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Background To The Recent Nigerian Elections

By Elizabeth Liagin, published and culled from https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/03/nig-m17.html

Background To The Recent Nigerian ElectionsGeneral Obasanjo more than just a "friend" of the AmericansElizabeth Liagin is an independent journalist wh...

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CONTENTSThe Centre for Democratic Development Research and Training (CEDDERT) $18 Billion Debt Pardon: Second Slavery In Disguise by Segun Sango&...

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Code of Conduct for Ministers and Special Advisers to the Federal Government of Nigeria

PreambleWe, the Ministers and Special Advisers of the Federal Government of Nigeria, subscribe to the seven principles of public life, namely:Selfless...

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Report of the Political Bureau (March 1987)

By Reproduced for Mass Distribution by the Directorate for Social Mobilisation (MAMSER)

PMB 27, Abuja (Nigeria) -256 pagesPREFACE Page 3: Report of the Political Bureau (March 1987) On January 13, 1986 the Federal Military Gover...

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Case For Ideological Orientation

By Chief Obafemi Awolowo

Down the ages, several political "isms" have vied with one another for popular acceptances: feudalism, anarchism, capitalism, syndicalism, socialism, ...

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UK And Germany Treaty on 1913 Cameroon-Nigeria Frontier

Agreement between the United Kingdom and Germany respecting  the Settlement of the Frontier between Nigeria and the Cameroons,  from Yo...

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The Administration of Nigeria 1900 to 1960 - excerpt

By Excerpts from I. F. Nicolson

The Governor General of Nigeria, Sir James Robertson, told me in 1960 why the British had decided to destroy democracy at its birth in this giant empi...

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Olusegun Obasanjo

By Simon Robinson, culled from TIME Magazine

, December 27, 1999During Nigeria's presidential election campaign in February, reporters were unsure how to address poll favorite Olusegun Obasanjo. ...

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The Crisis in Western Nigeria - May 1962

By culled from Speeches by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

At the December 1961 Conference of the Action Group at Jos, it became clear that differences had arisen among the leading members of the Action Group,...

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The Country Of Anything Goes

By Olusegun Obasanjo

For over four and a half years - from November 17, 1993 to June 8, 1998 - Nigeria, which had been under military rule since the end of 1983, was reduc...

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MILITARY REGIME OF BUHARI AND IDIAGBON

January 1984 - August 1985The demise of the inglorious second Republic under the leadership of Alhaji Shehu Aliyu Shagari, the First Executive Preside...

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REPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (NEIC) 1994-1999

REPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL             ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (NEIC)      &nb...

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Shamed By Their Nation - Nigerians are fed up with rulers who squandered their patrimony and killed a dream of greatness

By Jack E. White - culled from TIME Magazine

THERE ONCE WAS A NIGERIAN DREAM almost like the American Dream, and Dapo and Bola Thomas shared it. They had a bounding faith in the future of Africa'...

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STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN NIGERIA IN THE ERA OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM, 1986-93

By Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome

I have a dream of a nation where no man is oppressed. An egalitarian society. That is what we are working towards. We desire a nation, a true federal ...

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Nigeria: Which Way Forward?

By George E. Moose, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs

Statement before the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Washington, DC,Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, thank yo...

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Background To The Recent Nigerian Elections

By Elizabeth Liagin, published and culled from https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/03/nig-m17.html

Background To The Recent Nigerian ElectionsGeneral Obasanjo more than just a "friend" of the AmericansElizabeth Liagin is an independent journalist wh...

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