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| Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim |
Jibo (Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim) will be 60 years
old on Sunday 30th November. For those in Abuja, please join us on
Monday, December 1st 2014, for a panel discussion on Political
Science in Nigeria: Dead, Alive or Comatose?
Venue:
Shehu Musa Yara’dua Centre, Abuja, Nigeria
Time:
6 pm
Panelists:
Professors Adele Jinadu, Okechukwu Ibeanu and Jibrin Ibrahim.
Moderator
Professor Funmi Olanisikan, Kings College, London.
Announcer:
Dr. Kole Shettima
Jibrin Ibrahim
is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Democracy & Development, a regional
research, advocacy and training non-governmental organisation for West Africa.
Previously,
from 2000 to 2006, he was Nigeria Country Director of Global Rights. Dr Ibrahim
is active in civil society organisations and has over thirty years of active
engagement with civil society.
He was the
National Convenor of the Citizen's Forum for Constitutional Reform, a coalition
of ninety non-governmental organisations seeking to reform the 1999 Nigerian
Constitution. Dr Ibrahim is an academic who holds a PhD in Political Science
from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Bordeaux, France.
His areas of
specialisation are democratisation, political economy of poverty reduction,
comparative federalism and religious and ethnic identities. Before joining
Global Rights, he was a director of research at the Centre for Research and
Documentation, Kano, Nigeria.
He was
previously an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science,
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
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