Sentences with phrase «second military regime»

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This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

The second by Micah Zenko in Foreign Policy argues, accurately, that the seven - month military investigation quickly went beyond protecting civilians to regime change.