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OBJECTIVEAwareness and screening exercise on prostate cancer health related issues among the rural population is still interfered with by the socio-cultural and economic challenges affecting the developing nations. This is yet to be empirically explored in some regions such as southeast Nigeria. The paper explored prostate cancer awareness and screening exercise among some 1080 men (30+) in rural southeast Nigeria.METHODSThe study was guided by Health Belief Model, while survey design and quantitative data gathering techniques were deployed in collecting data from the respondents. Descriptive and inferential statistics were utilized in probing the prevalence of awareness about prostate cancer/screening practices, and the relationship of these and other variables.RESULTSAccording to the findings, there is a poor awareness about prostate cancer and related symptoms (31.2%) and poor regular prostate cancer screening practices among the respondents (11%). Prostate cancer awareness is significantly correlated with age (p<0.000, b=-0.618, Exp(B)=0.539), marital status (p<0.000, b=1.239, Exp(B)=3.452), occupation (p<0.000, b=-2.474, Exp(B)=0.084), education (p<0.000, b=1.239, Exp(B)=3.452), income (p<0.002, b=-0.476, Exp(B)=0.621) and having seen someone living with prostate cancer (p<0.000, b=3.927, Exp(B)=50.742). Regular screening exercise is predicted by age (p<0.000, b=0.054, t=4.706), marital status (p<0.000, b=-0.110, t=-5.309), education (p<0.02, b=0.047, t=2.557), occupation (p<0.000, b=0.090, t=4.484) and source of prostate cancer awareness (p<0.02, b=0.052, t=2.366).CONCLUSIONThe study concludes that prostate cancer screening practices are heavily dependent on the socioeconomic realities among the population.

This paper examines interagency collaboration (IAC) among key security agencies and how this has impacted the counter-insurgency campaign against Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. Interagency collaboration is often perceived as a panacea for dealing with many complex social problems. But there still exists fogginess about the nature, triggers, and what determines results of interagency collaboration. This study focuses on these issues. We employed the complexity theory to argue that organizations are like complex adaptive systems (CAS) that can naturally be drawn to interdependence and connectivity in reaction to a shared problem. Weiss theory helps to explain the determinants as depending on available resources and the capacity of collaborating institutions. We conclude that despite the tendency towards conflict among the Nigerian security agencies, the initial failure of traditional approach of police and military brutality in quelling the insurrection led to a perception of a shared problem by the government and law enforcement agencies. However, resource and weak institutional capacity to mount collaboration largely explained why the counter-insurgency collaboration has not yielded the expected results.

The Nigerian state has been having insecurity challenges at different times since independence but the recent wave of insecurity has taken different and outrageous dimension. Today, loss of lives and properties in the hands of insurgents are no longer news because we have lost count with the numbers of deaths. With the combined efforts of agitation for regional secession, religion extremism cum insurgency, and herder/farmers clashes, the Nigeria society has been soaked with blood of defenseless civilians massacred in their homes. Unfortunately, despite huge national budget committed to this menace in response to recommendations of many studies towards tackling state insecurity in Nigeria that include increment of defense allocation and regional and international assistance, the result has been disappointing. But anchored on the social contract theory, this study posits that with effective social security administration, state insecurity will be drastically reduced in Nigeria because state insecurity is driven by local grievances of poor governance and lack of economic opportunities, among others. This position was derived from data generated from secondary sources and analyzed with the content analysis approach. The paper thus, recommended among others that Nigeria government should spends more on social security and less on state security.

This paper evaluated UNICEF’s Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) programme in Nigeria with an emphasis on the successes achieved, challenges encountered, and prospects to build on, with a special focus on Anambra State. This evaluation became pertinent given the report on WATER AIDS, which found that 67% of Nigerians lack access to basic sanitation, which has been linked to the prevalence of diarrhea cholera, typhoid and other deadly diseases, especially among children and women. This study employed descriptive survey and documentary research designs and utilised both primary and secondary methods of data collection. Data were analysed using the descriptive analytical method, and the study was founded on the theory of change. The study found that WASH Programme has improved access to safe drinking water in Anambra state, improved awareness and consciousness of hand-washing practice and aided in the elimination of open defecation. Some challenges to the WASH programme encountered include inadequate funding and poor maintenance of hygiene facilities. As a result, we recommend corporate synergic funding to sustain the achieved results, and an inbuilt maintenance and sustainability plan and massive sensitisation exercises by the local governments concerned.

This study proposed the use of Terrorist Resources Model in countering Boko Haram financing, with the overall aim of cutting off the insurgents resources flow with the hope of upsetting their efforts and disrupting their operations as this approach does no longer focus on money trail alone but extends to men and materials with which the insurgents carry out their activities. This strategy is the latest trend in global terrorist counter financing. This approach became imminent given the continued wreck of havoc despite government’s efforts to cut off the financing lines of the Boko haram sect based on recommendations of renowned counterinsurgency strategists and researchers. What is more is the replication of deadly groups with wanton destruction of lives and livelihood in the country such as the armed herdsmen; the armed bandits and the unknown gunmen (UGM) who are rapidly wasting lives as if life has lost its sanctity. Thus, the objectives of this study are to highlight the conventional Boko Haram financing and locate the suitability of the Terrorist Resource Model in countering Boko Haram financing in Nigeria. With the use of documentary data, qualitative analysis and descriptive evaluation approach, this study found that while the government tried to block the financial flows of Boko Haram sect through the Money Laundry Act, the group evolved other covert financing strategies to make up for those conventional financing, such as forceful or/and persuasive recruitment of members, stealing for logistics and operation of quasi governmental role in occupied territories to generate money. Thus, Money, Materials and Men are still generated unfettered; hence we recommend the application of the Terrorist Resources Model that will enable the government to block the entire resources flow of the sect instead of concentrating on money trails alone.

A discourse on good governance at any level requires a clear understanding of the concept as one may erroneously assume that everyone understands what good governance means. Thus, this paper not only evaluates the definitions of the concept of good governance, but also contextualized it within the perspectives of what constitutes public interest, the leader’s idiosyncrasy; political party ideologies and the expectations of donor agencies. The study is qualitative and as such its data were documentary and the content analysis approach was used to analyze the data. Anchored on the good governance theory and the cultural theory of governance, this paper found that while good governance has been variously conceptualized, it has not been contextualized in the Nigerian milieu and that the concept serves as a measurement scale in the hands of donor agencies for the evaluation of their performances as tied to their operational objectives in the developing and less developed nations. The study recommended among others that Nigerian political leaders should leverage on the donor agencies’idea of governance to deliver development to their people and also evaluate their performance while the political parties should reinvent political party ideologies that reflect current realities for there solution of the myriad societal ills bedeviling Nigeria.

A discourse on good governance at any level requires a clear understanding of the concept as one may erroneously assume that everyone understands what good governance means. Thus, this paper not only evaluates the definitions of the concept of good governance, but also contextualized it within the perspectives of what constitutes public interest, the leader’s idiosyncrasy; political party ideologies and the expectations of donor agencies. The study is qualitative and as such its data were documentary and the content analysis approach was used to analyze the data. Anchored on the good governance theory and the cultural theory of governance, this paper found that while good governance has been variously conceptualized, it has not been contextualized in the Nigerian milieu and that the concept serves as a measurement scale in the hands of donor agencies for the evaluation of their performances as tied to their operational objectives in the developing and less developed nations. The study recommended among others that Nigerian political leaders should leverage on the donor agencies’ idea of governance to deliver development to their people and also evaluate their performance while the political parties should reinvent political party ideologies that reflect current realities for the resolution of the myriad societal ills bedeviling Nigeria.