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Effective Information Services Delivery in Nigerian Public Libraries: Panacea for Rural Development
Juliet Onuoha,
Chukwuemeka Chukwueke
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2021
Pages:
1-6
Received:
31 July 2020
Accepted:
2 December 2020
Published:
15 January 2021
Abstract: As day go by, the demands on libraries keep increasing. Such also, are the expectations on public libraries in Nigeria. Today, the importance of public libraries in the worldview cannot be overemphasized as a result of the different services offered and roles played towards growth and development of the society. Regrettably, a close look at most public libraries, especially in the rural communities of Nigeria makes one to wonder what good these libraries can offer to the nation at large and the rural communities in particular. This scenario therefore, calls for urgent attention in the area of repositioning these public libraries for effective information services delivery. However, the avenue through which this effective information services delivery in Nigerian public libraries can be achieved may be through the provision of diversified information resources (both print and non-print) and further inclusion of community library services, not necessarily delivered within the walls of the library but outside. This is the thrust of this paper as it critically looked into ways of ensuring effective information services delivery in Nigerian public libraries for rural development. In handling this, the paper critically examined the historical overview of public libraries, the Nigerian public library systems in perspective, and the Nigerian public libraries and the rural community. However, before delving into the issue of repositioning public libraries for rural development, the authors tried to look at the challenges facing Nigerian public libraries in information services delivery. It was further concluded that the Nigerian public libraries can do better and live up to expectation if there is government intervention in the area of establishing public libraries across the nation, especially in Nigerian rural communities, among other recommendations.
Abstract: As day go by, the demands on libraries keep increasing. Such also, are the expectations on public libraries in Nigeria. Today, the importance of public libraries in the worldview cannot be overemphasized as a result of the different services offered and roles played towards growth and development of the society. Regrettably, a close look at most pu...
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President's Legislative Programs in the United States as a Non-monopoly and Non-commanding Power
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2021
Pages:
7-14
Received:
23 December 2020
Accepted:
15 February 2021
Published:
26 February 2021
Abstract: The president's programs are not monopoly and excluding, rather competitive and open to the members of congress; not commanding and abiding by, rather persuading and being persuaded; not comprehensively dominating the whole process of the Congress, rather only leading the legislative process of the Congress. The president 's programs exit in the State of the Union Address mostly. The reasons include the Constitution of the United States, the president itself and the congress itself ext.. The president's programs are based on separation, checks & balance, are different from rights-reflecting legislative plans of England and China's autonomous legislative plans. China's autonomous legislative plans include three categories mandatory plans that must be completed when conditions are ripe, guiding plans that are ready to be completed as far as possible and researching plans that continue to be studied and considered according to circumstances. The president should struggle for his (or her) legislative programs to pass and is constraint of objective, subjective and externally environmental factors. Whether the president can successfully start the legislative programs of the Congress and whether each legislative project can pass through the legislative process of the Congress can be judged objectively by the president's public opinion support rate and party support rate, and subjectively by the president's subjective efforts, negotiation ability and persuasion ability, as well as the external environment when the president competes with the Congress, such as war or peace, economic situation, etc.
Abstract: The president's programs are not monopoly and excluding, rather competitive and open to the members of congress; not commanding and abiding by, rather persuading and being persuaded; not comprehensively dominating the whole process of the Congress, rather only leading the legislative process of the Congress. The president 's programs exit in the St...
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The 2020 General Elections in Ghana: An Analysis of the Issues, Voting Pattern and Impact
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2021
Pages:
15-27
Received:
6 February 2021
Accepted:
19 February 2021
Published:
4 March 2021
Abstract: Ghanaians went to the polls on 7 December 2020, for the 8th successive time since the return to constitutional rule in 1993, to elect a President and 275 Members of Parliament. The incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo defeated former President John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress, to secure a second term mandate, on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. In the Parliamentary race, both parties secured 137 seats each with one independent seat. The outcome of the elections, therefore, did not follow the same trend as those held in Ghana in 1992/93, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 in which a victorious party won the presidential and secured majority of the seats in parliament. The outcome of the polls also saw a change in the country's governance system where for the first time, the Speaker of Parliament came from the opposition party. Also, National Democratic Congress, for the first time, officially rejected the outcome of the polls and mounted a challenge in the country’s apex court. The author relied on the qualitative method to examine the process of the conduct of the 2020 general elections, the issues, outcome and analysis of the voting pattern and its implications for electoral politics in Ghana. The paper revealed that the Ghanaian electorate are rational actors who reward hard work and punish mediocracy and not based on destructive ethnic voting. Also, it reiterates the need for vigilance at both the polling stations and collation centres to ensure undisputed elections and to consolidate the gains in Ghana’s electoral politics.
Abstract: Ghanaians went to the polls on 7 December 2020, for the 8th successive time since the return to constitutional rule in 1993, to elect a President and 275 Members of Parliament. The incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo defeated former President John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress, to secure a second term mandate, on the ticket of the New...
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Mass Media Reform and Democratization in the Indonesian Context
Jamhur Poti,
Mohd Khairie Ahmad
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2021
Pages:
28-35
Received:
6 February 2021
Accepted:
24 February 2021
Published:
4 March 2021
Abstract: The reforms that took place in Indonesia in 1998 were the starting point for community demands for a democratic system. This article is a conceptual article that aims to answer the challenges of democratizing the mass media in the Indonesian context. For 32 years, the Indonesian government system tended to adhere to an autocratic system. The freedom of the mass media or the press is monitored, so that freedom of information and news is limited. So that the information that reaches the public has experienced distortion and is no longer relevant. So strong in autocratic regimes. However, after the 1998 reformation, democracy has made significant progress, with the fulfillment of the rights of civil society, there is a process of transferring authority which previously became the exclusive rights of the state to become the authority of the public. In line with this matlamat, the transition of the broadcast media system system is monitored by a government order that is free from pressure and interference with the interests of power. The mass media or the press is no longer the fourth pillar in democracy, but the mass media or the press is a part that must be guarded, because the mass media or the press represents itself as the main public space and also determines the dynamics that not only function socially and economically, but also function. ideological. Apart from that threats to mass media workers and journalists still occur, even though threats and violence are carried out more by group interests. In fact, democracy actually contains civilization and order in social life which has a very noble goal in running the government. In general, it can be said that a democratic system requires a very dynamic consensus and interaction between the state, the media industry, and the civil society. Because in a democratic system there is no institution that feels more dominant than others.
Abstract: The reforms that took place in Indonesia in 1998 were the starting point for community demands for a democratic system. This article is a conceptual article that aims to answer the challenges of democratizing the mass media in the Indonesian context. For 32 years, the Indonesian government system tended to adhere to an autocratic system. The freedo...
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