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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 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.