War against Corruption in Nigeria: Weak Institutions and Economic Crisis as Bane of Its Success

Corruption has taken over the day to day discussion and deliberation on issues relating to national growth and development in Nigeria. It has become a virus eating into the bones and marrow of every sector and structure of national policy and policies. It iscrystal clear that if Nigeria fails to live above corruption and overcome it, it will not be long before corruption will end every hope of a golden age for the nation. The paper examines the dimensions of corruption in Nigeria, with major attention on enumerating the weakness of the nation’s political, social and economic institutions, including the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, as a bane militating against all efforts in winning against corruption. This breeds terrible corruption, and evil is an inimical and unimaginable threat to the survival of the nation's corporate existence. The paper explains the concept of corruption that acts as a forerunner of other social cankerworms. These are political and bureaucratic corruption. The implications of this cankerworm are also numerous: abject poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment, ethno-religious violence, secession, and terrorism as expressions of grievances. This is the object of this paper as the historical method becomes suitable for data collection, analysis and interpretation

War against Corruption in Nigeria: Weak Institutions and Economic Crisis as Bane of Its Success

Corruption has taken over the day to day discussion and deliberation on issues relating to national growth and development in Nigeria. It has become a virus eating into the bones and marrow of every sectors and structures of national policy and polities. It is crystal clear that if Nigeria fails to live above corruption and overcome it; it will not be long before corruption would end every hope of golden age of the nation. The paper examines the dimensions of corruption in Nigeria; with major attention on enumerating the weakness of the nation’s political, social and economic institutions including Economic and Financial Crime Commission as a bane militating against all efforts in winning against corruption. This breeds terrible corruption and evil is inimical and unimaginable threat to the survival of corporate existence of the nation. The paper explains the concept of corruption that act as forerunners of other social cankerworms. These are political and bureaucratic corruption. The implication of this cankerworm are also numerous: abject poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment; ethno-religious violence, secession, and terrorism as expression of grievances. This is the object of this paper as historical method becomes suitable in the collection of date, analysis and interpretation

Statistics for Nursing and Allied Health at Saint Louis University in the Spirit of SUMMIT-P

This paper describes the renewal of a consumer-based elementary statistics course to benefit students in the nursing and allied health disciplines. While the goal of the course transformation was initially to update the pedagogy of the course and ensure students are able to make connections between the course material and their majors, that goal expanded to include the needs and objectives of the client disciplines. This expanded goal was accomplished by incorporating insights gained from a SUMMIT-P business school collaboration and was based on the Curriculum Foundations project recommendations. The paper addresses course projects, instructor development, faculty roles, and interactions with stakeholders. The influence of SUMMIT-P on the course renewal as well as sustainability plans are also shared

Impact of Public External Debt on Exchange Rate in Nigeria

With continuous increase in public expenditures, and low capital formation in many developing countries, many governments have resorted into borrowing either or both within and outside the country. However, most borrowings come with interest attached, which results in debt servicing. Serving external debt may involve demand for foreign currency which tends to affect the exchange rate of the country. Hence, this study examines the impact of public external debt on exchange rate in Nigeria. Using the Ordinary Least Square, on the secondary data sourced from the CBN and DMO among other sources, findings reveals that all the dependent variables, that is, external debt, debt service payment and foreign reserve proved to be statistically significant in explaining exchange rate fluctuation in Nigeria within the period of observation, with debt service payment having the strongest effect (Coeff: 0.4443). Based on the finding, the study recommends that government should ensure that all public borrowing, where and when necessary, be directed towards productive economic activities which can generate returns to service and pay up the debt at maturity. Keywords: Public Debt, Foreign reserve, Exchange rate, Expenditur

Crystallography, magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity, and electrical resistivity of heavy fermion LiV2_2O4_4 single crystals grown using a self-flux technique

Magnetically pure spinel compound ${\rm LiV_2O_4}$ is a rare $d$-electron heavy fermion. Measurements on single crystals are needed to clarify the mechanism for the heavy fermion behavior in the pure material. In addition, it is known that small concentrations ($< 1$ mol%) of magnetic defects in the structure strongly affect the properties, and measurements on single crystals containing magnetic defects would help to understand the latter behaviors. Herein, we report flux growth of ${\rm LiV_2O_4}$ and preliminary measurements to help resolve these questions. The magnetic susceptibility of some as-grown crystals show a Curie-like upturn at low temperatures, showing the presence of magnetic defects within the spinel structure. The magnetic defects could be removed in some of the crystals by annealing them at 700 $^\circ$C\@. A very high specific heat coefficient $\gamma$ = 450 mJ/(mol K${^2}$\@) was obtained at a temperature of 1.8 K for a crystal containing a magnetic defect concentration $n$${\rm_{defect}}$ = 0.5 mol%. A crystal with $n$${\rm _{defect}}$ = 0.01 mol% showed a residual resistivity ratio of 50.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, Title modifie

Spatial Resolution with Time-and-Polarization-Resolved Acoustic Microscopy

Spatial resolution is an important factor in ultrasonic materials characterization. Scanning acoustic microscopy [1–2] has proved to be a useful tool for materials evaluation with micrometer-scale spatial resolution. Point-focus-beam (PFB) acoustic microscopy has high spatial resolution and is often used to produce images as well as to probe material inhomogeneity. However, a disadvantage of the PFB technique lies in its insensitivity to material anisotropy. In contrast, line-focus-beam (LFB) acoustic microscopy can provide a directional ultrasonic velocity measurement and is employed for characterization of anisotropic materials [3–5]. But the LFB technique, with its unidirectional spatial resolution, is generally incapable of producing images, and is therefore disadvantageous for probing inhomogeneous materials. In response to this need, a variety of lens designs [6–9] in acoustic microscopy have been proposed for measuring materials, which are both inhomogeneous and anisotropic