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Free Download Adebola Rafiu BAKARE, "National Assembly and Legislative Effectiveness in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic"
English | ISBN: 9819907799 | 2023 | 278 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria’s National Assembly under the Fourth Republic. The assessment covers five Assemblies (4th-8th) and focuses specifically on lawmaking, cost of running the National Assembly, and the budget making process. It empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Nigerian national legislature beyond previous emotional and sentimental evaluations of the institution. It has developed a model ‘Institutional Legislative Effectiveness Score’ used in assessing the institutional performance of the National Assembly from two perspectives: first, by comparing the performances of the two chambers in the same Assembly; and second, by comparing the performances of the institution across Assemblies. Aside lawmaking, the book also covers the major topical issues that characterized public evaluation of the institution. These include: size of the institution, budgeting process, cost of funding the institution, and the debate on the appropriate way in reforming the National Assembly.

Free Download Virginia Comolli, "Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1849044910, 1849046611 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.8 mb
Northern and central Nigeria are engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati w’al Jihad, a.k.a. ‘Boko Haram’, and more recently, its splinter group ‘Ansaru’. From its inception an inward-looking, almost parochial, movement, Boko Haram, and even more so Ansaru, have now showed clear signs of regionalization, expanding their operations across West Africa and forging links with al-Qaeda affiliated groups. Boko Haram’s stated aim is to Islamize Africa’s most populous country but, like earlier Nigerian Islamist groups, of which there is a long tradition in the Sahel, the discontent prompting young Nigerians and other young West African Muslims to join the insurgency is rooted in more than just religious orthodoxy and cannot be disentangled from their economic, social and political marginalization.

Free Download Armed Banditry in Nigeria: Evolution, Dynamics, and Trajectories
by John Sunday Ojo, Folahanmi Aina
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031454448 | 317 Pages | True PDF | 6.12 MB

Free Download John Sunday Ojo, "Armed Banditry in Nigeria: Evolution, Dynamics, and Trajectories"
English | ISBN: 3031454448 | 2024 | 330 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In Nigeria, armed banditry has emerged as a contemporary threat to national security. Commentators and scholars have repeatedly pointed to overlapping foci such as herders-farmers’ conflicts, warlordism, ungoverned spaces, transnational criminal networks, and the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) from Libya as dynamics influencing the current security dilemma in Nigeria. The emergence of armed banditry has triggered the prevalence of everyday killings, kidnapping for ransom, property destruction, and cattle rustling. However, the group’s origin remains obscure, while its objectives and organizational structure are fuzzy.

Free Download Akali Omeni, "Insurgency and War in Nigeria: Regional Fracture and the Fight Against Boko Haram"
English | ISBN: 1788311280 | 2019 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Boko Haram is the major threat to the Nigerian state, and has emerged as a destabilizing factor across sub-Saharan Africa. This is now a major focus of global policy-making, as between 2013 and 2014 insurgency-related deaths in Nigeria exceeded those in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Free Download The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe by Nwando Achebe
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0253222486 | 322 Pages | PDF | 6.6 MB
Nwando Achebe presents the fascinating history of an Igbo woman, Ahebi Ugbabe, who became king in colonial Nigeria.

Free Download Unwana Samuel Akpan, "Akwa-Cross People of Nigeria: History, Heritage, and Culture"
English | ISBN: 1666934798 | 2023 | 390 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Free Download Wale Adebanwi, "Democracy and Nigeria’s Fourth Republic: Governance, Political Economy, and Party Politics 1999-2023 "
English | ISBN: 1847013511 | 2023 | 464 pages | PDF | 11 MB
‘Today we are taking a decisive step on the path of democracy,’ the newly sworn-in President Olusegun Obasanjo told Nigerians on 27 May 1999. ‘We will leave no stone unturned to ensure sustenance of democracy, because it is good for us, it is good for Africa, and it is good for the world.’ Nigeria’s Fourth Republic has survived longer than any of the previous three Republics, the most durable Republic in Nigeria’s more than six decades of independence. At the same time, however, the country has witnessed sustained periods of violence, including violent clashes over the imposition of Sharia’h laws, insurgency in the Niger Delta, inter-ethnic clashes, and the Boko Haram insurgency. Despite these tensions of, and anxieties about, democratic viability and stability in Nigeria, has democratic rule come to stay in Africa’s most populous country? Are the overall conditions of Nigerian politics, economy and socio-cultural dynamics now permanently amenable to uninterrupted democratic rule? Have all the social forces which, in the past, pressed Nigeria towards military intervention and autocratic rule resolved themselves in favour of unbroken representative government? If so, what are the factors and forces that produced this compromise and how can Nigeria’s shallow democracy be sustained, deepened and strengthened? This book attempts to address these questions by exploring the various dimensions of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic in a bid to understand the tensions and stresses of democratic rule in a deeply divided major African state. The contributors engage in comparative analysis of the political, economic, social challenges that Nigeria has faced in the more than two decades of the Fourth Republic and the ways in which these were resolved – or left unresolved – in a bid to ensure the survival of democratic rule. This key book that examines both the quality of Nigeria’s democratic state and its international relations, and issues such as human rights and the peace infrastructure, will be invaluable in increasing our understanding of contemporary democratic experiences in the neo-liberal era in Africa.

Free Download Ebimboere Seiyefa, "Why Organised Violence Thrives in Nigeria"
English | ISBN: 1527545113 | 2020 | 235 pages | PDF | 3 MB
For most of its history, Nigeria has witnessed sporadic episodes of insecurity; a phenomenon traditionally manifested in political, electoral, religious and ethnic violence, and, more recently, terrorism. This book investigates the core issues that have led to, and shaped the development and sustenance of, organised political violence in Nigeria. Focusing on elite political culture and State governance, it examines important elements of the socio-political environment, including zero-sum politics, identity politics, and the politicisation of social cleavages. As such, it represents an invaluable resource on the issue of organised political violence too often glossed over in research on insecurity in Nigeria. Scholars in security studies and national security policy analysts will find this text enlightening.

Free Download Philip Aka, "Human Rights in Nigeria’s External Relations: Building the Record of a Moral Superpower "
English | ISBN: 1498533558 | 2016 | 324 pages | EPUB | 971 KB
This book is a broad-ranging argument for thorough reforms at home and abroad in Nigeria as the only antidote to the nation-building dilemmas Nigeria confronts in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Because of its enormous material and human endowments, Nigeria is dubbed the "Giant of Africa." It is a moniker many of its leaders take seriously. Yet, Nigeria is a state rife with instability, some of it periodically erupting into violence. Given still-ongoing national security challenges in the land that notoriously includes a bloody religion-oriented terrorism, the Fourth Republic since 1999, the longest period of continuous democratic rule since independence-key to the timeline of this book-has not been insulated from the spell of instability.