RUN Repository

Communities in RUN Repository

Select a community to browse its collections.

Now showing 1 - 5 of 11

Recent Submissions

WHY HAS PEACEBUILDING CONTINUED TO FAIL IN PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA?
(Redeemer’s University Journal of Management and Social Sciences, 2026-07-15) Alabi, Ayodeji Ladipo
Persistent violence that tends to erupt periodically in Plateau State, Nigeria, has been a subject of great concern and has attracted the efforts of government agencies, traditional institutions, civil society actors, and international organisations. However, despite the enormous efforts devoted to addressing the violence, peace remains elusive in the state. This begs the question as to why peacebuilding efforts have not borne fruits. This paper seeks to examine the underlying causes of persistent violence in Plateau State that undermine peacebuilding efforts and explores possible strategies for promoting sustainable peace. The study looks at issues affecting peacebuilding in the state, such as institutional inadequacy, identity politics, indigene-settler tensions, land, and resource conflicts, poor inter-organisational collaboration, lack of community ownership, inadequacy in the security sector, and failure to address governance issues. The paper also highlights the inadequacy of some of the interventions used in responding to violence and attempts to derive lessons from other conflict-affected regions outside Nigeria. The study uses qualitative case study methodology while document analysis was the main data gathering technique. The paper reveals that peacebuilding failure is attributable to structural inadequacy, institutional and governance challenges, and lack of appropriate responses to community grievances. The paper argues that sustainable peace can be achieved through institutional reforms, inclusive governance, security sector reforms, community reconciliation, developmental intervention, and improved early warning systems.
Corporatist interest and ethno-religious identity in the corporatism of a public institution in Nigeria: a study in political intrigues
(AFRICAN IDENTITIES, 2026-02-15) Alabi, Ayodeji Ladipo
The absence of dedicated study of political intrigues has made some unresolved questions to challenge contemporary literature on institutional politics. For instance, in the governing councils of public universities in Nigeria where corporatist interest representation is shadowed by ethno-religious identity, how can the intrigues for appropriating power and privileges, instructed by the status of equilibrium in their governing councils, be described? To examine that question, theories of corporate governance and ethnicity provided the framework. The study explored the crisis surrounding the 2009 vice-chancellorship selection episode in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, as a case study. In-depth interviews were conducted with four of the eighteen members of the institution’s 2009 governing council. The study found that the structure of political representation in the institution’s governance was schemed to balance the numeric of corporatist interests but neglected to balance ethno-religious identities in the governing council. The intergroup intrigues that ensued were constructed on the opportunity of majoritarian numeric and made use of strategic feigned ignorance, indifference and acquiescence as tools for deception.
AFRICAN STUDIES, RE-CALIBRATED KNOWLEDGE AND AFRICAN STATES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
(JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOURAL STUDIES, 2025-09-15) Alabi, Ayodeji Ladipo
This study examined the relationship between African studies, knowledge recalibration, and state-building through a comparative analysis of Nigeria, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, the Central African Republic, and South Africa. Guided by Postcolonial, Decolonial, Afrocentric, Dependency, and Critical Knowledge theories, it employed a qualitative comparative design using secondary data analysed through thematic, historical, and content analysis. The findings indicate that colonial legacies, external funding dependence, weak research infrastructure, governance challenges, brain drain, and the marginalisation of indigenous knowledge continue to constrain knowledge production and effective governance across Africa. Conversely, countries that have invested in human capital, strengthened indigenous research, and integrated local governance systems into state institutions have achieved better developmental outcomes. The study concludes that recalibrating knowledge through African-centred scholarship, innovative teaching, stronger research capacity, regional collaboration, and indigenous philosophies can enhance sustainable state-building. It recommends greater investment in African scholars, research institutions, and indigenous governance frameworks for policy development.
EFFECT OF PUBLIC HEALTH EXPENDITURE ON INEQUALITY IN INCOME IN NIGERIA
(casirmedia publishing, Rivers State University, 2026) Adewara, Sunday Olabisi
This study examined the impact of Public Health Expenditure (PHE) on inequality in income in Nigeria using annual time series data from 1990 to 2022. Gini coefficient was retrieved from the World Bank database to measure inequality in income. FMOLS and CCR methods were employed to investigate the relationship between PHE and inequality in income and to examine the long run relationships between the variables. Granger causality test was also used to investigate the direction of causality between PHE and inequality in income. The findings from FMOLS and CCR analyses revealed that public health expenditure had a negative significant influence on inequality in income. This meant that an increase in public health expenditure would decrease the inequality in income. In addition, the findings revealed that GDP per capita and access to electricity had a negative significant influence on inequality in income while gross fixed capital formation had a positive significant influence on inequality in income. This meant that the benefits of such investment were not equally distributed. Foreign direct investment and inflation were statistically insignificant in the long run models. Granger causality test results revealed unidirectional causality running from inequality in income to PHE, access to electricity, and foreign direct investment. These results indicate that inequality in income is a trigger for policy actions rather than a product of short-run fiscal policy. Policy makers in Nigeria are employed to formulate policies to reduce inequality in income by spending more on health and access to electricity based on the study findings.
An analysis of Regional Inequality in Underweight in Nigeria
(International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS), 2013-04-01) Adewara, Sunday Olabisi
In this paper, we considered change in health inequalities among the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. The two periods of our analysis covered pre and post transition era in the country. Our results confirmed the existence and persistence of within and between regional inequality in being underweight in the country. We also noticed that greater variation in regional inequality in being underweight subsequent to transition political transition in the country in 1999. The regions in the northern part of the country are however worse-off based on our results. We therefore suggest that the federal government should put appropriate policies in place to reduce regional health inequality in the country in order to evenly distribute the benefits of democracy to all citizens.