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A nation betrayed: Nigeria and the Minorities Commission of 1957; Placebo as medicine: the poverty of development intervention and conflict resolution strategies in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
In: Journal of contemporary African studies, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 359-367
ISSN: 1469-9397
A nation betrayed: Nigeria and the Minorities Commission of 1957,by Michael Vickers, ,Placebo as medicine: the poverty of development intervention and conflict resolution strategies in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
In: Journal of contemporary African studies, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 359-366
ISSN: 0258-9001
The Nigerian federal system: performance, problems and prospects
In: Journal of contemporary African studies, Band 28, Heft 4, S. Special Issue: Nigeria at 50
ISSN: 0258-9001
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Religion and institutions: Federalism and the management of conflicts over Sharia in Nigeria
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 547-560
ISSN: 1099-1328
AbstractConflicts over the status of Sharia Islamic law have dominated constitutional politics and ethno‐religious relations in the Nigerian federation for decades. The adoption of stringent Sharia codes by 12 Muslim majority states in northern Nigeria, beginning with Zamfara in 1999, was particularly contentious, provoking broad concerns about the viability and survival of Nigeria's innovatively structured multi‐ethnic federal system. But Sharia implementation and extension in Nigeria have followed a largely benign trajectory. The Nigerian federation's judicious combination of centrist and autonomy mechanisms has been remarkably effective in managing religious conflict and cauterising potentially disintegrative centrifugal challenges to national stability. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The Supreme Court and federalism in Nigeria
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 451-485
ISSN: 1469-7777
ABSTRACTSince Nigeria's transition from military to civilian rule in 1999, the country's Supreme Court has risen from a position of relative political obscurity and institutional vulnerability into a prominent and independent adjudicator of inter-governmental disputes in this chronically conflicted federation. Examined here is the Court's arbitration, during President Olusegun Obasanjo's two civilian constitutional terms (1999–2007), of fifteen different federal-state litigations over offshore oil resources, revenue allocation, local governance and public order. The Court's federalism decisions were remarkably independent and reasonably balanced, upholding the constitutional supremacy of the Federal Government in several findings, tilting towards the states in some declarations, and simultaneously underwriting federal authority and state autonomy in other rulings. Despite the Court's important and independent role, however, the Nigerian federation was vexed by violent conflicts, underscoring the structural, political and constitutional constraints on judicial federalism in this notoriously complex and divided country.
The Supreme Court and federalism in Nigeria
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 451-486
ISSN: 0022-278X
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Nigeria's Muddled Elections
In: Journal of democracy, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 95-110
ISSN: 1086-3214
Nigeria's muddled elections
In: Journal of democracy, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 95-110
ISSN: 1045-5736
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Nigerian Federalism - Genie in a Bottle?
In: Democracy at large: news, analysis and debate, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 16-18
ISSN: 1552-9606
Books Reviewed: "The National Question in Nigeria: ComparativePerspectives" edited by Abubakar Momoh and Said Adejumobi
In: Democratization, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 188
ISSN: 1351-0347
The National Question in Nigeria: Comparative Perspectives
In: Democratization, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 188-189
ISSN: 1351-0347
Can the Nigerian Federation Survive?
In: The Indian journal of political science, Band 63, Heft 4, S. 389-403
ISSN: 0019-5510
Can Nigeria's New Democracy Survive?
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 100, Heft 646, S. 207-212
ISSN: 1944-785X
The fragility of Nigeria's new democracy is rooted in the onerous burden of the preceding era of military misrule and the shallow nature of the May 1999 transition from autocracy to democracy.