Browsing by Author "John Shola Olanrewaju"

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    Has anything changed with illegitimate electoralfinancing and political power contestation inNigeria?
    (POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | RESEARCH ARTICLE, 2021-07-25) Agaptus Nwozor; Segun Oshewolo; Solomon I. Ifejika; John Shola Olanrewaju; Modupe Ake
    This paper examines the monetization of politics through the manipula-tion of the loopholes in the electoral funding architecture of Nigeria. It evaluateswhether the ceiling placed on individual and group donations to candidates andpolitical parties by Nigeria’s Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) was adhered to inmobilizing election funds in recent presidential elections. In other words, this paperinvestigates whether election funding in Nigeria’s recent elections followed theprescribed protocols as indicated in the Electoral Act and the extent to whichadherence or otherwise contributed to the monetization of the electoral contestsand its implication for electoral integrity. Using data generated from key informantinterviews and qualitatively analyzed in the tradition of logical inductive method the paper finds a contravention of the legal provisions for electoral funding. Thevarious political parties leveraged their political structures to raise funds withoutdue recourse to the prescriptions of the Electoral Act, thus compromising the level-playing ground necessary for electoral integrity. The paper contends that the con-solidation of democracy in Nigeria must entail the plugging of the capillaries andstreams of illegitimate electoral funding and the establishment of critical institu-tional framework that would drive adherence to constitutionally prescribed provi-sions on electoral funding
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    National Insecurity and the Challenges of Food Security in Nigeria
    (Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2019) Agaptus Nwozor; John Shola Olanrewaju; Modupe B. Ake,
    Abstract Nigeria has been overly dependent on oil for its foreign exchange earnings and government revenue since the oil boom of the 1970s. Prior to this period, the country was reasonably self-sufficient in food production and carved a respectable niche for itself as a major exporter of several cash crops. However, as agriculture lost its primacy to oil, it went into steady decline due to neglect by successive governments. The neglect led to mass abandonment of farms resulting in extreme peasantization of the sector. A related negative fallout was Nigeria’s transition from food self-sufficiency to food-dependency and attendant massive importation to bridge food gaps. However, efforts are being made by the government to reposition the agricultural sector to boost its productive capacity and make it competitive. The major task of this study is to evaluate Nigeria’s quest to achieve food security against the backdrop of national insecurity. Considering the categorization of Nigeria as food insecure, the study examines the interconnection between national insecurity and food production as a prelude to the actualization of food security. The study relies on primary and secondary data to evaluate the feasibility of food security in the face of sustained insecurity across the country. The study finds that the achievement of food security would be impossible if the insecurity that pervades and envelopes farming communities is not resolved. Keywords: food security, national insecurity, agricultural sector, food insecure, Nigeria