Browsing by Author "Basiru, Adeniyi S."

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    The legislatures, legislative oversight and crisis of governance in democratizing Nigeria: a prebendalist perspective
    (University of Zululand, 2019) Osunkoya, Olusesan; Basiru, Adeniyi S.
    This article, which is based on desk analysis, examines the legislative oversight roles of the legislatures in democratizing Nigeria against the backdrop of the seeming crisis of governance. It observes that the legislatures and their functionaries in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, especially at the national level, have performed abysmally in discharging their oversight roles, resulting in a crisis of governance. The essay concludes that as long as the Nigerian post-colonial rentier state and existing democratic institutions, the legislatures included, remain trapped in the prebendal orbit, the journey towards democratic accountability and by extension dividends of democracy, may continue to be a tortuous one.
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    Why they might have gone wild : the Yorubas of southwestern Nigeria and the politics of the First Republic
    (University of Zululand, 2014-01) Basiru, Adeniyi S.
    This paper argues that contrary to the general belief that the Yorubas or the westerners through their unconventional mode of politicking destroyed igeria’s first republic, the seeds of destruction were first sown in 1914 when Lord Frederich Lugard, the British chief imperial agent amalgamated the various autochthonous communities into one capitalist state. Drawing from the frustration-aggression theory as discernible in the works of Gurr (1970, 2000; Feierabend and Feierabend, 1972; Louis and Snow, 1981; Ellingsen, 2000; Stewart, 2000, 2002), the paper submits that if other ethnic groups had found themselves ‘trapped’ in similar conditions, their reactions could have not have more been different. The paper recommends that revisiting the 1914 episode should be the major agenda for ‘peacing’ igeria together from the pieces.