October 2021

Examining the fragments and causes of increasing out-of-school children in Nigeria

In spite of various policy initiatives and institutional frameworks, a good number of school-age children roam the streets of Nigeria. Nigeria unduly tops the rank in the total number of out-of-school children in the global scene. Now, about 16 million Out-Of-School Children (OOSC) live in Nigeria, and this means that about one out of five OOSC in the world relate to Nigeria. The number has increased from 8.7 million in...

Author(s): Mohammed Manzuma-Ndaaba Ndanusa, Quadri Kolapo Abayomi and Yoshifumi Harada

October 2021

Urbanization in Africa: Integrating multiculturalism in urban development in Uganda

This paper demonstrates the need to integrate multiculturalism in urban development in Uganda with some policy proposals on how multiculturalism can be integrated into urban development. Through a qualitative research in Arua city in Uganda, findings showed that the city like other cities in Uganda is a culturally diverse city and minority ethnic groups or tribes are at the risk of exclusion if multiculturalism is not...

Author(s): Paul Ogwang Tulibaleka, Keneth Tumwesigye and Lillian Ssunga Nakayima

November 2021

Managerial practices for small construction companies in Masvingo City: Lessons for entrepreneurship in Zimbabwe’s higher education sector

This qualitative case study explored the managerial practices of small construction companies in Masvingo city with a view to relating findings to the newly introduced education 5.0 in Tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe. The study was motivated by the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development’s thrust to introduce innovation and industrialisation hubs in universities in the...

Author(s): Silas Sithole, Gamuchirai Tsitsi Ndamba and Martison Nhamo

November 2021

Internationalisation of the naira, institutional reforms, and a common currency for the ECOWAS

This study investigates the potential for internationalisation of the naira in the quest for a common West African currency, despite some weak institutional challenges attributed to Nigeria. We employed a two-stage currency internationalisation modelling approach, where the first stage estimates the model, and the second stage employs ‘counterfactual simulations’ to predict the trend in the currency ratio of...

Author(s): Michael A. Akume, Abdurrahman Isik and Moses O. Oduh

November 2021

Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on the livelihood and food security of street food vendors and consumers in Nigeria

Nigeria's local food economy was affected by state-imposed restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19 in communities. Street food vendors and consumers are among local food system actors impacted by such restrictions because their livelihood and food security are contingent on daily operations on the street. Informed by a descriptive qualitative approach, we interviewed 31 street food vendors and consumers who...

Author(s): Majing Oloko and Regina Ekpo

November 2021

Towards a harmonious view of money: The Nigerian experience

This paper approaches the topic of money from a Nigerian perspective. A proper understanding of money and its role in an economy and society as a whole would require a more rounded view of money and its meaning than what has been provided by the field of Economics. This harmonious view will analyze money through the lenses of different disciplines in social science. The aim is to show that money is a social construct...

Author(s): Olawoye-Mann Salewa