Federal University Lokoja

Land-use patterns and plant community structure in the peri-urban environs of Lokoja, Kogi state, Nigeria: an integrated field and NDVI assessment, 2015 to 2025

Rapid urbanisation is transforming natural vegetation on the fringes of medium sized Nigerian cities, yet the flora of these zones is rarely documented. This study assessed plant community structure in relation to land use in the peri-urban fringe of Lokoja, Kogi State, by combin...

Reducing Crime and Violence through Community Policing: A Case Study of Lokoja Local Government Area, Kogi State, Nigeria

This study investigates the efficacy of Community Policing (CP) as a strategy for reducing crime and violence in Lokoja Local Government Area (LGA), Kogi State, Nigeria. Employing a descriptive survey design with a sample of 400 residents, the research focused on three core objec...

FARMERS-HERDSMEN CONFLICT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON FOOD SECURITY IN BENUE STATE, 1999–2024

This study examines the farmers-herdsmen conflict in Benue State between 1999 and 2024 and its implications for food security. Benue is widely regarded as the "Food Basket of the Nation" because of its extensive production of yams, rice, cassava, sorghum, millet, sesame, fruits a...

ADEQUACY, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCES OF WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH POLICIES IN NIGERIA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: A MIXED-METHODS EVALUATION

Nigeria has put together a fairly comprehensive set of occupational safety and health (OSH) instruments, but little is known about how such policies actually work inside public institutions once they move from the page to daily practice. This study evaluated the adequacy and impl...

Illegal Mining and the Crisis of Rural Development in Nigeria: Implications for Livelihoods and the Changing World of Work

Illegal mining has become an important rural development concern in Nigeria because the pursuit of mineral wealth increasingly intersects with livelihoods, environmental resources and changing patterns of rural employment. Against this background, this paper, titled “Illegal Mini...

Marxism Under Scrutiny: Wealth, Class Consciousness, Human Aspirations and the Utopian Promise of an Egalitarian Society

Marxism remains one of the most influential, and most contested, bodies of social and economic thought produced in the modern era, offering both a diagnosis of capitalist exploitation and a promise of an egalitarian future. This paper subjected Marxism to critical scrutiny, focus...

Marxism Under Scrutiny: Wealth, Class Consciousness, Human Aspirations and the Utopian Promise of an Egalitarian Society

Marxism remains one of the most influential, and most contested, bodies of social and economic thought produced in the modern era, offering both a diagnosis of capitalist exploitation and a promise of an egalitarian future. This paper subjected Marxism to critical scrutiny, focus...

ECOWAS Effort on Leadership and Diplomatic Strategy as a Panacea for Combating Crime between Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon

This study examined the efforts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in providing leadership and diplomatic strategies for combating trans-border crime between Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon. The study was undertaken against the persistent challenges of smugglin...

ECOWAS Effort on Leadership and Diplomatic Strategy as a Panacea for Combating Crime between Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon

This study examined the efforts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in providing leadership and diplomatic strategies for combating trans-border crime between Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon. The study was undertaken against the persistent challenges of smugglin...

Hidden Economies: Women's Economic Agency and Seclusion in Hausaland, 1804 to Present

Since the 1804 Sokoto jihad, female seclusion (kulle) has structured women's economic life in the Muslim emirates of Northern Nigeria, confining married women to the household while official records registered only public, male-dominated production. This study investigates how wo...

Hidden Economies: Women's Economic Agency and Seclusion in Hausaland, 1804 to Present

Since the 1804 Sokoto jihad, female seclusion (kulle) has structured women's economic life in the Muslim emirates of Northern Nigeria, confining married women to the household while official records registered only public, male-dominated production. This study investigates how wo...

Interactions of climate change, economic and social factors on food security: a three-decade impact and threat assessment of Nigeria

Aim: This study examines the interactions of climate change, economic, and social factors on food security, by way of a three -decade impact and threat assessment of Nigeria. Methods: The study employs annual time-series data covering 32 observations and applies the Autoregressiv...

Geospatial Analysis of Traditional Medicine Utilization in Post Covid-19 Nigeria: Patterns, Determinants, and Policy Implications

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered healthcare-seeking behaviour across the globe, leading to renewed reliance on traditional medicine, particularly in developing countries where access to conventional healthcare was disrupted. In Nigeria, traditional medicine became an i...

The Significant Push and Pull Factors Responsible for Migration of Africans (JAPA) Syndrome: The Comparative Analyses

This study investigates the endogamous and exogamous variables that represent African migration and the contemporary Nigerian Japa Syndrome. It contends that, beyond the unfavourable economic climate and the lingering security issues, among other internal vices in Africa, especia...

The Significant Push and Pull Factors Responsible for Migration of Africans (JAPA) Syndrome: The Comparative Analyses

This study investigates the endogamous and exogamous variables that represent African migration and the contemporary Nigerian Japa Syndrome. It contends that, beyond the unfavourable economic climate and the lingering security issues, among other internal vices in Africa, especia...

The third voice: the born free generation and the afterlife of protest in south african poetry

This paper is the sequel to an earlier comparative study which established an essential unity between apartheid and post apartheid poetry in South Africa and argued that the racial logic of the old order had not ended but had mutated into a class logic administered by a black pol...

From Victorian England to the Twenty-First Century: Reassessing the Contemporary Relevance of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession

George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession remains one of the most controversial and intellectually engaging plays in modern English literature because of its penetrating critique of capitalism, patriarchy, class inequality, and Victorian moral hypocrisy. Although written in...

An Assessment of the National Inland Water Ways Agency's Contribution to the Growth of Nigerian Blue Economy (2023 2026)

The National Inland Waterways Agency is one of the agencies under the blue economy, saddled with the responsibility of managing the inland waterways system and developing infrastructural facilities for an efficient intermodal transportation system that is capable of providing emp...

An Assessment of the National Inland Water Ways Agency's Contribution to the Growth of Nigerian Blue Economy (2023 2026)

The National Inland Waterways Agency is one of the agencies under the blue economy, saddled with the responsibility of managing the inland waterways system and developing infrastructural facilities for an efficient intermodal transportation system that is capable of providing emp...

Comparative GC–MS Phytochemical Profiling of Ficus Capensis Leaves and Eucalyptus Camaldulensis Stem Bark Reveals Bioactive Metabolites with Potential Relevance to Diabetic Foot Infections

Diabetic foot infections (DFIs) remain difficult to manage due to persistent wounds and antimicrobial resistance, necessitating the exploration of new, chemically defined antimicrobial agents. This study investigates the chemical composition of leaf and stem bark extracts from Fi...