Adeline Nnenna Idike

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Department Political Science
Faculty Management and Social Science

Biography (Education/professional experience/professional accomplishments)

Adeline Nnenna Idike is an Associate Professor, Public Administration and Local Government (Human Resources Management) in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences. She has a background in Law, Sociology, Public Administration and Gender issues. Over the years, she has specialized in teaching Public Administration, Development issues, Local Government Administration and Administrative Law to MPA, MSc and undergraduate students at University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN). At AEFUNAI, she is currently teaching Public Administration and International Law, Local Government Administration and Development issues and has external examining experience in Human Resource Management. She has published widely in her research area of Human Resources Management, Gender and Organizational Behaviour, and Public Policy, including International Journal of Public Administration (IJPA). She is particularly interested in these issues within public sector administration, governance, HRM and Development. She is a member of the Nigeria Political Science Association, Association of Female Lawyers of Nigeria and Nigeria Bar Association. She is the founder/sustainer of Adeline Advocacy for the Dignity of the Destitute Foundation (aadodf) – an NGO that has been in the service of the underprivileged for the past 28 years. In the past 2 years  AADODF has collaborated with NOA and UNICEF in the advocacy for healthy living, adult literacy and poverty alleviation among the teeming destitute in Nigeria rural areas.

Academic Qualifications

S/N Institutions attended Degree(s) awarded Year
* University of Nigeria  Nsukka. PhD in Public Administration and Local Government (Human Resources Management) 2014
* Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, U.S.A. granted on 6th December, 1981 M.A in Public Affairs 1981

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 University of Minnesota, U.S.A. June 9, 1979. Specialization in Criminal Justice Studies granted in Spring 1979:  University of Minnesota, U.S.A. B.A Sociology 1979
* Nigerian Law School Bwari, Abuja BL 2001
* Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus – December 1997. LLB 1997
* Granted by the Institute for Africa Alternatives LondoN Certificate in Women Studies 1990
* Holy Child Secondary School, Sharon Abakaliki, November 1973 and 1974 respectively. WASC/GCE 1973

Research Interests

S/N  
1. HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
2. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
3. GENDER STUDIES
4. LAW
5. PUBLIC AFFAIRS
6. DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Membership of professional bodies

s/n Professional body
1. Member – Nigeria Political Science Association
2. Member FIDA – Association of Female Lawyers of Nigeria Ebonyi State Branch.
3. Nigeria Bar Association

Selected publications

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1. Idike, A., Ukeje, I. O., Iwuala, H. O., Onele, J. C. Ekwunife, R. A., Nwachukwu, K., & Ogbulu, U. (2019). The Practice of Inclusive Representation in Nigeria Bureaucracy: The Federal Character Principle Experience. Cogent Social Sciences, (Thomson_Reuters_Journal) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23311886.2019.1601545
2. Remi Chukwudi Okeke, Adeline N.A. Idike. (2016). Ethnicity, Political Leadership and National Development in Nigeria: The Contradictions and the Local Government Nexus. World Scientific News EISSN 2392-2192 WSN,56(2016)     pp 67 – 81
3. Remi Chukwudi Okeke, Adeline N.A. Idike (2016). The Dialectics of Political Economy and Elite Corruption in Post Colonial State: A Nigerian Case Study.” Kuwait Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, Vol 5 No 7 March 2016 pg 55–60.
4. Idike, A.N. (2015). Electoral Dynamic, Public Accountability and good governance in Nigeria: Qualitative Research, Bassey Andah, Journal of Cultural Studies Vol 7-8 pg 120 -129.
5. Okeke, R. C.  and Idike, A.N. (2015)   Some Critical Issues of Human Capital Accounting in the Public Sector of Developing States International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences Vol. 65  pp 83-87.
6. Eme, O.I.; Anyadike, O.N.; Ugwu, C.C. & Idike, A.N. (2015). “Opposition Politics in Africa: A Study of Nigeria, 1999-2015”. South East Journal of Political Science. Vol. 1, No. I, 90-120, July-December.
7. Idike, A.A., Agu, Sylvia Uche and Okeke, Remi Chukwudi (2014),”Nigeria-Netherlands Relations under the Jonathan Administration: Critical Vistas for the Nigerian State”, (Kuwait Chapter) of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, vol 3, No. 11, (July), pp. 227-234,(ISSN; 2223 -5833 IMPACT FACTOR; 3.2, THOMSON REUTERS).
8. Idike, Adeline Nnenna and Agu Sylvia Uchenna (2014), African Union and Intra-State Conflict Resolution: A Return to the Libyan crisis(2011); International Journal of Public Administration,Vol 37, issue 8, (July) pp.466 – 473, (ISSN:0190-0692 print/1532 -4265 online, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group L.I.C,(IMPACT FACTOR:THOMSON REUTERS).
9. Idike, A.A. (2014), “Women Empowerment and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria: A Prognosis”, Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review (OMAN Chapter); Vol. 4, No. 2, (Sept.), Pp. 91-97. ,(ISSN; 2223 -5833 IMPACT FACTOR; 2.89, THOMSON REUTERS)
10. Idike, A.A., Agu, Sylvia Uchenna and Okeke Vincent Onyekwelu Sunday (2013), “Voters Apathy and Revival of Genuine Political Participation in Nigeria”, Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 3, (Sept.), Pp. 439-448. ,(ISSN:2039-2117(Online.Global IMPACT FACTOR:0.377,SCOPUS INDEXED).

