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Author: Christopher Okoli Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0983742154 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 164
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From January 1973 to April 30th 2015, Nigerian currency (₦) has been devalued over 30,500%% and price of petrol has gone up from ₦0.06 in 1973 to ₦97 in 2015 that is 16,160,000%% in 42 years in a country that has an abundance crude oil. In 1983 armed with guns and few men, he quietly usurped power to eradicate chronic corruption in Nigeria; He inherited empty treasury and his frantic efforts to avoid austerity measures because of the love he has for the masses made the same corrupt politicians to connive with their military wing and ousted him out in 1985. He waited 16 years for another opportunity to finish what he started many years ago. The only difference this time around is Yemi Osinbajo who is a dedicated Christian. There is another possibility that the treasury might be empty this time and IMF probably be waiting for Nigeria to ask for a loan. The battle is drawn between Muhammadu Buhari vs. Corruption.
Author: Christopher Okoli Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0983742154 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
From January 1973 to April 30th 2015, Nigerian currency (₦) has been devalued over 30,500%% and price of petrol has gone up from ₦0.06 in 1973 to ₦97 in 2015 that is 16,160,000%% in 42 years in a country that has an abundance crude oil. In 1983 armed with guns and few men, he quietly usurped power to eradicate chronic corruption in Nigeria; He inherited empty treasury and his frantic efforts to avoid austerity measures because of the love he has for the masses made the same corrupt politicians to connive with their military wing and ousted him out in 1985. He waited 16 years for another opportunity to finish what he started many years ago. The only difference this time around is Yemi Osinbajo who is a dedicated Christian. There is another possibility that the treasury might be empty this time and IMF probably be waiting for Nigeria to ask for a loan. The battle is drawn between Muhammadu Buhari vs. Corruption.
Author: Peter Cunliffe-Jones Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0230112609 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, this is a timely and personal look at a captivating country that has yet to achieve its great potential.
Author: A. Carl LeVan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108569218 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 303
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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.
Author: Toyin Falola Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139472038 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
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Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism, religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.
Author: Augustine A. Ikein Publisher: University Press of America ISBN: 9780761839286 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 514
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The Niger-Delta region is prone to conflicts and restiveness as a consequence of oil activities and under development, which, ultimately induce poverty. Oil, Democracy and the Promise of True Federalism in Nigeria attempts to demonstrate this unfortunate byproduct of federalism in Nigeria. Calling for resource control and the practice of True Federalism, the contributors of this volume identify some of the major endemic problems for the Niger-Delta people. It is in this light, that the contributors have presented the contending views on the challenges and opportunities on Nigeria's path towards the practice of True Federalism. Offering solution ideas for Niger-Delta development and the promotion of a peaceful coexistence, this comprehensive volume proposes hopeful, yet powerful arguments for the Niger-Delta region.
Author: Omolade Adunbi Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253015782 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 322
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Omolade Adunbi investigates the myths behind competing claims to oil wealth in Nigeria's Niger Delta. Looking at ownership of natural resources, oil extraction practices, government control over oil resources, and discourse about oil, Adunbi shows how symbolic claims have created an "oil citizenship." He explores the ways NGOs, militant groups, and community organizers invoke an ancestral promise to defend land disputes, justify disruptive actions, or organize against oil corporations. Policies to control the abundant resources have increased contestations over wealth, transformed the relationship of people to their environment, and produced unique forms of power, governance, and belonging.
Author: Toyin Falola Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108837972 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 691
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An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.
Author: GoodFriday NwaChuku Aghawenu Publisher: Langham Global Library ISBN: 1839734507 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 201
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Secular humanism has taken the world by storm – including the realm of African politics. Believing that religion is irrelevant, humanism asserts that men and women need no divine help in knowing what is right or wrong, valid or invalid, good or bad, as they are mature moral agents in their own rights. Integrity in Nigerian Politics challenges this assertion, providing an introduction to Christian political ethics and offering a powerful argument for its relevance in the complex moral terrain of today’s political affairs. Rooted specifically in Nigeria’s political history, and the social, religious, and economic challenges it has faced, this study explores the role of integrity in practical politics and the implications of its neglect. Establishing that it is the character of God that is the foundation for successful governance, Dr Aghawenu demonstrates that it is ineffective, impractical, and ultimately dangerous to ignore the ethical insights Christianity has to offer the political realm. This important work challenges the church to overcome the sacred-secular divide that so often permeates its public engagement and to recognize that it has what it needs to transform the nature of democratic politics in Nigeria, in Africa, and throughout the world.
Author: Edlyne Eze Anugwom Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100006025X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 417
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This book unravels the trajectories and dilemmas of development in Nigeria since its independence in 1960. Despite enormous human and material resources, development progress in Nigeria has not met expectations. By delving into the various factors that have influenced development efforts and initiatives, Development in Nigeria: Promise on Hold? aims to draw out lessons to help the country to achieve its potential. In many ways Nigeria typifies the African puzzle of near-misses, a never-ending drive towards development with enormous promise but no real practical output. As in many states within Africa, these failures can be traced to structural inadequacies and the perennial weakness of public institutions. Problems which collectively undermine sustainable development and growth include political corruption, ethnicity, failure of public institutions, distributional injustice, fiscal centralism in a purported federal state, faulty democratic traditions, malevolent elite class, religious and social conflicts, among others. By taking a comprehensive panoramic overview of the country’s historical experience as both a military dictatorship and democracy, Edlyne Eze Anugwom presents a nuanced, comprehensive and contemporary interrogation of the ever-dynamic forces and factors in Nigeria’s development project. This book’s incisive examination of Nigeria’s development aspirations over time will be of interest to students of Development and African Studies, as well as to practitioners and multilateral agencies involved in development planning and intervention in Nigeria who are looking for strategies for overcoming the challenges facing the country.
Author: Christopher Okoli
Author: Christopher Okoli
Author: Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Author: A. Carl LeVan
Author: Toyin Falola
Author: Augustine A. Ikein
Author: Aribidesi Usman
Author: Omolade Adunbi
Author: Toyin Falola
Author: GoodFriday NwaChuku Aghawenu
Author: Edlyne Eze Anugwom