Download or read book Around and about Abuja written by Francine Rodd and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a welcome and important contribution to the travel literature on Abuja, Nigeria's official capital city. Presenting the city of Abuja in a positive and endearing light, the book provides details on the history, people, cultures, landscape and languages of the city and surrounding area. It provides much information on aspects of practical and social life - dress, food, drink, hotels, restaurants and bars; travel, transport and driving in Abuja. Whole sections are dedicated to the ex-pat experience: from finding from somewhere to live; getting connected, hooked up and down to business; through negotiating public services and bureaucracy; finding suitable schools; staying 'healthy, safe, fit and beautiful'; to hiring 'domestic help', controlling pests ('fumigation') and organising swimming pool maintenance. The co-authors are variously writers, researchers and editors who all have extensive experience of travel and of living in Abuja as foreigners.
Download or read book Architecture and Politics in Nigeria written by Nnamdi Elleh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants. Founded five years after the Civil War with Biafra, which caused around 1.7 million deaths, the city was envisaged as a place where justice would reign and where people from different social, religious, ethnic, and political backgrounds would come together in a peaceful manner and work together to develop their country and its economy. These were all laudable goals, but they ironically mobilized certain forces from around the country in opposition against the Federal Government of Nigeria. The international and modernist style architecture and the fact that the government spent tens of billions of dollars constructing this idealized capital ended up causing more strife and conflict. For groups like Boko Haram, a Nigerian Al-Qaida affiliate organization, and other smaller ethnic groups seeking to have a say in how the country’s oil wealth is spent, Abuja symbolized everything in Nigeria they sought to change. By examining the creation of the modernist national public spaces of Abuja within a broader historical and global context, this book looks at how the successes and the failures of these spaces have affected the citizens of the country and have, in fact, radicalized individuals with these spaces being scene of some of the most important political events and terrorist targets, including bombings and protest rallies. Although focusing on Nigeria’s capital, the study has a wider global implication in that it draws attention to how postcolonial countries that were formed at the turn of the twentieth century are continuously fragmenting and remade by the emergence of new nation states like South Sudan.
Download or read book Troubled Skylines written by John Oladipo Ojikutu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of materials from many of the articles I have written on occurrences that span a period of more than ten years about Nigeria’s aviation industry. I could not have done this alone from outside the industry without the opportunity given to me to serve in various committees by persons with authorities in the sector.
Download or read book Nigeria written by Lizzie Williams and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2012 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition guides you through this unique country and provides a comprehensive insight into what makes Africa's most populous country tick.
Download or read book Abuja written by Aminu Olusola and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documents Provided to the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nigeria written by Ebiz Guides and published by MTH Multimedia S.L.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique new series for business travelers going to third world emerging countries to explore business opportunities. Information on who is the present CEO of major corporations and how to contact, is the local government stable, current economy, investment and legal framework, main tourist destinations, leisure itineraries and hotel information.
Download or read book The Divide written by Dauda Wura and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divide is a fictional retelling of serial chains of events in Nigeria’s political history. Following the sudden, and recurring deaths of sitting presidents of northern extraction, deeply rooted tribal and religious tensions start to boil over to the surface, causing a series of catastrophic ripples. Ripples that threaten to divide. The narrative follows one man’s goal to uncover well-hidden conspiracies, that could crack the paper thin togetherness of a moribund amalgamation, a race to secure the future of a nation that no longer wanted to be united.
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 Krugger Battle written by Anozie Thomas and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The banality of ritual killings birthed the Krugger Battle, The Nigerian Metaphor . Dele Oscar was flummoxed when the man he almost crushed with his Mercedes Jeep refused to be taken to the hospital on the bizarre reason that he would be killed. Insisting to know who will kill him at the hospital and why only fetched a more confounding response from the man; The man with a Lexus Jeep trailing me before I lost control and rammed my motorbike into your car. You wont understand now, but when you hear my story you will. Just take me to your house. Confused about the strange response but interested in the story the man wished to tell, he took him to his doctor friend, Dr.Zak, who took care before he finally took him to his house. Then he called his business partner and confidant, Aminu Sabo, to join him and listen to the story. Poka, the man in the centre of the storm, told the story. His story, the labyrinth of ritual killings, secret cults and the actors. Taken aback by the chilling story and being prime witnesses to ritual killings earlier in their lives, Dele and Aminu could not but hatch a plan to confront this debilitating societal ill. Watching the outwitting of lions by a herd of buffalos in a battle that took place in Paul Krugger National Park in South Africa, filliped their zest and fired the ember of their courage as they confront the blighting phenomenon of ritual killings in Nigeria. But, would they be able to extinguish the ember of ritual killings that has ensured the cyber level of crime and corruption in Nigeria?
Download or read book Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora written by Ibigbolade Aderibigbe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume proposes a wholesale adoption of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) as a paradigm for Africa's renewal and freedom from the whims of foreign interests. These systems, as argued here, involve balancing short-term thinking and immediate gratification with longer-term planning for future generations of Africans and the continent's diaspora. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with development studies in Africa and its diaspora, as it offers plausible solutions to Africa's chronic developmental problems that can only be provided from within Africa, rather than through the intervention of external third parties. As such, it provides vital contributions to the ongoing search for viable answers to the challenges that Africa faces today.
