A ONE day commemorative conference on Richard Joseph’s Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria was held at Eko Hotel, September 10, 2011. Unfortunately…

IN the second essay in these three series on the Boko Haram, I listed the 26 questions which were scholarly addressed by in the August 2009 Minna Meeting by 40 representatives of the Da’wah Coordination Council of Nigeria, DCCN. I did not review the answers of the DCCN to questions it asserted were among those frequently asked by devoted Muslims about the Boko Haram.

IN the first essay on the monograph of the August 2009 Minna meeting of the DA’WAH COORDINATION COUNCIL OF NIGERIA, DCCN, on the “Boko Haram”, I called attention to the fact that initially the DCCN saw the Boko Haram as a Muslim matter and was primarily concerned with how the majority of orthodox Islam in Nigeria was to respond to the Boko Haram group.

Forty one associations make up the DCCN. Among these members are Abuja Muslim Forum, AMF, Abuja; Abu Sheriff Islamic Organization, Ilorin; Al-Amin Foundation, Kaduna; Council for Dwah and Welfare of Converts, Bauchi; Council of Ulama of Nigeria, CUN, Kano; El-Kanemi College of Islamic Theology, Maiduguri.

Civil War is recognised as such because it always produces during its course more than one government while the existing but threatened state protects the sitting but also embattled government.

AFTER we have noted the following events reported in just one day’s coverage in the Friday July 22, 2011 Vanguard, we may see why Nigeria, typical of Africa’s post-colonial societies is portrayed as a polity of government without states and a society without government.

IT is a truism in Nigeria that the surest way to become wealthy, very wealthy is through the business of office holding at any of the three levels of government.

THE answer cannot be that the order of electoral governance is now institutionalized because it has not been aborted by military rule. Political parties in Nigeria are the civilian structure for electoral governance and the first act of the military in government is the abolition of the constitution, the political parties and the sack of the legislatures at the three levels of government.

IT had become evident during the tenure of Professor Maurice Iwu as Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission that the responsibility for midwifing democracy in Nigeria had been vested in the office of the Chairman of the Commission.