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    Impact of Good Governance and Entrepreneurship in Nigeria
    (Covenant Journal of Entrepreneurship Vol. 1 No.2,, 2018-09) Faruk Abubakar; Atobatele Abolaji
    Entrepreneurship is the springboard for any market enterprise and a sin-qua-non to development. The clarion call by governments of developing countries like Nigeria towards this subject matter is considered a worthy cause. Attempts have been made by the Nigerian government at encouraging and sustaining entrepreneurship among its teaming youth population. Programmes like YOUWIN, Youth Empowerment Scheme of NAPEP, SURE-P, SMEIDAN, etc, were developed by the federal government for this purpose. In spite of the presence of these initiatives, the spate of entrepreneurship in Nigeria is still below expectation considering the percentage of the unemployed. It is against this backdrop that the study seeks to examine the relationship between governance and entrepreneurship in Nigeria. The study made use of secondary sources of data like CBN reports and other government gazettes. With the aid of SPSS version 20, the data gathered was analyzed and the hypothesis tested using Pearson Correlation. It was revealed that Government has initiated policies which actually impacted on unemployment reduction although a large number of the opportunities granted were politicized. The study recommends that when grants are given for entrepreneurships, politicians should keep off from influencing what goes to who. Finally a policy document must be formulated to protect businesses in this category.
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    THE EFFECT OF ORGANIZED CRIME ON GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA
    (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES Volume: 12, Issue: 3, 2022-09) RUFUS AISEDION; Osimen Goddy U.; Ade-Ibijola Aderemi Opeyemi
    The security, economic, social and political disruptions of the state induced by the activities of organized crime has weakened the state’s authority to carry out its expected functions of good governance. In Nigeria, the illegal activities of criminal cartel groups affect government’s resources and its ability to enhance the welfare, basic human needs and living standard of its citizens. The criminal cartels who in their corrupt practices penetrate political offices to wax their influence, strengthened by the integration of security agencies and judicial organs of the state to shield their illegal activities carried out by violence or threat of violence have become a course for national concern. This is why urgent attention needs to be taken to address the menace. It is against this background that the paper examined the impact of organized crime on good governance and also to proffer ways the menace can be reduced to the barest minimum. The paper adopted the bureaucracy model of organized crime since it is organized like a conventional bureaucracy pyramid shape with members in hierarchical leadership through which its activities are carried out. The paper utilized secondary sources of data and was historically analyzed. The findings of the paper revealed that the ill activities of organized crime undercut government’s transparency, accountability, popular political participation and ability to harness resources for the well-being of the citizens. It is also observe that the infiltration of organized criminals in public affairs subverts government’s welfare policies of its citizens, due to gross corruption all over public office, among others. The recommendations include inter alia: That political and economic agencies should beef up their administrative tentacles and arsenals to stem the tide of organized criminal cartels, leaders should muster the political will to restrict people from lifestyles that encourages organized crime, the government should ensure that welfare dimension of human needs is provided to attract citizens’ patriotism to shun criminal groups and their activities, among others.