Adewunmi James Falode

Lagos State University
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    The Military and Nation-Building in Nigeria: The General Ibrahim Babangida Regime, 1985-1993
    International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 85 37-48. 2019.
    Publication date: 24 January 2019 Source: Author: Adewunmi James Falode On August 27, 1985, Major-General Ibrahim Babangida carried-out a coup d’etat against the then military ruler of Nigeria, General Muhammadu Buhari. The main reason for the putsch was the believe that the Buhari regime had no plan to return Nigeria to civilian rule. Apart from this, the country was beset with various nation-building challenges that the junta had no clear-cut answers to. Such challenges include that of corrupt…Read more
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    Civil Society Groups and the Democratisation Process in Nigeria, 1960-2007
    International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 71 6-16. 2016.
    Source: Author: Adewunmi James Falode This paper analyses the significant role the civil society groups played in the democratisation process in Nigeria between 1960 and 2007. The paper discovers that the CSGs made use of the conceptual mechanism in the democratisation process of Nigeria. The conceptual mechanism allowed the CSGs to inject such important concepts as accountability, rule of law, democracy, transparency, human rights and due process into the democratisation process between 1960 an…Read more