is a vital factor for the running of our political structure, as accountability means that those who are accused with conscripting and or carrying out strategy should be indulged to give clarification of their activities to their people. It is hope that with the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act, this would be assured.
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    Youth participsationand governance in Nigeria
    (Department of Political Science, Federal University, Dutsinma, 2023-05) Bot, M.D.; Bot, M.D.; Bitrus, D.I.
    The paper explored secondary and empirical sources of data through qualitative methods while adopting Gabriel Almonds theory of structural functionalism as its theoretical underpinning. The paper posited that youths play a decisive role in Nigeria's socio-political development however, the retrogressive participation and nonchalant attitude of youth in the fourth republic on politics and governance stalls the Nigerian developmental process. This is because the youth population have been relegated and reduced to thugs and violent merchants by the governing elite class. It is against this backdrop that this paper studies the realities of youth participation, governance and the development of the Nigerian state in the fourth republic. The findings of the study reveal that it is unlikely to actualize good governance without an active youth force. This in retrospect is because of the fast liberalizing and globalizing world. The paper argued that social factors like unemployment, illiteracy, deficit of trust in the system, corruption and poverty are germane factors that inhibit youth participation in politics and governance. The study recommends among other things that the implementation and the practicality of the "not too young to rule" act should favor all Nigerians regardless of a person's class or ethnicity
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    Youths Participation and Governance in Nigeria
    (Department of Political Science, Federal University, Dutsinma, 2020-07-27) Bot, M.D.; Olorunsuwa, E.O.; Bitrus, D.I.
    The paper explored secondary and empirical sources of data through qualitative methods while adopting Gabriel Almonds theory of structural functionalism as its theoretical underpinning. The paper posited that youths play a decisive role in Nigeria's socio-political development however, the retrogressive participation and nonchalant attitude of youth in the fourth republic on politics and governance stalls the Nigerian developmental process. This is because the youth population have been relegated and reduced to thugs and violent merchants by the governing elite class. It is against this backdrop that this paper studies the realities of youth participation, governance and the development of the Nigerian state in the fourth republic. The findings of the study reveal that it is unlikely to actualize good governance without an active youth force. This in retrospect is because of the fast liberalizing and globalizing world. The paper argued that social factors like unemployment, illiteracy, deficit of trust in the system, corruption and poverty are germane factors that inhibit youth participation in politics and governance. The study recommends among other things that the implementation and the practicality of the "not too young to rule" act should favor all Nigerians regardless of a person's class or ethnicity