Iliyasu Biu

This paper comes in three dimension. The first is to establish that there are actually problems with leadership recruitment in Africa and to identify some of those challenges. Second, to establish that those problems came as a result of some sociohistorical circumstances which also need to be identified and properly situated. The third is to proffer some kinds of mitigation to the problems. Using narrative and historic lens, this paper examines Africa"s challenge towards identifying the basis for the problems associated with presidential emergence in Africa that make it mostly violent, non-peaceful, unsystematic and unacceptable. This paper proffer some kind of suggestions amongst which is the call for the people to reclaim their responsibility and like good business principals; demand to be in-charge rather than continue to leave their businesses in the hands of bad agents.

This paper comes in three dimension. The first is to establish that there are actually problems with leadership recruitment in Africa and to identify some of those challenges. Second, to establish that those problems came as a result of some sociohistorical circumstances which also need to be identified and properly situated. The third is to proffer some kinds of mitigation to the problems. Using narrative and historic lens, this paper examines Africa"s challenge towards identifying the basis for the problems associated with presidential emergence in Africa that make it mostly violent, non-peaceful, unsystematic and unacceptable. This paper proffer some kind of suggestions amongst which is the call for the people to reclaim their responsibility and like good business principals; demand to be in-charge rather than continue to leave their businesses in the hands of bad agents.

This book focuses on the problem of poverty globally, within a multi-dimensional context, with specific interest on its prevalence in Nigeria, especially the Northern region and the several attempts by successive Governments to alleviate, reduce and subsequently eradicate poverty through various programmes and strategies at various tiers of Government. The depth of research makes this book a necessity for not just undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of social sciences and management but an aid to public policy makers, international and local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and all stakeholders in the united fight against poverty world wide. The various literature examined within a multidisciplinary platform emanates from the complex nature of poverty itself and the research effort to prod the past, examine the present synergy of efforts and secure a future with hope for the next generation of Nigerians and other brothers on earth.

Tourism as an activity of movement and discovery of new places, peoples and its affiliates has always been with man. This inherent multifaceted ac tivity generates enormous income among nations and contributes to national GDP more than certain s ectors of a nation’s economy when it is properly harnessed, deliberately planned, positioned and rep ositioned over time. Most times, the key to the success of tourism amongst other sectors has been h uman resource management. The outcome of human resources if untapped, mismanaged and underutilized is counterproductive to growth and development in all ramifications. This paper, there fore, relies on content analyses of secondary documents to discuss the impact of human resources management on the development of the tourism and hospitality industry in Nigeria. The study find s that human resource management is essential for the successful development of any sector of the nat ion’s economy and recommends amongst other things the professionaliz...