Local government in Nigeria : evolving a third-tier of government
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Citizenship, Statehood and the Problem of Democratization in Nigeria
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Resume: Des recherches ont ete menees sur le renversement des gouvernements civils, la frequence des coups d'Etat militaires, et le manque d'attachement a l'Etat nigerian. Ces questions, cependant, ne sont pas independantes les unes des autres. Ensemble, elles constituent le prob…
Time, Space and History in African Divination and Board-Games
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Heinz Kimmerle’s fascination with Africa has been a move, not so much away from main-stream Western philosophy (to whose Hegelian overtones he has been particularly tuned), but towards modes of thought which might help to relativise and fertilise the Western tradition, in prepara…
The Military as an Obstacle to the Democratization Enterprise: Towards an Agenda for Permanent Military Disengagement from Politics in Nigeria
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Curtailing the inordinate influence which the Nigerian Armed Forces exert on Nigeria is not only one of the greatest challenges facing the republic, but also one that is difficult to achieve. This essay addresses the role of the Nigerian military as a major obstacle to democratiz…
Fractured History: Elite Shifts and Policy Changes in Nigeria
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The Impossible Necessity of Nigeria: A Struggle for Nationhood
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Issues in international relations and Nigerian foreign policy
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Les mesures conservatoires rendues par la Cour Internationale de Justice, le 15 mars 1996, dans le différend frontalier entre le Cameroun et le Nigeria
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Garcia Thierry. Les mesures conservatoires rendues par la Cour Internationale de Justice, le 15 mars 1996, dans le différend frontalier entre le Cameroun et le Nigeria. In: Annuaire français de droit international, volume 42, 1996. pp. 409-427.
Federalism: The Nigerian experience
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This study offers an overview of the only federation on the African continent (recently joined by the new South African constitution which is also federal) and its expierence over three decades of independence. Nigeria has gone through various turbulent phases in its post-colonia…
The concept of a rotational presidency in Nigeria
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Nigeria is an important African nation, with the potentials of population and material resources to play a major role in global politics. The country is multiethnic; its main features include the existence of three major ethnic groups, each territorially exclusive and larger in p…
Military Intervention in Politics
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Direct military intervention in the politics of Third World countries has been a depressingly regular occurrence since the high-water mark of post-war independence. Between 1960 and 1980 three-quarters of Latin American states experienced coups, as did half of the Third World Asi…
« After Fish, Milk Do not Wish ». Recurring Ideas in a Global Culture
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Résumé 'Après poisson, laict est poison'. D'idées récurrentes au sein d'une culture globale. — Une croyance répandue au Mali lie l'ingestion de certains poissons à la survenue de la lèpre (maladie de Hansen). Une aversion semblable à l'égard du poisson est attestée en Egypte anci…
The Fundamental Right to a Passport Under Nigerian Law: An Integrated Viewpoint
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The struggle of Nigerian civil society for the establishment of a democratic polity, founded on the rule of law and the respect for the human and peoples’ rights of ordinary citizens of Nigeria, has been waged against the military governments that have ruled by force for the bett…
Ethnic Minority Problems and Governance in Nigeria: Retrospect and Prospect
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The foregoing discussion of the travails and struggles of ethnic minority communities in Rivers and Kaduna States — the former contending against economic expropriation and the latter against both cultural extinction and politico-economic marginalization — may now be related to t…
Ethnic Minorities and Political Turbulence in Kaduna State
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Ethnic minority tensions and conflicts in southern Kaduna have probably engendered far more serious violence than any other forms of communal instability in recent Nigerian history. Because these conflicts and tensions have deep roots in northern Nigerian history, it is useful to…
The Organised Private Sector and the Realities of Change in Nigeria-South Africa Relations
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Party systems: an exploratory study of the impact of the two-party framework on the political attitude and behavior of the electorate in the Nigerian Third Republic
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The study examines the records of the Nigerian party systems in creating a propitious or volatile political environment for political campaigns and elections. It brings together the literature and cross-sectional survey data on individual and group political attitudes and behavio…
Indigenous entrepreneurship and cross-border trade in Nigeria
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The study examines an aspect of indigenous Nigerian entrepreneurship, focusing on the cross-border trade in South-Western Nigeria. An almost total ignorance of how the traders go about their business, coupled with an unwelcoming trading environment, appear to have caused the anti…
Man's distortion of the distribution of archaeological artifacts: case studies of the Tiv and Ungwai of Central Nigeria
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British Imperialism and social Darwinism: C.L. Temple and colonial administration in Northern Nigeria, 1901-1916
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This research examines the concept of Social. Darwinism in relation to British imperialism, with particular reference to Northern Nigeria and the administrative work of Charles Temple during the period 1901 ~ 1916. At the centre of previous portrayals of Temple and his career is…
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