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Democratic Governance and Sustainable Peace and Stability in Nigeria

Nigeria, like many other African countries, has been in the firm grip of military dictatorship for many years; in this case for 30 out of 38 years of independence. The military took over power ostensibly to check the disintegrative tendencies in the country soon after independence. In the end it failed to achieve that goal, and in fact compounded the problem. Under the military, the country seems even more unstable than it was during civil rule. Indeed, the level of political integration would appear to have dropped. But recent elections have brought back hopes of sustainable peace under a dem…