Case Study: Nigeria Flashcards
Oppressive Nigerian military dictator from 1993 to 1998 who came to power to a military coup
Sani Abacha
Nigerian nationalist and independent Nigeria’s first head of state officially (1960-66)
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Opposition political party formed in 2013 by merger of largest opposition parties and defections from ruling People’s Democratic Party
All Progressives Congress
Military ruler of Nigeria from 1985 to 1993 who sought to establish the failed Third Republic
Ibrahim Babangida
Islamist terrorist group based in northeastern Nigeria that since 2009 has launched a violent insurgency
Boko Haram
Former military ruler and current democratically elected president of Nigeria ( 2015
Muhammadu Buhari
Formula for distributing oil revenues between national and local governments in Nigeria
Derivation Formula
Nigerian quota system designed to ease ethnic tension by requiring the president to appoint ministers and civil servants from each Nigerian state
Federal character principle
Nigerian parliamentary democratic regime that followed independence (1960-66)
First Republic
Nigeria’s current presidential democratic regime, established in 1999
Fourth Republic
Predominantly Muslim ethnic group located in Northern Nigeria
Fulani
a dominant ethnic group that is overwhelmingly Muslim and concentrated in the north
Fulani and Hausa same definition
Hausa
The lower house, 360 seats and each member represents an individual district
House of Representatives
A dominant ethnic group that is predominantly Christian, concentrated in the south-east
Igbo
An ethnic Ijaw Christian from southern Nigeria who first assumed the presidency in 2010 after President Umaru Yar’Adua died in office
Goodluck Jonathan
an umbrella organization that claims to act on behalf of the Delta’s oppressed peoples and exploited environment
Movement for Emancipation of the Niger River Delta (MEND)
Founded in 1990 by Saro-Wiwa and others. Challenged the government’s revenue-sharing formulas, which kept the bulk of the oil wealth flowing to national government coffers??
coffers????
Movement for the survival of the Ogoni people (MOSOP)
a program that sought to increase the transparency of government finances and address the corruption problem by creating an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to pursue theft and money laundering
National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy ( NEEDS )
The Niger River enters the sea at that point, creating a vast swampy area of over 5000 square miles, 3rd largest wetland in the world
Niger Delta
Olusegun Obasanjo
Patrimonialism
People’s Democratic Party
Republic of Biafra
Resource Curse
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Scramble for Africa
Sharia
Second Republic
Sokoto Caliphate
