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Rethinking the functionality of the Multinational Joint Task Force in managing the Boko Haram crisis in the Lake Chad Basin
Get PDFThe countries in the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) established the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) in April 2012 and upgraded it in 2015 for managing the ongoing Boko Haram crisis that started in Nigeria in 2002. The decision followed the realization that the problem is not necessarily Nigerian, as initially perceived, but a regional question. This security management formation is with a counter-terrorism mandate. This article takes a critical look at the challenges in the functioning of the security regimen. The most critical of the problems is that, though the countries need to work collaboratively at dealing with a common enemy, they are suspicious of each other over border issues. Nigeria is suspicious of Cameroon and Chad, which are in turn suspicious of Nigeria. This factor has reduced the effectiveness of this security community. The lesson here is that African states need to work on their relations timeously to enable them have smooth working relationship when they have to face a common enemy.Keywords: MNJTF, Boko Haram, crisis, Lake Chad Basin, security communit
Violence in metropolitan Kano: A Historical Perspective
No full text1. Introduction Kano, a predominantly Islamic urban centre, was conquered by the British in 1903. Since then, the city has experienced diverse social, economic and political changes. Economically, Kano’s pre-colonial influence, as the entreport of the trans-Saharan trade from North Africa waned with the arrival of the British. In colonial times, imported goods, mostly from Britain and Europe, came through the southern Nigerian seaports of Lagos, Port-Harcourt, and Calabar. The trade in import..
Problems of democratic governance in Nigeria: the past in the present
No full textPaper prepared for presentation at the Triennial History
Workshop on Democracy: Popular Precedents, Popular Practice
and Popular Culture", University or the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, July 13-16. 1994.
*An earlier version or this paper was read at the Seventh Economic and Social Research in Africa (OODESHIA), Dakar
10-14 February, 1992.It is the boast of historical materialism that the present is best understood in light of what has taken place in the past. The future too is a product of what happened in the past and happens now. The political sytems of the pre-colonial kingdoms is considered and how democratic they were. Were the colonial masters truely democrats when they introduced Western democracy? This paper explains some contemporary problems of democrcy in Nigeria in the light of Nigeria's pre-colonial and colonial past. Traditional respect for authority reinforced by colonial authoritarianism has made it difficult to establish democracy here
Inter-regional migrations, urban multiculturalism and the 'mixed court' system in colonial Nothern Nigeria
No full textNo Abstract.The Nigerian Journal of Economic History Vol. 2, 1999: 1-2
Beyond Moral Panic: Negotiation Theory and the University Strikes in Nigeria
Get PDF“Moral panic” is a concept of growing importance in the social sciences. It has to do with the emotional reaction of the media, the public, and agents of social control to an emerging or anticipated social problem. My paper uses this concept to portray how Nigerians react to the incessant industrial action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) since the 1990s. During these many strikes, which often last for months, Nigerian universities and private businesses domiciled in them are shut down. Members of the public often cast the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)/Federal Government (FG) face-offs in moral mode and find it easier to blame ASUU more than the government for keeping students out of the classroom. This paper argues that moral panics are now part of the problem rather than a solution. It explains why ASUU suspended its past strikes prematurely without achieving its goal, only to return to same issues shortly after. This “popular outcry against ASUU” explains why the government takes too long to consider the union’s demands for improving the funding of Nigerian universities. Taking the foregoing into consideration, the paper locates a more scientific explanation of the problems in the contexts of (i) obvious poor funding of Nigerian universities as evident in decayed infrastructure and low morale of staff; (ii) government’s lack of capacity to negotiate altruistically with ASUU; (iii) government’s reluctance to implement agreements reached with the university teachers; and (iv) lack of a vibrant civil society in Nigeria that is deeply concerned with the conditions of Nigerian universities. Some recommendations are made on how to solve the problem
'Truth'-without-justice-and-reconciliation: a study of the passivity of the Nigerian Government to the confession of the 'Abacha boys' to state terrorism.
No full textPaper presented at the University of Witwaterstrand History Workshop on
"The TRC: Commissioning the Past",
Johannesburg, 1l-14June 1999.Human tights abuses are a problem.The need to
discourage this ugly phenomenon and promote reconciliation between the perpetrators and victims of
human tights abuses has culminated in the establishment of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in
some parts of the world. The most important of such commissions to be established in Africa was the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission which was established in South Africa by Act No. 34 of 1995.
Since June 1998, some Nigerians have been asking that their country should join the league of nations that
have dealt with their past human rights problems using the path of TRC. The call is made necessary by
the abuses that took place in Nigeria between 1993 and 1998. This was the period when General Sani Abacha gave a "bad
name" to all the national questions besetting Nigeria since the 1960s: ethnic chauvinism, purposeless
leadership, electoral fraud, lack of integrity, corruption, mediocrity, violation of human rights etc
Explaining ‘godfatherism' in Nigerian politics
Get PDFNo Abstract. African Sociological Review Vol. 9(2) 2005: 79-10
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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