scholarly journals The Responsibilities of Muslim Women in Dealing with Security Challenges in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-165
Author(s):  
Rafatu Abdulhamid
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
Government Security

The issue of insecurity has remained the most challenging problem in the world including Nigeria. In Nigeria, reports of kidnapping, armed robbery, assassination and killing/bombing which lead to lost of lives and destruction of properties kept on featuring in our media channels. In addition, women are the most vulnerable of this insurgency. They have been killed, widowed, raped or kidnapped etc. It is however to be noted that given the broader perspective of national security, government security agencies, nongovernmental organizations, Muslims both men and women, Islamic Scholars, youths etc. All should play the vital role of maintaining peace and curtailing insecurity in Nigeria. Therefore, everybody has a role to play at enhancing the national security. Islam being a comprehensive system of life provides preventive measures to curb insecurity in human society. This paper therefore examines the responsibility of the Muslim women in curbing insecurity in Nigeria. The paper observes that the causes of insecurity in Nigeria include; corruption, erosion of virtues and moralities values, youth unemployment, ignorance misuse of Islamic knowledge, globalization etc. This study uses the librarian research in which both primary and secondary sources were utilized for the work. These comprise of Qur’an, Hadith and other literatures. The result of  research found that Muslim women by their pedigree and character have the potential to ensure security in the society through good child upbringing, God consciousness, acquiring true Islamic knowledge to mention a few. It concludes that if these measures are implemented, they will go a long way in arresting this quagmire of insecurity in our society.

scholarly journals Election Security and Violence in Ghana: The Case of Ayawaso West Wougon and Talensi By-elections

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Frank Bitafir Ijon
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
National Security ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
The Government ◽  
Election Violence

Conducts of by-elections in recent times have been fraught with a lot of security challenges. This has been as a result of the violence that characterized the conduct of by-elections in recent times in Ghana. Violence during by-elections in Ghana plays a vital role in securing election victories for political parties. In all the by-elections characterized by violence in Ghana, they were won by parties that were accused of inciting the violence. The main tenets of election violence as identified by the paper included, actors, motives, timing, consequences, and patterns. The paper adopted the content analysis method in its investigation of the two violent by-elections in Ghana. The paper revealed that there was a correlation between violence during by-elections and victories of incumbent parties. This was because, in the two by-elections understudy, those accused of starting the violence and using national security operatives won the elections. The paper also found out that by-election violence impacted negatively on Ghana’s democratic maturity in several ways, such as; low voter turnout, weakening of democratic foundation and breeding an atmosphere of insecurity. Finally, the paper also revealed that political parties especially those in government resort to violence during by-elections in Ghana because they fear losing it will mean the government was underperforming as argued out by Feigert and Norris and also because they want to add to their tally in parliament.

scholarly journals China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Analytical overview on Socio-Cultural Romance between China and Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-508
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asif ◽  
Majid Ali ◽  
Abdoulaye M’Begniga ◽  
Zhou Guoqing ◽  
Liu Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Bilateral Cooperation ◽  
The Relationship

China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is an important Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project that integrates many countries. The CPEC project will play a vital role to make more strong relationship between China and Pakistan. CPEC project will enhance cooperation between Pakistan and China in field of socio-cultural and regional Bilateral Cooperation and exchange. Despite growth between two countries in the economic and trade field, there is a vital area to explore the cultural exchange, cooperation, and communication needed to improve from both sides. In this theoretical study method, the data has been obtained from primary and secondary sources. The primary sources consisted of books, official databases of China and Pakistan, MoU signed b/w both countries, etc., as the secondary sources consisted of research papers, newspapers, journals, online databases, etc. This paper has an analytical overview of the time value and general cultural and artistic exchanges between China and Pakistan. Further, the paper discussed the relationship between literature, art, and economics. In this paper, researchers have also examined the significant role of people-to-people contact for socio-cultural exchange and cooperation between China and Pakistan.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic role of women in the light of Islamic teachings and Constitution of Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Maria Ashraf ◽  
Rizwan Rasheed
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Pakistani Women

