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Item HDS 509: Nigeria: a study in military leadership, 1966-1979(2023) Abolorunde, A. S.Item HDS 414: Industrialization as a world phenomenon(2018) Aborisade, A. S.Item Industrialization and economic diplomacy in Nigeria since 1960: an overview(2012) Edo, V. O.; Aborisade, A. S.The paper examines Nigeria’s economic diplomacy and industrialization efforts since Nigeria’s independence in 1960. It discusses the efforts of all the administrations at foreign relations and the role that Nigeria’s economic resources have played in charting a foreign relations strategy for the country. The work concludes that the quality of leadership that the country has produced over the years has not tied the deployment of Nigeria’s resources globally with her industrialization process. Indeed bureaucratic ineptitude has marred Nigeria’s international economic relations over the years.Item A historical survey of the strategic dimensions in Nigeria-Brazil relations during the oil boom year(2016) Aborisade, A. S.This paper examines the socio-cultural and economic peculiarities which necessitated Nigeria-Brazil relations since Nigeria’s independence in October 1960. However, the emasculation of the Nigerian economy, which was not unconnected with the way it was integrated into the global economy as a subordinate player, constituted a severe hindrance to Nigeria’s objective to embark on the dismantling of colonialism in the African continent. This paper tries to historicize the changes which took place in Nigeria-Brazil relations, absence of valuable resource endowments by Nigeria in the international market led to Brazil shrugging off of Nigeria’s call for the liberation of Africa from the vestige of colonialism especially over Portugal and South Africa. This paper investigates whether Strategic economic importance of Nigeria was more compelling than diplomatic necessity to Brazil. The paper, reveals that change in Brazil's Africa policy became necessary not because Brazil wanted to enjoy comprehensive policy autonomy that was devoid of external manipulations, but because of her Strategic interests in Africa. These interests were almost jeopardized by economic and political leverage, which the quadrupling of crude oil prices in the international market in the 1970s bestowed on Nigeria as a Continental power with substantial influence. In its conclusion this paper revealed that the economic interests of Brazil superseded her diplomatic engagement with Nigeria; and that economic objectives shaped the dimension of Brazil’s relations with Nigeria.Item Population census and the question of national cohesion in Nigeria: 1963-2015(2016) Aborisade, A. S.For over five decades of Nigeria’s independence from the British, the country still faces crisis of disunity among various ethnic groups that make up the country. The manifestations of lack of national cohesion in Nigeria, since the attainment of independence include: political instability, religious and ethnic violence, military intervention in the country’s politics, marginalization, insecurity and struggles for resource control. Historians, political scientists, economists, sociologists and scholars of various disciplines, have through their works, addressed national cohesion question in Nigeria. Federalism, fiscal and political restructuring, conflict resolution, religious tolerance and downplaying of ethnicity, are typical examples of national cohesion question. Similarly, scholars have made attempts at charting new strategies through which the crisis of national cohesion in Nigeria can be ameliorated in its post-independence history. These included the downplaying of the minority agitations, true fiscal federalism, as well as sustainable Federal Character. These intellectual efforts have not beamed their searchlight on the impact of population census on national cohesion question in Nigeria. Thus, the interrogation of a history of population census as a divisive tool that perpetuates unstable political atmosphere in the Nigerian project since independence, seems to have been underestimated. It is against this backdrop that this paper interrogates population censuses, as tools of political instability and political dominance which sustain the question of national cohesion in Nigeria since independence. The paper in its conclusion argues that the politics of population censuses, was part of those divisive structures that have elongated the crises of national cohesion in the country, since the end of colonial rule.Item Nigeria’s countertrade deal with Brazil under the Military: 1984-1985(Faculty of Arts, University of Abuja, 2017) Aborisade, A. S.Nigeria after the attainment of independence in 1960 has been engaged in the global economic space. She was incorporated into the global capitalist System as a primary producer of agricultural produce. The quadrupling prices of crude oil in the international market in 1973 after its discovery in Nigeria in 1958 further positioned the country strategically in global oil market. However, the global economic meltdown which brought the crude oil prices in the international market to all time low in the 1980s made the concept of Countertrade a key strategy of survival for countries whose prices of resource endowments were affected by the global economic meltdown. Nigeria and Brazil engaged in this trade as they exchanged crude oil, consumable goods and industrial equipment. Against this backdrop, this paper examines the Countertrade with Brazil and argues that, the possession of resources is not enough to ensure survival, but Strategic deployment of such endowments determines the extent to which the unconventional strategy of a nation like Nigeria can enable it explore the volatile international economy.Item Nigeria’s foreign reserves and the challenges of development, 1960–2010(2018) Aborisade, A. S.Since independence in 1960, the Nigerian state has struggled to earn for itself a respectable position globally. Scholars of various disciplines such as economics, political science, sociology and history through their works, have examined those resources that enhance the country’s economic potentials. Resources