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Author | : Max Siollun |
Publisher | : Hurst & Company |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2019-08-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1787382028 |
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In the cataclysmic decade that is the focus of this book, Nigeria was subject to several near-death experiences. These began when the country nearly tore itself apart after the northern-led military government annulled the results of a 1993 presidential election won by the southerner Moshood Abiola, and ended with former military ruler General Olusegun Obasanjo being the unlikely conduit of democracy. This mini-history of a nation's life also reflects on three mesmerizing protagonists who personified that era. First up is Abiola: the multi-billionaire businessman who had his election victory voided by the generals who made him rich, and who was later assassinated. General Sani Abacha was the mysterious, reclusive ruler under whose watch Abiola was arrested and pro-democracy activists (including Abiola's wife) were murdered. He also oversaw a terrifying Orwellian state security operation. Although Abacha is today reviled as a tyrant, the author eschews selective amnesia, reminding Nigerians that they goaded him into seizing power. The third protagonist is Obasanjo, who emerged from prison to return to power as an elected civilian leader. The penumbra of military rule still looms over Nigeria nearly twenty years after the soldiers departed, and key personalities featured in this book remain in government, including the current president.
Author | : Chima J. Korieh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2020-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108425801 |
Download Nigeria and World War II Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Author | : Oyewole Olusegun |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2012-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1471604292 |
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The author provides the readers with insight into the history of Nigeria Army
Author | : Nigerian Army Education Corps and School |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Akintunde A. Akinkunmi |
Publisher | : Amv Publishing Services |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780998479644 |
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The Nigerian Army is an institution that has played a pivotal role in the affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. For more than half of the 57 years since Independence, Nigeria was directly ruled by a Military Government, largely composed of army officers, and always headed by one. It is impossible to explore any facet of modern Nigerian history or society without the military (and in particular the Army) looming significantly. Whilst several authors have documented the history of Nigeria (and significantly less many of its Army), rarely, if ever, has the impact of the politics of Nigeria on the Army, and vice-versa, formed the exclusive subject of study. This volume is an endeavor to fill that gap. The period leading up to the Army's first overt entry into the politics of Nigeria is reviewed, firstly the pre-Independence period, and then the years immediately following independence. The effects of the Nigerianisation of the Army, especially of the officer corps, and of the policy decisions made following the passing of control over the Army from the British to the Nigerian Government are considered. The political circumstances surrounding the Army's first overt entry into politics - the January 1966 coup - and the political performance of the subsequent first military regime are discussed, as a precursor to the second coup in July 1966. The impact of the Army's direct involvement in politics on the military performance of both sides in the Civil War is explored. After a nine-year interregnum, in July 1975 Nigeria returned to the era of coups, with at least eight attempted and successful coups, some of them bloody, over the next quarter century before the return to civilian rule in 1999. The personalities leading the resultant military Governments, and the policies of those Governments, are explored, in an attempt to discern their legacy on the political development of Nigeria, and on the Nigerian Army as an institution.
Author | : Robin Luckham |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1971-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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An account of the Nigerian military coups of 1966 in which the author discusses both the events themselves and their sociological background.
Author | : N. J. Miners |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2023-12-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1003804810 |
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Originally published in 1971, this book is an account of the development of the Nigerian Army in the critical ten years spanning independence. It describes the transformation of a despised colonial defence force into a Nigerian army with a popularly recognized reputation. On the eve of the first military coup, the Army stood at the pinnacle of popular esteem. It had been modernized and expanded, had served with distinction in the Congo and elsewhere, and all its officers were Nigerian. The first half of the book traces the stages of this transformation and reveals the difficulties which had to be overcome. The second part examines the increasing tension and political manoeuvring which exploded into the military coups of 1966.
Author | : J. ’Bayo Adekson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2019-03-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429724713 |
Download Nigeria In Search Of A Stable Civil-military System Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a critical study of the evolution and conduct of military government as well as civil-military relations in Nigeria since 1970, examining the essentially military clauses of both the draft and final Constitution drawn up for post-1979 Nigeria.
Author | : Akali Omeni |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351597639 |
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This book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with military units in Nigeria, Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria has two main aims. First, it seeks to provide an understanding of the Nigerian military’s internal role – a role that today, as a result of internal threats, pivots towards counter-insurgency. The book illustrates how organizational culture, historical experience, institutions, and doctrine, are critical to understanding the Nigerian military and its attitudes and actions against the threat of civil disobedience, today and in the past. The second aim of the book is to examine the Nigerian military campaign against Boko Haram insurgents – specifically, plans and operations between June 2011 and April 2017. Within this second theme, emphasis is placed on the idea of battlefield innovation and the reorganization within the Nigerian military since 2013, as the Nigerian Army and Air Force recalibrated themselves for COIN warfare. A certain mystique has surrounded the technicalities of COIN operations by the Army against Boko Haram, and this book aims to disperse that veil of secrecy. Furthermore, the work’s analysis of the air force’s role in counter-insurgency is unprecedented within the literature on military warfare in Nigeria. This book will be of great interest to students of military studies, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, African politics and security studies in general.
Author | : Mohammed Chris Alli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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A former general in the Nigerian army, defence attache to Zimbabwe and member of the Abacha caucus, chronicles the role played by the army in Nigerian history, from the first military coup in 1966 to Obasanjo's accession to power in 1998. He describes his own experiences in the army at home and abroad, including a section on his personal interactions with Abacha and the caucus. The author writes in anger at the domination of political hegemony and the subsequent intervention of the military into politics, the perceived dichotomy between people and state, and its implicactions for issues of development and human rights. He states: 'This book is not an indictment of the military of which I am a part. It is my perception of the conduct of my generation and the multifarious forces at work amongst and about them. It is not a verdict on society, rather it is an articulation of the ecstasy, the fears, the constrictions of a nation in turmoil, a nation pulling itself apart.'