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The Nairobi Peace Initiative was founded in 1984 and engages in peacebuilding and conflict transformation work including mediation, dialogue facilitation, and capacity building throughout the Horn, East, Central, and West Africa. [3] During this time he was crucial in resolving the Kokomba-Nanumba conflict in northern Ghana.
Communal conflicts in Nigeria [3] can be divided into two broad categories: [4] [dubious – discuss] Ethno-religious conflicts , attributed to actors primarily divided by cultural , ethnic, or religious communities and identities, such as instances of religious violence between Christian and Muslim communities .
The conflict resulted from political, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions which preceded the United Kingdom's formal decolonisation of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963. Immediate causes of the war in 1966 included a military coup, a counter-coup, and anti-Igbo pogroms in the Northern Region. [27]
Either way, government overthrow put Nigeria's nascent democracy on hold for a long stretch of time. [ 19 ] General Aguiyi-Ironsi's ascendancy to power was deemed to inadvertently be part of the conspiracy of the coup plotters, who were predominantly Igbo Majors to pave the way for an Igbo head of state.
This House Has Fallen: Nigeria In Crisis is a book written by American author, Karl Maier. It was published in 2000 by Penguin Books . The book was centered on the History of Nigeria and the problem of politics in Nigeria .
The Catholic organisation, which has several projects in Nigeria, deplored the wave of violence, saying: "The increase in kidnappings, murders and general violence against civilians, including members of the Catholic clergy in many parts of Nigeria, is a scourge that is yet to be properly addressed by the local authorities". [89]
The book is mostly set in 1990s Nigeria. Otolorin is caught between a mother controlled both by fear and the temple prophets she looks to for guidance; traditional healers and advisers; and ...
The 1975 Nigerian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup which took place in Nigeria on 29 July 1975 [1] [2] when a faction of junior Armed Forces officers overthrew General Yakubu Gowon (who himself took power in the 1966 counter-coup). Colonel Joseph Nanven Garba announced the coup in a broadcast on Radio Nigeria (which became FRCN in ...