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This book 'Contemporary Issues in Nigeria and Africa's Development' A Critical Appraisal of Challenges and Opportunities contain certain features, which seeks to distinguish it from others in the same field. This is because from chapter one to twelve the author appraised, interrogated and x-rayed issues that cannot be found in a single text. The essays in this twelve chapters book analyses and give insight into contemporary issues of development in Nigeria and Africa, where emphasis is placed on issues of integration, unemployment, elections and electoral frauds and malpractices, corruption, terrorism, globalization and the Nigerian economy, Nigeria's Foreign Policy, military intervention in politics, technology and environmental issues of development in Nigeria and indeed Africa among others. The book is a must read for students, lectures, political leaders, researchers of development and any one interested in how Nigeria and indeed Africa's developmental challenges can be overcome.