Olawale Olufemi Akinrinde

Osun State University · Department of Political Sciences

Boko Haram insurgency has caused the loss of many lives and untold suffering to numerous people in Northeast Nigeria. The violent victimisation of women is one of the devastating consequences of the conflict. This paper explored trends in the violence committed against women by security forces. The purpose is to contribute to the existing few studi...

Communal conflicts stand as a recurrent and significant issue plaguing the socio-political landscape of Africa, posing a major obstacle to Nigeria's security and development. The aftermath of such conflicts often entails extensive destruction, leaving behind a daunting task of reconstruction. In the case of the Modakeke community, their longstandin...

Today, the world faces countless difficulties, but none of them is more threatening than the unfiltered and unguarded spread of illicit weapons across the international system. While among threats to international security one can mention poverty, terror, xenophobia, food insecurity, war, and climate change, a far more lethal challenge, which has t...

This comparative study investigates the current condition and dynamics of women's participation in Nigeria's political, governance, and civic spheres. It provides a critical evaluation of the challenges and progress made in the quest of gender equality and women's empowerment in various areas. The study's goal is to shed light on the sociopolitical...

This study delves into the intricate relationship between godfatherism and electoral politics in Nigeria's Fourth Republic, with a specific focus on the 2018 gubernatorial election in Osun State. Godfatherism has emerged as a prevalent phenomenon in Nigerian politics, where influential figures play significant roles in shaping political outcomes. U...

The object of the research is the interaction between unending migrations and the political economy as significant drivers of xenophobic conflicts. The phenomenon of xenophobic conflict in South Africa has garnered increasing attention due to its recurrent violent nature and socio-political implications. This study delves, systematically, into the...

People have always been on the move throughout human history for diverse reasons including economic, political, social, and religious. Tourism, which entails relocating from one location to another for pleasure, is another factor in human migration. Nigeria has adopted measures to lessen the effects of Covid-19 on aspects of tourism including air t...

Amid its potentials and prospects to deliver a ‘win-win’ diplomatic benefit and prospect for Nigeria and its South African counterpart and the continent as a whole, given the strategic importance and the leadership positions both states occupy, Nigeria-South Africa’s strategic partnership is currently threatened by a number of spontaneous diplomati...

This study examines the relationship between ICT use and political leaders and public office holders’ accountability in the local government in Southwestern Nigeria. In Southwestern Nigeria, there signifcantly appears to be little or no attempt to investigate the role of ICT usage and its impact on political leaders and public office holders’ accou...

The notion of human security has become a dominant theme in international political discussions. This is partly explained by the fact that the production of arms and ammunition does guarantee security. Economic, food, health, environmental, and personal safety are all components of human security. In Nigeria, the country is grappling with security...

Urban centres continue to attract people across social divides. So also is the environment, which changes with constant interactions among urban population who constantly harness environmental resources for their survival. This process comes with its attendant effects that could be either positive or negative. This process explains the rationale be...

The current difficulties and insurgency in Islamic states in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) led this study to examine why this region has seen more volatility than any other region today. Furthermore, the unusual nature of the insurgency and turmoil in this region, particularly where Muslims oppose Muslims and Muslim regimes, makes one ask...

The study addresses the question of illicit weapons proliferation and many diverse control measures undertaken to counteract it in Nigeria. It further explores the reasons why Nigeria has become an appealing target for illicit weapons in the West African sub-region. Given the ease of in-flows and out-flows of illicit arms within the borders of the...

This study has been motivated by the diverse and stimulating dimension of urban life, most especially by the unending flair for social festivities, popularly known as Owanbe. While giving its attention to Lagos City in Nigeria, this study strove to contribute to the existing discourse on urban life and its realities. It documents the pattern and di...

div> There is a growing recognition of the importance of health security to economic development globally. ‘Health security’ as a phenomenon continues to receive the attention of academics and policymakers in the course of ensuring a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being for all. Nigeria’s health policy equally gives a premium to...

The suddenness of the global pandemic - Covid-19 accompanied by the locking-down of almost the entire world, clearly demonstrates the humans’ vulnerability. Alongside the economy, the next most hit is the environment – precisely climate change issues. Over time, many researchers have warned the importance of educating the next generation of the hum...

The impact of the novel Covid-19, otherwise known as the coronavirus on the entire spectrum of Nigeria's national life, as elsewhere , remains yet indelibly unquantifiable at present. Thanks to the Elite culpability in the management of the corona-virus epidemic that has now rendered the entire Nigeria's national life halted and, on the brinks of s...

