what is the political culture of nigeria?
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Corruption corruption corruption.... \n\nFill up your accounts from the national treasure and then go to a safe haven in another African country to live like a king.
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That's the biggest problem with politics in all of Africa ,\nthe great majority of so called leaders are all former criminals and they reward their cronies with positions in government.The very few decent, honest and duly elected leaders have a up hill battle to do the right thing for the people. AFRICA AS A WHOLE IS A BASKET CASE AND THE PLUG NEEDS TO BE PULLED NOW .
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The present political logjam in Nigeria is about the costitutional debate at the national assemblies on tenure extension which will give the present president another 4 years to rule.
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In an age of globalization and transnationalism, broad economic, political, and social forces are pushing societies towards homogenization on the model of the West and North. In the West and North itself, globalization is widely seen as unwelcome Americanization. Some observers contend that these global processes have marginalized nation-states.  Others have noted how local societies, social groups, and even individuals throughout the world have tenaciously resisted these pressures. The phrase “the local and the global” has appeared in recent years as a trope for these contested interpretations of global trends in the programs of disciplinary conferences in the humanities and social sciences, and at area studies meetings. The terms globalization and transnationalism have been so often used and so frequently reinterpreted as to border on cliché. The occasion of a joint annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) and the Canadian Association of African Studies/Association canadienne des études africaines (CAAS/ACEA) in New Orleans provides an appropriate context and venue to take analysis of these contested processes one step further by looking at three of the major arenas of contestation: identity, language, and memory. Hence the Annual Meeting invites papers and panels that deal with these issues in Africa and the diaspora today and in the past.  \nIn recent years, cultural studies in Africa have privileged the study of memory and identity—and by implication, language—in efforts to understand the renewal of civil society, and the horrendous outbreaks of inter-ethnic, civil, and military violence on the continent. Efforts at healing the hostility between ethnic and racial groups, such as theTruth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and the local and regional truth commissions in Burundi, have also stimulated much thought about the creation, re-creation, and maintenance of national communities. Political studies—which traditionally eschewed examination of these topics as the stuff of humanities or  “soft” social science—have of late also begun to acknowledge the importance of identity politics and popular memory in analyses of contemporary African politics, and more notably, in studies of democracy, revolution, and genocide. It is abundantly clear, for example, that understanding identity politics in Côte d’Ivoire is essential to comprehending the conflict between Ivoirians of coastal origin and those whose forefathers and foremothers came from Burkina Faso, Mali, and other regions of the West African interior in the twentieth centutry.  And well before that, Mobutu’s use of the language of « authenticité, » which was invoked by politicians elsewhere on the continent, served to legitimize his government as a nationalist rather than a neo-colonial regime. \n\nHistorical studies in Africa have for a long time directed attention to the roles of language (and shared culture) in the development of community and difference—whether it be the sense of a “Mande world” among speakers of the Mande languages, or the consolidation of new “worlds” with the spread of languages such as Swahili, Hausa, Arabic, Mossi, and Lingala among peoples and groups across significant stretches of the continent. More recently, Africanist historians have taken a page from the French scholar Nora to explore the significance of “lieux de mémoire,” or “places of memory,” to understand how contemporary understandings of sites of purported historical significance for groups and societies (and countries) affect interpretations of the past, as well as how they sometimes act as touchstones for the revival of past identities or the coalescence of new ones. Obviously identities change through time. A new awareness of the popular use of history has also made it apparent that ordinary people order and identify with historical experiences and events in ways quite different from the ways that professional h
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Very difficult question to answer. There are so many popular Con-Artists in Nigeria, that picking the winner is impossible.\n\nUnless of course, if we conspire to pick the winner.
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Based from the CIA World Factbook, Nigeria has five languages: English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fulani.\n\nIn addition, based from what I found over the net, the Nigerian language belong to the Niger-Congo, which divided into three branches: Kordofanian, Mande, and Atlantic-Congo.
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Olusegun Obasanjo\n\nOlusegun ObasanjoBorn: 5-Mar-1937\nBirthplace: Abeokuta, Nigeria\n\nGender: Male\nReligion: Baptist\nEthnicity: Black\nSexual orientation: Straight\nOccupation: Head of State\n\nNationality: Nigeria\nExecutive summary: President of Nigeria, 1999-\n\nMilitary service: Led an army commando division in Biafran Civil War\n\nCurrent President of Nigeria. Founded the African Leadership Forum in 1988; lost bid to become U.N. Secretary General in 1991. In 1995, he was tried and convicted for plotting a coup against Nigeria's military leader, Sani Abacha. He was originally given a life sentence in prison, but he ended up spending only three years behind bars, thanks to pressure from influential outsiders like Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, and Helmut Schmidt.\n\n    High School: Baptist Boys High School, Nigeria\n\n    President of Nigeria\n\nOfficial Website:\nhttp://www.olusegun-obasanjo.com/
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Well, I'll admit my knowledge of West Africa isn't exactly top-notch, but my first thought when I hear Nigeria is the 419 email scheme. (See source for more info.) Not exactly a great PR booster.
