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RENEWABLE ENERGY TRANSITION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: LEGAL PROSPECTS, CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIC PATHWAYS FOR NIGERIA
(2025) Olanrewaju-Elufowoju Oluwatosin Kate
The transition to renewable energy is gaining global momentum as countries strive to address climate change, ensure energy security, and achieve sustainable development. In Sub-Saharan Africa, however, the shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources remains uneven, with numerous structural, legal, and institutional challenges impeding progress. This paper critically examines the legal prospects and barriers surrounding renewable energy adoption in the region, with a particular focus on Nigeria the continent’s most populous nation and one of its largest oil producers. Drawing on comparative legal analysis and policy evaluation, the study explores how existing legal frameworks either promote or hinder renewable energy development. It further identifies gaps in regulation, inadequate enforcement mechanisms, and the absence of coherent energy transition policies as key obstacles. The paper proposes strategic legal reforms tailored to Nigeria’s socio-economic and environmental needs, emphasising the need for clear legislation, robust institutional support, and targeted incentives to attract investment in clean energy. By aligning national energy laws with global best practices, Nigeria and its Sub-Saharan counterparts can accelerate the shift toward sustainable energy systems. This study contributes to the broader discourse on environmental governance and energy justice in the Global South, offering practical legal pathways for a just and inclusive energy transition.
Reimagining Nigeria's Future: Legal Frameworks for Economic Diversification and Sustainable National Development
(Bowen Law Journal (BLJ) A Journal of the College of Law, Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria, 2025) Olanrewaju-Elufowoju Oluwatosin Kate
Economic diversification is crucial for Nigeria's national development, especially as the country seeks to reduce its over-reliance on oil revenues. The dependency of the country's economy on crude oil has had a major impact on its economic development, particularly in the Niger Delta region. The country has also made significant progress in diversifying its economy, but a number of obstacles prevent it from being implemented effectively. This paper examines the legal framework for economic diversification and national development in Nigeria. It interrogates the intricacies of the topic using a doctrinal legal approach. The paper identifies significant challenges in implementing legal frameworks (such as the 1999 constitution) for economic diversification, for instance: poor infrastructure; gaps in policy implementation; corruption; limited access to finance for SMEs; and a mismatch between education and industry needs. Additionally, political instability and over-specialisation in the oil sector have stifled efforts to develop other sectors like agriculture, manufacturing, and services. It concludes that Nigeria must strengthen its anti-corruption operations and strengthen its public-private partnerships (PPPs) in financing and implementing large-scale infrastructure projects that will attract investors and boost economic activities. Ultimately, Nigeria will not only ensure better livelihoods for its citizens but also strengthen its position in the global economy
Assessment of Residents’ Knowledge, Attitude and Perception of Climate Change Issues in Ibadan South West Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria
(Cities and the Environment (CATE), 0026-03-18) Atoyebi Olumuyiwa Sola
This study examines residents’ knowledge, attitude, and behavioural responses to the impacts of climate change in Ibadan South West Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria. It evaluates residents’ awareness of climate change, analyses their behavioural responses to climate change impact, and identifies household characteristics that influence knowledge, attitude, and perception of climate change in the area. The study utilised a mixed-methods research approach, using such instruments as questionnaire administration and interviews. The study employed a multistage sampling technique where a total of seven (7) Enumeration Areas (EAs) were selected, and 206 questionnaires were administered to residents of the area. These selected respondents were also interviewed to gain a more personal understanding of their knowledge and perception. The data collected were analysed using descriptive analytical tools, including percentages and chi-square. Interviews were summarized and analysed thematically. The study revealed that 92% of the respondents are aware of climate change. The causes and evidence of climate change are significant across enumeration areas for bush burning, poor sanitation, fuel wood consumption, and settlement expansion, with p-values of 15.507 and 23.686, respectively. It, therefore, among others, recommended that governments at all levels, in collaboration with land sectors (public and private), should educate citizens on the increasing effect of climate change on the immediate environment.
Nigerian Women and Social Development: Towards a Progressivist Study of the First Ladies’ Pet Initiatives
(2026) Adebayo Abidemi Olufemi
Abstract This paper analyses the moribund state of the humanitarian initiatives undertaken by Nigerian First Ladies (wives of presidents and vice-presidents) after leaving office. This project dysfunctionality is motivated by culture politics of the men in power. Such limits the scope of women’s rewards and national glory for their efforts and ingenuity. The humanitarian initiatives need to be institutionalized. This is because the projects are localizations of the United Nations’ 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. These projects, therefore, go a long way in complementing the conventions aimed at safeguarding women and children. The social ills that the projects sought to rectify worsen as cancer still ravages the Nigerian population, with a higher incidence noticed among women. Cases of sexual and gender-based violence are on the rise. This has been responsible for the 2022 2023 Nigeria-United Nations signing of a Memorandum of Understanding and Nigeria’s partnership agreement with Germany. These are aimed at improving the social conditions of Nigerian women. The major setback of the pet projects is that they relied on patriarchal will and political power for finance. The paper suggests that the government should partner with the project's initiators through regulation. These strategies can enable humanitarian projects subsist after the tenures of the initiators. This facilitates the attainment of the women’s vision for national development. Keywords: Nigerian First Ladies, Pet projects, Humanitarian initiatives, Power, Cultural politics
APPEALING TO THE MUSE AS EUROPEANISATION OF AFRICAN CREATIVITY: A DECOLONISATIONTHEORYONCREATIVEPOTENCYOFAFRICANCOSMOS
(2025) Adebayo Abidemi Olufemi
Abstract This study is a critical survey explores the conventional practice in African Literary criticism. It revisits the general phrase ‘appeal to the Muse’ to designates the situation when a writer goes into trance as a way of evoking inspiration. However, this study maintains that continued designation of an African writer’s slip into trance as ‘appealing to the Muse’ is a retention and sustenance of European vestiges in Africa. This is a contravention of the goals of African Consciousness Campaign as expressed in the concept of Africanity and the de-Europeanisation of the African worldview.The study id anchored on the avant-garde principle which encourages an interrogation of existing truth, convention or extant practices. This is to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The qualitative model is employed in carrying out the research. It is posited in the study that since the Muse is Occidental, the dominance of the influence he commands in the pantheon in fertilising the inspirational and imaginative undertaking cannot be universal. This is particularly so that many African writers have been identified with their godheads in the African cosmos.In specifics, Wole Soyinka identifies with Ogun in Yoruba pantheon while Nawal el Saadawi romances Isis in the Egyptian transcendental world.To this end, the decolonisation agenda in Africa should not exclude the phrase ‘appeal to the Muse’ in literary criticism.Each writer should appeal to what he or she holds in spiritual awe in the creative process. This is the reflection of the existing realities in the critiquing of the African worldview in the context of cultural metaphysical cosmogony. Keywords: Literary Criticism, Muse, De-Europeanisation, Africanity, Isis