Examining the Link Between Religion and Corporate Governance: Insights From Nigeria

This article examines whether the degree of religiosity in an institutional environment can stimulate the emergence of a robust corporate governance system. This study utilizes the Nigerian business environment as its context and embraces a qualitative interpretivist research approach. This approach permitted the engagement of a qualitative content analysis (QCA) methodology to generate insights from interviewees. Findings from the study indicate that despite the high religiosity among Nigerians, religion has not stimulated the desired corporate governance system in Nigeria. The primary explanation for this outcome is the presence of rational ordering over religious preferences thus highlighting the fact that religion, as presently understood and practiced by stakeholders, is inconsistent with the principles underpinning good corporate governance

Mortalizing Morality and Immortalizing Immorality in the Campaign Against HIV/AIDS Scourge: The Fate of the Contemporary Christians

Caught in the web of some kind of psychological trauma, emotional dislocation, social fracture and cultural disfigurement resulting from the health mutilation of the scourge of HIV/AIDS, science is receiving the greatest challenge in history in its attempts to provide a cure for this deadly disease. Governments in their tiers and Non-Governmental Organizations and the media as well as religious institutions are doing their best to enlighten men on the deplorable state of man's vulnerability to the trap of this disease. Anti-retroviral drugs which have been discovered to this effect are not a complete cure. Besides, they are expensive and scarce. The best preventive measure of HIV/AIDS with regard to sex as a means of contracting the disease is abstinence for the unmarried and faithfulness for the married. However, the high level of sexual liberty (be it homosexual or heterosexual), has degenerated into promiscuity and abuse, a deplorably embarrassing situation. The recourse is the use of condom to check the disease at sex liberty for both the married and (even) the unmarried. Thus, morality is being mortalized and immorality immortalized. How then does the Christian reconcile his or her faith with the use of condom as a preventive measure of HIV/AIDS? This paper seeks to answer this question, among others. SOPHIA: An African Journal of Philosophy Vol. 9 (1) 2006: pp. 77-8

Over – Population and the Crises of Hunger and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Way Out

Although poverty can hardly be desirable by anyone the world over, population, on the other hand, is one phenomenon very much desired, especially by Africans. This love for excessive procreation invariably leads to over-population. The thesis of this paper, however, is that taken together, these social twin are sure channels to hunger in sub-saharan Africa. Our forebears procreated profusely in their attempt to have enough hands to work on the land. With the change in the general trend of children preferring education and other endeavours to farming, agriculture has generally been relegated to the background and more and more farmers are opting for other more profitable means of livelihood. Many governments have shouted themselves hoarse trying to sensitize the masses that the less the population, the better our chances in tackling poverty and hunger that have become the unfortunate trademarks of the African continent. To conquer hunger and poverty, Africans mist reduce their population growth-rate. SOPHIA: An African Journal of Philosophy Vol. 9 (1) 2006: pp. 112-11