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If "providence"means province;Then no answer;Nigeria is a country;a fedral republic in west Africa.Ethnic groups:   \nNigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5%  \nReligions:   \nMuslim 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous beliefs 10%  \nLanguages:   \nEnglish (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani  \nThe question was West Nigeria and not West Niger,they are 2 different things !!\nlooba
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who or what is Youth Culture
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Abuja is the new capital of Nigeria
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Verdict of History\nThis Day (Lagos), 18 October 2000\nLagos—Last weekend former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, came on the centre stage, once again. In Jos, Plateau State his associates put together a three-day symposium with the theme, The Babangida Regime: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation. \n\nAt the symposium were those men who served in Babangida's government. Leading the orchestra was the then chief of general staff turned vice president, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu. Then there were Hamza Abdullahi, Alex Akinyele and Uche Chukwumerije, all ministers in that government. There were also retired military officers some of whom did say they could follow Babangida to battle blindfolded - John Shagaya, John Inienger, Tunji Olurin, etc. Not left out were palace advisers like Sam Oyovbaire and a coterie of court historians. The purpose of the symposium was simple - to defend the programmes and policies of the Babangida administration, revise the nation's history and reposition the self- styled Maradona as a leader with vision. \n\nThe temptation was there to ignore the symposium considering the fact that the participants therein were yesterday's men who have been so completely forgotten, if not irrelevant, that they are today looking for attention and relevance. A symposium to reclaim Babangida if not the devil himself could only provide a convenient platform to get the needed attention. But then Babangida's signature was too prominent on the symposium to be ignored. The former president was not physically present at the symposium; he delivered a dinner speech entitled, We have reengineered Nigeria. A master of philosophical obfuscation, Babangida attempted very strongly to explain away the present democratic dispensation as the consummation of his administration's vision and the realisation of its goals. Nigeria is today a democracy. I am happy... that our vision for which I had invested all of my energy and tasked my colleagues even beyond endurance, has been fulfilled, he asseverated in self-glorification. \n\nBabangida made some other claims. He said his government did not deliberately go out of its way to abridge anybody's rights. Whenever an infringement of rights occurred, it must have been an error, not deliberate. He said his vision was to build a democracy that would endure. He asserted that his presidency has changed Nigeria irrevocably, that the country has been so reengineered that today we all live in a new Nigeria. He contented that his regime faced so many challenges some of which generated the kind of momentum that were neither fathomable nor within human control. Statecraft in essence is about taking decisions and solving problems. Both require courage, resolve and nerves; but more especially foresight and fortitude, Babangida said. He gave the impression that while he was not lacking in all these, his administration did make some mistakes, just as any mortal would have done. In accepting responsibility for every mistake of his government, he said he expects the understanding and magnanimity of Nigerians. In every line of his speech Babangida valiantly tried to rewrite history, using a combination of half-truths, meaningless phrases and outright lies. \n\nBabangida's desperation is hardly surprising. Throughout his eight-year reign, he was very concerned with his place in history. Everything he did and said he had an eye on the verdict of history. Luckily for him, as military president he had enormous goodwill. He charmed the nation with his toothy smiles and confused the people with the constant twists and turns in his social engineering policies that Nigerians practically ate from his hands. But then Babangida mistook his heroism for immortality; he assumed that popularity was synonymous with sainthood. He overreached himself, dribbled the people once too many and annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential elections. It is a measure of Babangida's perfidy tha
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The New South Africa.\nPoliticians can Rape,defraud,lie,murder,and line their pockets with money stolen from the poor and taxpayers
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Nigeria is your destination. Nigeria is a country in West Africa and they've got a lot of crude oil money to spend. I am not an importer, I am a computer Engineer but if you want I can get you hooked up with some boutique materials importers that i know.
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south africa or Nigeria
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I have a sneaking suspicion that the role of chemistry in the national development of Nigeria is essential to their economic and agricultural industries, as well as medical research, and treatment.  \n\nFor more explicit information about this topic, please check my sources listed below.\n\nI hope you find what you're looking for.
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Nigerian democracy is being challenged by the economic inequity that is causing members of the country to start rebellions.  The US has social programs to provide needed services for the poor.