| ˇ | Obasanjo: The Lust For Power And Its Tragic Implications For Nigeria. By Abubakar Siddique Mohammed "Evil is not reformable, it must be removed…We must never be tired of demanding that any government should chasten itself and give us the foundation and the example to propel us forward. We must demand that any government should deal honestly with us and level with us. We must have the programme and timetable to be able to assess its performance. We must have accountability and transparency that we are not getting now. If any administration is turning evil we should spare no efforts and no sacrifice to remove it." General Olusegun Obasanjo, Keynote Address to the participants at the Workshop on Nigeria: The State of the Nation and the Way Forward, Arewa House, Kaduna, 1994, p.29 Details |
| ˇ | Nigeria and the World in the 20th and 21st Centuries: The Lessons and the Options. The present conditions, and the future destiny, of the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, are part and parcel of the conditions and destiny of the rest of mankind. This is not a matter of choice. It is a matter of necessity. Details |
| ˇ | Nigeria and the United Nations: The past, the present and The Future. By Ambassador Jibrin D. Chinade, OFR, Wakilin Katagum Nigeria successfully utilized the platform of this world body to effectively pursue its dreams of decolonization of other African countries and particularly the eradication of apartheid and racism from the continent of Africa arising from this commitment, Nigeria organized and hosted the first United Nations conference for action against apartheid in Lagos in 1977, and subsequently chaired the UN Anti-Apartheid Committee from 1970 until that Committee was dissolved in 1994 Details |
| ˇ | Misrepresentation of Nigeria by Nigerians and others By Alkasum Abba The Federal Republic of Nigeria is perhaps the only country in the world, which is not torn by a civil war, yet the basis of its corporate existence is being subjected to strident and persistent attacks, by an articulate section of its own politicians, journalists, opinion leaders and foreigners Details |
| ˇ | United Nation and the Agendas for its Reform By Saidu Adamu Kofi Annan emphasized in his report that the most important objective of his agenda for what he termed, “the most far-reaching reforms in the history of the United Nations”, was to attempt to restore global public confidence in the organisation through the making of “measurable progress towards peace, security, disarmament, human rights, democracy and good governance”. Details |
| ˇ | The Role of Nigeria in Peace Building, Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping Since 1960 By Muhammad Juma Kuna Africa must seize the opportunity, within a reformed, democratic Security Council that gives all peoples irrespective of race, an equal status and voice in the management of world affairs. This is precisely why we need to squarely reject the current calls from certain quarters in the Nigerian foreign policy community and their international collaborators for a disengagement from Africa’s problems based on the spurious and untenable position that just as economic liberalization requires a minimalist, less interventionist state domestically, so too is a minimalist state required internationally. Details |
| ˇ | The Rigging of Nigerian Hitory By Alkasum Abba Mr. Harold Smith was on the margins of the Nigerian political environment. The Colonial Office recruited him into the Labour Department in 1954, and he arrived Lagos in 1955. Even in Lagos, he was pre-occupied with the problems of his Labour Department, where he was busy working on the Factories Act and the Provident Fund. These were clearly where his duties were located in the colonial service. Details |
| ˇ | Rediyo a Duniyarmu ta Yau By Yusufu Bala Usman, Ph.D. To kafin mu gama da wannan batu na ma’anar hada kan jama’a, gwamma mu gama da batun mu na farko, na matsayin rediyo a duniyar mu ta yau Details |
| ˇ | The Misrepresentation of Nigeria. The Facts and the Figures By Yusufu Bala Usman and Alkasum Abba The Federal Republic of Nigeria , has faced, and continues to face, direct and explicit challenges to its survival, from domestic and external forces hostile to its corporate existence. These forces have always taken advantage of the various crises arising from the particular problems of nation – building, which the country has, by always calling into question the very basis of its corporate existence Details |
| ˇ | The Distortion and Suppression of Evidence by the Court of Appeal on Adamawa State Governorship Case By Alkasum Abba The nullification of Mr. Boni Haruna ’s election by the Adamawa State Election Tribunal was based on the presentation of evidence of gross irregularities in the conduct of the gubernatorial election. The election tribunal had established in detail, cases of rigging, intimidation, over-voting and similar irregularities carried out by agents of the PDP gubernatorial candidate, Mr. Boni Haruna Details |
| ˇ | The Nupe and the Origins and Evolution of the Yoruba By Idris Shaba Jimada The study has brought out historical evidence from primary sources, largely Yoruba , to show that the Nupe and Nupeland played a major role in the origins of the Yoruba ethnic nationality of modern Nigeria , right from the level of Yoruba language , settlements , dynasties, cults , facial marks , technology , material art , clothing , and economy generally. The dialects , from which the Yoruba language of modern Nigeria emerged, separated from Nupoid, and other dialects, in the area of what has become Nupeland. Even today, the Nupe and Yoruba dialects intermesh and shade into one another Details |
