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Studies of cinema and urban modernity in Europe and America typically foreground movement, vision, and sensation as the categories of correlation between cinema and the city. Lagos Never Spoils: The Aesthetics, Affect, and Politics of the City in Nigerian Cinema , argues that in…

The Nigerian city of Lagos has been the site of an unprecedented explosion in Pentecostal Christianity, even as the city's population has increased exponentially and its infrastructure has become strained. Pentecostal organizations have blanketed the city with their discourse, w…

This dissertation is a study of the nature of power, its spiritual dynamics, and the relevance they bear upon the development of African Christian Theology. African Independent Churches offer a valuable context for this research because of their high sensitivity to and emphasis …

There is an estimated 16 million housing units shortfall in Nigeria and the government cannot meet the housing needs of Nigerians because of budgetary constraints and other competing needs. It is important to note that the leaders have failed on numerous occasions to tackle the …

Increasing urbanisation has increased waste generation. This has led to an increase in waste being left uncollected in certain areas of low-income countries. With the inability of municipal authorities to provide the required collection services, there has been the emergence of …

In the early 1940s, a modern juvenile justice system was set up in Nigeria that centered on the city of Lagos. The juvenile justice system created new categories of juvenile crime as well as new institutions and procedures for the reform of problem juveniles. This study examines…

Within and among countries, inequities in access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) represent a growing crisis. Among experts on technological implementation, discrepancies in access to technologies like the Internet are commonly referred to as the digital divi…

This study investigated the problems facing the management of the education of blind students in Nigerian public schools. The research questions addressed (1) assessing the quality and effectiveness of managerial practices governing the management of blind students in self-conta…

This study is designed to provide empirical information on traffic congestion, travel time, and travel speed in urban Sub-Sahara Africa, using Lagos, Nigeria as a case study. This study is subdivided into three parts—(1) a field study designed to collect travel times, and travel…

This research focuses on business formation and small business strategy in the informal economy. More specifically, it addresses three essential questions related to unregistered firms: why they are created, how they achieve results, and where they locate. This research uses a v…

Lagos state, the commercial center of Nigeria, has become more diverse since the colonial days and independence in 1960. Accordingly, there is a need to reduce health care disparities among different ethnic groups that exists in the Nigeria due to prejudice against a variety of …

Poor and inadequate customer service is prevalent in the public sector of emerging economies. Also, limited leadership roles are ascribed to frontline employees in the sector. Improving customer service and empowering frontline employees could increase organizational effectivene…