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<p>The central theme of this paper is to see if there is relationship between natural resources management and sustainable development. This investigation was conducted in Nigeria using&nbsp; four States of Nigeria Oil rich Niger Delta; Bayelsa, Edo, Anambra, and Delta. The sub objectives were to&nbsp; see whether there is significant relationship between legislation and protection practices and between transparency and social equit both regarded as hypothesis 1 and 2. The sampled population was limited to 96 senior and knowledge officers of the Ministries of Environment of the four selected oil rich states. Arising from hypothesis, the variables in the study were measured using IBM SPSS. The results revealed that there is significant and positive correlation between natural resources management and sustainable development. In the first test of hypothesis for instance; the Pearson's r of .033 and correlation of .841 indicated that there is substantial relationship between legislation and protection practices of natural resources in the states of investigation. For the second test of hypothesis, with Pearson's r .021 and correlation of&nbsp; .907, the test validated the hypothesis indicating that transparency is crucial for ensuring accountable governance and equitable benefit. Limitations related to this study was in the area of funding to enable higher population of sample size and and measuring technique. These findings will empower people to understand how twinly correlated is the relationship between naturam resources management and sustainable development. Such degree of correlations indicated dare need for concerted efforts to ensure that policies are formulated to address sustainability of natural resources in order to guanrantee our common good.</p>

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<p>This paper examined the relationship between Victor Vroom’s Expectancy Theory of motivation and crime control in the Niger Delta, focusing on selected five states’ police command – Abia, Imo, Edo, Bayelsa, and Delta states out of the nine states of the Niger Delta - Abia, Imo, Cross river, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Ondo, Edo, Bayelsa, and Delta states. The specific objectives were to: examine whether expectancy have significant relationship with proactive policing, assess whether instrumentality and corruption are correlated, and find out whether there is significant nexus between valence and education. Combination of multi-stage random and purposive sampling procedures were used to select the 1,300 respondents. The collected data were analyzed with the aid of SPSS and hypotheses were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The results showed that there is significant correlation between Vroom’s expectancy theory of motivation and crime control in the Niger Delta. In the first hypothesis tested, Pearson's r of .852 with p value of .067 indicated that there is a substantial relationship between expectancy and proactive policing. For the second hypothesis, with Pearson's r of .822 with p value of .088, the test validated the hypothesis indicating that there is a strong relationship between instrumentality corruptions. The third hypothesis, with Pearson's r of .243 with p value of .694, the test validated but showing very weak relationship between valence and education. The study concluded that to achieve efficient crime control in the Niger Delta, police authority is expected to; one, enrich the job scope of individual crime fighter and make necessary gadgets needed to enhance the performance of crime fighters available to their personnel, ensure transparency in all that involve motivational package for deserving officer at all time, and provide framework for identification of individual and officers’ values and reward preference in order to define what appeals to individual teammate. Late response to questionnaire constituted limitation to this research but same was overcome with patience.</p>

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