Prime witness
Subtitle: change and policy challenges in Buhari's Nigeria
By: Oseloka H. Obaze
Publisher: Safari Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Ibadan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789785478563
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Politics and government; Nigeria; Heads of State; Government policy
Description: "This volume of essays on public policy challenges in the Buhari-led Nigeria is a child of necessity. In 2015 and sixteen years after the PDP assumed the leadership reins in Nigeria, it was evident to all, that Nigeria was not enjoying the best form of governance and purposeful leadership. The strength of government was absolutely lacking. Enter 2015 and the grand alliance and vision of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which claimed to be the only credible alternative capable of upending the PDP and providing Nigeria the much leadership change it desired. Hope about Nigeria's prospects soared with the election of President Muhammadu Buhari. The hope was well founded: it reflected the high expectations generated both by the smooth transfer of power from the Jonathan administration, itself a sign of a maturing democracy, and by the scintillating campaign by candidate Buhari. It did not take long before the Buhari administration confronted the political reality of governance. The governance reality that the Buhari administration faced on assuming the reins of power consisted of his own campaign promises (tackling insecurity, combating corruption, and growing the economy -- with emphasis on reducing unemployment and diversifying the economy); unanticipated crises (resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta and onset of recession); and self-inflicted injuries (delayed appointment of his cabinet, policy somersaults on foreign exchange policy, and poor management of the recession)..."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: pt. A; title: Governance and Politics -- -- One.; title: The Change Cabinet "God, Give us Men" -- -- Two.; title: Rebooting Nigeria -- -- Three.; title: Salvaging Nigeria's Local Government -- -- Four.; title: Nigeria -- Governance in E Major -- -- Five.; title: Whither Nigeria's History? -- -- Six.; title: Buhari's Policy Miscue on Gender Balance -- -- Seven.; title: States Must Overcome Aversion to Joint Ventures -- -- Eight.; title: Social Media Assisted Governance -- -- Nine.; title: A Nation Steeped in Schizophrenic Amnesia -- -- Ten.; title: Tweaking the Buhari Presidency -- -- Eleven.; title: Caging Nigeria's Ghost Workers -- -- Twelve.; title: Snares of Disparity Politics -- -- Thirteen.; title: Regulatory Agencies Failing Nigerians -- -- Fourteen.; title: Nigeria's Fuel Subsidy Ends by Default -- -- Fifteen.; title: Dissonance, Distractions & Dichotomy in Government -- -- pt. B; title: Foreign Policy -- -- Sixteen.; title: Buhari's Bucket List to Washington -- -- Seventeen.; title: Migrant Crisis -- "If you break it you own it" ---- Eighteen.; title: Solvency of Buhari's Foreign Policy -- -- pt. C; title: Security Challenges -- -- Nineteen.; title: Risking an Eviscerated National Security -- -- Twenty.; title: Curbing Vicious Herdsmen and Visceral Conflicts -- -- Twenty-One.; title: Skirting the Niger Delta Quagmire -- -- pt. D; title: Constitutional Questions -- -- Twenty-Two.; title: Unbundling Nigeria's Judiciary -- -- Twenty-Three.; title: Diminution of Due Process and Ordered Liberties -- -- Twenty-Four.; title: Restructuring Nigeria: Not When, But How? -- -- Twenty-Five.; title: Fighting Corruption and Risks of Rogue Precedents -- -- pt. E; title: Economic and Fiscal Policies -- -- Twenty-Six.; title: Fiscal Bailout-Time for States to Recalibrate -- -- Twenty-Seven.; title: Deconstructing Nigeria's Power Distribution -- -- Twenty-Eight.; title: Incredulous and Vacuous State Budgets -- -- Twenty-Nine.; title: IGR: the Unknown Known, Finds its Niche -- -- Thirty.; title: Devalue Now -- -- Thirty-One.; title: Nigeria's Economy; is FGN Risk Averse? -- -- Thirty-Two.; title: Challenges and Strictures of 2016 Budget ---- Thirty-Three.; title: Salvaging Nigeria From a Parlous Economy -- -- Thirty-Four.; title: Civilising Nigeria's Democratic Capitalism -- -- Thirty-Five.; title: Recession: wayward consequences of good intentions -- -- pt. F; title: Change Mantra in Retrospect -- -- Thirty-Six.; title: Change Tempered By Pessimism, Anchored by Hope -- -- Thirty-Seven.; title: Governance: We are Merely Servants -- -- Thirty-Eight.; title: Retroview.