Challenges and Problems of Rentier Economy in Africa (Nigeria Case Study)
October-2021
The mono-cultural nature of Africa economy has a lot of implication on its development, most African countries more especially the oil rich states, otherwise call rentier states depends heavily on external rent, this possess a lot of challenges and problem to their economy the implication of this are enormous, poverty, unemployment economic stagnation, corruption, civil unrest etc. Documentary in textbook, journals, periodical and data on the internet will be explored; Neo-colonization, dependency and imperialism are still but crux of the lack of development. Internal economic mobilization and diversification is seen as the way out.
Muhammed Abideen Abeeb and Ismail Haruna
Limiting factor analysis technique: A literature review
October-2021
Limiting factor analysis is a technique usually applied in the short term decisions. It is employed by management to curb the effect of shortages in limiting factor such as raw material, skilled labor, machine hours or market that may constraint the company from operating at full capacity. Virtually most organization faces the problem of shortages of factor input in one way or the other. This article analyses how the limiting factor analysis technique will help a firm in maximizing its long term profitability with a view to improving the value of the firm.
Ibrahim Ali Bappa
Influence of Politics on the News Media and Media’s Influence on Politics
October-2021
The press/media has had a long and seemingly unending relationship with politics leading to various communication scholars to describe this relationship as polymedia, ‘a tug of war’, ‘a symbiotic relationship’, ‘marriage de raison’, ‘a tango of give and take’, ‘trust and distrust, love and hate’, ‘uneasy exchange and reliance’, etc. Majority of newspaper contents in Nigeria and around the world are on politics as it is the most selling news. Thus, this paper seeks to find out through observations and literatures, the relationship between the press and politics by determining how they both influence each other. The researcher reviewed existing literatures for the study since the subject is theoretical based. These literatures were works already published on the relationship between the press and politics. This study is anchored on the Politics-Media-Politics Principle model. The researcher concluded that there exist a significant relationship between the press and politics. The researcher also found out that the press has as much influence on politics as politics on the press. On the influence of the media on politics, the media have been the predominant source of political information for citizens in a democratic society. On the influence of politics on the media, politicians, even governments can manipulate the coverage of information to achieve their political and economic goals through diverting audience attention. The researcher recommended that the press should also endeavour to give an unbiased report about politics no matter which politician or political actor is involved.
Buike Oparaugo