AN EVALUATIO OF CIVILIAN RULE IN NIGERIA FROM 1999 - 2007

John O. Asogwa

Abstract


For much of its existence, Nigeria was governed by the military. From 1960 to 2007, a total of forty-seven years, the military ruled for twenty-nine years. The remaining eighteen years was taken up by civilian rule. The federal Government of Nigeria was confronted with important nation-building challenges between 1999 and 2007. Some of these nation-building challenges are those of democracy, corruption, federalism and aggressive ethno-regionalism. By 1999, when Nigeria's Fourth Republic was inaugurated, most of these nation-building challenges were yet to be resolved. When Chief Olusegun Obasanjo became the first civilian president in the Fourth Republic in 1999, he was confronted with the^ task of creating a functional and cohesive Nigerian polity.


Keywords


Evaluation, Civilian, Military and Nigeria

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