The paper establishes a link between ineffective performance, declining legitimacy and increasing violence and insecurity in Nigeria’s fourth republic through the lens of Hobbes Social Contract. The paper is an attempt to closely examine a much-talked-about but largely misunderstood legitimacy...

Corruption has continued to pose a formidable obstacle to the development and sustenance of the democracy project in Nigeria. For about twenty years now, the democratic journey has remained tortuous because of the reckless pursuits of power by the political class. The cancer of corruption...

This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the Nigerian economy with the aim of proposing some policy recommendations for reducing the negative impacts discovered. To achieve these objectives, secondary data sources was used and subjected to the descriptive method. The paper...

This study compares Africa’s developmental crises with those of Asian ’Tigers’ success economic story, and how it can serve as a lesson for Africa, still trudging on development. The work observes, contrary to all pretenses that Africa, in spite of her much publicized theoretical ambition...

This paper is a philosophical evaluation of Samir Amin’s political ideologies within the prisms of Neoliberalism and Political Instability in the Global South. Using data generated from secondary sources and descriptive method of analysis, Amin posited that the rulers in the South need to be...

England in the middle of the seventeenth century was a quagmire of political posturing from a variety of power centers; royalists, anti-royalists, the clergy, and sundry who were jockeying for the most advantageous positions. With the outbreak of Civil War, England’s social and political...

Unfolding events in the Nigerian political strata since 1999 tend to suggest that the governing elite class have soon neglected if not forgotten about the plights of the vast majority of the Nigerian masses who ironically voted them into office. In line with this submission, the paper assesses...

The paper examines the political philosophy of Kwame Nkrumah on Neocolonialism and the current debt situation in Africa. To achieve these objectives, the study used qualitative and content analysis method in analyzing the information generated for the study. Cases and instances from the content...

The apparent crisis of race and colonial imperialism within world politics and human right issues redefine the philosophical undertone that form the basis behind this paper, hence the paper using the lens of Fanon raises the question for whom the international system works; how politically the...

The departure in 1999 of military regime in Nigeria restored hope for human rights that was grossly abused by successive military regimes. Regrettably, after twenty years, it is not yet uhuru for Nigerians. Human rights violations remain rife. Particularly worrying is the government security...