Nigeria in the Transition Years, 1993-1999
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nigeria
ISBN :
Nigeria's Soldiers of Fortune
Author : Max Siollun
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1787382028
Book Description
A mini-history of a nation's life told in the stories of three protagonists
Contemporary Nigerian Politics
Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 14,1 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108569218
Book Description
In 2015, Nigeria's voters cast out the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Here, A. Carl LeVan traces the political vulnerability of Africa's largest party in the face of elite bargains that facilitated a democratic transition in 1999. These 'pacts' enabled electoral competition but ultimately undermined the party's coherence. LeVan also crucially examines the four critical barriers to Nigeria's democratic consolidation: the terrorism of Boko Haram in the northeast, threats of Igbo secession in the southeast, lingering ethnic resentments and rebellions in the Niger Delta, and farmer-pastoralist conflicts. While the PDP unsuccessfully stoked fears about the opposition's ability to stop Boko Haram's terrorism, the opposition built a winning electoral coalition on economic growth, anti-corruption, and electoral integrity. Drawing on extensive interviews with a number of politicians and generals and civilians and voters, he argues that electoral accountability is essential but insufficient for resolving the representational, distributional, and cultural components of these challenges.
Nigeria During the Abacha Years
Author : 'Kunle Amuwo
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
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Book Description
The autocratic regime of Sani Abacha (1993-1998) stands out as a watershed in the history of independent Nigeria. Nigeria's darkest years since the civil war resulted from his unrestrained personal rule; very close to the features associated with warlordism. Nepotism, corruption, violation of human rights, procrastination over the implementation of a democratic transition, and the exploitation of ethnic, cultural or religious identities, also resulted in the accumulation of harshly repressed frustrations. In this book, some distinguished scholars, journalists and civil society activists examine this process of democratic recession, and its institutional, sociological, federal and international ramifications. Most of the contributions were originally presented at a seminar organized by the Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire (CEAN) in Bordeaux.
The Price of Oil
Author : Bronwen Manby
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564322258
Book Description
Attempts to Import Weapons
Political Transition in Nigeria, 1993-2003
Author : Kayode Samuel
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Economic and social development
ISBN : 9789780232146
Book Description
This is a collection of essays on a remarkable and turbulent period in the political history of Nigeria. Although written between 1999 and 2003, the focus of these essays reached far behind that period to the crises of the annulment of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections and its aftermath. The annulment marked a defining moment whose impact still haunts Nigeria's democratic experiment to date. The essays seek to offer both the general reader and professional an insight onto the issues, currents and trends that defined this watershed decade and its sequel, of which the current political dispensation is a part.
The National Bibliography of Nigeria
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nigeria
ISBN :
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National Institute Yearbook
Author : National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (Nigeria)
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN :
Book Description
Democratization and Islamic Law
Author : Johannes Harnischfeger
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 3593382563
Book Description
When democracy was introduced to Nigeria in 1999, one-third of its federal states declared that they would be governed by sharia, or Islamic law. This work argues that such a break with secular constitutional traditions in a multireligious country can have disastrous consequences
The Nigerian National Assembly
Author : Joseph Yinka Fashagba
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 303011905X
Book Description
This book examines the role of the legislature in the democratic governance of Nigeria. Once one of the foremost political institutions of governance established in the early days of Colonial administration in Nigeria, the legislature has had an inconsistent role since statehood, subject to repeat dissolution at the hands of various military regimes. Focusing on the Nigerian Fourth Republic’s National Assembly (1999-present), this book discusses in detail the ways in which the national assembly has handled each of its major functions, the nature of the relationship between the assembly and the legislature, and the institutional mechanism through which its internal business is facilitated and executed. Furthermore, the chapters examine the level of assertiveness of the legislature, and the degree of importance and weight attached to their contributions to governance in motions, resolutions, and law-making. This book offers a unique look into legislative studies, an area which has been historically overlooked in the research on the Nigerian government, and will be useful to students and researchers in African studies, democracy and state-building and legislative studies.
