Local Government Administration in Nigeria and Pakistan: A Cross-Cultural Content Analysis

Rethinking Local Government Administration in Nigeria

This paper examines local governm shift in its discussion and findings. The paper as its objectives tackled the concept of local government, evolution of local government administration in Nigeria, the constitution and local government administration in Nigeria and the controversy over local government autonomy in Nigeria. To achieve this, the paper adopted the use of secondary sources and data...

Local Government Reforms In Pakistan : Context , Content And Causes

a cross-cultural analysis of metadiscourse features in persian and english opinion columns ( تجزیه و تحلیل بین فرهنگی عناصر فرامتنی در مقاله های دیدگاهی فارسی و انگلیسی )

this study purported to compare and contrast the use of self-mention and evidentials as two mtadiscourse features in opinion columns of persian and english newspapers. the theoretical basis of this study is the idea that metadiscourse features vary across cultural boundaries. for this purpose, 150 persian and 150 english opinion columns were collected based on three factors of topic, audience a...

Economic Analysis of Maize Production in Ogori Magongo Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria

The study assessed economic of maize production in Ogori/Magongo local government area of Kogi State. To this end, effort was made to examine the socio economic characteristics of the maize farmers, determine the resource use efficiency, problems as well as profitability of maize production in the area. To achieve the objectives of this study 48 maize farmers where randomly selected from 5 ward...

Decentralization and Democratic Local Government in Cross River State, Nigeria: A Fact or Fallacy

This study focused on decentralization and democratic local government in Cross River State, Nigeria. Sample size of 900 was adopted for the purpose of the study. Stratified random sampling was used in the study. Stratification was done on the basis of geopolitical zone, political party affiliation and educational status of the respondents. 900 political party members evenly distributed (300 ap...