The section on women was also brought up to date in this respect, because for the first time there are women ministers in the federal cabinet besides the one traditional in the post of Women's and Social Affairs. Chapter Five has been extensively revised to focus on the current and tenuous civilian constitutional structure. The extension of shar'ia law into the judiciary is again addressed. Chapter Six describes current ethnic association activity. There is also a new section on the 1999-2000 election.
Chapter Seven includes new information on corruption scandals in the present regime.
In Chapter Eight, discussions of the role of the Nigerian military in peacekeeping in Sierra Leone and the dispute over the Bakassi Peninsula with Cameroon are updated. In Chapter Nine, the old conclusion, based on the Abacha regime, has been deleted. Since Nigeria now has an elected civilian government, the new conclusion focuses on the chances of Nigeria attaining a stable democracy. Table Of Contents 1. The Effects of History.