Nigeria Essay Located in West Africa‚ Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous worldwide. Thanks to its natural resources‚ especially oil‚ its economy is among the fastest growing in the world. From 1901 until its independence in 1960‚ Nigeria was a British colony. Great Britain decided to grant Nigeria its independence because after World War II Nigeria’s economy was very poor. Comprised of over 250 ethnic groups‚ as well as a population that is split religiously
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INSECURITY IN NIGERIA Underlying the quest for national security in Nigeria is the issue of political morality‚ which focuses on the question of defining the relationship between the state and the various groups in the society. Political morality properly construed seeks to establish and sustain the essential conditions for the smooth functioning of the state and society. It is in this light that we identify the problem of the moral basis of Nigeria’s security to be a vital imperative of national
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Larson flew to Kano‚ Nigeria‚ to begin a two-year term in an agricultural ministry in the Kano area. He returned to the United States in 1981 and enrolled in the Interdisciplinary track of Wheaton Graduate School. In June 1982 he returned to Nigeria under SIM‚ where he planned to complete his graduate degree while continuing mission work. In August 1984‚ Larson returned to Wheaton College Graduate School and received an M.A. in 1986. Larson established a joint venture in Nigeria in 1994‚ with local
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A diverse array of traditional‚ religious‚ and cultural customs is practiced cross-culturally throughout the world. Female circumcision‚ also known as Female genital mutilation‚ or female genital cutting is a custom that has sparked controversy among many people belonging to other cultures not accustomed to the practice. They have presented the question of whether female circumcision is a practice that should be advocated or even allowed at all. My view is that the notion of basic human rights and
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The history of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria The first two HIV cases in Nigeria were identified in 1985 and were reported at an international AIDS conference in 19866. In 1987 the Nigerian health sector established the National AIDS Advisory Committee‚ which was shortly followed by the establishment of the National Expert Advisory Committee on AIDS (NEACA). At first the Nigerian government was slow to respond to the increasing rates of HIV transmission7 and it was only in 1991 that the Federal Ministry
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Social Science.http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 41.204.186.122 on Wed‚ 2 Oct 2013 11:21:25 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions ANNALS‚ AAPSS‚ 483‚ January 1986 Religion‚ Legitimacy‚ and Conflict in Nigeria By HENRY BIENEN ABSTRACT: Nigeria has not evolved political formulas that explicitly allow religion or religious authorities to define legitimacy. There have‚ however‚ been struggles carried out in religious terms over constitutional mechanisms for adjudicating conflict
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CAN NIGERIA ’S NASCENT DEMOCRACY SURVIVE? BY Emmanuel 0. Ojo (Ph.D) Department of Political Science University of Ilorin‚ Nigeria P. F. Adebayo (Ph.D) Lebanese Emigration Research Center‚ Notre Dame University‚ Lebanon ABSTRACT By May 2009‚ Nigeria ’s nascent democracy should have been a decade. Thus‚ the thrust of this paper is an in depth analysis of the possibility of sustaining democratic values beyond any sudden reversal. The. paper however‚ takes a cursory look at the daunting challenges
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Nigeria as a democratic country like every other nation needs the media to drive or sustain good governance and engender national development. But the media often regarded as the fourth estate of the realm have an enormous task to accomplish this role as the watchdog of the society. The task or role of the media has to a large extent not been effectively accomplished. It is important here to state that the primary role of the media in any given society is to inform
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think that the best US President has to be Franklin D. Roosevelt. The reason being is he came into presidency when the great depression hit America and he led America through and out of it. He was the one to end World War II. He created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for Americans which gave the bank depositors a sense of security. Franklin D. Roosevelt in my opinion is the best President that we have ever had. When he came into presidency the great depression hit America and he led the
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DISCUSSION PAPER Anti-Corruption was the declared number one policy aim of the Olusegun Obasanjo administration. The success of this policy was‚ however‚ for various reasons not too impressive. Obasanjo ’s successor‚ President Umaru Yar ’Adua came to power promising to reform and continue the anti-corruption policy. But while the anti-graft agencies continued to arrest and arraign more individuals‚ including highly placed officials‚ for corruption‚ the general public expressed the view that the
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