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Item ARMS TRAFFICKING IN NIGERIA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE WEST AFRICA SUB-REGION SINCE 1900(Ijagun Journal of History and Diplomacy, 2015) Abiodun S, Afolabi; M.A.Y, LewuThe movement of arms across the world, the threat to security, stability and development, the existence of militant groups, organized criminal gangs and the nexus between them are not new phenomena. It was however not until a few years after the 9/11 Attack in the United States that the question of susceptibility of Nigeria and the West African sub-region began to take the center stage in policy and academic debates. This article examines the implications of trans-border arms trafficking on the socioeconomic development of Nigeria as a country, and the West African sub-region. It argues that trans-border arms trafficking is growing in scale and momentum without a corresponding and clearly coordinated strategy for dealing with this hydra-headed monster, which significantly affects the economy of Nigeria in particular and West African sub-region in general. This growing trend, if uncontrolled, has the potential of undermining and fueling insecurity across the region, which consequently has the likelihood of affecting the joint security, stability, economies and core democratic values of the region. The paper concludes that the extent and magnitude of the problem require a definitive strategy within the broad-frame of the sub-region.Item Sectoral Approach to Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria, 1980-2010(Africa: Journal of Contemporary, 2016) M.A.Y, Lewu; Abiodun S, Afolabi; E.O, UyannePoverty is a global phenomenon. United Nation's declaration of 1966 as the International Year for the eradication of Poverty was a clarion call on the international development community to focus on poverty eradication. A survey by the Federal Office of Statistics in 1996 put 65.5% of Nigerians as living in poverty. Though this reduced to 54% in 2004, it remained an unacceptably high percentage. This paper attempted a historical survey of Federal Government efforts at eradicating poverty since 1980up to 2010 through sectoral programmes such as agriculture, health, transport, housing and finance with a view to identifying suitable poverty alleviation programmes in Nigeria. Available secondary and internet sources were synthesized with oral interviews to examine how successful these programmes had been and how they could be effectively sustained but it discovered that for various reasons, many of the programmes failed to achieve much despite massive investments. Hence, poverty remained endemic. The paper concluded that until there is genuine government commitment to addressing the root causes of poverty and adhering strictly to the execution of programmes designed with the collaboration of all the relevant stakeholders, government efforts may remain futile.