The relationship between small arms and light weapons, religious crises, and insecurity has continued to be a burning issue in the national security discourse in Nigeria. Religious organizations under the guise of spreading their beliefs now engage in the laundering of donations by members on acquisitions of small and arms and light weapons to prot...

Without a doubt, Africa is presently faced with violence, war, and acts of terrorism arising from the activities of insurgents. This paper examines the ways globalization aids insurgent activities and increasing manipulation of globalization by insurgents. It also looks at the negative impacts of violence and the need to find solutions to the insur...

A collection of disarticulated colonial economic legacies sits at the heart of Nigeria’s and Africa’s development crisis. The introduction of the cash crop economy to Nigeria, as well as other parts of Africa, came with the creation of British colonial rule. In Nigeria, there was the downplaying of the value of the indigenous economic system, which...

div> Liberal political economists typically ascribe the reasons, natures, and dynamics of development and security in the global South, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America, to internal deficiencies. As a result, among other things, weak institutions, policy deficits, ethnicity, corruption, bad leadership, and all other signs of an entity in d...

Although Nigeria is best known for its oil and gas production, agriculture employs roughly 70% of its workforce. Nigeria has experienced a severe farmer-herder conflict that has negatively influenced its agricultural production capacity, resulting in severe food insecurity. Tensions have risen in recent decades, with increasingly violent clashes be...

The study examined local government autonomy and local government service delivery in Nigeria. the study discovered that, Nigerian local government needs to be autonomous in the discharge of its statutory responsibility, if ongoing agitation for local government autonomy from different quarters in Nigeria is given an approval, this will strengthen...

Evidences from counterterrorism and the war on terrorism operations in Africa have revealed the inadequacies of the conventional counterterrorism strategy. The over-reliance on the use of simply hard-military and offensive strategy in prosecuting the war against terrorism and forms of insurgencies in Africa since the inception of the war on terrori...

Syria’s civil war, which began in 2011, has been dubbed one of the bloodiest conflicts of the twenty-first century. A multitude of institutional, regional, and global efforts and activities in the shape of peace proposals, negotiations, diplomatic peace initiatives, and mediations have been put in place in an attempt to end the war. The goal of thi...

The relationship that exists between politics and religion cannot be overemphasized in Nigeria polity since the evolution of a sustainable democracy which has heightened the relevance of religion in our society. Religion has been identified as one of the factors that have divided the people of Nigeria who are divided already by many phenomena that...

The dynamics of terrorism and its transnational implications in the Lake Chad region necessitated a regional security engagement between Nigeria and its immediate neighbors. This led to the formation of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF). The operation of this regional military force has been attracting attention due to cases of terrorist a...

The paper examines the challenges of leadership and followership in governance and how poor leadership has undermined democratic and sustainable development in Nigeria. Specifically, it explores reasons why one of the world most endowed nations in human capacity continues to be bequeathed mis-governance. Using documentary approach, we argue that th...

Several scholarly and scientific attentions have indeed been geared towards the studies on xenophobia in South Africa, but little and very limited interrogation have been devoted to its precipitating politics. Extant works and studies on xenophobia in South Africa, in addition to their differing perspectives, have focused more on how to address the...

This article argues that the policy of the federal government of Nigeria in establishing settlement for herders who are mostly Fulani in different states of the country is perceived by other ethnic groups as advancement of ethnic and religious politics. This perception has led to counter ethno-religious narratives with accompanying increased tensio...

This article addresses the question surrounding the political economy of the dialectics of xenophobia in South Africa. Hinging on qualitative methodology, data was drawn from both primary and secondary sources using key informant interviews, focus group discussion and archival materials respectively. Field evidence and data that was interrogated an...

Since 1999, a number of concerns have been inspiring and driving organized insecurity in the country. This includes the search for resources control by the Niger Delta, ethno-regional self determination unrest, and BokoHaram terrorism, herders-farmers conflicts and banditry. The Federal Government has put in place many initiatives reflecting an app...

The suddenness of the global pandemic-Covid-19 accompanied by the locking-down of almost the entire world clearly demonstrates humans' vulnerability. Alongside the economy, the next most hit is the environment-precisely climate change issues. Over time, many researchers have warned the importance of educating the next generation of the human race a...

The impact of the novel covid-19, otherwise known as the corona-virus on the entire spectrum of Nigeria’s national life, as elsewhere, remains yet indelibly unquantifiable at present. No thanks to the Elite culpability in the management of the corona-virus epidemic that has now rendered the entire Nigeria’s national life halted and, on the brink...

