Government

The Nigerian Civil War started on July 6, 1967 and formally ended on January 15, 1970. Major-General Philip Effiong, the chief of staff of the Republic of Biafra, formally renounced… Read More »The Nigerian Civil War

The PRP won the gubernatorial election in 1979 in Kaduna state and Alhaji Balarabe Musa its flag bearer became governor of the state on October1, 1979
PRP as a party did not have the majority seats in the state assembly.

WESTERN NIGERIA ELECTION CRISIS OF 1965 With the emergence of United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA) and the Nigeria National Alliance (NNA) as the two dominant parties through coalitions, the rivalry… Read More »MAJOR POLITICAL CRISIS IN NIGERIA III

KANO RIOT OF 1953 A serious riot broke out in the ancient city of Kano in the Northern Nigeria on May 16 1953. In March 1953, a member of Action… Read More »MAJOR POLITICAL CRISIS IN NIGERIA

The Nigeria People’s Party It was Alhaji Waziri who led the group of Nigerians that formed the NPP. Other members were, ChiefAdeniranOgunsanya who later became the chairman of the party,… Read More »POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE SECOND REPUBLIC

UNITED MIDDLE BELT CONGRESS (UMBC) The United Middle Belt Congress was founded in 1955 under the leadership of late J.S. Tarka. The party concentrated its political activities in the middle… Read More »MINOR POLITICAL PARTIES

THE NORTHERN PEOPLE’S CONGRESS (NPC) The Northern People’s Congress (NPC) emerged from a socio-cultural group in Northern Nigeria. The party was formed in 1951 under the leadership of Sir Ahmadu… Read More »THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN NIGERIA II

Cultural diversity: Differences in culture, religion, language, custom, tradition, etc among different ethnic groups make the operation of a federal system possible.
The fear of one ethnic group dominating others necessitated the establishment of federalism in Nigeria.
To protect the interest of minority groups.

Nigerian federalism can be traced far back to 1914, when the Northern and Southern protectorates were amalgamated though with unitary form of administration. Since then, governmental powers that existed in… Read More »Nigerian Federalism

NIGERIAN NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (NNDP) OBJECTIVES OF THE NNDP The upgrading of Lagos to a municipality with its own absolute self-government Co-ordination of the nomination and election of the Lagos… Read More »DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES

Revenue allocation is one of the most contentious issues in Nigerian federalism Minority questions: the fear of domination by three major ethnic groups outright neglect in allocation of economic resources… Read More »PROBLEMS OF NIGERIAN FEDERALISM

The constitution of Nigeria, form the lyttleton constitution of 1954 to the 1989 republican constitution, have been written and rigid constitutions There has been a bicameral legislature of one form… Read More »FEATURES OF NIGERIAN FEDERALISM

The constitution retained a presidential system of government as in the 1979 constitution A two-party system was entrenched in the constitution The people could withdraw any legislator who no longer… Read More »FEATURES OF 1989 CONSTITUTION

FEATURES The constitution retained the federalism previously adopted by the lyttleton constitution of 1954 The governor-general was made the constitutional ceremonial head of state and a representative of the Queen… Read More »THE INDEPENDENCE CONSTITUTION OF 1960

Features Nigeria became truly a Federal state with the constitutional division of powers between the central and regional governments The speaker of the house of assembly was appointed by the… Read More »LYTTLETON CONSTITUTION OF 1954

The 1922 constitution was named after the then governor of Nigeria sir Hugh Clifford FEATURE MAIN There was an executive council for the whole country. It was established a Legislative… Read More »CLIFFORD CONSTITUTION OF 1922

K.B.C. Onwubiko has not failed to define nationalism as “the patriotic sentiment or activity on the part of groups of Africans held’s together by the bonds of common language and… Read More »NATIONALISM

While it is true that Africans had their own ways of educating their children, the fact that people could read and write made a significant difference in their understanding of… Read More »ADVANTAGES OF COLONIAL RULE

Following the establishment of the Nigerian state by 1900 and subsequent Amalgamation by 1914, it would be recalled that classical Lugardian indirect rule is nothing other than economic exploitation The… Read More »THE SYSTEM OF INDIRECT RULE IN WESTERN NIGERIA

Following the Berlin Conference of 1884 – 85 under the chairmanship of Ottovon Bismarck of Germany.  Where the scramble for and the partitioning of West Africa by the European nations… Read More »COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION (HISTORICAL BACKGROUND)