Download or read book My Life and Nigerian Politics written by Tony Anenih and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governance and Politics in Post Military Nigeria written by S. Adejumobi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). It analyzes the progress made in Nigeria since the return to democratic rule in 1999 and the prospects of democratic consolidation in the country.
Download or read book Contemporary Nigerian Politics written by A. Carl LeVan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book My Nigeria written by Peter Cunliffe-Jones and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Adedibu written by Lekan Saka and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conservative and Liberal Political Leaders in Nigeria Politics written by Omon Egbon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the comparison of the Nigerian Political System along with the ancient way of doing Politics. It enumerates how politicians deceive Nigerians with various promises to develop her nation. It shows us that the Political leader's falls into the category of the Sadducees and Pharisees and their belief towards life and how you can know those who really are for the growth of her nation and life after death. It elaborates how to know those who really are for a change and those who are not. Reading this book will tell you of those who are ready to bring down this nation through various unforeseen implementation of project and using it to improve their own personal wellbeing. This book will tell you of who to vote for in the upcoming election in Nigeria base on their belief and ideology towards certain aspect of life and spirituality after death. ABOUT AUTHOR Omon Peris Egbon is young and vibrant individual whose purpose is to correct the indiscipline among youth and the society in general. He is geared towards correcting abnormalities in business, organization and the society at large. He is a graduate of Business Management from Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria. He is a leader, writer, trainer, businessman who have been involved in helping others find out the great treasure hidden in them. He is the third of his parents and a junior twin. He is part of a movement of youth that help to raise feeble men to become mighty men of valour called Kingdom Ambassador's Network Intl. He is skilled in putting various intellects together. He is social media manager, business & project manager, consultant, adviser to upcoming businesses and a Kingdom Addict and a member of Believers Loveworld Inc & Wisdom Christian Centre.
Download or read book Political Spiritualities written by Ruth Marshall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an explosion of conversions to Pentecostalism over the past three decades, tens of millions of Nigerians now claim that “Jesus is the answer.” But if Jesus is the answer, what is the question? What led to the movement’s dramatic rise and how can we make sense of its social and political significance? In this ambitiously interdisciplinary study, Ruth Marshall draws on years of fieldwork and grapples with a host of important thinkers—including Foucault, Agamben, Arendt, and Benjamin—to answer these questions. To account for the movement’s success, Marshall explores how Pentecostalism presents the experience of being born again as a chance for Nigerians to realize the promises of political and religious salvation made during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Her astute analysis of this religious trend sheds light on Nigeria’s contemporary politics, postcolonial statecraft, and the everyday struggles of ordinary citizens coping with poverty, corruption, and inequality. Pentecostalism’s rise is truly global, and Political Spiritualities persuasively argues that Nigeria is a key case in this phenomenon while calling for new ways of thinking about the place of religion in contemporary politics.
Download or read book Nigerian Politics written by John M. Ostheimer and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Bones written by J.Timothy Hunt and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 10, 1995, Nigeria’s military dictatorship executed nine environmental activists. Among them was Ken Saro-Wiwa, the charismatic spokesman of the Ogoni people, whose land in the fertile Niger River delta has been grotesquely polluted by the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation. During Ken’s incarceration, his brother, Dr. Owens Wiwa, fought valiantly to save his life. When his quest failed, Owens narrowly escaped Nigeria with his life, first to London, and then to Toronto. His story is a heart-stopping saga of personal courage and official corruption, of individual selflessness and corporate greed.
Download or read book Nigerian Politics written by Margaret Peil and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1976 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Nigerian Government and Politics written by Billy J. Dudley and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nigerian Politics and Corruption written by Kyrian Chukwuemeka Echekwu and published by Stratton Press. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian Politics and Corruption This book is both an analysis and a critical response to the menacing evil of corruption in politics that has continued to ravage the Nigerian polity since after her independence from Britain, which wittingly or unwittingly appears to have defiled solutions. Obviously, almost every government that has ruled Nigeria, appeared helpless in the face of a corruption that has assumed the dangerous status of a life style amongst the citizenry. Having watched in disbelief and absolute confusion the dwindling fortunes of Nigeria, and perturbed by the obvious consequences of the political calamity and imminent economic collapse that might be the possible results of this dreaded evil, the author was compelled by his moral conscience to proffer some solutions to the problem of corruption in Nigeria, and by extension to every other nook and cranny of the world where this evil reigns thick. Indeed, the approach employed in this book is holistic in order to get to the roots of this known enemy of progress and free society called corruption. This book speaks directly to the conscience of the Nigerians and at the same time, serves as an eye opener to those who misunderstand and misconstrue the travails of this great nation on the periphery of socio-political disaster. Rev. Fr. Kyrian Chukwuemeka Echekwu is originally a Nigerian national, born in Lagos Nigeria. His academic ambition took him across many institutions in Nigeria, Spain and United States of America. He holds to his credit bachelor degrees both in Philosophy and Theology, Licentiate in Moral Theology and a Ph.D in Moral Theology. He equally holds a diploma in drug and addiction counseling. Ordained to the Catholic priesthood in his Native Diocese of Ahiara, Imo State of Nigeria, he has served the needs of the Church and humanity in various capacities both as Pastor and Teacher and Chaplain. Currently, he lives and works in the United States and has given several talks and seminars to different groups both in English and Spanish. With this initial publication, he has elected to foray into the authors' world, with a vision to leave an imprint in the minds of his readers. He is no doubt an ardent believer and crusader for justice and equality for all peoples.
Download or read book 1966 Crisis and the Evolution of Nigerian Politics written by Emmanuel Chigozie Osuchukwu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nigeria written by John Campbell and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria, the United States’ most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the disastrous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, the radical Islamic insurrection Boko Haram, and escalating violence in the delta and the north may finally provide the impetus that pushes it into the abyss of state failure. In this thoroughly updated edition, John Campbellexplores Nigeria’s post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very troubled giant to the edge. Central to his analysis are the oil wealth, endemic corruption, and elite competition that have undermined Nigeria’s nascent democratic institutions and alienated an increasingly impoverished population. However, state failure is not inevitable, nor is it in the interest of the United States. Campbell provides concrete new policy options that would not only allow the United States to help Nigeria avoid state failure but also to play a positive role in Nigeria’s political, social, and economic development.
Download or read book Oil Politics and Violence written by Max Siollun and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, these lofty hopes were soon dashed and the country lumbered from crisis to crisis, with the democratic government eventually being overthrown in a violent military coup in January 1966. From 1966 until 1999, the army held onto power almost uninterrupted under a succession of increasingly authoritarian military governments and army coups. Military coups and military rule (which began as an emergency aberration) became a seemingly permanent feature of Nigerian politics. The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance by exploiting the country's oil wealth and ethnic divisions to its advantage."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria written by W. Adebanwi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Joseph's seminal 1987 book Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria represented a watershed moment in the understanding of the political dynamics of Nigeria. This groundbreaking collection brings together scholars from across disciplines to assess the significance of Joseph's work and the current state of Nigerian politics.
Download or read book Confronting Errors with the Truth written by Theodore Orji and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
