January 2022

Beyond arms investment: Interrogating the silent drivers of protracted chieftaincy conflicts in Ghana

In Ghana, scholarly works on conflict financing, which sustains most conflicts is very much limited. Against this background, the Yendi chieftaincy conflict was purposely selected with the objective of examining the various resources invested in by the belligerents and other interested parties aside arms and ammunitions, which protracted the conflict and its resolution. A combined 59 respondents were purposely selected...

Author(s): Samuel Marfo, Halidu Musah and Hamza Mohammed

January 2022

Generating fresh vision on federalism for Nigeria: The position of South-south Nigeria on economic and political restructuring

The stability and viability of Nigeria has been threatened by lack of political will by the federal government to implement concrete policies and programmes on socio-economic and political integration of the 250 ethnic nationalities in the country. The problem is traced to the practice of a defective federal structure inherited from British colonial government since 1954; and it has resulted in several agitations led by...

Author(s): Ambily Etekpe, Epoweide Isaiah Koko and Queen Eyikorogha