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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.Item All in the interest of the British’: import control policies in Nigeria during the inter-war years, 1919-1939(Historical Society of Nigeria, 2019) Abolorunde, A. S.The colonization of Nigeria especially after the 1914 amalgamation necessitated the formulation of various economic policies that put the Nigerian economy under the firm control of the British. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists and scholars of various disciplines have, through their works, interrogated colonial Nigeria. Colonial system of transportation, monetary policies, land ordinances and colonial healthcare policies are typical examples of Nigeria’s colonial past. Similarly, scholars have interrogated the impact of the First World War on the colonial enclaves of the European powers in Africa, the quest for economic recovery of the metropolitan powers during the inter-war period, the breakdown of democratic ethos in Europe and other parts of the globe during the inter-war period, the acute economic hardship necessitated by unemployment of the inter-war period and the exploitation of African resources, particularly Nigeria, for the benefit of metropolitan capitals during the interwar years. These intellectual efforts have not comprehensively interrogated how import control was used by the British in Nigeria as a strategy for economic recovery of the post- World War 1 economic hardship as well as the sustenance of the recovery through import restrictions. The paper in its conclusion argues that import control in Nigeria during the inter-war Nigeria was used for the revamping of the British economy through import control policies that comprehensively protected the British economic interests in Nigeria.Item Pentecostalism, religious enterprise and the challenges of nation building in Nigeria, 1960-2015(Hope Publications, Oyo, 2019) Abolorunde, A. S.