A Critique of Nigerian Federalism and Need for Restructuring Towards Achieving Vision 2030

Okpevra, Uwomano Benjamin

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“…Many views (Inegbedion & Omoregie, 2006;Suberu, 2010;and Okpevra, 2021) argue that there is everything wrong with the operation of Nigerian Federalism. Although it was earlier noted in this study that all federal states operate their own unique structures and no federal structure is exactly similar to the other, not even the Nigerian copy-and-paste American system looks alike in all aspects, they still believed that the much-sought autonomy, economic advantage, and other benefits were not accruable in the case of Nigerian Federalism.…”

Section: The Nigerian Federalismmentioning

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National Security Architecture and the Question of Nigerian Federalism: The Phenomenon of State Police and its Feasibility

Deribe

2023

Khazanah Hukum

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Nigeria is one of the countries that operates a federal system of government. Likewise, Nigeria has been a federal state with several security challenges for many decades, despite a strong and unified security architecture controlled by the government at its centre. The matters of national security are vested with the central government in the Exclusive List of the Nigerian 1999 Constitution. Despite the huge budget that the Federal Government has allocated towards security operations and operations for many years, there is dissatisfaction and outcries from several segments of the country regarding the current security situation. This study examined the various discourses on redesigning the Nigerian security architecture, including the calls for state police in a fashion that will appease the comprising federating units. The problem is the reservation and the resentment that some stakeholders are expressing towards the decentralisation of the national security architecture. The theory of decentralisation and devolution of powers was adopted in the study. The study utilised documented sources of data, including books, journal articles, newspapers, reports, and internet sources, for data collection. The data obtained were analysed using content analysis, where themes were designed and discussed concerning the adopted theoretical framework. The study discovered that the agitations for state police were perceived by the Federal Government, some state governments, and stakeholders as a political move to weaken the might of the FG and to muster extra powers by some state governors against the public, the opposition, and the FG. The study recommends, among others, that the calls for the decentralisation of national security architecture should not be jettisoned totally as political, but there is a need for caution in establishing them to avoid further security crises in the future because practically, it is not feasible now.

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Section: The Nigerian Federalismmentioning

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National Security Architecture and the Question of Nigerian Federalism: The Phenomenon of State Police and its Feasibility

Deribe

2023

Khazanah Hukum

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The Implications of the Russia–Ukraine War on Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Mhlanga

Ndhlovu

2023

Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci.

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The existing discourses on the Russia–Ukraine war mainly focus on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the implications for the global economy. There is a lack of policy and scholarly attention to how the war threatens the prospects for realising Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Underpinned by a critical document analysis of secondary sources available in academic and grey literature and focusing on Africa, the article explores various global challenges ensuing from the crisis. It demonstrates how such challenges impact prospects for achieving SDGs in Africa. Using the first two SDGs as an example, the study found that with the disruption of the global supply chain by the war and the international sanctions imposed on Russia, Africa now experiences food commodity and energy shortages, soaring inflation, and commodity price hikes which now threatens to worsen poverty and hunger. The article recommends that Africa prioritise structural change and regional cooperation, reconsidering the global financial system and how development finance is structured and maintaining a steady commitment to building resilience. Future research could be focused on the effectiveness of non-sanctions-based conflict resolutions.

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Divergences, commonalities and convergences: Nationalism and the poetics of identity in Nigerian fiction

Ogunrotimi

2023

Citizenship Teaching &Amp; Learning

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With more than 200 nations yoked together by the British solely for the purpose of colonialism in Nigeria, little wonder that questions bordering on lack of converging ideologies have consistently informed the nation’s narrative. If what unite the several ethnicities are paradigms that are vestiges of colonialism, and other scaffolding commonalities that necessitate the creation of a new identity, the question then is are these constructs synergistic enough to smoothen over the differing schisms and create long-lasting unifying parameters that moderate true nationalism? Using sections from selected novels, this article attempts to appraise the nebulous narratives that connect Nigeria’s various ethnicities, despite the presence of seemingly irreconcilable ethnic divergences. The study traces the manifestation of ethnicity in Nigerian fiction from the biased presentation by the first generation of writers to the ‘national’ fictionalization by contemporary writers. It discovers that though there is improvement in the presentation of multiculturalism and ethnicity in contemporary Nigerian fiction, there is still much to be written about the multicultural aspect of Nigeria’s postcolonial experience. The article concludes by theorizing that failure to harness the merits of the commonalities has been the bane of Nigeria since independence and proposes a re-engineering of multicultural ethics and also admonishes for a reconstruction of a new national character.

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A Critique of Nigerian Federalism and Need for Restructuring Towards Achieving Vision 2030

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

National Security Architecture and the Question of Nigerian Federalism: The Phenomenon of State Police and its Feasibility

National Security Architecture and the Question of Nigerian Federalism: The Phenomenon of State Police and its Feasibility

The Implications of the Russia–Ukraine War on Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Divergences, commonalities and convergences: Nationalism and the poetics of identity in Nigerian fiction

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