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The main objective of privatization of the Nigeria " s power sector was to attract private invest... more The main objective of privatization of the Nigeria " s power sector was to attract private investment and higher efficiency in service delivery. The hope was that the entry of investors into the sector would improve power generation and distribution across the country. More than three years after privatization, the sector now faces a major setback as liquidity, manpower and other challenges have continued to haunt the sector. Improvement in power supply chain has become almost impossible. Majority of the Nigerian population do not have access to electricity grid and self-generation is estimated to be at least twice as expensive as the cost of generation. Stakeholders are worried that if nothing is done to remedy the situation, the system may not witness any major growth in years to come.
Papers by Umar Dubagari
Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give."
Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion, 2016
There has been a growing movement in a number of countries to regard marriage as a right which sh... more There has been a growing movement in a number of countries to regard marriage as a right which should be extended to gay and lesbian couples. The agitations for legal recognition of same-sex marriage cut across race, ethnicity, age, religion, political affiliation, and socio-economic status. This is a serious challenge to marriage as a sacrosanct institution. However, the response to these agitations varies from one country to the other with religion and culture as determinant factor. Islam prescribed capital punishment for same sex marriage and treats the couples as miscreant, while the Common Law sees same sex marriage as fundamental human rights and abrogated capital punishment. But freedom of religion is in itself a fundamental right. In contradistinction with law as the will of the people, religion is a complete way of life to the Muslims. Keywords: Human Rights, Same Sex Marriage, Death Penalty, Legal, Islamic
The need to co-operate, “to work together”, is as old as humanity itself. For without it, any for... more The need to co-operate, “to work together”, is as old as humanity itself. For without it, any form of civilisation however primitive would be impossible.
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection was not recognised in Nigeria and essential medici... more Intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection was not recognised in Nigeria and essential medicines were accessible and affordable to all but reverse is the case with the implementation of TRIPS agreement on IPRs. This resulted in inordinate policy formulation and implementation that exacerbates the public health care despite Nigeria’s endowment with enormous human and natural resources. This paper argues that patents protection hinders access and affordability to essential medicines in Nigeria. It also argues that pharmaceutical companies prevent developing countries from utilising the TRIPS flexibilities to access essential medicines for their citizens. It concludes that access and affordability to essential medicines are additional challenges to Nigeria. The paper is based on the anti-corporate globalisation movement theory. The theory advocates for a world structured by human values other than greed and domination, one less dominated by the culture and values of global capita...
Global Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in ord... more The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in order to enhance free movement of goods and services, in the belief that it will be beneficial for all parties involved. Like other developing countries, Nigeria is left with no option than to accept the rules of the WTO that were detrimental to its interest. However, it accepted the existing rules and continues to insist that the unfavourable ones be reformulated to take account of its interest and call for the creation of a most favourable international economic order.Nigeria"s participation in the WTO is to reaffirm its commitment to trade liberalisationand to seek technical support of the international community for more beneficial integration of its economy into the global trading system. In doing so, it has promulgated series of economic policies for the purposes of facilitating the achievement of rapid economic development but with little or no significant result.
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in ord... more The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in order to enhance free movement of goods and services, in the belief that it will be beneficial for all parties involved. Like other developing countries, Nigeria is left with no option than to accept the rules of the WTO that were detrimental to its interest. However, it accepted the existing rules and continues to insist that the unfavourable ones be reformulated to take account of its interest and call for the creation of a most favourable international economic order.Nigeria"s participation in the WTO is to reaffirm its commitment to trade liberalisationand to seek technical support of the international community for more beneficial integration of its economy into the global trading system. In doing so, it has promulgated series of economic policies for the purposes of facilitating the achievement of rapid economic development but with little or no significant result.
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in ord... more The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in order to enhance free movement of goods and services, in the belief that it will be beneficial for all parties involved. Like other developing countries, Nigeria is left with no option than to accept the rules of the WTO that were detrimental to its interest. However, it accepted the existing rules and continues to insist that the unfavourable ones be reformulated to take account of its interest and call for the creation of a most favourable international economic order.Nigeria"s participation in the WTO is to reaffirm its commitment to trade liberalisationand to seek technical support of the international community for more beneficial integration of its economy into the global trading system. In doing so, it has promulgated series of economic policies for the purposes of facilitating the achievement of rapid economic development but with little or no significant result.
Global Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in ord... more The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in order to enhance free movement of goods and services, in the belief that it will be beneficial for all parties involved. Like other developing countries, Nigeria is left with no option than to accept the rules of the WTO that were detrimental to its interest. However, it accepted the existing rules and continues to insist that the unfavourable ones be reformulated to take account of its interest and call for the creation of a most favourable international economic order.Nigeria"s participation in the WTO is to reaffirm its commitment to trade liberalisationand to seek technical support of the international community for more beneficial integration of its economy into the global trading system. In doing so, it has promulgated series of economic policies for the purposes of facilitating the achievement of rapid economic development but with little or no significant result.
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in ord... more The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in order to enhance free movement of goods and services, in the belief that it will be beneficial for all parties involved. Like other developing countries, Nigeria is left with no option than to accept the rules of the WTO that were detrimental to its interest. However, it accepted the existing rules and continues to insist that the unfavourable ones be reformulated to take account of its interest and call for the creation of a most favourable international economic order.Nigeria"s participation in the WTO is to reaffirm its commitment to trade liberalisationand to seek technical support of the international community for more beneficial integration of its economy into the global trading system. In doing so, it has promulgated series of economic policies for the purposes of facilitating the achievement of rapid economic development but with little or no significant result.