Pakistan is the sixth largest populated country estimated to have 200 million persons. Nearly half of its population is comprised of Women.  Pakistani Women are contributing to advancement of this country by playing a vital role in core fields.  But there are some areas where women are facing challenges like gender discrimination, limited access to education, domestic violence etc. Islam bestowed women a significance value in Islamic community. It is Islam that transforms women from symbol of shame to mark of an honor in Man dominated society. Beside this Glory there are also certain limits for women described by Islam. Muslim Women of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) era is the perfect exemplary Models for us. Besides being a dutiful Mother, Wife, Daughter and sister they did engage in worldly affairs too. It is true that home and family should be women’s first priority but in present time importance of women role cannot be denied in particular fields. Constitution of Pakistan provides equal rights to women. In 21st century we need a balanced and practical vision that ensures socio-economic development of Pakistani women without disturbing social Islamic structure.  Briefly In this article these issues will be analyzed with practical approach by concluding applicable proposals.

scholarly journals National Security and National Development: A Critique

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
JI Ebeh
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
National Development ◽  
Social Violence ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Delivery Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
Primary Focus

This paper examined the prominent role played by security of life and properties in the development of the society. Its primary focus is that security is the major determinant of development of any society. It also critically examined the role of security in the development of the Nigerian nation. It ramified the concepts of national security and national development, how they are intertwined and linked them to the Nigerian society. The paper examined the causes of national security challenges in Nigeria such as corruption, injustice, poverty, poor health care delivery services, decayed and collapsed infrastructure, environmental degradation and socio-religious crises. The paper examined the correlations between all these causes of insecurity and the crises of underdevelopment in Nigeria particularly in the area of abject poverty, unemployment, lack of functional industries, low foreign investment, diversion of public funds, youth restiveness, religious and social violence, poor tourist attraction, and negative effect on the psychological wellbeing of the citizenry. It evaluates the issues raised and concluded that the issues are meant for pro-active reaction of the generality of the Nigerians and not the government alone.

scholarly journals Traditional Institution and Nation Building: The Role of Traditional Rulers in the Maintenance of National Security for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
Joseph I. Igwubor
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
National Security ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The People ◽  
Traditional Institution ◽  
All Solutions ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Grass Root

Nigeria has been faced with many security challenges especially since her return to democracy in 1999. Since 1999, the nation witnessed serious security challenges that has not only threatened her existence as a nation but has defied all solutions for its eradication including the efforts of the security agencies to tackle the problem. This calls for an urgent attention and collaboration of the traditional rulers in checking the rising tide of insecurity in Nigeria. As the rulers of various communities, and the custodian of the people’s culture, they have a grip of the people at the grass root and therefore can mobilize  the people for action against insecurity in their domain and by extension the nation. The paper is to examine not only the roles of the traditional rulers in the maintenance of security for an effective nation building but also how the institution to be restructured for it to perform better in the maintenance of national security for sustainable development in Nigeria. This demands that the traditional institution be restructured in a way and manner that it will operate optimally in the maintenance of national security

scholarly journals Restructuring, National Security and Nigeria’s Relationship with the External World

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-52
Author(s):  
Agidi Ejime Pally
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
External World ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
National Conference ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
External Relationships ◽  
Political Economic

Nigeria as a nation has been experiencing security challenges at alarming level in the last few years. This has taken various forms such as kidnapping from ransom, herders and farmers clashes, organized crimes, and cybercrimes, implosive movement of small and light arms. Trans border crimes, human trafficking, and slavery among others. This has affected Nigeria’s external relations with the outside world negatively in various ways, such as constriction of bilateral trade volume, cold diplomatic relations, low tourism attraction, low educational exchang e, reduction of military trainings abroad, refusal of arms purchase, low foreign investments among others. The diversity nature of the Nigerian state stands a gap in finding solutions to the myriads of problems as Nigeria’s image abroad has been dented badly. Restructuring the Nigerian state in various spheres has been the agitation of many Nigerians in the recent time. This paper therefore examines restructuring the Nigerian state, National security and its implications on her relationship with the external world. It is a qualitative paper that focused on secondary sources of information, and adopted structural functional theory as its framework of analysis. The paper argued that restructuring the political structures in Nigeria will advance quality security in Nigeria. It is the opinion of the paper that improves security in the country will enhance robust Nigerian’s relationship with the external world. The paper recommended among others, the restructuring of political economic and social structures through the instrument and legitimacy of national conference. This has to be backed by legislations from the national and state assembly. Keywords: Restructuring, External Relationships, National Security, Political Structure, National Conference

scholarly journals Stratification and Role of the Elite Muslim Women in the State of Awadh, 1742-1857

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-294
Author(s):  
Naumana Kiran
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Religious Architecture ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Domestic Power ◽  
Royal Women