| ˇ | Are You Serious About Needs, Mr. President? Open Letter to President Olusegun Obasanjo on the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy. By Yusufu Bala Usman, Ph.D. Mr President, are you serious about NEEDS? Are you serious about putting in place a National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy, which you will diligently pursue in the next three years to uplift our country’s economy? Or, are you just trying to use this NEEDS to bamboozle Nigerians, and dupe the rest of the world? Details |
| ˇ | The Sokoto Caliphate and Nation-Building. By Yusufu Bala Usman, Ph.D. This country, Nigeria , where we are holding this conference is a polity, which has many unique features. It stands out among other countries in Africa and the world because of these features. Its linguistic and ethnic diversity, for example, is immense. The magnitude, multiple dimensions and motion of this diversity are hardly recognised, as simplistic stereotypes of its ethnic and religious geography have been developed to obscure this. Details |
| ˇ | What Exactly is Globalisation. By Dr. Yusuf Bala Usman But, the fact of the matter is that for the overwhelming majority of mankind who live in Asia, Africa, South and Central America, the most important goods they produce, and live from, are commodities derived from agriculture, including livestock- rearing and fisheries. The barriers to international trade in these goods in the form of the heavy subsidies and other protectionist policies and practices of the United States of America, the European Union, and Japan, are still as high as ever. This is the hard rock of reality, which wrecked the Cancun World Trade Organisation Conference, in Mexico, last year. Details |
| ˇ | Political and Administrative Contexts of Human Rights Violation in Nigeria. By Yusufu Bala Usman, Ph.D. A fourth perspective on the contexts of human rights violations in Nigeria views them in terms of the low level of education, training, equipment, the corruption and the generally poor orientation of the law enforcement agencies and the corruption and other gross shortcomings of the Nigerian judiciary, at all levels. According to this perspective, it has not been primarily the nature of the top leadership of the country, military rule, or, "Northern Domination", which defines the context, but it is the capacities of the law enforcement agencies and the judiciary, whose shortcomings define the operational parameters within which any laws, policies or instructions are understood and implemented. Details |
| ˇ | Human Rights Violations in Nigeria: A Special Reference to the States of the North-West and North-East Zones. By Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, Ph.D. The official post-mortem report, signed by Lt-Colonel Henry Adefope, Commanding Officer, Military Hospital, Lagos, dated, 17th January, 1966, on the cause of death of, Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari, Colonel Kur Mohammed, and Lt Col. Yakubu Pam, which scientifically established that they were murdered in cold blood by shots fired into their backs, are attached here, as appendices 1, 2 and 3 of this presentation, in order to clear away any doubts about the intention and method of their killers. Details |
| ˇ | Chief Bola Ige and Genocide in Rwanda and Nigeria. By Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, Ph.D. As a political scientist, I know the dangers of power. I know that, if power falls into the hands of genocidaires, people filled with racist and tribal hatred, it is very dangerous, as the examples of Rwanda have amply demonstrated. Having followed the political career of Chief Bola Ige since my secondary school days, I know how dangerous he could be if a mistake is made to trust him with power. My motivation for wanting to stop him is derived from this knowledge of him. More so knowing fully well that genocide is not a spontaneous action of the street mob. Details |
| ˇ | Ignorance, Knowledge and Democratic Politics in Nigeria By Yusufu Bala Usman, Ph.D. Ignorance is not the same as illiteracy. Knowledge is not the same as literacy, or, even the same as the acquisition of educational certificates, or, academic ranks. Some of the most highly literate Nigerians, and the most highly educated, by virtue of their certificates and ranks, are some of the most ignorant over many crucial areas of natural and human existence and over our national life, like our geography, history, economy and politics. Details |
| ˇ | Some Observations on the Problem of Corruption in Nigeria From a Historical Perspective By Yusufu Bala Usman. Forwarded by Abubakar Saddique, Ph.D. The fight against corruption has to involve, at its core, the building up of these organisations nationwide and combating all the divisive, sectionalist, politics of ethnicity and religious and regional rivalries and animosities. This type of parochial politics, not only undermines these institutions, subverts the common public interests of citizens, but is essentially corrupt, and provides a fertile soil for generating and entrenching corrupt practices. For, without a clear cut separation between public service and the private acquisition of wealth and the exercise of political power to establish the primacy of the public interest of all citizens, over and above everything else, as clearly provided for, in the Constitution, any attempt to fight corruption is largely cosmetic. Details |
| ˇ | The Politics of Threats of Violence is a Threat to Democracy in Nigeria Today. By Alhaji M.D. Yusuf. Forwarded by Abubakar Saddique, Ph.D. Many Nigerians are concerned, and some are even alarmed, by the way some politicians, “old” and “new”, including elected and appointed officials, holding very sensitive and responsible positions, in some states resort to the use of threats of violence to pursue political goals. Some of these threats go to the extent of threatening to impose violently, a confederal arrangement on Nigeria without regard to the constitution. Details |
