*DIVIDEND OF DEMOCRACY AS A MIRAGE IN NIGERIA SOCIO-POLITICAL MILIEU* *INTRODUCTION* By May 2019, Nigeria’s nascent democracy should have been two decades. Thus, the thrust of this article is an in depth analysis on how dividends of democracy is a mirage in Nigeria socio-political milieu. This article however, takes a cursory look at the daunting challenges ahead and infers that unless the government increases expenditure and truncate the current brazen corruption, the hope of democratic consolidation may eventually be a mirage. DEFINITION OF TERMS • Democracy : This is a form of government whereby the citizens are eligible to choose their representative either directly or indirectly elected by themselves. • Dividend : This refers to a reward, cash, profit or otherwise, distributed to people from an organisation. • Milieu : This is a social environment that people live. • Mirage : This is from Latin word “MIRARI” means “TO LOOK AT, T...
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AFTER UNIVERSITY WHAT NEXT?
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AFTER THE UNIVERSITY WHAT NEXT? Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, donate financial skills and communication skills....... Robert T. Kiyosaki "Study hard and get good grades and you will find a high paying job with great benefits" most parents used to say or still say. Most of our parents goals is to provide us with good Education so that we would have the greatest chance for success in life. The world today is changing but the Education is not changing with it. We spend years in an antiquated Educational system, studying subjects we will never use. For instance: An engineering student who has been looking for 'X' from 100 level down to 500 level. Or a Sociology student studying and cramming the year each theory was propounded by different scholars. Scholars like Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, etc. Or a Political science...
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BEAUTIFUL ON THE OUTSIDE, UGLY ON THE INSIDE All through our lives we are been taught HYGIENE both personal hygiene and environmental hygiene in our formal and informal Educational sector. Through formal education, we were taught in the nursery school, primary school, secondary school, mass media etc. about the importance of hygiene. Informally, we learn from our elders, parents and even through the government who imposes sanitation at least once a month in every state. Surprisingly most of us are not learning. We know the importances of hygiene but yet we are not practising it. Here, I want to focus on our personal hygiene because I believe that if you are personally clean then your environment will be clean. Personal hygiene is very important for both sex but more important for the female fork. So please permit to focus on the female forks. In Africa and probably the world in general, women are very strong and powerful. The importances of a lady cannot be over emphasised....