This paper focuses on stratification and role of the elite Muslim women in the State of Awadh during the second-half of the eighteenth, and first-half of nineteenth century India. It evaluates the categorization of women associated with the court and the division of political and domestic power among them. It also seeks their economic resources and their contribution in fields of art and architecture. The study finds that the first category of royal women of Awadh, including queen mothers and chief wives, enjoyed a powerful position in the state-matters unlike many other states of the time in India. Besides a high cadre of royal ladies, three more cadres of royal women existed in Awadh’s court with multiple ratios of power and economic resources. Elite women’s input and backing to various genres of art, language and culture resulted in growth of Urdu poetry, prose, drama and music in addition to religious architecture. The paper has been produced on the basis of primary and secondary sources. It includes the historical accounts, written by contemporary historians as well as cultural writings, produced by poets and literary figures of the time, besides letters and other writings of the rulers of Awadh. The writings produced by the British travelers, used in this paper, have further provided an insightful picture and a distinctive perspective.

scholarly journals Traditional Institutions and Their Roles: Toward Achieving Stable Democracy in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
MUSTAPHA ALHAJI ALI ◽  
Hadiza Mali Bukar
Keyword(s):  
Vital Role ◽  
Dependency Theory ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Traditional Institution ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Traditional Institutions ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
People First

Traditional institutions are formed to play a vital role in society, this paper examined the roles of traditional rulers in accomplishing stable democracy in Nigerian. Indeed, in the olden days, traditional rulers are believing to be royal fathers in their various domain, and they perform better in accomplishing firm democracy, but with coming of colonialist and democracy, the role of the traditional rulers became less recognized in the democratic system. This paper is qualitative in nature where data were obtained from secondary sources, and systematically reviewed these includes; books, journals, newspapers, magazines, published and unpublished documents. The study found that traditional institutions play a significant role in the olden days. But with the advent of the British colonial master and democracy, their power became less recognized in the democratic movements, this is because the traditional rulers were negated and have less power in the society. In explaining the topic under study, the researcher adopted two theories; these are Servant Leadership theory and Dependency theory, these theories centered on the autonomy of the traditional rulers and the qualities of the rulers in each society. the paper recommended that in order to have a steady democracy traditional institution need to be independent in discharging their duties, they also need to serve their people first not people to serve them. The paper concludes that traditional institutions play an important role in achieving a stable democracy if given autonomy and possess all leadership qualities.

scholarly journals Role of Insurance Sector on Inclusive Growth in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
Debabrata Jana ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Insurance Markets ◽  
Insurance Claim ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Insurance Sector ◽  
Total Investment ◽  
The Relationship

In the present era insurance sector plays a vital role in both developed and developing countries. Insurance markets working as a financial intermediary to contribute economic growth of the country as well as risk management more efficiently. The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationship between insurance sector development and economic growth in India. For this study, data has been collected only from the secondary sources for the period 2000 to 2019. To run linear regression, four variables are taken viz. GDP as a surrogate of economic growth and Real Premium Growth Rate, Total Investment in Insurance Sector and Insurance Claim. Finally, it can be suggested that more attention in the insurance market is to be paid so that proper economic growth will be possible in the developing country in India.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN MANAGING SECURITY CHALLENGES: A CASE STUDY OF KADUNA STATE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
I. Abdullahi
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
The State ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
The Government

Insurgencies and other security challenges have caused significant setbacks for sustainable development in Kaduna state. This study assesses the role of the Kaduna state government in managing the security challenges within the state. In this study, significant factors that affects the management of security and its challenges as well as the disposing conditions were critically analyzed. The objective of the study was to examine the managerial effort of the government in tackling security challenges in Kaduna state being critical in the daily running of the state and proposed appropriate measures that could help improve the current situation. Relevant data for this study were collected from both primary and secondary sources. The study employed the exploratory research method. Indigenes of Kaduna state from different LGAs comprised the study population out of which 100 questionnaires were administered serving as sample size. The study employed descriptive statistical instruments such as frequencies and percentages in analyzing the obtained data. The study showed that majority (51.3%) of the respondents indicated that the government is the most active agent in the fight against insecurity in the state with little corroboration from other agencies. Lack of finance was observed to be the major challenge in the fight against insecurity in the state. Though, most of the state’s managerial strategies were credible, yet laudable to some extent. It was however observed that the little corroboration from other agencies such as NGOs, civil societies, traditional rulers and other security agencies played a significant role. The study therefore, recommends that a more inclusive decision-making approach between the state and other agencies be promoted to ensure cross sectional development and fight against insurgencies in the state. Abdullahi, I. | Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria

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