Growing offences within and beyond national territories challenge modern societies and justify the creation of the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime. Similarly challenged are specialised institutions mandated to monitor, apprehend, prosecute offenders and administer justice related to...

The convergence of information technology (IT) with those dedicated to communication to create information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the recent centuries and decades has encouraged the application of innovations of technological, social and institutional forms to facilitate...

Large amounts of unspent funds budgeted for implementing development projects have been recovered from Nigeria’s public officials since President Yar Adua directed in 2007 that responsible Nigerian Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) must refund such funds at the end of every fiscal...

The ongoing increase in oil price compels the search for cost-efficient energy alternatives. The peaking of petroleum oil currently selling at about $130 per barrel and the dependence of risky radioactive power stations on inefficient spending of public funds is nearly ubiquitous wherever...

This paper is timely because it critically examines the influence of African-Americans on U.S. trade, foreign direct investment and aid toward the Sub-Saharan African Countries in the late 1970s, a dimension that has been largely overlooked in foreign policy analysis, despite its critical...

– The global financial economic crises of 2007-08 were the most serious of the previous series of similar cataclysmic events that exposed the deficiencies in the global neoliberal capitalism. Perversion of neoliberal literature by dogmatism, fragmented disciplinary myopia, instead of plural...