It is the story of the first female to be turbaned in recent history of the Sokoto caliphate and northern Nigeria at large. The episode promises great deal to women folks considered to have been held to utmost seclusion since and even before the jihad of 1804 in Hausa land. Amina Yusuf Garba MON, mini therefore, made history on Saturday,26 February,2022 by epic turbaning as Tambarar Binji, Sokoto State Nigeria. The development no doubt would generate robust discussion amongst feminists, schol...
ContentsChapter One:Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives 1Chapter Two:The Personality and Ideas of His Excellency, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko 31Chapter Three:Abdulfatah Ahmed:The Personality and Ideology of a Politician 87Chapter Four:The Personality and Ideologyof His Excellency, Rt. Honourable, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi 101Chapter Five:Murtala Hamman-Yero Nyako:The Personality and Ideology of a Statesman 123Chapter Six:The Personality and Ideology ofHis Excellency, Senat...
Dedication vAknowlegements viForeword ixContents viiIntroduction 1Conceptual Issues 3Concise Geographical and Historical view of Nigeria and The Gambia 14Origins and Growth of NYSC Scheme 20International Engagements of Nigeria’s NYSC Scheme 25NYSC and the Formation of the GNYSS 36The Structure of The Gambian National Youth Service Scheme 51NYSC and GNYSS: Partnership and Reciprocity in Bilateral Relations 59Conclusion 70Bibliographical ...
Table of ContentsDedication ivTable of Contents vForeword ixPrefatory Notes xiChapter One Conceptual Definitions and Theoretical FrameworkIntroduction 1Conceptual Definitions and Clarifications 1Security 1Threat 10Vulnerability 12Insurgency 12Terrorism 13Historical Criminology 22Conclusion 24Chapter TwoTerrorism in Nigeria: An Over-viewIntroduction 30A Historical look at the Global Origins ofterrorism in Nigeria 31A Historical look at the internal developmentsof Terrorism in Nigeria 36Ca...
The paper examines trends and patterns of appointment of Director Generals of the National Youth Service Corps Scheme (hereafter refers to NYSC). The problematic of the paper is anchors on the following posers: could one stretch the history of NYSC beyond the military era of General Yakubu Gowon Retired? Why are army officer usually appointed as Director Generals of the Scheme to the exclusion of Air force and Navy officers? Are there legal provisions or an Acts that provides for perennial ap...
The considers the possibilities and otherwise of inter-faith harmony in the face of the Covid19 pandemic. It notes that man from the beginning of consciousness has been trapped by one challenges or the other, which his restless struggle gives birth to magic, religion and science. As societies progresses, magic and science remain bastard brothers of religion. This is because when magic and science failed, man turn to religion. It further notes that man's attempt to interrogate the existence of...
This paper interrogates the shifting of the 2019 general elections in Nigeria and the international responses it elicited. It notes that Nigeria’s national elections were previously postponed in 2011 and 2015. However, the 2019 episode attracted a lot of attention given the growing political consciousness of the electorates, the timing of the postponement and global expectations. In other word, the postponement has far reaching effect on the nation’s external image and draw responses aris...
FOREWORDThe compilation of the powerful speeches and addresses that make the volume projects His Excellency, Vice Admiral Murtala Hamman-Yero Nyako as one of the intellectual backbones of the G-5 struggle that ended in the epic defeat of the ruling PDP in the 2015 general elections.A deep introspection of the argument of the issues raised in the volume which straddled politics, economy, security, religion, geography, health, social welfare, law and history no doubt, pitched Nyako in the tent ...
Nigeria’s Technical Aid Corps (TAC) is one of the major planks of the Nigerian foreign policy constructed to complement the nation’s traditional diplomacy. Under its platform, Nigerian educational and cultural talents have been showcased to the world particularly in the African, Caribbean and the Pacific regions. The chapter falls in love with The Gambia of the West African sub-region due to the under representation of this aspect in the historical narrative of the bilateral relations bet...
Editor’s NoteOn behalf of the Editorial Team, I bring to you with great joy the MaidenVolume of the Satiru International Journal of Peace and Security Studies(SIJPSS) of the Department of History, Sokoto State University, SokotoNigeria. For over a decade now the Nigerian State has been seriouslyengulfed by disastrous internal and external security challenges. Thescholarly ideas and debates at the Department on how to unravel thesecurity riddles in 21st century Nigeria were intrumental to...
The Gambia christened the “smiling coast of Africa” is home of hospitality and religious tolerance. Arising from decades of peace its ethnic and religious elements enjoyed the country has continued to attract foreigners as tourist state. The concern of this paper is not so much with aquatic status of The Gambia as a tourist state, but how its’ Christian and Muslim groups has been able to maintain peace. The emphasis of the paper is on Christianity and Islam, because Afric...
Colonialism has grave consequence on Africa given the western values it installed and the dislodging of African values; if not, how could one explain decades of importation of vaccines for treatment of the bulk of African population without looking inward to homegrown remedies. This is what fires the attempt to explore the relevance of Ebers Papyrus that appeared to have been undermined in Africa’s response to Covid-19 pandemic. The paper finds that Ebers Papyrus is o...
January first 2014, Nigeria became one hundred years after the popular 1914 amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates by Sir Fredrick Lord Lugard. The centenary commemoration of the Nigerian State generated very serious scholarly attention than any other issues in the annals of Nigerian history. While scholars channels energy in writing on the 1914 episode or epoch, very little attention have been given to the 1804 Jihad of Sheikh Shehu Usman Danfodiyo which brought the So...
Colonialism has grave consequence on Africa given the western value it installed and dislodged African value. If not how could one explain decades of reckless importation of vaccines for treatment of the bulk of African populations without looking inward to home-grown remedies. This is what fires the interventionist call for revisiting of the Ebers Papyrus that appeared to have been undermined in Africa’s response to Covid 19 pandemic. The paper notes that Ebers Papyrus is one of the oldest...
This paper attempts a historical exploration of issues of national elections as it impinges on Nigeria’s security and integration one hundred years after the famous 1914 amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates. Against the backdrop of the country’s challenges of imbalance or lopsided federal structure, the usually elevated problems of ethnicity, absence of broadminded leadership, minority-majority tussles among others, the nation’s politics has been f...
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