Since its terror campaign began, Boko Haram's targets had been security formations and churches in several parts of the North. Now, they have also turned their radar on other institutions, the media and universities. From being an obscure movement confined to north-eastern Nigeria, the Boko Haram has emerged as the most palpable threat to the polity's continued peace and development. Not only do the persistent attacks of the sect create widespread insecurity and fear, the prevalent dread of the militant sect has stifled normal processes of trade and investments as well as the performance of routine security functions. For example, in Kaduna State, the 33 rd Kaduna International Trade Fair witnessed what is perhaps its worst outing. This is because booths and stands that supposed to be occupied by exhibitors lay empty as businesses decided to keep away for fear that they could be victims of the bombing that have continued to plague Nigerian cities. Ironically, the fair had been previously postponed, due to security concerns. This paper examines these issues and concludes by positing that for the terror to be won, the citizenry must see it as their fight. For this to happen, government has to demonstrate competence and sincerity of purpose.

The aim of this paper is to explain the relationship between e-governance implementation and public service delivery in Nigeria using the Technology Acceptance Model. The paper is qualitative in nature and relies on secondary sources for data collection and the discussion that followed. The paper found that there are certain obstacles that hinder the adoption and effective implementation of e-governance that would have engendered qualitative service delivery in public sector organisations in Nigeria. It is in line with the foregoing, that this paper concludes that tackling the obstacles to e-governance adoption, implementation is key to the achievement of better public service delivery. The paper therefore recommends the sensitization of public servants on the importance and benefits of adopting and implementing e-governance in their administrative and organizational processes that will ultimately lead to improved service delivery in Nigeria among others.

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Nigeria struggles to establish and sustain cooperative, interdependent state-local intergovernmental relations (IGR) by providing for the powers and rights of local governments in the federal constitution. Despite the provisions, the practice of state-local IGR has remained inclusive, hierarchical, dependent and competitive. This paper investigates the extent to which constitutional provisions determine state-local relations as against the macrostructure of intergovernmental relations between the federal government and states. The authors argue that it is difficult to expect a cooperative, interdependent, state-local IGR through constitutional provisions of the powers and rights of local governments, if the federal-state relations, which should be the determining framework of IGR is inclusive, hierarchical and dependent. The paper suggests that the lower forms of IGR in a federation (e.g. the state-local IGR), largely depend on the super-structure, which is that between the federal government and the lower tiers. The implication is that the level of autonomy enjoyed by local governments largely depends on the level of autonomy the states themselves enjoy.

The challenge of stable electricity supply in Nigeria with its harrowing effects on socio-economic development accounted largely for government decision for privatization of the power sector. However, the extent to which this purpose has been achieved requires investigation, which necessitates this study. Survey research design was adopted, with questionnaire administered on both residential and commercial customers of Ibadan and Ikeja electricity Distribution companies selected as focus for the study. Multiple regression statistics was used for data analysis. The result shows that both distribution companies (DISCOs) have brought no significant improvement to electricity supply going by the quality, billing, coverage, metering, load shedding, and response to customers' indicators. Thus we recommend that DISCOs should source for fund from the capital market in order engender customer satisfaction, inject fund for replacement or upgrade of dilapidated power equipments, provision of meters, especially, prepaid type while government make the business environment convenient for healthy competition and regulation.