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Aisha Mukhtar Dodo

No Country for Mothers Women's Health in Northern Nigeria

Aisha Mukhtar DodoFebruary 23, 2017

Nigeria alone accounts for 14 per cent of global maternal mortality.

February/March 2017

Aisha Mukhtar Dodo

is a PhD candidate at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on bridging the social and cultural gaps in cancer management in Northern Nigeria.

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Today in 2008, the president of South Africa resigned.
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On 24 September 2008, with about nine months left in his tenure, Thabo Mbeki resigned as president of South Africa.
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A prominent member of the ANC, South Africa’s ruling party, Mbeki played a major role in the struggle against the apartheid regime, even going into exile in 1962 when the ANC was banned. Mbeki assumed office as the second president of South Africa on 16 June 1999, after serving a term as deputy president under Nelson Mandela.
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However, as a result of the unanimous decision of the ANC to remove him from office, Mbeki announced his resignation on 20 September 2008. His resignation came amidst allegations of misuse of power. He was accused of using the country’s law-enforcement system to prevent his longstanding rival, Jacob Zuma, from succeeding him.
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During Mbeki’s tenure as president, South Africa experienced significant economic growth, as well as an expansion of the black middle-class.
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📷: Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa, addresses the 59th session of the General Assembly at the United Nations on September 22, 2004 in New York City. UPI Photo/Monika Graff

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NLC to begin strike over fuel and electricity prices.⠀
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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has said that it will embark on an indefinite strike on Monday, 28 September, to protest the hike in petrol and electricity prices.⠀
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Despite the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government cut fuel subsidies and increased the electricity tariff earlier in the month, leading the NLC to issue a two-week ultimatum for a reversal.⠀
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After a meeting of NLC executives on Tuesday, Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, said the decision to implement the strike action was unanimous among all the NLC state leaders.⠀
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📷: People rushing to queue for fuel at a petrol station. Reuters.

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Adébíyì notes that from 1945-1989, the Soviet Union ‘established itself as a centralized state-controlled political economy and its influence spilled over into China, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa.’⁠
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This strategy, Adébíyì notes, worked in some countries. For instance, Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah, Burkina Faso’s Thomas Sankara and the Republic of the Congo’s Patrice Lumumba turned from the West to the Soviet Union for interventions and tried to implement socialism in their countries. ‘Unfortunately, the dreams of socialism for these countries died with the aforementioned leaders,’ Adebiyi writes.⁠
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📷: Burkina Faso president, Captain Thomas Sankara (C), Head of the Government and Chairman of the National Council for the Revolution, visits Patrice Lumumba People in Moscow, 1986. TASS via Getty Images

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Today in 1987, two more Nigerian states were created.⠀
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On 23 September 1987, military president, Ibrahim Babangida, created Akwa Ibom and Katsina, bringing the number of states in Nigeria to 21.⠀
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The creation of states in Nigeria began, in 1967, when then military president, Yakubu Gowon, introduced a twelve-state structure to replace the former regional arrangement. It continued with the creation of seven more states by the Murtala Mohammed regime in April 1976.⠀
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By 1985, when Babangida seized power from Muhammadu Buhari in a military coup, becoming the fourth military president of Nigeria, there was already longstanding pressure to expand the 19-state structure established by Mohammed. Babangida responded by creating Akwa Ibom and Katsina states from parts of Cross River and Kaduna states respectively.⠀
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📷: President Ibrahim Babangida in 1986. Patrick Durand/Sygma via Getty Images

Former Nigerian presidents investigated by the US.

Former Nigerian presidents investigated by the US.⠀
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According to Premium Times, United States authorities investigated former Nigerian presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, for suspected financial crimes.⠀
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Although Obasanjo and Jonathan’s names have been mentioned frequently by people on trial for financial crimes in Italy, the investigations found that their records were clean.⠀
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Around 400 journalists spread across 88 countries worked on the investigations over a period of 16 months.⠀
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📷: Former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo at a PDP rally. Council on Foreign Relations.

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