This study investigates the deregulation of the Nigerian Telecommunication Sector within the precinct of Imperialism and development. This is premised on the fact that

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The task of this paper is to critically appraise the relationship between Nigeria's national image and her foreign policy since independence. In doing this, it embarked on a historical and analytical examination of the contradictions that are embedded in Nigeria's foreign policy and their fundamental link to the country's domestic crisis. The article observes that Nigeria's foreign policy over the years has been grossly sabotaged and undermined by image crisis both nationally and internationally. Relying heavily on secondary data, and anchored fundamentally on the role theory as a framework of analysis, the paper argues that Nigeria's role expectations at different "concentric circles" of her foreign policy have generated multiple role perceptions, thus leading to unintended role conflict. The direct implication of this is confusion and dissonance in the domestic institutional and constitutional mechanisms that impel foreign policy formulation and implementation. Consequently, the paper concludes that resolution of the distortions embedded in the country's foreign policy is the only panacea to resolving her national and international image crisis. It therefore, canvasses an imperative need for Nigeria to transform her convoluted foreign policy, redirect her diplomatic compass and re-align her foreign policy architecture to reflect the demands of a globalizing world.

Current workflow management systems need a deep insight into the design of organization’s business process. Creating a business workflow design is sometimes complicated, inaccurate, time-consuming and non-error free. This business process design requires adequate tools and techniques needed to help organizations or companies achieve their desirable target. To aid the support of workflow, scholars have proposed the use of workflow mining which helps organizations have a deep insight into their business processes. This study gives an in-depth analysis on the current trend of workflow mining and also discusses their strengths and limitations/weaknesses. Most existing approaches produces models that are generalized, incomplete, not well represented and shows only fuzzy pictures of the workflow investigated. The challenging issues that arise as a result of inaccurately applying the right algorithm to construct a work model from workflow logs are also highlighted. There is need to make appropriate selection for a good mining algorithm to avoid any setback and understanding the organization business workflow processes for business design, modeling, resource strategy and planning control. It is essential to have a comprehensive characterization study of workflow mining algorithms. The resulting insights provides a foundation for such workflow mining algorithms necessary for improving business processes schemes as well as for the effectiveness of future services and application

This paper examines the phenomenon of foreign megastores in Nigeria. It offers a historical analysis of the factors responsible for their presence, emerging trends engendered by foreign megastores within the Nigerian market and the implications of such