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This paper investigated the landscape, attractiveness, and contours of teleworking in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted purely qualitative techniques. The sample size was 40 participants purposively selected in 25 work organizations in both private and public sectors. Study instruments were Key Informant Interviews conducted with 20 Human Resource Practitioners and In-Depth Interviews conducted with 20 senior staff members of the selected organizations. Most organizations in Lagos were forced to adopt teleworking during or after the 2020 lockdown and its landscape in Lagos state has become wider and smoother. Study also revealed that teleworking is attractive to employees in terms of avoiding road/traffic challenges, enhances work-family balance and a viable option for individuals living with disabilities, pregnant and nursing mothers. To employers, it enhances business continuity, saves cost, and reduces concerns about disease and illnesses. The study identifies poor technological and infrastructural base, absence of labour policy framework, organizational policy, capacity building, data security issues as contours hindering effective teleworking in Lagos State. The practice of teleworking has been firmly established in Lagos State, Nigeria. Governments and Employers of labour stand to gain immensely from the adoption of teleworking if relevant social and organizational policies are made available, as well as making the operating economic and technological environments more conducive.

Überblick über die Werke und die Entwicklung der nigerianischen Geschichtswissenschaft seit 1950

The mass media play a crucial role in electoral processes. Most scholarly attention has primarily been focused on media coverage of election conflicts, with little attention on the deescalation of electoral violence in the media reportage. This study, therefore, aimed at assessing the prominence given to de-escalating electoral violence in the coverage of the 2015 general elections in Nigerian newspapers. Employing exploratory design, the research utilised media content analysis and in-depth interviews as methods. Four newspapers Daily Trust, Nigerian Tribune, Daily Independent, and The Sun were purposively sampled. A total of 520 editions of the newspapers were coded and analysed using a coding sheet. Additionally, twelve interviews were conducted with editors, correspondents, and INEC officials. Quantitative data were analysed using frequency counts and percentages, while qualitative data were analyzed through the narrative technique. Findings revealed that newspapers gave high prominence to the de-escalation of electoral violence in their coverage and reportage of the 2015 general elections in Nigeria. The study underscores the importance of media operators being more conflict-sensitive in their presentation of sensitive issues like elections and adherence to professional journalistic ethics.

Among the issues of governance confronting Nigeria, security is generally regarded as crucial. There is no doubt about the strong relationship between security and development. This paper takes an opposing view to the dominant approach of a colonially-foisted statist and law-and-order conception of security by successive administrations in Nigeria. The paper emphasizes certain small things that matter for securing the lives of Nigerians, and ensuring sustainable development in the country. These include socio-cultural, economic and political factors that should catalyze citizens' participation in the national security architecture and in the country's development aspirations and goals. Data is drawn from secondary sources for the conceptual and theoretical sections of the paper. Primary data is drawn from events analyses, interviews with selected experts in University of Ibadan and from content analyses of selected documents on contemporary politics, economy and society in Nigeria. This is supported by interactions with respondents in selected markets and locations around the country. Political culture, with focus on the prebendalist perspective, is deployed for the paper's analytic frame. Keywords: Security threats, Endemic corruption, Political culture, Citizens' participation.