With economic growth of 0.55% in the second quarter of 2017 Nigeria seems headed out of its recession, the worst it has experienced in 25 years. Make no mistake, however. That is only recovery in a technical sense: a recession technically happens when Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in an economy is negative for two consecutive quarters
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Nation Building is the Assignment of this Generation
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May 1, 2018 | 9:00 am
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Overcoming learned helplessness
Learned helplessness describes the psychological state of a person or group of people as a result of past experiences of defeat and failure, which then leads to them being into a recurring state where when exposed to a similar situation, they think they cannot do anything to change it. They believe they are powerless to change their environment. They have learned helplessness.
Learned helplessness is behavior typical of an animal and occurs where the subject endures repeatedly, painful or otherwise aversive stimuli which it is unable to escape or avoid. After such experience, the organism often fails to learn or accept escape or avoidance in new situations where such behavior would likely be effective. In other words, the organism learns that it is helpless in situations where there is a presence of aversive stimuli, has accepted that it has lost control, and thus gives up trying. Such organism is said to have acquired learned helplessness.
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Political Path to Economic Transformation
With economic growth of 0.55% in the second quarter of 2017 Nigeria seems headed out of its recession, the worst it has experienced in 25 years. Make no mistake, however.
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