President of Nigeria

constant talk of independence but it took a while for something to happen. Everything before October 1, 1960 was calm and peaceful, there was not much happening down in Nigeria that I was knowledgeable about at the time. I now know that we were a self-ruling government at first with citizen representation. In October when Nigeria gained independence it was a very celebratory day and I do not remember much. The one thing I remember though is the new prime minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa’s

ABSTRACT Religious identity played a crucial role in the development of Nigeria, and the conflicts in both the Northern and Southern regions of the country. Government and military corruption has played a debilitating role in Nigeria and is a reflection of past and present governance. The failure of the Government and Military in Nigeria to address challenges such as poverty, unemployment and corruption, ultimately resulted to anger, agitation and violent crimes against the Nigerian state by

In the article “ The fuel subsidy crisis has woken Nigerians up”, by Tolun Orgunlesi was profoundly characterised by the alarming issue that the citizens from Nigeria are confronting with the withdraw of fuel price subsidy which subsequently has led fuel price to increase more than double, consequently, provoking the price of goods and commodities to rise dramatically. In addition, the author focused immensely in the sentiment of corruption and mismanagement that Nigerians are feeling with this awaken

Michael Ogbeidi recounts that ‘the First Republic under the leadership of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the Prime Minister, and Nnamdi Azikwe, the President, was marked by widespread grand corruption’. Ogbeidi maintains that ‘government officials looted public funds with impunity. Federal Representative and Ministers flaunted their wealth with reckless abandon… Politically, the thinking of the First Republic Nigerian leadership class was based on politics for material gain; making money and living

​​ I am a very stubborn person when it comes to accepting other people 's perspective of life , or to compare what makes me happy to that of others. Reading a book geography of bliss written by Eric weiner, helped changed my believes. I was amazed at how other people around the world live their lives on daily basics ,weather rich or poor they still find ways and reasons to live in peace, be happy and co-exist together. While reading the geography of bliss, I got to understand that, Happiness

The colonial era of Nigeria was a long and hard experience for many Nigerians. The country was slowly colonized by Britain in 1885. Through newfound radical nationalist beliefs, Nigeria fought its way through the struggles of making itself into an independent nation. In 1960, the goal of independence was finally reached. Soon after Nigeria found itself in a social crisis of too many clashing cultures, while simultaneously attempting to assert itself as a power nation into the world. The anticolonialization

17-22 (2005) Student Unrest in Nigerian Universities: Looking Back and Forward Oyaziwo Aluede, Basil Jimoh, Beatrice O. Agwinede and Eunice O. Omoregie Department of Educational Foundations, Ambrose Alli University, P.M.B. 14, Ekpoma 310001, Ekpoma, Nigeria E-mail: oyaziwoaluede@yahoo.com KEYWORDS Student unrest; student services; student personnel administration; universities ABSTRACT The authors examined the policies and factors that have in the past and at the present precipitated student unrest in

oil state and primary exporting country, Nigeria is the largest oil exporter in Africa and the world’s tenth largest oil producer (Pyagbara 2007: 1). As of 2010, crude oil and petroleum gas accounted for approximately 80% of the country’s overall exports, totaling over $50.3 billion in revenues the next year (Pyagbara 2007: 2). Despite maintaining a lucrative resource that could arguably catalyze momentum towards economic development, poverty plagues Nigeria and continues to rise despite efforts to

The section discuss of the internationalisation process of case firm 4 “Delta”. Delta is one of the largest ICT firm in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa and most capitalised ICT firms in Sub-Saharan. Delta is chosen as one of the case firms for the following reasons (a) Delta is a pioneer and one of the largest ICT firms in Nigerian (b) Delta is one of the few Nigerian firms with subsidiary in East Africa (c) Delta is the most capitalised ICT firms in Sub-Saharan Africa (c) the firm has subsidiaries

Forms of Government Nigeria is a federal republic, with a presidential system of government which includes the three arms of government namely the executive, legislative, judiciary. The executive arm of government is found at both the federal and state level. The federal level consist of the president, the vice president and members of the executive council. At the state level, the executive arm consists of the governor, deputy governor and members of the executive council. The main function of