Centre for Promotion of Educational and Scientific Research
Party-Politics and Intra-Party Democracy in Nigeria: A Historical and Contemporary
Perspective
Alfa Patrick Innocent …………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 1-15
Migration, Urbanisation and Crime Rates in Nigeria Cities: A Study of Lafia
Metropolis
Stephen S. Ojo & Adesina S. Ayesoro ……………………………………………………………..…………..… 16-27
Geospatial Analysis of Some Police Stations in Lagos State
Omogunloye O. G.1 and Ayeni O. O.2 …………………….…………………………………………………….. 28-42
John Arierhi Ottuh
Vicar, Winners Baptist Church, Box 1214 Effurun, Delta State
Email:wibachef90@yahoo.com or wibachef90@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The attitude of Jesus in the New Testament towards the treatment of women in the society is that of fairness and equity. The aim of this study therefore, was to examine how the Urhobo traditional understandings of adultery are linked with that of the Jews and how they affect women negatively in Urhoboland and to use Jesus’ critical response in John 8: 1-11 to call for a change of the status-quo in Urhoboland. In order to do this the Feminist Liberation Theology model was explored as a method. It was seen that the Urhobo and Jewish understanding of adultery are similar in some areas and that these cultural status-quo are oppressive to women and apart from the oppressive nature of the Urhobo understanding of adultery on women, it can also become a basis for men’s promiscuity which can become a gate way for the acquisition and transmission of sexually transmitted disease like HIV/AIDS, and as such could also lead to divorce and family disintegration. This work therefore was a critique of the Urhobo traditional understanding of adultery in the light of Jesus’ critical response in John 8: 1- 11 and could be concluded on the premise that men and women are equal sharers of God’s image because the duo are created in God’s image (imago Dei) and as such it is wrong to attach more importance
HOLY SPIRIT”
Dr. David T. Ejenobo
Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy
Delta State University, Abraka
ABSTRACT
The doctrine of the trinity has generated a lot of controversies down the centuries among New Testament scholars. The problem generated by an attempt by scholars to dissect the Personhood of God has resulted in various shades of interpretations on the relationship between God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It is against this background that this paper seeks to examine Paul’s understanding of the Holy Spirit viewed against the backdrop of the doctrine of the Trinity. The various nuances of Paul’s allusion to the Holy Spirit are therefore examined with a view to situating them within a proper understanding of the concept of the trinity. It is the author’s contention that for Paul there is no personality distinction between God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, since man encounters these “persons” in the spiritual realm. For the African, conceptualizing God within the realm of the Spirithood of God would be a more practical way of describing the activities of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit than the Western conceptualization of the Three Persons in on Godhead.
Stephen S. Ojo & Adesina S. Ayesoro
Department of Social Development
Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Lafia
ABSTRACT
The influx of people to any area raises many problems. The concentration of population in Lafia city is very alarming and this was largely due to migration with attendant problem of crime increase. It is important to find out if the extent of crime rates can be explained in terms of such factors of migration and urbanization. Multi-stage technique comprising cluster, purposive, systematic and simple random sampling were used for the selection of the respondents. The method includes questionnaires, in-depth interview and direct observation was applied in the study. From the findings, the study concluded that the phenomenal growth in urbanization in Lafia city and the inability of the urban area to be able to utilize/absorb the urban labour that was created through the process of urbanization. A serious malady responsible for urban unemployment and the attendant problems like crime is the staggering rate at which young people migrate to the city. Therefore, an attempt should be taken to embark on planned development whereby rural areas would be developed relatively and have basic social infrastructures that can attract and sustain the population in form of return migration. Also there is the need for industrialization particularly agro-allied industries should be developed to stabilize the process of urbanization in Nigerian cities, this will greatly reduce crime rates.
Alfa Patrick Innocent
Department of Social Science and Humanities
The Federal Polytechnic, Idah Kogi State, Nigeria
E-mail: alfaintellectual@yahoo.com.
ABSTRACT
This paper analyzes party politics in Nigeria from the First Republic to date. Its input is that the dearth of intra-party democracy in Nigeria’s political parties is not a recent phenomenon but is rather endemic despite the variations in scale and intensity. The paper drew its insight from the secondary data and personal experience and observations of the authors. Group theory was used to explicate the tendencies of political parties and their embracing or otherwise of internal democratic doctrines. The paper posits that there is profound lack of intra-party democracy in the operations of political parties in Nigeria and recommended ways of ensuring that intra-party democracy is enforced in Nigeria’s political parties.
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