Abdulwahab Muhammad Wali

Transhumance and international migration are interfacing themes in the current discourse and narratives of sub-saharan Africa's development and predicament. This book puts together diverse perspectives, experiences and skills to deepen understanding and explanations of the current dynamics and challenges of transhumance and international migration, and harvests contributions on how to manage them for optimal contributions to sub-saharan Africa's development.

The Challenge of building a nation from Nigeria’s diverse and disparate ethnic nationalities with a multitude of languages, traditions and cultures and the attendant centrifugal pulls has remained daunting. It follows therefore that any attempt to study the challenges of governance in contemporary Nigeria must take into account not only the issues of security but also the rising trend of ethnic nationalism and the underlying cultural values.

This work is a critical interrogation of legislative-executive relations in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, directed at determining its exact nature, tendencies, patterns and trends; the dynamics, determining factors and intervening variables in the relations; and its outcomes in relation to national objectives. It draws on perspectives from heads of government, former legislators, heads of government agencies and academics, thus providing a comprehensive and integrated treatment and analysis that is in-depth, experiential and practical.

Institutions, Development and Change in Nigeria places institutions and institutional frameworks as the center point of interrogation, depicting their importance as the framework for governance, development, transformation and change. It considers a broad range of public sector organisations, security agencies, State Governments and the traditional governance institution, highlighting their roles, state of institutional strengths and weaknesses and the prospects and opportunities for change and regeneration.

The book seeks to unearth the reasons that are responsible for the constant rift between journalists as seekers of information and the security agents as enforcers of law. The author succeeds in putting the theme of the book in a proper perspective by completely analyzing the age long frosty relationship between journalists and security agents.
Shuabu Gimi
Weekly Trust
October 9-15, 2004