Ethno-Net Database: Nigeria Other data on Nigeria / Autres données sur le Nigéria. Benin. Cameroon. Chad. CongoBrazza. Congo-Kinshasa. Gabon. Ghana. Ivory Coast. Nigeria. South africa. The Legal Framework / Aspects juridiques http://www.ethnonet-africa.org/data/nigeria/const1999.htm
Extractions: CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA 1999 Preamble I General Provisions I Federal Republic of Nigeria I Powers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria I Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy I Citizenship I Fundamental Rights I The Legislature I The Executive I The Judiciature I Federal Courts I States of the Federation I Federal Executive Bodies I Oaths Preamble We, the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, having firmly and solemnly resolve, to live in unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation under God, dedicated to the promotion of inter-African solidarity, world peace, international co-operation and understanding, and to provide for a Constitution for the purpose of promoting the good government and welfare of all persons in our country, on the principles of freedom, equality and justice, and for the purpose of consolidating the unity of our people;
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Extractions: Rev. Fr. C. Aham Nnorom, Ph.D. Delivered at the International Conference on Igbo Studies A tribute to Simon Ottenberg, Cornell University Ithaca New York April 3-6, 2003 Igbo Proverb The bush fowl saw the chicken being carved up and laughed. The chicken told the bush fowl to stop laughing. For the same hands now carving up the chicken would be used to carve up the bush fowl Igbo Proverb Interpreted ABSTRACT: Many scholars, including those of Igbo extraction, have been concerned with the resurgence of militant Islam in the Sudan Indonesia Palestine , and in the northern states of Nigeria . An increase of academic interest in Islamism and terrorism is noticeable since the bombings of US embassies in Nairobi and Dares Salaam, of the US warship Cole, and most importantly, the attacks on the World Trade Center , the Pentagon, and the ongoing war against terrorism. In Nigeria, in particular, while most scholarly and media attention has been focused on Christian-Muslim dialogue, Sharia and the violence it incited, very little is known about the danger lurking within Igboland: the phenomenal increase in the number of Igbo Moslems and mosques, an incredible development unknown before the Nigeria-Biafra War. This paper examines a bitter historical irony: That while Ndigbo are being religiously, ethnically and economically cleansed from the predominantly Islamic states of Nigeria, Igbo Imams, Sheiks, Alahajis, Alhajas and mosques, once few and exotic, are now a common sight in one of the most homogeneous Christian regions in Africa. It argues that the quiet, secretive but aggressive Islamization and Arabization of AlaIgbo is a clear and present danger to Igbo interests and survival; and suggests countermeasures that would protect Igbo interests and assure the nations survival.
Extractions: IgboNet The Igbo Network 1988 Ahiajoku Lecture Igbo Heritage Comment: IGBO DEITIES , By N. S. S. Iwe, THE IGBO IDEA OF THE SACRED: CONTEMPORARY OBSERVANCES By T. Uzodinma Nwala, and 3) UNDER THE EYES OF THE GODS: SACRALIZATION AND CONTROL OF SOCIAL ORDER IN IGBOLAND By O. U. Kalu INTRODUCTION In his seminal work, Sacrifice in Igbo Religion , now fast becoming a classic in the genre, Francis Cardinal Arinze proffered an explanation of the phenomenon of religion among men from the subjective and objective standpoints. In the first sense, it is "the consciousness of one's dependence on a transcendent Being and the tendency to worship Him;" in the second, "religion is the body of truths, laws and rites by which man is subordinated to the transcendent Being." We may note that the use of the passive form of the verb in the second definition introduces an element of involuntarily, suggesting that man may be inserted willy nilly within a religious framework of existence. Accordingly, we may characterize religion for our purposes here as a way of life; or more precisely as a system of beliefs authorizing or sanctioni6g a generalized set of observances based on the acknowledgement of an ultimate relationship to a universal principle or essence which is regarded as immanent in nature. The mental concretizations of this universal principle are of course the transcendent Being which we call God, Chukwu , the Deity. The belief in God logically signifies faith in a divinely-ordained order in the world and furnishes a permanent spiritual meaning for existence in the sense of an extra-mundane focus, the ultimate individual and collective consummation in which becomes the object and the justification of existence, and therefore salvation.
