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- Peace and Conflict Studies, Defense and Security Studies (3)
- Civil war; economic decline and growing social tensions; Ethnic and religious conflict; political stability; power struggle within the political elites; state-society relations. (1)
- Ethnic Conflict (1)
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- Niger Delta (1)
- Nigeria (1)
- Public Policy, Urban Studies (1)
- Rentier state; Resource curse; Oil Resource (1)
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- Urban population growth; Water supply and demand; Water supply infrastructures; Water supply targets; Water crisis; Water wise; Green economy (1)
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Growing Apart? Ethno-Regional Identity Politics, Tensions And Threats To The Nigerian State, 1960-2010, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
Growing Apart? Ethno-Regional Identity Politics, Tensions And Threats To The Nigerian State, 1960-2010, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
The notion of democracy, the motive behind party formation, ethno-regional spread of parties, voting behaviour and pattern of electoral results, and pre and post election crises among other fissiparous tendencies are all indications that Nigeria is a highly divided society. This article examines manifestation of ethno-regional identity politics, and how identity has re-focused political participation, struggles and conflicts in the Nigerian federation. It concludes that despite institutionalisation of measures aimed at preventing the use of any form of divisive identity in the Nigerian body politic. Nigeria, after over fifty years of state-building and political engineering, appears to be growing apart.
Lokoja Urban Water Supply As A Basic Service Programme: A Critical Appraisal Of Achievements And Failures, 1991-2011, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
Lokoja Urban Water Supply As A Basic Service Programme: A Critical Appraisal Of Achievements And Failures, 1991-2011, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
On the 27th August, 1991, through a Presidential announcement, Lokoja became the capital of Kogi state, Nigeria. Prior to this time, it was a Local Government Headquarters. Due to the sudden transformation to a state capital, and coupled with serious neglect of water supply infrastructures, Lokoja immediately started to experience unprecedented water supply problems. This article examines the conditions of water supply infrastructures, population growth vis-à-vis water supply and demand in Lokoja before 1991, and up to 2011. In addition, the article appraised what successive governments in Kogi state had done to ameliorate the water crises and noted with concern …
Côte D’Ivoire’S Instability: Power Struggles Within The Political Elite? Ethnic And Religious Conflict? Impact Of Economic Crisis? What Is Really To Blame?, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
Côte D’Ivoire’S Instability: Power Struggles Within The Political Elite? Ethnic And Religious Conflict? Impact Of Economic Crisis? What Is Really To Blame?, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
Since the November-December, 2010 electoral stalemate between Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara in Côte d’Ivoire, most individuals and bodies that have taken time to engage in the Ivorian conflict have often succumbed to the same superficial explanations of Africa's wars - that they stem from immutable tribal and sectarian differences. Instead of a simplistic assumption and hence conclusion as above, this article explores the background to, and transformation of the current conflict in Côte d’Ivoire through a committed engagement with its history, economic structure, state-society relations and the nature of political power. Despite the prevalence of ethnic and religious faultlines, …
Explaining The Violent Conflict In Nigeria's Niger Delta: Is The Rentier State Theory And Resource-Curse Thesis Relevant?, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
Explaining The Violent Conflict In Nigeria's Niger Delta: Is The Rentier State Theory And Resource-Curse Thesis Relevant?, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji
Since the early 1970s when crude oil became Nigeria’s main source of foreign exchange, it soon joined the league table of rentier states. However, beginning from the second half of the 1990s to date, the Niger Delta, the heartbeat and the engine that drives Nigeria’s economy has being stormed by large scale tsunamis of unimaginable proportion due to militant activities. Consequently, Nigeria’s quest for unity, stability, national security and accelerated economic development are being undermined. This article explores the relevance of the rentier state theory and the resource-Curse thesis to explaining essence of the renewed violence in the Niger Delta. …