David Ayo BabalolaFederal University Oye-Ekiti Nigeria
David Ayo Babalola
Master of Science
My doctoral research centers on Nigeria’s defense policy and national interest in the Gulf of Guinea region.
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Introduction
David Ayo Babalola lectures and conducts research in International Relations, Defence, Security and Strategic studies in the Department of History and International Relations, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti Nigeria.
David holds dual Master’s Degrees in Political Science and in International Law and Diplomacy from Nigeria’s topmost University, University of Lagos and a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State, Nigeria.
Additional affiliations
February 2021 - October 2021
Position
- Lecturer
Description
- Currently, i teaches International Relations related courses. This include Contemporary Strategic Studies, United Nations and World Affairs, Comparative Foreign Policy, International Law and Asia in World Politics.
April 2015 - November 2018
Tydacomm Limited
Position
- Manager
Description
- As a start-up company, I’m responsible for the overall Brand Management functions. Has the total responsibility of Liaising with Nigerian government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) on protocol, regulatory, licensing and ICT coverage of the uncovered and under covered rural areas. Facilitated the Proof of Concept (PoC) execution with Airtel Nigeria and the signing of the Commercial Agreement to the tune of 915 million (NGN) for telecom service coverage in the uncovered coastal areas.
Education
April 2011 - August 2013
October 2001 - August 2003
August 1995 - July 2000
Publications
Publications (3)
The rise of refugee problems worldwide, particularly the African refugee crisis, inherently under-
lines the preponderance of the spiking degree of human insecurity in Africa and the definitional and
operational shortcomings of the Geneva Refugee Convention of 1951, which was designed to protect the
rights of refugees and asylum seekers to safety...
This study is offered as a potential contribution to the ongoing
efforts geared at addressing the politics of xenophobia in Africa
with a view to improving the strategic relations and partnership
between Nigeria and South Africa given their strategic importance
to the continent. To achieve this, both qualitative and case-study
methodological t...
This article, relying on the strenght of the qualitative orientations,examines the parodies
of Nigerian federalism, and empirically established a linkage between these parodies and
the unending contests among the centrifugal and centripetal forces within the Nigerian
federation. It debunks the popularly held notion of Nigerian federalism as quasife...
