Godfatherism and Nigerian democracy
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The paper examines the godfather phenomenon. Relying largely on empiricism, it establishes the traditional and colonial origin of godfatherism It further descriptionbes the nature and dynamics of godfatherism, It argues that the motives and pursuits of the godfather are counter-p…
Designing a Legal and Regulatory Framework for Better Public Financial Management: Some Issues for Consideration from Trinidad and Tobago
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Ill fitting legal shoes pinch citizen’s foot. Chinese Proverb Never ask of money spent where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent. Robert Frost There is a sense in which discussions of public law and debates about bud…
Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century (review)
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Reviewed by: Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century Roberta Malee Bassett (bio) David John Frank and Jay Gabler. Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006…
NIGERIA: Yar'Adua Sworn In
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Food production among the Ungwai of Nigeria: An ethnoarcgaeological appraisal
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Food production or agriculture involving the use of simple implements like hoes and cutlasses, is the mainstay of the Ungwai economy. The Ungwai are an ethnic group located to the north of Minna the capital town of Niger State of Nigeria. Field experience shows that the Ungwai ag…
Gender Issues in Application of Islamic Law in Nigeria
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This essay explores gender issues in the contemporary application of Islamic law in the Muslim majority-states of northern Nigeria. Brief political background helps to explain the shari‘a codes enacted by the legislatures of the states, drawing largely from the classical formulat…
A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the destruction of Sierra Leone, by Lansana Gberie
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Recently, there has been a string of publications seeking to explain the cause of the 11-year-long bloody civil war in Sierra Leone. A number of the authors and contributors are Sierra Leoneans who, as insiders, bring ‘a nationalist perspective’. While this constitutes an invalua…
Devolution and the structure of the United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom as a union state The United Kingdom is a union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in a single state. The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, which are internally self-governing dependencies of the Crown, are not part of the United Kingdom. It use…
Briefing: Nigeria's 2007 general elections: Democracy in retreat
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Nigeria's third general elections since the end of military rule in 1999 took place on two consecutive Saturdays in April 2007. State polls to elect members of Nigeria's 36 state Houses of Assembly and their Governors were held on 14 April. National elections for the Senate, Hous…
Local government in Nigeria
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Institutional Development as a Challenge to Democratic Sustenance in Nigeria
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Certain pre-conditions that can broadly be classified as economic, social and political have been regarded as essential for sustaining democracy. Among these, the political factor in terms of institutional development may be regarded as vital, for these institutions serve as viab…
Short of the goal: U.S. policy and poorly performing states
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Failed states are at greatest risk for collapse and pose an urgent threat to international security. Yet, ironically, new U.S. foreign assistance programs such as the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) routinely bypass these poorly performing countries, while providing increased…
NIGERIA: Dokubo–Asari Released
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Map of Liberia
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Some fear that ECOMOG is a kind of imperial excuse by Nigeria to interfere in the internal politics of smaller states.
Liberias Civil War
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Liberia's Civil War offers the most in-depth account available of one of the most baffling and intractable of Africa's conflicts. Adekeye Adebajo unravels the tangled web of the conflict by addressing four questions: Why did Nigeria intervene in Liberia and remain committed throu…
State- Society Relations in Nigeria: Democratic Consolidation, Conflicts and Reforms
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Nigeria's Intervention in the Sierra Leonean Civil War
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This article employs the ‘hegemony theory' to examine Nigeria's inter-state relations visà- vis Sierra Leone within the broad context of the West African sub-regional multilateral institutional framework, ECOWAS. This study examines Nigeria's self-imposed leadership role, as enun…
NIGERIA: Key Ministers
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Commonwealth Update
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May – June 2007: Umaru Yar'Adua becomes president of Nigeria, despite ongoing criticism of the elections; South African president Thabo Mbeki facilitates crisis talks over Zimbabwe and the London High Court finds former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba guilty of stealing £23m.…
NIGERIA: A Unity Government
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