After about twenty years of military rule in Nigeria, Nigerians seemed to have lost the ability to insist on their fundamental human rights. In this vein, any attempt to talk about human rights has been very controversial since the return of democracy in 1991 because the police seem to have taken over the lawlessness of the military as no day passes without a daily occurrence of extra judicial killings, accidental discharge, and other notorious acts against innocent citizens all over the country. Therefore, with police brutality observable in every nook and cranny of the Nigerian society, this study evaluates human rights abuses in Nigeria's democracy with a view to restoring man's dignity that is at lowest ebb today than ever. Since government seems confused on what steps to take to put a stop to the series of abuses of human rights, hypotheses were formulated and literatures related to the variables reviewed. Survey research design was adopted and a total sample of 150 respondents was selected through purposive sampling technique and simple random sampling technique. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 significant levels and the results of the findings show that all the null hypotheses were rejected and the alternate hypotheses accepted at same significant levels. Among the findings, the study shows that the rule of law in Nigeria has fallen short of the expectations of the citizens. Secondly, the police force has become a stumbling block to the effective administration of Justice and efficient maintenance of law and order as cruelty against citizens are widespread. Furthermore, the sheer disrespect of rules of engagements with imunity by the police not only questions the ability of the government to protect its citizens but also undermines its credibility. Based on the findings, the study concludes that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have not only abdicated their constitutional functions, responsibilities and obligations to Nigerians, but are deeply engaged in human rights abuses, bribery, and extortions of money not only from motorists plying our roads but also in our habitudes at the least opportunity. In this light, the study recommends that as a security organization in a democracy, the Nigeria police should understand that democracy demands that the human personality in its course of development should be allowed to proceed without artificial forces or barricade so long as it actively does not violate the safety and reasonable right of others. In addition, there should be other far-reaching reforms and reorientations necessary to bring Nigeria's policing operations into conformity with constitutional and international human rights standards.

Gender education and entrepreneurship have become worldwide phenomena for women, particularly in patriarchy societies where all kinds of discriminations, subjugation against them are frightening realities of contemporary times. As a result, female entrepreneurship has been weighed down by poor education, social norms, and lack of access to free credit facilities. It is in this context that this paper examines the impacts of gender education on female entrepreneurship in Enugu urban, Enugu state, Nigeria. A survey design was employed and 300 respondents were selected using the simple random sampling technique. Out of this number of respondents, only 280 (90.33%) structured questionnaire were returned and analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The distribution of the respondents showed 210 (75%) were female entrepreneurs, while 70 respondents (25%) were male entrepreneurs. Among the findings, an overwhelming majority of the respondents are of the view that the female entrepreneurs are important for the socio-economic transformation of the Enugu State, and by extension, Nigeria. Secondly, the study agrees that there is hardly a society where gender stereotypes do not exist but that these aspects of the gender belief system which are anti- female entrepreneurs' development have been over taken by the power of gender education. In addition, the study shows that gender education is the most viable and veritable vehicle for guaranteeing and sustaining female entrepreneurs to continue to expand entrepreneurship in Nigeria. Thirdly, this study has presented a different picture of women making some tremendous efforts in spite of all odds cannot be underestimated because their contributions have been remarkable despite the challenges they face in their quest to transform the patriarchal Igbo society, especially Enugu State. Based on this, the study concludes that the contributions of female entrepreneurs in Nigeria's entrepreneurship development cannot be underestimated because their contributions have been remarkable despite the challenges they face. In this vein, the study suggests that gender education should be a priority to halt all forms of discriminatory practices against female entrepreneurs and in the same vein, calls for elimination of prejudices and customary practices that are based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of either sex or on stereotyped roles for men and women. Above all, government should, through financial institutions, grant free interest loans to encourage female entrepreneurs plunge themselves into businesses to sustain the breaking of the glass ceilings.

The work looked at health insecurity of internally displaced victims of flood in Ahoada West Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria. Four research questions and objectives guided the study. The Social Inclusion Theory propounded in 1970 by René Lenoir was used. The study is a survey research. Both primary and secondary sources of data collection were utilized. A sample size of 100 was chosen. Respondents chosen for the study are family heads, women and youths. The collected data were analyzed through mean and standard deviation. The study discovered that internally displaced flood person’s victim’s experienced high blood pressure, infectious diseases, asthma and cold amongst others as a result of the flood. It is recommended that government and other humanitarian NGOs should assist in preventing and reducing the occurrence of yearly flood as this can be achieved through effective engineering control measure, flood forecasting, dredging of the Orashi River and establishment of deep drainage system.

Nigeria is a patriarchal society where women are located in the other room. The dominated power structure that upholds and entrenches male authority is sustained by cultural institutions which, humiliates and consigns women not only as sexual objects, but also to the position of obscurity. Sequel to this, gender discrimination has graduated from the home as if it were human and migrated into workplaces lowering the efficiency of women police officers as never before. Following this, the main thrust of this study is to examine the impacts of patriarchy on women police officers with a view to bringing to end gender discrimination in the Nigeria police. Two hypotheses were formulated in order to achieve the objectives of this study, and in addition, literatures related to the variables were reviewed. A survey research was adopted to collect primary data from 200 respondents purposively selected with the aid of a questionnaire. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to test each hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance with degree of freedom and critical values relative to the statistical technique employed. Among the findings, the study observes that women police officers have remained grossly under-represented and as a result, the Nigerian society has not fared any better for supporting male supremacy to the extent that the society has lower expectations for women police officers, leading to fewer opportunities for promotion. Furthermore, the study also reveals that despite the adoption of the International Bill of Rights for Women and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) by the United Nations, to which over 160 countries, including Nigeria were signatories, Nigeria is yet to implement the provision of the instruments. In addition, the study also notes that the subordinate condition of women is daily being oiled and enforced by the hidden viciousness of men unceasingly thereby making women police officers to continue to experience exclusion, and discrimination in offices. Above all, the study shows that the Nigerian constitution guarantees every citizen the right to dignity of the human person, and forbids the subjection of any person to any form of discriminatory practices based on gender. In conclusion, the study upholds that there is no basis for the continued discrimination and marginalization of women police officers, and by implication, the police institution must as matter of importance purge every trait of gender discrimination against women police officers. Based on this, the study suggests that since the Nigerian traditional world is gradually craving for modernization in which potential talents, competencies, skills, abilities and education amongst other speaks for the individual rather than the gender, there is an urgent need for a paradigm shift to abolish the impacts of patriarchy on women police officers in Nigeria and ensure gender equality. Finally, since the advocacy against women police discrimination agrees that all human beings ...