Browsing by Author "Segun Oshewolo"

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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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    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.