such as cocoa, groundnut, palm oil and palm kernel which served as the country’s export potentials as well as foreign exchange earnings before crude oil export became the kernel of Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings in the 1970s are typical examples of the country’s exports that had boosted its foreign reserves in the past. Similarly, scholars of various disciplines since crude oil became the backbone of the country’s economy have made attempts at charting new approaches through which the country’s exports can be enhanced vis-à-vis its foreign reserves. These include effective and functional refineries, maximum exploitation f other items such as gas as embedded in the country’s crude exports, deregulation of both upstream and downstream sectors of the oil industry as well as the exploitation of non-oil sectors for exports. However, adequate and comprehensive intellectual attention has not been paid to the connection between the vicissitudes and diversities of Nigeria’s foreign reserves and the country’s economic development. It is against this backdrop that this paper interrogates the nature of Nigeria’s economic development from the perspective of its foreign reserves. The paper argues in its conclusion that Nigeria’s development prospects and challenges are tied to the management of its foreign reserves by the successive administrations since 1960.Item Historiography of industrialization in Nigeria: 1914–1960(Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE), University of Dar es Salaam, 2018) Ogbogbo, C. B. N.; Aborisade, A. S.The historiography of industrialization in Nigeria has a rich but confused literature. Scholars from various disciplinary orientations have engaged this subject matter from perspectives that have complexified the idea and concept of industrialization in a colonial state. This study interrogates the various perspectives of intellectual inquiry on industrialization of colonial Nigeria and argues that although industries and industrial activities existed in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria, industrialization between 1914 and 1960, as portrayed by a number of scholars, was a farce. Thus, the interrogation of theoretical and historical explanation of industrialization by scholars as one of the important components of colonial historiography seems to have been neglected. The paper submits that the historical process of colonial Nigeria made industrialization of Nigeria as a colony impossible because the colonialists used Nigeria as an important instrument that sustained the development and industrialization of Britain.Item Import control under regionalism in colonial Nigeria, 1954-1960(International Association of African Researchers and Reviewers,, 2019-01) Abolorunde, A. S.The colonization of Nigeria by the British opened a new vista in the history of the country as various ethnic groups came under the British system of administration. Parts of the colonial administrative structures included, native courts, native authorities, native treasuries and protectorates. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists and scholars of various disciplines have through their works, interrogated Nigeria’s colonial past. Indirect rule system, colonial infrastructure, the rise of nationalism, currency circulation, colonial system of banking, colonial system of education and exploitation of Nigeria’s resources are typical examples of Nigeria’s colonial experience. Similarly, scholars have made attempts at interrogating various aspects of the country’s colonial history. These include, colonial agricultural policies, colonial export control policies, marketing boards, trade restrictions, politics of decolonization, politics of transfer of power, constitutional developments, regionalism, nationalist movements, colonial tariff system and issues that deal with Nigeria’s economic development in the colonial period. These intellectual efforts have not beamed their searchlight on how import control in an era of regionalism was used as one of the strategies of decolonization before the country’s independence. Thus, the interrogation of a history of import control as an integral part of decolonization seems to have been neglected. It is against this backdrop that this paper interrogated import control as colonial economic policy which aided the entrenchment of regionalism in Nigeria. The paper in its conclusion argued that import control under regionalism was one of the strategies used by the colonial government in the devolution of some of its economic powers to the regions through constitutional framework.Item Nigerian civil war and Britain’s peace initiative, 1967–1970(2019) Abolorunde, A. S.The outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War few years after the attainment of independence from Britain further deepened the interest of the latter in Nigeria’s existence as a nation. Scholars of disciplines such as history, political science and international relations through their works, have examined the nature and dimensions of Nigeria’s relations with Britain as well as the British involvement in the Nigerian Civil War. Foreign policy formulation, colonial legacies, economic ties, are typical examples of the nature of Nigeria’s relations with Britain. Similarly, scholars have interrogated the roles of Britain in the Nigerian Civil War through multilateral efforts at the United Nations and Commonwealth of Nations, propaganda, protection of the British economic interests in Nigeria, British military initiative as well as the pressure of the Cold War as the basis for prompt British intervention in the war. However, comprehensive intellectual attention has not been paid to the British peace initiative outside the multilateral conflict resolution structure. It is against this backdrop that this paper interrogates the nature and dimension of British peace initiative strategy which brought an end to the Nigerian Civil War. The paper argues in its conclusion that the failure of the multilateral approach of the British was salvaged by the unilateral British bureaucratic strategy that was enhanced by their colonial legacies in Nigeria.