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COVID-19: WHY MEN REBEL BY A. O. EZE Relative Deprivation Relative deprivation is the lack of resources (e.g. money, rights, social equality) necessary to maintain the quality of life considered typical within a given socio-economic group.  The deprivation  model suggests that people who feel they are being deprived of something considered essential in their society (money, rights, political voice, status) will organize or join social movements dedicated to obtaining the things of which they feel deprived.  The major proponents of the model are an American sociologist Robert K. Merton, Ted Robert Gurr in his work titled “Why Men Rebel”, published in 1970 and British statesman and sociologist Walter Runciman. Walter Runciman listed four required conditions that can trigger the sense of deprivation: 1. A person does not have something 2. That person knows other people who have the thing 3. That person wants to have the thing 4. That person believes they have a r...

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SOCIAL INSECURITY AND CORRUPTION Man is a social being who needs social security which leads to the realization of man’s humanity. The word social means the act of living a communal and gregarious life that is full of companionship. The word social is connected with human society which encompasses the ways people organizes their society, interact with others and live their life. Hence, a human being as a social animal has an innate socialistic tendency in him. And he will remain unfulfilled and unsatisfied until he actualizes his social status. Therefore, we can define social security as the security of man’s social systems. The social systems of man are his social needs. In other words Social security refers to the protection and recognition of man’s social needs by the state. Furthermore, social security systems encompass all government programmes and actions geared towards protection of the social needs or social wellbeing of the citizenry. The social secu...

Situation of Human Rights in Nigeria by A. O Eze (director Institute of Political Therapy and Gamesmanship Studies) The question of human rights in Nigeria since independence has been very controversial. Human rights in Nigeria are protected under Chapter IV of the 1999 constitution. Nigeria has made serious improvements in human rights under this constitution that ushered in fourth republic although there are some lapses or areas that need to be strengthened which we are going to examine under contending issues as a sub-topic. In the period between its independence in 1960 to 1999, military has ruled Nigeria for 29 years starting from Aguiyi Ironsi in 1966 to Abudsalami Abubakar in 1999. Under military rule human rights suffers most. This is because military has no or little regard to human rights. Military rules with decree and not constitution. And it is only in constitution that human rights can be truly guaranteed. Nigeria since independence has been active in signing and...

Africa is a continent about which outsiders have all sorts of impressions; one of the most enduring and disturbing impressions is that which portrayed and continued to portray Africa as a dark continent where nothing good is possible. On the contrary, the general impression especially among western scholars has been to stereotype the continent as a land afflicted by drought, famine, diseases, incessant conflicts, mismanagement, population explosion, brain drain, social disorder and endemic corruption. Western scholars and observers tend to play down the fact that colonialism undermined and in most cases destroyed the structures of African political and government systems. Whether the colonial powers ruled by indirect method or supplanted the existing political order or government machinery, the same result of stifling, undermining and the destroying the existing culture was achieved. The greatest harm done to the colonial subjects is the destruction of their self-confidence, determin...

POLITICAL PARTY Political party is an organized group of people that are politically inclined and who share common political ideology with the primary aim of gaining political power in a state. Shively (2005: 247) defines political party as “a group of officials or would-be officials who are linked with a sizable group of citizens into an organization; a chief objective of this organization is to ensure that its officials attain power or are maintained in power.” Heywood (2007:272) seems to have given us a comprehensive and logically articulated meaning of political party when he aptly defined it as “a group of people that is organized for the purpose of winning government power, by electoral or other means.” According to him, party may be “authoritarian or democratic; they may seek power through elections or through revolution; and they may espouse ideologies of the left, right or centre, or, indeed, disavow political ideas altogether.” The primary aims for the formati...

What Ndi Enugu should know: Flawsn the 2020 budget passed into law by the Enugu state house of Assembly              Written by      COAL CITY YOUTHS DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE 17-2-20 Having submitted a letter to the chamber of the Enugu State Assembly through the Speaker Mr. Edward Ubosi Calling for clearification in some areas of the budget which received no attention after one month and three weeks and having done a Press Release to that effect, the youths of Enugu state under the aiges of COAL CITY YOUTHS DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE make bold to say that the budget is KANGAROO. *Bellow are some of our findings which we had wanted them to address* 1. Recall that the media aide to the Governor had in one of his articles pointed out that the road leading from Nike Lake - Nike road junction under bypass flyover in Enugu East LG has been completed. Why then did the assembly allocated the sum of *1.8 billion* naira for it's co...

google.com, pub-2371127776110309, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 School of Oformatism presents "How to Fight Corruption in a Corrupt State" written by  Andrew Oforma Eze Have defined this anti-development (corruption) in previous articles  there is no need to keep on defining it again and again because it is not entertaining and it is anti-human. I have also discovered that the more Nigerians incessantly call the word “corruption” the more it increases and waxes stronger. Corruption has multiplier effects. Therefore instead of attributing all societal misfortune to this asocial act it will be more beneficiary if we devote our research prowess on how to ameliorate it to the barest minimum if not total eradication because it is an asocial act which need not to live with social beings. Hence, many scholars across disciplines have unveiled different approaches on how to fight corruption in Nigeria and beyond. Some political scholars, social analysts and commentators have advoca...

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Ten Reasons Why the Study of Psychology is Important in Teacher Education Programme Introduction According to Onah (2015:12), education psychology is an integral part of psychology which seeks to find how positive relationship/interaction can be established between the teacher, students and the learning process.  Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning. The study of learning processes, from both cognitive and behavioral perspectives, allows researchers to understand individual differences in intelligence, cognitive development, affect, motivation, self-regulation, and self-concept, as well as their role in learning. Onah (2015:12) further noted that “the knowledge and skills acquired from educational psychology will guide and direct in resolving the enormous problems confronting both the teachers and students in classroom. Johann Herbart (1776–1841) is considered the father of educational psychology. He believe...

Human Rights First, rights refer to the moral or legal entitlement over something. Human rights are rights inherent in all human beings by virtue of being human. Everybody is entitled to enjoy them regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or status. Human rights can also be explained as privilege to be enjoyed by human beings. Such rights include right to life, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom from slavery, freedom of religion, right to education, right to personal liberty, freedom from torture, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination. Furthermore, Heywood (2007:326), seem to have summarized what human rights entail when he rightly observed thus: "Human rights are rights to which people are entitled by virtue of being human; they are a modern and secular version of natural rights. Human rights are ‘universal’ in the sense that they belong to all humans rather than to members of any particular ...