Job Title

Country Director

Organization

ActionAid Nigeria

Country

Nigeria

Area of Expertise

  • Conflict
  • Gender and constitutions
  • Diversity
  • Customary governance/legal pluralism
  • Human rights
  • Judicial system design
  • Minority issues
  • Participation
  • Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
  • Religion
  • Security sector

Publications

On Constitutional and Democracy Issues.

With Ololade Bamidele Contentious Issues in the Review of the 1999 Constitution. Lagos, Citizens’ Forum for Constitutional Reform.

With Jibrin Ibrahim (2005) A Citizens Approach to Making a Peoples’ Constitution in Nigeria. Lagos, Citizens’ Forum for Constitutional Reform.

With Kayode Fayemi (2005), Poverty Eradication in Nigeria: Perspectives on a Participatory and Pro-Poor Approach. Lagos, Centre for Democracy and Development.

Perspectives on Democracy and Development. Lagos, Joe-Tolalu & Associates, 2005

'Making Democracy Work in Nigeria: The Civil Society and Constitutional Reform’ in Breaking Barriers, Creating New Hopes: Democracy, Civil society and Good Governance in Africa Edited by Abdalla Bujra and Said Adejumobi. Trenton, NJ, Africa World Press.

'Fiscal Federalism and Resource Control in Nigeria’ in Contentious issues in the Review of the 1999 Constitution (2002) Edited by Otive Igbuzor and Ololade Bamidele. Lagos, Citizens’ Forum for Constitutional Reform.

‘Constitution Making in Nigeria: Historical Perspective’ in Gender Gaps in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (2003) Edited by Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi. Lagos, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre.

äThe Military and Democratization in Africa’ in Democratisation in Africa. Edited by Simelane, N. (forthcoming). University of Swaziland.

‘Four years of constitutional Rule in Nigeria’ in Constitutions and Constitutionalism in Anglophone West Africa. Edited by Boafo-Arthur, K (forthcoming). Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), Ghana.

‘A Critique of the 1999 Constitution Making Process in Nigeria’ in The Quest for a Gender Sensitive Constitution in Nigeria (2002). Lagos, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

A Critique of the 1999 Constitution Making and Review Process in Nigeria. (2002) Lagos, Citizens Forum for Constitutional Reform (CFCR) Monograph Series No.

National Scientific Survey on the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (2003) by Sam Egwu, Femi Adelakun and Otive Igbuzor. Lagos, Citizens’ Forum for Constitutional Reform.

Other Publications

‘Privatisation in Nigeria: Critical Issues of Concern to Civil Society’ in Readings on Privatisation Edited by Onyekpere, E. (2003). Lagos, Socio-economic Rights Initiative (SERI).

‘Public Policy and Poverty Eradication in Nigeria’ in Alternative Poverty Eradication Strategy in Nigeria (2004). Lagos, center for Democracy and Development

‘The Concept of Budgeting” in A Handbook of Budgeting (2005). Lagos, center for Democracy and Development

‘Neo-Liberalism and Poverty in Nigeria’ in Another Nigeria is Possible: Proceedings of the First Nigeria Social Forum. Abuja, Nigeria Social Forum.

‘Civil Society Engagement with the National Political Reform Conference(NPRC): A Critical Appraisal’ in Political Reform Conference: Federalism and the National Question in Nigeria. Edited by W. O. Alli (2005). Nigeria Political Science Association.

‘Women in Nigeria(WIN), Donor Agencies and the Struggle for Gender Equity in Nigeria’ in Feminism or Male Feminism? The Lives and Times of Women in Nigeria (WIN). Edited by Ibrahim, J. and Salihu, A. (2007), Centre for Research, Kano and Documentation and Politics of Development Group, Stockholm University.

‘Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and Poverty Reduction’ in Civil Society and EITI in Nigeria. Abuja, Civil Society Lagislative Advocacy centre (CISLAC), 2007.

Strategies for Winning the Anti-Corruption War in Nigeria. (2008). ActionAid Nigeria Briefing Paper 2

Conceptual and methodological Issues in Participatory Research for Community Empowerment in Salihu, A. (Ed) Community Empowerment Capacity Enhancement Needs Assessment (CE-CENA) Initiative: Study of Four Communities in Kano State, Northwestern Nigeria (February –August, 2003). Abuja, World Bank Institute.

With Kayode Fayemi (2005), Poverty Eradication in Nigeria: Perspectives on a Participatory and Pro-Poor Approach. Lagos, Centre for Democracy and Development.
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Perspectives on Democracy and Development. Lagos, Joe-Tolalu & Associates, 2005

‘Reflections on Allison Ayida’s proposal on the Reform of the Nigerian Civil Service’ in The Nigerian Social Scientist Vol. 1. No. 1, September, 1998.

‘Drug Abuse in the Family’ in Hudraw Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 1, April, 1999.

‘Implementation of Refugee Policy in Nigeria(1989-1994) in The Valiant Vol. 28 September, 1999

‘Methodological Issues in Gender Studies in Nigeria’ in The Nigerian Social Scientist Vol. 13 No. 1 March, 2000.

‘Perestroika and Its Impact on Africa’ in The Valiant Vol. 30, No. 2 July- December, 2001

‘Constitutional reform in Nigeria: Perspectives from Civil Society’ in The Valiant Vol. 30, No. 2 July-December, 2001.

‘The State of Education in Nigeria’ in The Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) Economic Indicators, Vol. 12, No. 3, July-September, 2006.

‘A Review of Niger Delta Human Development Report’ in The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) Economic Indicators, Vol. 12, No. 4, October-December, 2006

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