Download or read book Embodying Peripheries written by Kuan Hwa and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines approaches from the design disciplines, humanities, and social sciences to foster interdisciplinary engagement across geographies around the identities embodied in and of peripheries. Peripheral communities bear human faces and names, necessitating specific modes of inquiry and commitments that prioritize lived human experience and cultural expression. Hence, the peripheries of this book are a question, not a given, the answers to which are contingent forms assembled around embodied identities. Peripheries are urban fringes, periphery countries in the modern world-system, Indigenous lands, occupied territories, or the peripheries of authoritative knowledge, among others. No form can exist outside historical relations of power enacted through knowledge, political structures, laws, and regulations.
Download or read book Resurrection Peacemaking Plowsharing the Tools of War written by Clifford Kindy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author draws the reader through the drama and mediocrity of his personal experience. The hard work of peacemaking is clearly strengthened through team efforts. Space is provided for the reader to step into the shallows of peacemaking and then on into the depths. This book is intended to be acted into being!
Download or read book Comparative International and Global Justice written by Cyndi Banks and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative, International and Global Justice: Perspectives from Criminology and Criminal Justice presents and critically assesses a wide range of topics relevant to criminology, criminal justice and global justice. The text is divided into three parts: comparative criminal justice, international criminology, and transnational and global criminology. Within each field are located specific topics which the authors regard as contemporary and highly relevant and that will assist students in gaining a fuller appreciation of global justice issues. Authors Cyndi Banks and James Baker address these complex global issues using a scholarly but accessible approach, often using detailed case studies. The discussion of each topic is a comprehensive contextualized account that explains the social context in which law and crime exist and engages with questions of explanation or interpretation. The authors challenge students to gain knowledge of international and comparative criminal justice issues and think about them in a critical manner. It has become difficult to ignore the global and international dimensions of criminal justice and criminology and this text aims to enhance criminal justice education by focusing on some of the issues engaging criminology worldwide, and to prepare students for a future where fields of study like transnational crime are unexceptional.
Download or read book Reaching Beyond written by Nora E. Milner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conspiracy of the greatest proportions, threatening to destroy mankind... Murder on an international space vessel... Plundering the riches of an African nation... The first Court of Outer Space... Has the treachery so common on Earth found a new home in space? These seemingly unrelated events weave themselves into a mystery that encompasses every continent of Earth and the far reaches of outer space. The United States stands on the brink of its greatest conquest yet, the arrival of a crew on Mars and the exploration of the Red Planet. But powerful forces are at work to stop the West from reaching beyond. The extent to which these forces will go to stop the conquest of Mars is unimaginable and unforeseeable, that is, to everyone but a small tribe of Gypsies in Europe. RebeccasReads highly recommends REACHING BEYOND as a wonderous galectic story filled with suspense, deception & murder on an international space station & scale! REACHING BEYOND is a trendsetter in the contemporary legal thriller genre. Rebecca Brown
Download or read book A Gift from Darkness written by Andrea Claudia Hoffmann and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year: “A powerful testimony to resilience and survival” (Kirkus Reviews). A widowed Nigerian women shares her shocking, inspirational account of what she endured to save her unborn child while kidnapped by Boko Haram. When she was 19, Patience Ibrahim's first husband was murdered by Boko Haram, the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organization based in West Africa. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several months later. Having prayed for a child for years, Patience is overjoyed when she discovers she is pregnant. But her joy is short-lived: Boko Haram soldiers are at her door. Brutally abducted and forced to convert to Islam, she lives in constant terror of what her kidnappers have in store for her. She finds herself alone in the world and fears her life is over. For 2 months, Patience hides her pregnancy while facing the brutalities meted out by Boko Haram. By the sheer force of her determination to protect her baby, she and her child escape. Now, she has entrusted journalist Andrea C. Hoffmann with her story, a powerful first-person account of Boko Haram's atrocities in Nigeria and Cameroon. A gripping testimony of the terrorist group’s war crimes in Western Africa, A Gift from Darkness poignantly shows the human toll of a crisis that demands attention.
Download or read book Twenty Years of Studying Democratization written by Aurel Croissant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratization emerged at a time of epochal change in global politics: the twin impacts of the end of the Soviet Union and the speeding up and deepening of globalisation in the early 1990s meant a whole new ball game in terms of global political developments. The journal’s first issue appeared in early 1994. Over time, the editorial position has been consistently to focus on ‘the third wave of democracy’ and its aftermath. The third wave is the most recent exemplar of a long-term, historical trend towards more democratically viable regimes and away from authoritarian systems and leaders. In short, the journal wants to promote a better understanding of democratization – defined as the way democratic norms, institutions and practices evolve and are disseminated both within and across national and cultural boundaries. Over the years, the many excellent articles that we have featured in the journal have shared our focus on democratization, viewed as a process. The journal has sought – and continues to seek – to build on the enduring scholarly and of course popular interest in democracy, how and why it emerges, develops and becomes consolidated. Our emphasis over the last 20 years has been contemporary and the approach comparative, with a strong desire to be both topical and authoritative. We include special reference to democratization in the developing world and in post-communist societies. In sum, just as 20 years ago, the journal today aims to encourage debate on the many aspects of democratization that are of interest to policy-makers, administrators and journalists, aid and development personnel, those involved in education, and, perhaps above all, the tens of millions of ordinary people around the world who do not (yet) enjoy the benefits of living under democratic rule. The two dozen articles collected in this ‘virtual’ special issue are emphatic proof of the power of the written word to induce debate, uncertainty, and ultimately progress towards better forms of politics, focused on the achievement of the democratic aspirations of men and women everywhere.
