USA Africa Dialogue Series - New Book on Governance and Security in South East Nigeria

Thirteen years after the restoration of elected civilian government in Nigeria, serious existential challenges persist at the federal, state and local levels. These include persisting low public confidence in the capability of the electoral system to produce truly elected political leaders at various levels. Implementation of economic reform programmes that have neither improved public services nor produced jobs for thousands of young people graduating every year from higher institutions. Pervasive corruption, which has reduced government's annual budgetary pronouncements and development targets to hollow rituals scuffed at by a cynical public. Above all...Read more 

 

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