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This paper explores the nexus between the International Organizations and Gender. It is within the purview of the paper that the International Organizations are the conduit pipes through which the global democratic agenda of gender and women empowerment flow. Utilizing secondary sources of data, the paper avers that International Organizations are pivotal to Gender and women empowerment generally as they are involved in mobilizing public support, monitoring the effectiveness of international aid and providing information and expertise towards gender equity and equality. The paper concludes that International Organizations, especially the United Nations Organization (U.N.O.), because of their universal spread and influence, have indeed become the channel through which the global developmental agenda is pursued and spread and have thus become important actors and partners in development

Proponents of grassroots/local government envisaged a developmental system that will serve as a springboard for national development. This is anchored on the belief that grassroots development forms the basis for national development since it has a direct bearing on the citizens. However, successive governmental attempts at heralding development from this tier have been jeopardized by male dominance of the political terrain at this level of governance. This becomes compounded and more worrisome with the current economic recession the country has been plunged into with its attendant deleterious impacts on women and development. Utilizing secondary sources of data, this paper avers that the prevailing economic realities in Nigeria today are such that are impacting on women empowerment and political participation in all strata of governance with implication for development and good governance. The paper, therefore, canvasses the provision of economic and democratic incentives towards liberating women and heralding the national development

The triumph of civil society engagement in stamping out military rule in Nigeria and the success recorded especially in South Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe have largely given a discourse on civil society an innate positivity in developing nations. Civil society has, therefore, become a buzzword touted by policymakers and political scientists as key to political, economic and social development and a conventional prescription for solving the global socio-political and economic ills. Strongly funded and supported by international donor agencies for its role in advancing democracy, civil society organizations have become so potent in societal administration and governance. However, the potency of civil society organizations in curtailing trans-border challenges and the type of civil society needed for this purpose has largely been glossed over by scholars. This study therefore examines and re-contextualizes civil society against the backdrop of the escalating trans-border crime in Nigeria. The paper attempts to provide an answer to the following questions: what is a trans-border crime in Nigeria? What are the social variables that underpin its resilience? Can civil society be harnessed to curtail the challenges posed by trans-border crime? What type of civil society can be harnessed? Secondary data was used to obtain data for the study. Liberal and theory of state fragility provided a theoretical framework. The paper contends that rather than focussing on interest-based civil society, the activities of which further hurt the poor, traditional civil societies that largely engender social capital should be strengthened and repositioned to assist in curtailing challenges posed by trans-border crime in Nigeria.