Browsing by Author "Professor Abdulrauf Ambali"

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    Nigeria-China Strategic Military Cooperation and Intervention: The Importance of Forum on China-African Cooperation (FOCAC)
    (International Journal of Humanitatis Theoreticus, 2020-12-15) Professor Abdulrauf Ambali; Ibrahim O. Salawu Ph. D; Otumala Simon Jonah
    The Nigerian state has become a theatre of growing security challenges such as armed banditry, insurgency, farmer-harder and communal clashes with devastating consequences on human lives and economic activities. These challenges has however affected the terms of bilateral and multilateral relations with references to areas of Nigeria’s relations with countries of the world such as USA, Germany and China. Nigeria-China relations commenced on unofficial note with China’s presence at Nigeria’s independence celebration in 1960 and have improved with the establishment of Forum on China-African Cooperation (FOCAC). The forum has clearly defined areas of cooperation with the Continent of Africa such as infrastructural development, trade and investment, human capacity development (person-to-person exchange) and security cooperation. Given the forgoing position, this paper examines the issues in Nigeria-China security cooperation within the framework of FOCAC. Data was sources through Key informant Interview and secondary sources and subjected to thematic analysis. It was based on interdependence thesis developed by Keohane and Nye (1994). It discovered that, through FOCAC Nigeria-China security cooperation have yielded
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    The Efficacy of Traditional Institutions in Conflict Resolution: Ife-Modakeke Communal Fracas in Focus
    (International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), 2021-04-05) Professor Abdulrauf Ambali; Ibrahim O. Salawu (PhD); Zubair Ganiyu Adebayo
    The conflict between the Ife and Modakeke appears to be a protracted and seemingly intractable intra-ethnic conflict that has continued to put two groups of the same ethnic background against one another. This study, therefore examined the efficacy of traditional institutions in conflict resolution, with a specific reference to Ife-Modakeke communal fracas. The study found that the major causes of the conflict between Ife and Modakeke group include hatred and discrimination, local government, religion, resource control, argument over boundary among others. This study discovered that one of the shortcomings of the past methods of managing the Ife-Modakeke conflict is inability of bringing succour to the minds of those who records losses during the war. The role of traditional institutions in managing the conflict includes several committees comprising of chiefs of both towns inaugurated whereby chiefs of both towns meet at intervals to discuss the peace and progress of the towns and conclusions are reached on salient issues. Conflict is indeed an inevitable aspect of human interaction. There is the need to learn to manage them and deal with them in a way that prevents escalation and destruction, and to arrive at new, innovative, and creative ideas to resolve them.