Traditional institutions held pre-eminence positions in the pre-colonial societies in Nigeria. The level of order witnessed during this period was a testimony to the invaluable roles played by the traditional rulers in administering their different empires, kingdoms and communities. However, during the colonial era, the position of traditional rule...

THIS PAPER EXAMINES AL-SHABAAB AND BOKO HARAM ACTIVITIES IN KENYA AND NIGERIA. IT EXAMINES THE CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN EXPRESSED RHETORIC; CAUSAL FACTORS OF VIOLENT ACTIVITIES AND THE MODES OF OPERATION OF THE TWO MOST DREADED ARMED GROUPS IN AFRICA. RELYING ON PRIMARY, SECONDARY DATA AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF RELEVANT LITERATURE, THE OPINIONS AND FINDI...

THE STUDY ADOPTS A SYSTEMATIC, ANALYTICAL AND HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATE THE FACTORS THAT OFTEN LEAD NATIONS TO INSECURITY, BACKWARDNESS, UNREST, CONFLICT AND MISTRUST ESPECIALLY WITHIN NIGERIA. THE STUDY OBSERVES ALL OVER THE WORLD, NIGERIA INCLUSIVE, THAT THERE IS A CONSCIOUS AND PERSISTENT SEARCH FOR PEACE. THE EVIDENCE IN VARIOUS CRIS...

Abstract Politics and religion overtime have become two sides of a coin. This is particularly through of Africa, Nigeria inclusive, due to the nature of colonialism that accompanied introduction of Christian religion. No matter how conceived, the activities of the various missionary bodies that came with colonialism brought about development to Ni...

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...

The central aim of this study is to examine and highlight the role of local government in community development. Drawing evidence from Iwo Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria, this study brings the Nigerian political arrangement to the fore by establishing its negation of the undergrowth of community development which underscores true fede...

THIS STUDY THEMATICALLY COMPARES THE STATE OF CONVENTIONAL AND HUMAN SECURITY STUDIES BETWEEN THE COLD WAR AND POST-COLD WAR EPOCHS. IT EXAMINES CONCISELY THE REASONS AND FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SYSTEMATIC SHIFT FROM CONVENTIONAL SECURITY TO, AND THE RISE OF, HUMAN SECURITY DURING THE COLD AND POST-COLD WAR EPOCHS. RELYING ON HISTORICAL METHODO...

The hitherto poor infrastructural facilities in many African states have been given considerable facelifts due to the availability of loans from the Chinese government to fund their infrastructural developments. In the last decade, several countries across the continent including Nigeria, Zambia, Angola have benefited from the infrastructure-relate...

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...

The relevance of the youths to the development of any society is beyond contest. It is the segment of the population that keeps all other segments of any society going. And across time and space, no society had ever been created nor attained development without the glorious and heroic contributions of its youths. Without exemption, the Nigerian sta...

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...

The unsettled and subjective nature of what constitute human rights abuse and extrajudicial killing affords most western nations and international media to misconstrue security-related matters in most developing world. More problematic is how such misconstrued reality on the ground and publicity inform policy decisions of these nation, thereby, und...

While across known histories of societies the human societies had always developed within the confines of their limits of social justice, the security or otherwise of societies had always been directly proportional to their level of social justice. Invariably, this implies the higher the acceptance and recognition of the need for social justice by...

This study interrogates the continued manifestation of the Boko Haram terrorism that inheres in the prevailing human securities challenges in Nigeria, and why the Nigerian developmental quests had failed and are bound to fail in the future should the human insecurity challenges that accounted for the Boko Haram terrorism are left unabated in Nigeri...

The search for sustainable home-made solutions to both internal and external challenges especially the colonialist and neocolonialist epistemologies as well as the Eurocentric construction of African history that Africa is faced with has, in part, led to the call and coining of the concept of Africanity. While this call has, on several occasions, b...

Poverty, corruption, bad leadership and violence among others have been identified as threats to the existence of the African race but none of these internal pathologies is more threatening than the Eurocentric construction of African history. While history gives a sense of belongingness, identity, belief and the historical processes needed to faci...

The rise of refugee problems across the globe especially the Syrian refugee crisis underlines inherently the definitional and operational deficiencies of the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention that was designed to facilitate the protection of the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers to safety and express access to neighboring states during emergencie...

Abstract South Africa and Nigeria are no doubt two giants in terms of economy and leadership potentials in Africa. These countries however have a Common Enemy in corruption which has the potential of undermining both their political and economic advancements. In Africa, corruption has become an endemic issue which is seriously affecting developmen...