Idike, A.N. (2016). Human Capital Development, the National Question and Sustainable Development in Nigeria. Conference Proceeding of the Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, which was held on 21-22 October 2015.
11. Idike, A. N. (2014), “Political Parties, Political Apathy and Democracy in Nigeria: Contending issues and the Way Forward”, Kuwait Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, November, Pp. 2-10. (ISSN; 2223 -5833 IMPACT FACTOR; 3.2, THOMSON REUTERS)
12. Agu, S. U, Okwo, I. M.,  Ugwunta, O. D. & Idike, A. (2015). Fiscal policy and economic growth in Nigeria: Emphasis on various components of public expenditure. Sage Open. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2158244015610171
13. Idike, A.N. (2018) Federalism the National question and development in Nigeria.A paper presented at the 8th International Conference of the Society for research and Academic Excellence, University of Nigeria, Nsukka at Princess Alexandria Auditorium 5th – 8th February.
14. Idike, A.N. (2018) local Government and Economic Security in Nigeria: Critical Assessments. A paper presented at the 8th International Conference of the society for research and Academic Excellence, University of Nigeria, Nsukka at Princess Alexandria Auditorium 5th – 8th February.
15. Idike, A.N., Okorie C.O and Nwori, B.C (2018) Anti-Corruption Policy in Nigeria and Vision 20,20,20: implications for sustainable National Development. A paper presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the 2018 Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA), held at the development of political science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, 26th – 29th March.
16. Idike A. (2017) The political economy of insecurity in Nigeria and the poverty linkage. A paper presented at the Ebonyi State University Interdisciplinary Conference on Poverty, Health and National Security at the Staff Development Centre, Abakaliki Ebonyi State, 20th -22nd June.
17. Idike, A.N. (2016). Human Capital Development, the National Question and Sustainable Development in Nigeria. Conference Proceeding of the Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, which was held on 21-22 October 2015.
18. Idike A. (2017) The political economy of insecurity in Nigeria and the poverty linkage. A paper presented at the Ebonyi State University Interdisciplinary Conference on Poverty, Health and National Security at the Staff Development Centre, Abakaliki Ebonyi State, 20th -22nd June.
19. Idike, A.N. (2016). Human Capital Development, the National Question and Sustainable Development in Nigeria. Conference Proceeding of the Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, which was held on 21-22 October 2015.
20. Idike, A.N. (2018) Federalism the National question and development in Nigeria.A paper presented at the 8th International Conference of the Society for research and Academic Excellence, University of Nigeria, Nsukka at Princess Alexandria Auditorium 5th – 8th February.

 

 

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