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Item The 2008 Electoral Reform and Management of Elections in Nigeria, 2011-2015(Nigerian Political Science Association, 2016) Saka, Luqman; Adebiyi, OluwashinaThe Nigerian experience as regards election management has not been so enviable. Elections conducted in post-independence Nigeria have been subjected to controversies derivable from the credibility of the electoral processes. In this regard, the role of Election Management Institutions in the Nigerian electoral process has become problematic and questionable. The perceived incapability of the country’s Election Management Board, INEC to conduct free, fair and credible elections particularly in the Fourth Republic warranted the continuous call for a total reform of the country’s entire electoral architecture. It is on this basis that this paper examines the impact of the recent Uwais Electoral Reform Committee report and adoption of some of the committee’s recommendations on Election Management in Nigeria with specific reference to the 2011-2015 electoral cycle. Through a historical qualitative analysis of data gathered from secondary sources, this paper found out among others that the major challenge confronting election management institution in Nigeria is lack of independence. This paper therefore, submits that the holistic adoption of the 2008 Electoral Reform Committee will go a long way in reviving citizens’ confidence in the country’s electoral process.Item 2008 electoral reform and the management of elections in Nigeria, 2011-2015(Nigerian Political Science Association, NPSA, 2016) Saka, Luqman; Adebiyi, Moruf OluwashinaItem A Fitful Path Nigeria’s Faltering Counterterrorism Operation against the Boko Haram in the Northeast(CAROL 'I' NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY, 2023) Saka, Luqman; Abubakar, Abdulrahman; Isiaq, Abdulwaheed A.; Bojang Ousman M.Nigeria’s security environment continues to be tense, tenuous and fluid. From all indications and yardsticks of policy planning and implementation, the country’s security architecture seems to be unraveling. As the nation’s security establishments confront multiple security crises especially in Northern Nigeria, their policy and operational reactions continue to be reactive. While the Boko Haram insurgency rages, a decade after the commencement of military operations against the group, military successes in the Northeast are at best modest. Following a decade of commitment of military resources including billions of dollars deployed to the procurement of armament and military hardware, expansion of forces’ strength and creation of special operation formations, one can ask why have the military operations continued to falter and security architecture unravel? The study was anchored on the qualitative research approach and sourced data from published and openly available official documents, scientific publications and newspapers articles, reports, opinion pieces and commentaries. Making use of this open-sourced information, this study explains faltering military operations and Nigeria’s worsening security environment to the failure of security planning, poor civil-military relations including lack of depth in intelligence agencies penetration of local communities across Northern Nigeria, rivalry among the three arms of the Nigerian Armed Forces, persistency of the poor culture of intelligence information sharing and lack of synergy and poor coordination among Nigeria’s security establishments. This study recommends that more attention need to be paid to intelligence gathering, synergy and coordination among the security establishments in the bids to enhance the prospects of Nigeria’s counter-terrorism operation and other military engagements across the countryItem Al Qaeda and the Internationalisation of Religious Terrorism in Africa: The Case of Boko Haram in Nigeria(Nigerian Political Science Association, NPSA, 2017) Agara, Tunde; Saka, Luqman; Ajisebiyawo, K.Item All for Oil: The United States, China and Nigeria's Security Interest in the Gulf of Guinea(Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State, Nigeria, 2016) Saka, Luqman; Ifejika, S. I.; Aliu, F. O.Item Causal analysis of radical Islamism in Northern Nigeria's fourth republic(Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa and Routledge, Francis & Taylor, London, United Kingdom, 2013) Animasawun, G. A; Saka, LuqmanThis article attempts an agential explanation of the raison d’eˆ tre for Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal Jihad, also known as Boko Haram (meaning Western education is forbidden), an Islamist sect that came to public consciousness in 2009 after the extra-judicial killing of its leader. Conceptualising Nigeria as a weak state, the article identifies the failed prebendal relationship between politicians in northern Nigeria and members of Boko Haram, and the extra-judicial killing on 30 July 2009 of Mohammed Yusuf, as agential causations of the current wave of radical Islamism. The article argues for the need to transcend the orthodox interpretation of the current wave of Islamist terrorism being demonstrated by the Nigerian state to a more nuanced approach that pays attention to the essentialist, psychological, political and economic perspectives of Islamist terrorism at the structural and individual levels.Item The challenges of democratization in Africa: Evidence and way forward for Nigeria(Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale, Turkey, Biga Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, 2017) Amusan, Lere; Jegede, Ademola; Saka, LuqmanDemocracy is perhaps the most popular political norm in modern discourse. For most sovereign states in Africa however, democratisation and its challenges have for long remained daunting. Even though described as ‘false start’, independence presented most African states with the opportunity of transforming colonial structure to democratic hegemony. Regrettably however, post-independence efforts aimed at achieving this have largely remained unimpressive. Till date, when assessed in the light of the pretensions in present times by