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Struggle and Resort to Charcoal Energy for Livelihood Sustenance in the Cosmopolitan Ilorin Emirate: A Study on Bio-Inspired-Intelligence
(Department of History and International Relations, Veritas University, (The Catholic University of Nigeria), Abuja, Nigeria., 2025) Suleiman AbdulRahman Adebayo; Sidiq Sidikat Ahmed; Abdulbaki Abdulwaheed Shola; Ajayi Olalekan Raymond
The use of charcoal (wooden coal) and firewood intensified worldwide since the Stone Age and Neolithic period. Its usage in ancient times symbolised one of the features of the world's social order. The abundance of wooden materials interfaces with the culture and traditions of the respective regions of the world. Varied intellects, knowledge, politics, and challenges of individual regional people necessitated the applications of wooden coal/firewood to their respective Indigenous industrial, manufacturing, and household productions and consumptions vis-à-vis subsequent transitions. Since the second half of the Eighteenth Century, Western world nations have advanced fossil fuel use during the Industrial Revolution to drastically reduce the need for charcoal/firewood. Such advancement led to the spread of fossil fuel to Africa, but relatively reduced the use of charcoal/firewood in all facets of her production. However, since the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, the sub-regional Africans have been immensely relegated to the great usage of charcoal/firewood. This paper appraised the compelling factors for gross charcoal usage and traditional usage of charcoal among Africans, using the cosmopolitan Ilorin Emirate as a case study. The work examines the fossil fuel cost concerning the Ilorin People’s standard of living to measure why the people converted to charcoal mainly as a source of energy. The method used comprised oral interviews, participant observation, sampling, comparative and text content analysis. The work concluded that while the Ilorin Emirate had relatively sustained the traditional usages of charcoal, varied intellects, knowledge, policies, and costly fossil fuel products have compelled its people to fully embrace the usages of charcoal for production.
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THE INTEGRATION OF MOSQUES AND CHURCHES TO URBAN PLANNING OF IBADAN NIGERIA: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
(Journal of the Malaysian Institute of Planners, 2017-04) braheem Mikail Abiola
In the face of the uncontrolled expansion of Nigerian towns and cities since independence, urban planners and other stakeholders have accepted that development policies for urban and rural areas have failed or have not worked as expected. Cities in Nigeria, especially, Ibadan have been observed to have changed in size, spatial organization or morphology, quality and distribution of public services and infrastructure, and in its employment base. Despite many efforts aimed at resolving the urban problems through the enactment of plethora of planning laws and regulations, the administration and implementation of these laws and regulation have been problematic, especially due to the rapid increase of religious sites (places of worship) such as churches and mosques in Ibadan. The objective of this paper is to propose a solution to the problems created by religious sites in the planning of Ibadan. The study employs a qualitative research design using survey method, with field observation as the research instrument used for data collection.
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Historical Investigation to the Problems and Challenges of Muslims in Papua New Guinea
(International Journal of Culture and History,, 2016-03) Ibraheem Mikail Abiola; Haruna Umar Farouq; Maruf RajiOwoyemi
—It is not difficult to see why Muslims who live as a minority innon-Muslimcountries like Papua New Guinea are seen as a problem and threat.These are partly due to political and historical factors, partly due to the press media, which have unjustly confirmed for many that Muslims are violent, prone to anarchy. Mostnon-Muslimcountries like Papua New Guinea in which Muslims live have an image of themselves as plural, secular, modern and tolerant societies. Muslims somehow challenge such an image; they provoke the worst aspect of the state hence, instead of solving the problems of the Muslims in a manner that would be mutually beneficial, the state tends to ignore or minimize them. The examples of Papua New Guinean minority Muslims are like that of former state of Yugoslavia where the Serbs went one step further with Muslim minority. They systematically terrorized them and sent them from their homes, the world called it ethnic cleansing and did nothing.Bosnia was added to the list of recent Muslim losses. Can the same fate happen in Papua New Guinea? What offends Muslims living in a country as the minority community?
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Ilorin Emirate Scholars of Nupe Origin’s Role in The Educational Curriculum of The Emirate
(Journal of Islamic Educational Research (JIER), 2025-05) AbdulRahman Adebayo Suleiman; Yusuf Saliu Danlad; Ibraheem Mikail Abiola
Education is the basis of uprightness, morality, credible and reliable technology, and security, which are essential for life sustenance. The foundation of standard education lies in a sound curriculum. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the University of Timbuktu in the defunct Songhai Empire of West Africa competed successfully with European Universities in all spheres of knowledge. However, in the twenty-first century, none of the West African universities possessed the quality attained by their counterparts in the industrialized countries. This indicates that many things went wrong in our universities' evolutionary trends and development. This study examined the historical contributions of Nupe scholars alongside other ethnic groups (Hausa, Yoruba, and Fulani) of Ilorin Emirate origin to the educational development of the geographical entity, to enable the reform of our educational system for positive growth. The paper adopted a historical research method, which involved a case study approach, using archival materials, oral interviews, text content analysis, comparative analysis, and internet materials to assess the causes and courses of the dysfunctional educational system in the Ilorin Emirate. The study concluded that the scholars of Nupe extractions from the Ilorin Emirate contributed immensely to the enrichment of the academic curriculum of the Emirate. Although this was sustained, there was a slow pace in its further development, which adversely impacted the educational development of the Ilorin Emirate.
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Factors Responsible for the Development of Islam and Challenges Facing the Urban Planning in Ibadan: Historical Analysis
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2015-08) Ibraheem Mikail Abiola
Islam came into Ibadan land through trade relation that had been established between Hausa, Nupe and the Yoruba people. These category set of people exchanged kolanuts, animal skin, leather and grandnuts as medium of trade as far back as 14th and 15th centuries. Thus, the age long trade contact and communication between these mentioned groups of people further consolidated the advent and spread of Islam in Ibadan land.1 After the collapse of old Oyo Empire, many refuges migrated into Ibadan to settle because they were unsettled and displaced from their hometowns. By 1830, the dominant Yoruba and Hausa Muslim groups that settled in Ibadan land include the Oyo-Yoruba, Ife and Egba, Nupe and Bornu groups