Gerald E Ezirim
Biographic Data
| ID | 272615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald E Ezirim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ezirim |
| SIGNATURE | EZIRIM G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nigeria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8918-5352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Blue Economy Initiative
State Taxation of the Motorcycle Transport Business and Internally Generated Revenue in Ebonyi State, Nigeria, 2015 to 2021
In classical literatures, the informal sector is regarded as all those economic activities that are neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government. However, with the downturn of economic activities in Nigeria due to the dwindling oil revenue which forms the major revenue generation and export earnings of Nigeria, the informal sector, specifically the motorcycle transport business popularly known in Nigeria as Okada has come under some form…
Politics, Vaccine Distribution, and Public Reception during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Enugu State
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to governments worldwide, with significant implications for public health, social and economic development, and global security. This study aims to examine the politics surrounding the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and its impact on public reception in Enugu State, Nigeria. Using political ecology theory and a mixed-method approach that includes data collection through interviews, surve…
The Limiting Effects of Inconclusive Gubernatorial Elections towards the Democratic Consolidation of the Nigerian State
Inconclusive (delayed) elections are fairly a common phenomenon in the practice of representative democracy. In Nigeria, however, they are occasionally allowed to happen and sometimes stage-managed to serve the calculated interests of power centres. Thus, this study inserted in the debate on inconclusive elections and democratic consolidation by investigating the limiting effects of inconclusive gubernatorial elections ( IGE s) in Nigeria. The st…
Does liberal democracy promote economic development? interrogating electoral cost and development trade-off in Nigeria’s fourth republic
The popular thinking in western scholarship projects progressive deepening of liberal democratic principles and praxis as the panacea for economic prosperity in the peripheral socio-economic formation. While comparative studies on these relationships in both established and fledgling democracies have produced differential results, the link between electoral cost and economic development in transitional states is under-studied. This study therefor…
Impact of Covid-19 lockdown and social distancing policies on small businesses in south-eastern Nigeria
This article examines the specific or sub-sectoral effects of COVID-19 lockdown measures on small business units, thus departing from previous studies which only focused on general effects. Based on qualitative and cross-sectional survey methods, the article depicts a cross-sectoral disparity in the patronage level and income stream of customers of small businesses found on the streets of south-eastern Nigeria. The article identifies the gap in t…
Women, Intelligence Gathering and Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria
Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this article investigates how women leverage their intelligence-gathering capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent extremism to global peace and security has heightened the clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation and implementation of peace a…
Extortionate policing and the futility of Covid-19 pandemic nationwide lockdown in Nigeria
The emergence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in November 2019 has nearly brought the world to a halt. Recording her first COVID-19 case on 27 February 2020, the Nigerian government's default response to the pandemic was to lock down major parts of the country, among other measures. Despite the nationwide lockdown, inter-state travel continued unabated as many travellers bribed their way through the different checkpoints mounted by security a…
Trust and Trustworthiness in a Sub-Saharan African Sample
Energy hegemony and maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea
This Briefing argues that Nigeria’s hegemony over energy trade in the Gulf of Guinea maritime domain makes other states’ political commitment to regional trans-border frameworks difficult. It finds that the contradictions of rentier oil governance in Nigeria have implications for the rise in maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea
Oil Crimes, National Security, and the Nigerian State, 1999–2015
The discovery of oil in commercial quantity in Nigeria in 1956 ushered in a period characterized by endemic crises of oil rents management and corporate insecurity. From 1999, democratic renewal, backed by excess oil rents returns, made the popular democratic control of oil wealth critical. The consequent rentier management of oil wealth, excluding the citizens and their huge expectations occasioned threats to national security, thus punctuating …
Adapting Colonial Legacy to Modernism
Colonial interest in Africa was hinged on a principle focused on amassing benefits to the imperial authority. Best efforts were, therefore, engaged to ensure maximum benefits possible. Agriculture and mineral products, required for sustained industrial development, were abundant in Africa. Harmonizing these identified elements, for efficient production, required an equally efficient mode of transport. Rail transport was, therefore, established an…
Energy hegemony and maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea
This Briefing argues that Nigeria’s hegemony over energy trade in the Gulf of Guinea maritime domain makes other states’ political commitment to regional trans-border frameworks difficult. It finds that the contradictions of rentier oil governance in Nigeria have implications for the rise in maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea
Oil Crimes, National Security, and the Nigerian State, 1999–2015
The discovery of oil in commercial quantity in Nigeria in 1956 ushered in a period characterized by endemic crises of oil rents management and corporate insecurity. From 1999, democratic renewal, backed by excess oil rents returns, made the popular democratic control of oil wealth critical. The consequent rentier management of oil wealth, excluding the citizens and their huge expectations occasioned threats to national security, thus punctuating …
Women, Intelligence Gathering and Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria
Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this article investigates how women leverage their intelligence-gathering capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent extremism to global peace and security has heightened the clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation and implementation of peace a…
Impact of Covid-19 lockdown and social distancing policies on small businesses in south-eastern Nigeria
This article examines the specific or sub-sectoral effects of COVID-19 lockdown measures on small business units, thus departing from previous studies which only focused on general effects. Based on qualitative and cross-sectional survey methods, the article depicts a cross-sectoral disparity in the patronage level and income stream of customers of small businesses found on the streets of south-eastern Nigeria. The article identifies the gap in t…
Extortionate policing and the futility of Covid-19 pandemic nationwide lockdown in Nigeria
The emergence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in November 2019 has nearly brought the world to a halt. Recording her first COVID-19 case on 27 February 2020, the Nigerian government's default response to the pandemic was to lock down major parts of the country, among other measures. Despite the nationwide lockdown, inter-state travel continued unabated as many travellers bribed their way through the different checkpoints mounted by security a…
Trust and Trustworthiness in a Sub-Saharan African Sample
Adapting Colonial Legacy to Modernism
Colonial interest in Africa was hinged on a principle focused on amassing benefits to the imperial authority. Best efforts were, therefore, engaged to ensure maximum benefits possible. Agriculture and mineral products, required for sustained industrial development, were abundant in Africa. Harmonizing these identified elements, for efficient production, required an equally efficient mode of transport. Rail transport was, therefore, established an…
Energy hegemony and maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea
This Briefing argues that Nigeria’s hegemony over energy trade in the Gulf of Guinea maritime domain makes other states’ political commitment to regional trans-border frameworks difficult. It finds that the contradictions of rentier oil governance in Nigeria have implications for the rise in maritime insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea
Oil Crimes, National Security, and the Nigerian State, 1999–2015
The discovery of oil in commercial quantity in Nigeria in 1956 ushered in a period characterized by endemic crises of oil rents management and corporate insecurity. From 1999, democratic renewal, backed by excess oil rents returns, made the popular democratic control of oil wealth critical. The consequent rentier management of oil wealth, excluding the citizens and their huge expectations occasioned threats to national security, thus punctuating …
Does liberal democracy promote economic development? interrogating electoral cost and development trade-off in Nigeria’s fourth republic
The popular thinking in western scholarship projects progressive deepening of liberal democratic principles and praxis as the panacea for economic prosperity in the peripheral socio-economic formation. While comparative studies on these relationships in both established and fledgling democracies have produced differential results, the link between electoral cost and economic development in transitional states is under-studied. This study therefor…
Impact of Covid-19 lockdown and social distancing policies on small businesses in south-eastern Nigeria
This article examines the specific or sub-sectoral effects of COVID-19 lockdown measures on small business units, thus departing from previous studies which only focused on general effects. Based on qualitative and cross-sectional survey methods, the article depicts a cross-sectoral disparity in the patronage level and income stream of customers of small businesses found on the streets of south-eastern Nigeria. The article identifies the gap in t…
Women, Intelligence Gathering and Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria
Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this article investigates how women leverage their intelligence-gathering capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent extremism to global peace and security has heightened the clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation and implementation of peace a…
Extortionate policing and the futility of Covid-19 pandemic nationwide lockdown in Nigeria
The emergence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in November 2019 has nearly brought the world to a halt. Recording her first COVID-19 case on 27 February 2020, the Nigerian government's default response to the pandemic was to lock down major parts of the country, among other measures. Despite the nationwide lockdown, inter-state travel continued unabated as many travellers bribed their way through the different checkpoints mounted by security a…
Trust and Trustworthiness in a Sub-Saharan African Sample
The Limiting Effects of Inconclusive Gubernatorial Elections towards the Democratic Consolidation of the Nigerian State
Inconclusive (delayed) elections are fairly a common phenomenon in the practice of representative democracy. In Nigeria, however, they are occasionally allowed to happen and sometimes stage-managed to serve the calculated interests of power centres. Thus, this study inserted in the debate on inconclusive elections and democratic consolidation by investigating the limiting effects of inconclusive gubernatorial elections ( IGE s) in Nigeria. The st…
Politics, Vaccine Distribution, and Public Reception during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Enugu State
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to governments worldwide, with significant implications for public health, social and economic development, and global security. This study aims to examine the politics surrounding the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and its impact on public reception in Enugu State, Nigeria. Using political ecology theory and a mixed-method approach that includes data collection through interviews, surve…
State Taxation of the Motorcycle Transport Business and Internally Generated Revenue in Ebonyi State, Nigeria, 2015 to 2021
In classical literatures, the informal sector is regarded as all those economic activities that are neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government. However, with the downturn of economic activities in Nigeria due to the dwindling oil revenue which forms the major revenue generation and export earnings of Nigeria, the informal sector, specifically the motorcycle transport business popularly known in Nigeria as Okada has come under some form…
Blue Economy Initiative
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)