| ˇ | The Role of Chief Bola Ige in the Destabilisation of Nigeria. By Siddique Mohammed, Ph.D. In the light of what has been happening since, Chief Bola Ige’s decision to write a weekly column in the Sunday Tribune seems to have been a strategic decision. It placed him in a good position to propagate hatred against his target group, the Fulani, in particular, and northerners in general. He has used every opportunity, to liken the Fulani to the Tutsis of Rwanda and sometimes of Burundi also. As the “Tutsis of Nigeria,” he provocatively proclaimed that the Fulani of Nigeria are likely to end up sharing the same bloody fate with the Tutsis of Rwanda! Details |
| ˇ | Facing the Truth about the Reintroduction of the School for Remedial Studies in Ahmadu Bello University. By Siddique Mohammed, Ph.D. What is required of A.B.U authorities in this situation is to summon courage, as intellectuals do all over the world, and tell the tiny group within and outside the University which sees the University as the soft target that could be arm-twisted into establishing a Senior Secondary School for their spoilt children, that the issue confronting A.B.U today is not that it is unable to get sufficient number of candidates of Northern states origin to fill the existing places, but to improve on its teaching facilities in order to effectively cope with its large students population, so that academic standards can be improved continuously. Details |
| ˇ | Political Economy and Political Stability in Nigeria in the Early 21st Century. By Yusufu Bala Usman, Ph.D. These states of the north-west are clearly just backward educationally because of the rapacity, of their ruling elites, because in these states there are the institutional provisions and the funds available to train the hundreds of thousands of secondary school-leavers and College of Education drop-outs to become qualified primary school teachers. But this is not done and among the reasons is that the local and state governments and the federal agencies, want to minimise the amount of money they pay teachers and for the running of the schools. Details |
| ˇ | Nations, Nations-States and the Future of Mankind: Some Observations on the Historical Experience of the Formation of the Kanawa in the 2nd Millennium A.D. By Yusufu Bala Usman, Ph.D. When we turn to the available evidence of the history of Kano, before and during, the second millennium A.D, we find that the concepts of “the nation” “nationality” “tribe”, “ethnic group” and “the nation-state” as imposed on the rest of the world by European imperialism, since the nineteenth century, are not applicable and are misleading. The Kanawa, the citizens of the sovereign kingdom of the Kasar Kano, were not a racio-ethnic entity. Details |
| ˇ | History and the Challenges to the Peoples and Polities of Africa in the 21 Century By Yusufu Bala Usman, Ph.D. Hence, when Generals Buhari, Babangida, Abacha and Abubakar, were the Heads of State of Nigeria, in the period, 1983-1999, the Hausas, the Fulanis and the Kanuris were in power; and now President Olusegun Obasanjo is the Head of State, the Yorubas are in power! The institutional machinery for the exercise of power and its basis in occupational groups, social strata and social classes and their concrete economic and political interests are not perceived with this shallow outlook. Details |
| ˇ | Political Economy and Political Stability in Nigeria; Facing Realities in the Seven North-West States By Yusufu Bala Usman, Ph.D. Most of you elected to hold office under this Constitution who have taken solemn oaths on the Holy Koran, or, the Holy Bible, to carry out your duties in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, seem to want to behave as if these Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles do not exist, or, if they do, they are merely words intended to decorate a document, whose only use is to get the soldiers out and get you into power and give you access to the public treasury. Details |
| ˇ | The Misrepresentation of Nigeria: The Facts and Figures. Preface. By Yusuf Bala Usman, Ph.D. Contrary to what some Nigerian politicians and journalists, many of whom who claim to be pro-democracy, think, family, clan, ethnic and religious affinities and ties, cannot be the basis of the representation of any citizens or, groups of citizens, in a democracy. Democratic representation is solely derived from the exercise by the citizens of the freedom of political association with all other citizens in the country and the exercise of the freedom of political choice between alternative candidates and parties. Details |
| ˇ | The June 12 President Election Was Neither Free Nor Fair. By Abubakar Siddique Mohammed The campaign for what is called "the actualisation of June 12th" is promoting the false impression that the freedom and fairness of an election is determined solely by what happened on the day of the election; and has nothing to do with the whole political process of party formation, party control, the nomination of candidates, the election campaign and the extent of the democratic space within which these are conducted. Details |
| ˇ | Human Living Conditions and Reforms of Legal Systems: The Talakawa and the Issue of the Sharia'h in Contemporary Nigeria. By Abubakar Siddique Mohamed, Sa'idu Hassan Adamu, and Alkasum Abba. If we take life expectancy at birth, we can see that whereas it is 61.4 years in Lagos and 60 years in Imo, it is as low as 36.6 years in Kaduna, 36.7 years in Bauchi and 37 years in Borno. In terms of adult literacy, the picture is even worse. Whereas nearly 76% of adults in Imo were literate in 1993, only 2.7% of adults in Sokoto and 10% in Borno were so categorised. Details |
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