most African states, one can safely state that democratisation is the most threatened political project in Africa. Suffice to state that this ‘struggle’ underlies the challenges to democratisation in Africa which is well typified by the Nigerian experience. This paper discussed colonialism, sovereignty, globalisation, military coup, ethnicity, poverty and political leadership as the broad challenges confronting democratisation in Africa within the context of Nigeria.Item Electoral Violence and Democratic Sustenance in Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Insights from the 2011 Post-election Violence in Northern Nigeria(Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training Mambayya House, Bayero University, Kano, 2013) Saka, Luqman; Abubakar, AbdulrahmanThis article examines electoral violence and its implications on Nigeria's efforts at democratic sustenance, using the incidences of pre- and post-election violence that emanated from the conduct of the 2011 general elections as a point of departure. The article engages in the discussion of three important factors that underpin electoral violence and the implications that the deployment of violence in the electoral process constitutes for the democratic process in Nigeria.' The article posits that the reification of violence as an instrument for acquiring and/or retaining political power negatively hinders efforts at enhancing democratic governance in Nigeria violence that emanated from the conduct of the 2011 general elections as a point of departure. The article engages in the discussion of three important factors that underpin electoral violence and the implications that the deployment of violence in the electoral process constitutes for the democratic process in Nigeria.' The article posits that the reification of violence as an instrument for acquiring and/or retaining political power negatively hinders efforts at enhancing democratic governance in NigeriaItem Energy security and war on terror: Sketching US relations with the Gulf of Guinea under President Trump's administration(Adonis and Abbey Publishers, London, UK, 2017) Saliu, Hassan Ajisafe; Saka, LuqmanThe triumph of President Donald Trump in the November 2016, US presidential election has confounded scholars of US politics and the electoral process. In a classic term, Donald Trump was seen as a wild card and his candidacy shrouded in controversies. While on campaign and since inauguration, President Trump views and pronouncements on core issues notably; Globalization, the Trans-Atlantic Alliance, Energy, Global Security and Terrorism, among others, have raised concerns among allies and foes. Informed by the controversies surrounding President Trump and the new administration, this paper examines US-Africa‘s relations using the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) as a point of reference. The study is situated within the context of the strategic importance of GoG in the calculations of the US, China and Nigeria especially as it relates to the region‘s oil and gas riches, war on terror, fight against piracy, and oil bunkering among other issues. It examines what might be the fate of US-GoG relations under the Trump administration.Item Extremist ideology, political violence and women access to education in Africa: Insights from North-East Nigeria(Ife Center for Pyschological Studies, ICPS, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria, 2017) Amusan, Lere; Saka, LuqmanItem Managing Nigeria's Niger Delta crisis under democratic rule: An assessment of the utility of military engagement(Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa and Routledge, Francis & Taylor, London, United Kingdom, 2011) Saka, LuqmanSince the return to civil rule, the Niger Delta has witnessed increasing dissent in the form of an armed insurgency with the attendant criminal activities. The Nigerian state has sought to manage the region’s crisis using both conciliatory and militarist approaches with little success. Drawing insights from in-depth interviews, newspaper interviews, commentaries and editorials, this article assesses the utility of military deployment in containing the crisis. While recognising the need for securing oil installations, the scale of avoidable civilian casualties raises questions about the utility of military engagement in managing the Niger Delta crisis.Item Media discourse on women and political participation in Nigeria in the context of feminist theory-An assessment(Ife Center for Pyschological Studies, ICPS, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria, 2017) Saka, Luqman; Amusan, Lere; Aluko, OpeyemiItem Oil Price-US Dollar Exchange Returns and Volatility Spillovers in OPEC Member Countries-Post Global Crisis Period's Analysis(African Society for Probability and Statistics, 2017) Yaya, OlaOluwa S; Saka, Luqman; Damola, Akinlana M; Tumala, Mohammed M; Ogbonna, Ahamuefula EWe investigate returns and volatility spillovers from oil to foreign exchange (FOREX) markets in oil-exporting countries using VARMA-GARCH framework with particular focus on OPEC members. The results indicate signi cant bi-directional return spillovers between oil and FOREX markets in OPEC countries. Local currencies of oil exporting countries appreciated against the US dollar with increases in oil prices, and vice versa. These findings are of importance to decision makers in the control of oil price inflationary shocks and exchange rates management in oil-exporting countries, as the framework provides proxy measurement for comparing oil-FOREX management in those countries.Item Patriarchy, religion and women's political participation in Kwara State, Nigeria(Ife Center for Pyschological Studies, ICPS, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria, 2017) Amusan, Lere; Saka, Luqman; Ahmed, Yusuf BabatundeItem Power, influence, authority and leadership in political science.(Department of Political Science and International Studies, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Ekiti State, Nigeria., 2015) Saka, Luqman; Adebiyi, Oluwashina; Bakare, Adebola RafiuPower, influence, authority and leadership in political science