Browsing by Author "Oyewole, O. O"

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    LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION AMONG ARABLE FARM HOUSEHOLDS IN THE FOREST ZONE OF OYO STATE, NIGERIA
    (Nigerian Agricultural Journal, 2021) Jatto, K. A; Akanbi, S. O; Adeoye, A. S; Oke, O. O; Oyewole, O. O
    The study assessed the livelihood diversification strategies among the arable farm households in the forest zone of Oyo State, Nigeria. A 3-stage random sampling technique was used to select a total of 160 arable farm households around some selected forest reserves for the study. A well-structured questionnaire was used for the collection of data. The analytical tools employed were descriptive statistics, livelihood index, and logistic regression model. The findings of the study revealed that the majority of the respondents were male (57.5%), educated (81.2%), married (71.9%), and had a household size of about 7 members. Non-timber forest products (NTFP) gathering (39.38%) was the most preferred livelihood diversification strategy followed by transportation business (16.88%), petty trading (13.75%), artisanal work (12.5%), firewood sales (6.25%), wage employed (4.38%), charcoal production (3.75%), timber sales (1.88%), and hunting (1.25%) in that order respectively. The forest-related livelihoods accounted for 52.5% of the predominant livelihood strategies, whereas, non-forest related livelihoods accounted for 47.5%. The significant predictors of the probability of engaging in forest-related strategies include; primary education, and secondary education (10% each); tertiary education, and household size (1% each), and age of household head (5%). The study recommends the intensification of local capacities of the farmers such as access to education and training facilities to enable them to access and process information, and credit to enhance their livelihood and minimize forest dependence.
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    Murdering democracy and thwarting people's will through intra-party conflicts in Nigeria: Lessons from Zamfara APC crises (2018-2020)
    (Faculty of Management and Social Science, Achievers University , Owo, 2021-05-08) Olorunsuwa, E.O.; Oyewole, O. O; Odekunke, K.A.; Dakol, U.K.
    One of the cardinal principles of democracy is 'majority rule ' which confers the right of governance on the majority of the people through an elected government on the platform of political parties. Since the return to democracy in 1999, the Peoples. Democratic Party (PDP) has never controlled the government structures in Zamfara State except when Shinkafi Mahmuda decamped to the party. The state is currently in the hand of PDP-a party that Zamfara people never gave their mandate. The papers traced and concluded that the depravation of Zamfara people of being governed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) the party they voted during the 2019 general election was due to the protracted crises within APC in the state. It relied on secondary data sources in arriving at these findings. The paper however concluded that intra-party conflict is harmful to the democratic development of Nigerian state. It recommended the adherence of party leaders and members to party rules as well as the strengthening of the country's institutional and political structures as a possible escape for future occurrences.