The Unchanging God in the Changing World: Myths and Possibilities of Inter-Faith Harmony and God's protection in the face of the current Pandemic
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...
Nigeria’s External Image and Global Responses to the Postponing of the 2019 General Elections: A Preliminary Investigation
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...
Interrogating The Pdp And The Rise Of Apc: Issues In The Selected speeches Of Murtala Hamman-Yero Nyako
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 Engagement in The Gambia, 1987-2012: A Neglected Aspect of Nigerian Foreign Relations
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...
Understanding Peace and Security as Critical Factors in National Development
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...
Religious Tolerance in The Gambia, 1965-2016: Lessons for Nigeria
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...
A Neglected Historio-Therapuetic Response to Covid19 Pandemic: African Ebers Papyrus Revisited
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...
The Establishment of the Nigerian Sokoto Caliphate: An inquest into the Background History of the 1804 Jihad in Hausa Land, 210 years After
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...
African Ebers Papyrus Revisited: A Neglected Historio-Therapeutic Response to Covid19 Pandemic
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...
HISTORICISING NATIONAL ELECTIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTEGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN STATE: A CENTENARY DISCOURSE
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...
The 2015 Historic Presidential Election in Nigeria: A Contribution to African Revolutionary Framework
ContentsDedication--- --- --- --- --- --- --- iiiForeword--- --- --- --- --- --- --- viiAcknowledgements--- --- --- --- --- --- ixPreface--- --- --- --- --- --- --- xiiiIntroduction--- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives--- --- --- 4Background to Party Politics in Nigeria--- --- --- 23The 2015 Revolutionary Presidential Election XE "Presidential Election" in Nigeria--- --- --- --- --- --- --- 32Towards Consolidating Nigerias 2015 Democratic Revolution XE "Rev...