https://journals.abuad.edu.ng/index.php/agidigbo <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Àgídìgbo:</strong> ABUAD Journal of the Humanities promotes the publication of issues, researches, and comments connected with the ways of humanistic discourse that determine, regulates, and accounts for the development of Africa. It focuses on topics and issues that would appeal to audience of diverse disciplinary interests. It is a double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal, which is domiciled in the Department of General Studies, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The editorial board welcomes manuscripts for publication in Àgídìgbo: ABUAD Journal of the Humanities. Manuscripts submitted for publication will be considered for acceptance on the understanding that they have neither been published nor are currently being considered for publication elsewhere. The copyright of the papers accepted belongs to the General Studies Unit, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Contributors are expected to adhere to Àgídìgbo: ABUAD Journal of the Humanities' style of referencing in preparing their manuscript.</p> General Studies Department, ABUAD en-US AGIDIGBO: ABUAD Journal of the Humanities https://journals.abuad.edu.ng/index.php/agidigbo/article/view/524 <p>This work examines the contribution of Nigeria and Zimbabwe to the liquidation of apartheid and institutionalised racism in South Africa. It analyses the diplomatic engagement of both countries in intergovernmental organizations such as the UN, OAU and the Commonwealth in the struggle for the establishment of racial equality and democracy in South Africa. The work highlights the cooperation of Nigeria and Zimbabwe in efforts to end apartheid and racism in South Africa. Both countries were committed to pan-Africanism and united in commitment to anti-colonialism and racial equality and this made them to cooperate in the anti-apartheid struggle. A number of works exist on Nigeria’s role in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, but there is hardly any that focuses on the cooperation between Nigeria and Zimbabwe in the struggle to end racism in the country. Anti-colonialism and racial equality were important foreign policy objectives that Nigeria adopted from independence in 1960 and this made her to be involved in the independence struggle in Zimbabwe. Nigeria’s involvement in the independence movement in Zimbabwe contributed tremendously to Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980 and following Zimbabwe’s independence, both countries worked together to assist other African territories still under colonial rule. The work utilizes mainly oral sources, government records, reports of international organizations, newspaper reports and journal articles as sources of information. The work maintains that cooperation between Nigeria and Zimbabwe contributed extensively to the establishment of racial equality and democracy in South Africa in 1994. The study concludes that African states can<br>build on the ideals of pan-Africanism to address contemporary problems as they did in the struggle against apartheid from the 1960s to the 1990s.</p> Charles O. Osarumwense Copyright (c) 2020 Charles O. Osarumwense https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2018-05-09 2018-05-09 5 1&2 1 10 https://journals.abuad.edu.ng/index.php/agidigbo/article/view/525 <p>The Nigerian bureaucracy came under severe ridicule following the discovery and recovery of large-scale looting of government money and illicit assets by civil<br>servants recently. The discoveries were made by the various federal government anticorruption Agencies such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission<br>(EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). This is in spite of the Zero tolerance stance of the Mohammadu Buhari government for corruption in the civil service since it came to power about two year ago. Is it possible for a civil service bedevilled by this magnitude of corruption to be effective and efficient, especially in the area of national development? This paper holds the view that the government should ensure that its on-going efforts to cleanse the country’s civil service of the mess of corruption is intensified and pursued to the letter with the initiation of more stringent cleansing measures as well as providing adequate political will to crush the menace of corruption in the civil service.&nbsp;</p> Olanrewaju S. Oyedele Opeyemi Aluko Copyright (c) 2018 Olanrewaju S. Oyedele, Opeyemi Aluko https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2018-05-09 2018-05-09 5 1&2 11 20