Goodluck Jonathan administration 2010-2015 was the third administration in the series of Nigerian Democratic Governments 1999-2019. Before becoming the Nigerian Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan served as Governor of Bayelsa State in the south-south region of Nigeria from 2005 to 2007. In 2007, Goodluck Jonathan became the Vice President of Nigeria. Eventually, after the death of President Yar’adua, …
Yar’adua administration 2007-2010 was the second in line of the Nigerian Democratic Governments 1999-2019. Before becoming the Nigerian President, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’adua served as a democratically elected Governor of Katsina State from 1999 to 2007. In the year 2007, he was selected as the presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2007 presidential election …
Obasanjo administration was the first in the series of Nigerian Democratic Governments 1999-2019. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was a former military General who formerly ruled Nigeria from 1976 to 1979. In 1998, a preparation for the return to democratic rule in Nigeria began. Different political parties were formed. One of the powerful party among them was the …
Nigerian Democratic Governments 1999-2019 were a democratic governments that governed Nigeria in the specified years. Democracy returned to Nigeria in 1999 after almost sixteen years of military rule. Since 1999, four different democratically governments were elected. The first democratically elected government since 1999 was the Chief Olusegun Obasanjo administration from 1999 to 2007. After Obasanjo, …
Nigerian Second Republic was a four year long political dispensation after twelve years of military rule in Nigeria. The Second Republic began in 1978, and ended in 1983 after the military coup. During the Nigerian Second Republic, there were five political parties that served as the only political parties during the period. The political parties …
The Nigerian Civil War also known as the Biafran War was a war fought between the Nigerian government and the secessionist Eastern Nigerian government who declared their independence from Nigeria as Biafran Republic. The Nigerian Civil War started after the Igbo people of the eastern region considered their existence in the Nigerian federation as a …
The Nigerian First Republic was a in the Nigerian history that marked the beginning of Nigerian full self-rule and lasted from 1960 to 1966. Therefore, in short, the First Republic was a period when the first fully Nigerians took the responsibility of governing their country without the external influence which automatically made Nigeria a sovereign …
Nigerian Pre-Independence Politics have been an activities and struggle in which the Nigerians formed the basis of Nigerian nationalism in which political parties were formed as a platform under which the colonial rule was opposed and eliminated in Nigeria. The period of Nigerian Pre-Independence Politics was characterized by the formation of the first set of …
The Constitutional development in Nigeria has been a creation of the first documented set of laws for governance in the Colonial Nigeria and the subsequent renewing and amendment of about 4 different Constitutions from 1922 to 1954. That was why, the Constitutional development in Nigeria was described as of four stages whereby 4 different Constitutions …
Fulani Jihad was an Islamic armed reformation movement aimed at reviving Islamic religion and reforming political status quo in the areas of nearly northern Nigeria, some parts of Niger, and some parts of Cameroon, carried out by the Fulani Muslim reformers under the leadership of Shehu Usman Danfodio that swept away all Hausa Kings between …