Nigeria Law
Commission & Inquiry Reports

2nd Republic1980· Fate: Ignored· Chapter II · Law

Justice Aniagolu Tribunal — Kano Riots

Investigation of the Maitatsine uprising of December 1980; 4,177 deaths confirmed. Report shelved.

Chaired by Justice Anthony Aniagolu. Investigated the Maitatsine (Mohammed Marwa) uprising in Kano of December 1980 which killed 4,177 (per official count). Recommended security-sector reforms and religious-regulation framework largely shelved.

Sources

  • · Aniagolu Tribunal Report on the Kano Disturbances (1981)

What it cost — political & economic reality

The political and economic reality

Nigeria in 1980: who was in charge, the cabinet of the day, the GDP, and the crises that defined the period.

President · Second Republic

Alhaji Shehu Shagari

1979–1983· NPN

National reality

First executive presidency. Oil-price crash from 1981 destroyed the boom. Ghana Must Go expulsion of West African migrants (1983). Disputed re-election in 1983, then the Buhari/Idiagbon coup on 31 December 1983.

Crises of the period

  • Oil price collapse 1981–83
  • Maitatsine riots Kano (1980)
  • Ghana Must Go (1983)
  • 31 December 1983 coup

GDP (World Bank)

$64 bn (1980, oil peak) → $30 bn (1983, bust)

Cabinet (selected portfolios)

  • Finance

    Sunday Essang → Onaolapo Soleye

  • Education

    Sylvester Ugoh; later others (being compiled)

Source: Federal Gazette 1979–83; CBN Annual Reports

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

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