Browsing by Author "Ibrahim, Bashir Olaitan"

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    ‘Apartheid’ in British Colonial Nigeria: Dynamics of Recurrent Ethno-religious Conflicts in Nigeria
    (Published by the Faculty of Arts, Business and Science University College of the North Manitoba, Canada, 2022-09) Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus; Adimula, Ruth Abiola; Aboyeji, Oyeniyi Solomon; Ibrahim, Bashir Olaitan
    This paper expounds its thesis, bordering on Nigeria’s balkanisation along regional-cum-ethno-religious divides, using the historical-narrative-cum-analytical approach. Having perceived the sombre religious threat to inter-group relations in northern Nigeria, the British colonialists, beginning with Kano, designated segregated districts: ‘township’ (occupied by the British), Birni (exclusively for Hausa-Fulani Kanawa Muslims) and Tundun-Wada, Gwargwarma and Sabon-Gari (for southern Christian immigrants). The British initiated an ordinance, which birthed the Sabon-Gari settlement system in Northern Nigeria, to prevent contact. This ‘Sabon-Gari’ culture began in Kano in 1911 and gradually filtered throughout Northern Nigeria. Similarly, in southern Nigeria, the Igbo established the ‘Garki’ quarters where the Hausawa were settled. Elsewhere, they were resettled in separate ‘Sabo’ quarters, in tandem with the British ethno-religious segregationist policies analogous to Southern Africa’s apartheid. Health-wisely, certain sanatoria were designated specifically as European or African. This ‘apartheid’ “European Quarters” designation has survived till date as a post-independence legacy, dubbed Government Reservation Areas (GRAs). Conclusively, the divide and rule tactics Britain administered the country with, provoked and strengthened in-group self-consciousness and bonding, and out-group bickering and balkanisation. We recommend, inter alia, a revert of the colonialist divisive ideology, which stirs perpetual division, competition and bigotry between the Muslim-dominated north and Christian-dominant south.
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    Time and Resource Management in Research
    (Published by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin, 2019) Aboyeji, Adeniyi Justus; Aiyedun, Kolawole David; Ibrahim, Bashir Olaitan
    This chapter assesses the management of time and other resources in research efforts. The chapter discusses five resource domains (namely human, time, information, funding and computing resources) which must be effectively managed in research to achieve a successful outcome. This study attempts an analytical and discussant study approach. Human life is replete with problems of varying dimensions for which solutions are constantly being sought. In a bid to find solutions to the multifarious problems of life and fend for himself, human beings often launch concerted and hysterical efforts. Even after finding a solution to a raging problem, humans have always sought for improvements and better ways around things, knowing fully well that there could always be a better way. Since they may not succeed in the struggle for the search at debut, hence the need to duplicate the search; and so, human beings search and research until solution or betterment is achieved. The phenomenon of human’s searching and researching is therefore bound to continue ad infinitum (Fadele, 2013, p.1). Cohen and Marion (1989) identify three approaches in human’s frenzied attempts at problem solving, namely: Experience, Reasoning (inductive and deductive) and Research; research still being a fundamental universal means and process of finding solutions to human’s problems.