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Author: Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida
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Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Author: Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida
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Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Author: Uma O. Eleazu
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ISBN: 9780785519935
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Jonah Isawa Elaigwu
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ISBN: 9789782217004
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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Author: Ibeanu, Okechukwu
Publisher: Safari Books Ltd
ISBN: 9788431992
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Nigerian Federalism: Continuing Quest for Stability and Nation-Building explores the nature of and the debate over a number of recurrent issues, such as the “origins of Nigerian federalism, the number of state units in the federal system, fiscal issues, political parties, distributional issues, and intergovernmental relations” in Nigerian federalism since the establishment of protofederalism under the Richards Constitution, 1946 seventy years ago. In exploring the issues, the book seeks to answer the question, “what accounts for the persistence of Nigerian federalism, despite the serious discontents that the debate throws up now and again?” The book offers a reinterpretation, which argues that the demand for true federalism, which anchors the major trend in the age-long debate on the structure of Nigerian federalism, is ahistorical and therefore static. The book uniquely emphasises the need to periodise the practice of Nigerian federalism into four major phases. Based on the periodisation, two cardinal propositions emerge from the various chapters of the book. First, in spite of separatist and centrifugal threats to its existence, Nigerian federalism has typically never sought to eliminate diversity, but to manage it. In this sense, the construction of Nigeria’s federal system from its earliest beginnings shows clearly that it is both a creature of diversity and an understanding that diversity will remain ingrained in its DNA. Secondly, Nigeria’s federal practice has not sought to mirror any model of “true federalism”, be it in the United States, Canada or elsewhere. Instead, Nigeria’s federal system has been a homegrown, if unstable modulation between foedus and separatus, a constantly negotiated terrain among centripetal and centrifugal forces and between centralisation and decentralisation. Consequently, a historical, periodised understanding of Nigerian federalism is inevitably essential. It is this historical and theoretical-methodological approach to explaining and understanding Nigerian federalism that gives the book its unique character. The book is for the general reader as well as for students, including researchers of Nigerian federalism and of Nigerian constitutional and political development, policymakers, and political parties.
Author: Solomon Akhere Benjamin
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Category : Osun State (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Author: Akin Oyebode
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Author: Rotimi T. Suberu
Publisher: 成甲書房
ISBN: 9781929223282
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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FOREWORD by Larry Diamond
Author: Aaron Tsado Gana
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Author: Uyilawa Usuanlele
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319506307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa – the tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal democratic model on which most African states were founded at independence from colonial rule, and to which they continue to aspire, is founded on majority rule. It is also founded on the protection of the rights of minority groups to political participation, social inclusion and economic resources. Maintaining this tenuous balance between majority rule and minority rights has, in the decades since independence, become the key national question in many African countries, perhaps none more so than Nigeria. This volume explores these issues, focusing on four key themes as they relate to minority rights in Nigeria: ethnic and religious identities, nationalism and federalism, political crises and armed conflicts.
Author: J. ISAWA ELAIGWU
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1912234513
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Nigerians love to debate. Even under colonial rule, the authorities realised that Nigerians could not be repressed and that they always expressed their views on topical issues of development. The topical issues that have driven Nigeria's political economy include Constitution and Constitutionalism, Democracy, the National Question, Civil-Military Relations, Federalism, State and Nation-Building, Local Governance, Leadership, the Role of Traditional Rulers, the Economy and Religion.This volume is a selection of some of Professor Elaigwu's contributions to these debates. In it, Elaigwu, a leading Nigerian political scientist, argues that the challenges facing the country are not unsurmountable and that Nigerians must take the destiny of their country in their hands and look inwards to deal with the country's weaknesses while strengthening her capacity and resolve to become an industrialised and powerful country within a limited space of time.
