A synthesis of the role of media reports and elections in Nigerian democracy

This paper examines the interplay between the media and the elections in Nigeria, and discusses some of the relevant communication models that could assist the media in effectively reporting future elections in the country. This study has employed a historical approach, and argues that since Nigeria attained its political independence in 1960; conducting free and fair elections has been the major political problem in the country. The paper observed that the June 12 1993 Presidential Elections resulted in a stalemate, while the 2007 Elections were flawed with cases of electoral irregularities. Many of the results of the elections that were approved earlier by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were later cancelled by the Nigerian Judiciary, a confirmation that the elections were rigged as confirmed by most of the internal and the external observers that monitored the elections. As a part of the solutions to the problem of elections in Nigeria, this paper recommends the establishment of an Inter-Party Central Committee (ICPP), made up of the national executives of the registered political parties, to work in collaboration with the media as the committee supports the electoral commission to conduct free and fair elections in the country

New Media and the Arab Spring of 2011

About media and the Arab sprin

Selective Laser Sintering of Coated Ceramics

With advances in technology the aerospace industry has developed a greater demand for high temperature parts and has increased the use of ceramics. Since ceramic parts are very limited in how they are manufactured, it is difficult to integrate parts into areas requiring complex geometries. With the use of a rapid prototyping machine, coated ceramic powder can be formed into parts using the selective laser sintering process. Once formed, the part goes through a binder burnout stage and is then sintered. Build parameters and the types of binders and ceramics used will play a large role in how well parts are formed in the process

Charles Griffin to Professor Silver, 3 October 1962

Personal correspondenc

The Ukrainian crisis, the Crimean referendum and security implications for the European Union

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Foundation

Attitude Change in Student Teachers and Its Relationship to Cooperating Teachers’ Ratings of Student Teachers

The purpose of the study was to investigate changes in student teachers\u27 attitudes occurring during student teaching. Specifically, the concern was to determine the relationship of these changes to the influence of the cooperating teachers\u27 attitudes

Writing a book review

Book reviews are a good way to get started with writing for a journal and this Learning and CPD activity takes you through the process of understanding the aims of book review, undertaking practice pieces through to reviewing a book and advice on the dos and don'ts of book reviewing.N/

Ethene Elimination from CH3CH2NHCH2+: Reaction Pathways at the Boundary Between Stepwise and Concerted Processes

AbstractThe elimination of ethene from CH3CH2NHCH2+ is characterized by ab initio procedures. This reaction occurs through several asynchronous stages, but without passing through formal intermediates. A potential energy barrier to hydrogen migration from the β carbon to N is largely determined by the energy required to cleave the CN bond, but is lowered slightly by H transfer from the β to the α carbon and then to N. The complex [C2H5+ NHCH2] is bypassed, even though that complex could exist at energies only slightly above that of the transition state for ethene elimination. Furthermore, conversion of a substantial reverse activation energy into energy of motion causes CH2NH2+ and CH2CH2 to dissociate faster than they can form [CH2NH2+ CH2CH2]. Comparison of results for CH3CH2NHCH2+ to ab initio ones for methane from CH3CH2CH3+· and elimination of ethene from CH3CH2OCH2+ and CH3CH2CHOH+ reveals that these dissociations occur in a similar but, in each case, a distinct series of asynchronous steps or stages, and that there is no sharp demarcation between concerted and stepwise eliminations as presently defined. In dissociations of CH3CH2NHCH2+, loss of electron density at the C in the breaking N bond leads the transfer of electron density to that carbon by migration of a hydrogen from the adjacent C. We attribute this to a requirement for the moving H to be close to Cα before the moving H can start to develop covalent bonding to Cα. It is also concluded that elimination of ethene from CH3CH2NHCH2+ avoids a Woodward–Hoffmann symmetry-imposed barrier by H migrating sufficiently from the β to the α carbon on the way to N, so that the dissociation is essentially a 1,1 rather than a 1,2 elimination