The main objective of privatization of the Nigeria " s power sector was to attract private invest... more The main objective of privatization of the Nigeria " s power sector was to attract private investment and higher efficiency in service delivery. The hope was that the entry of investors into the sector would improve power generation and distribution across the country. More than three years after privatization, the sector now faces a major setback as liquidity, manpower and other challenges have continued to haunt the sector. Improvement in power supply chain has become almost impossible. Majority of the Nigerian population do not have access to electricity grid and self-generation is estimated to be at least twice as expensive as the cost of generation. Stakeholders are worried that if nothing is done to remedy the situation, the system may not witness any major growth in years to come.
Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give."
Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion, 2016
There has been a growing movement in a number of countries to regard marriage as a right which sh... more There has been a growing movement in a number of countries to regard marriage as a right which should be extended to gay and lesbian couples. The agitations for legal recognition of same-sex marriage cut across race, ethnicity, age, religion, political affiliation, and socio-economic status. This is a serious challenge to marriage as a sacrosanct institution. However, the response to these agitations varies from one country to the other with religion and culture as determinant factor. Islam prescribed capital punishment for same sex marriage and treats the couples as miscreant, while the Common Law sees same sex marriage as fundamental human rights and abrogated capital punishment. But freedom of religion is in itself a fundamental right. In contradistinction with law as the will of the people, religion is a complete way of life to the Muslims. Keywords: Human Rights, Same Sex Marriage, Death Penalty, Legal, Islamic
The need to co-operate, “to work together”, is as old as humanity itself. For without it, any for... more The need to co-operate, “to work together”, is as old as humanity itself. For without it, any form of civilisation however primitive would be impossible.
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection was not recognised in Nigeria and essential medici... more Intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection was not recognised in Nigeria and essential medicines were accessible and affordable to all but reverse is the case with the implementation of TRIPS agreement on IPRs. This resulted in inordinate policy formulation and implementation that exacerbates the public health care despite Nigeria’s endowment with enormous human and natural resources. This paper argues that patents protection hinders access and affordability to essential medicines in Nigeria. It also argues that pharmaceutical companies prevent developing countries from utilising the TRIPS flexibilities to access essential medicines for their citizens. It concludes that access and affordability to essential medicines are additional challenges to Nigeria. The paper is based on the anti-corporate globalisation movement theory. The theory advocates for a world structured by human values other than greed and domination, one less dominated by the culture and values of global capita...
Global Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in ord... more The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in order to enhance free movement of goods and services, in the belief that it will be beneficial for all parties involved. Like other developing countries, Nigeria is left with no option than to accept the rules of the WTO that were detrimental to its interest. However, it accepted the existing rules and continues to insist that the unfavourable ones be reformulated to take account of its interest and call for the creation of a most favourable international economic order.Nigeria"s participation in the WTO is to reaffirm its commitment to trade liberalisationand to seek technical support of the international community for more beneficial integration of its economy into the global trading system. In doing so, it has promulgated series of economic policies for the purposes of facilitating the achievement of rapid economic development but with little or no significant result.
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in ord... more The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in order to enhance free movement of goods and services, in the belief that it will be beneficial for all parties involved. Like other developing countries, Nigeria is left with no option than to accept the rules of the WTO that were detrimental to its interest. However, it accepted the existing rules and continues to insist that the unfavourable ones be reformulated to take account of its interest and call for the creation of a most favourable international economic order.Nigeria"s participation in the WTO is to reaffirm its commitment to trade liberalisationand to seek technical support of the international community for more beneficial integration of its economy into the global trading system. In doing so, it has promulgated series of economic policies for the purposes of facilitating the achievement of rapid economic development but with little or no significant result.
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in ord... more The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in order to enhance free movement of goods and services, in the belief that it will be beneficial for all parties involved. Like other developing countries, Nigeria is left with no option than to accept the rules of the WTO that were detrimental to its interest. However, it accepted the existing rules and continues to insist that the unfavourable ones be reformulated to take account of its interest and call for the creation of a most favourable international economic order.Nigeria"s participation in the WTO is to reaffirm its commitment to trade liberalisationand to seek technical support of the international community for more beneficial integration of its economy into the global trading system. In doing so, it has promulgated series of economic policies for the purposes of facilitating the achievement of rapid economic development but with little or no significant result.
Global Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in ord... more The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in order to enhance free movement of goods and services, in the belief that it will be beneficial for all parties involved. Like other developing countries, Nigeria is left with no option than to accept the rules of the WTO that were detrimental to its interest. However, it accepted the existing rules and continues to insist that the unfavourable ones be reformulated to take account of its interest and call for the creation of a most favourable international economic order.Nigeria"s participation in the WTO is to reaffirm its commitment to trade liberalisationand to seek technical support of the international community for more beneficial integration of its economy into the global trading system. In doing so, it has promulgated series of economic policies for the purposes of facilitating the achievement of rapid economic development but with little or no significant result.
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2016
The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in ord... more The World Trade Organisation(WTO) is responsible for global rules of trade between nations in order to enhance free movement of goods and services, in the belief that it will be beneficial for all parties involved. Like other developing countries, Nigeria is left with no option than to accept the rules of the WTO that were detrimental to its interest. However, it accepted the existing rules and continues to insist that the unfavourable ones be reformulated to take account of its interest and call for the creation of a most favourable international economic order.Nigeria"s participation in the WTO is to reaffirm its commitment to trade liberalisationand to seek technical support of the international community for more beneficial integration of its economy into the global trading system. In doing so, it has promulgated series of economic policies for the purposes of facilitating the achievement of rapid economic development but with little or no significant result.