OGUNYEMI Adetunji Ojo

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OGUNYEMI Adetunji Ojo

Professor

Email address(es):     tunjiogunyemi@oauife.edu.ng; motunji@gmail.com

Office Address:          Room 306B, Humanities Block II 

ORCID ID:                0009-0007-5760-8526

Academic Qualifications:  BA (History)(LASU), MA, PhD (Lagos); LLB (Ibadan), LLM (Ife)

Areas of Specialization: Economic History; Revenue Law, Legislative Drafting, Security Studies

 Title of  M.A.Thesis: Nigeria’s External Debt Management: An Excursion  into the Nature and Feasibility of Conventional Methods. University of Lagos, 1997

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Federal Budgets in Nigeria, 1954-1999: A History of the Processes, Policies and Problems. University of Lagos, 2008

Fellowships (If any):

Research Grants (If any):

Carnegie Conference Grant for a Research Conference at the United Methodist University, Monrovia, 2010

Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and German Foreign Affairs Office Grant for an international Conference on multinational Development Policy Dialogue, Brussels, Belgium, 2018

Ongoing Current Research:

Capital Expenditure Budget for the Development of Abuja, 1976-2002

Public Expenditure Planning for Ondo State, Nigeria, 1976-79

List of Publications:

Books

  • (2014). The Humanities and Leadership in Nigeria (co-edited). Ile-Ife: Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University.
  • (2015). Footprints since 1931: He story of a Nigerian Teacher and Politician (edited). Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press.
  • (2018). Poverty and the Humanities.  Ile-Ife: Bookminds Publishers for the Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University. i – xii, 343pp.
  • (2020). The Humanities and the Challenges of Development in Africa (co-edited). Ibadan: Bookminds Publishers.
  • (2020). Contending Issues on Nigeria’s Development Trajectory since 1914 (co-edited). Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press.

Chapters in Books

  •  (2010). “Political Pluralism and Chieftaincy Disputes in Akokoland:  A Historian’s Explanation”. In: Tunde Babawale, Akin Alao and Bimbo Adesoji (eds.). The Chieftaincy Institution in Nigeria.  Lagos: CBAAC, pp. 167-207.
  • (2010). “The Quest for Higher Education/: A Study of the Evolution and Growth of Universities in Nigeria, 1948-2009”. In: Michael M. Ogbeidi (ed.), Afe Babalola and Education in Nigeria. Ado-Ekiti: Afe Babalola University Press, pp. 31-82
  • (2012). “Nation-Building in Nigeria: Conflict between the Right of the Indigene and the Citizen”. In: Aderemi Suleiman Ajala (ed.), Nationalism and Politics in Post-Colonial Nigeria. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe Verlag, pp. 109-137.
  •  (2014). “Nigeria’s ‘Disamalgamation’: A Chronicle of the Codes and Conduct of its Advocates”. In: John A. A. Ayoade, Adeoye A. Akinsanya and Olatunde JB Ojo (eds.). Nigeria: Descent into Anarchy and Collapse? Ibadan: John Archers Publishers Limited, pp. 29-60.
  • (2014). “Leadership and the Formulation of Fiscal Policies: A Historical Reconstruction of the Roles of Nigeria’s Finance Ministers since 1957. In: L. O. Salami, L. O. Adewole, F. M. Ogunleye, D. O. Ogungbile and A. O. Ogunyemi (eds.). The Humanities and Leadership in Nigeria. Ile-Ife: Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, pp. 424-451.
  •  (2018). “Africa and its External Debt Problem”. In: Richard A. Olaniyan and Ehimika A. Ifidon (eds.). Contemporary Issues in Africa’s Development: Wither the African Renaissance? Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 366-392.
  •  (2018). “A Centenary of Economic Development: Dynamics of Gender Inequality”. In: Funmi Soetan and Bola Akanji (eds.). Gender and Development in Nigeria: One Hundred Years of Nationhood. New York: Lexington Books, pp. 41-71.
  • (2020). “Nigeria: A Review of its History since the Pre-colonial Times”. In: Akin Alao and Adetunji Ojo Ogunyemi (eds.). Contending Issues on Nigeria’s Development Trajectory since 1914 (co-edited). Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, pp. 1-38.
  • (2020). “Cost of Governance, Corruption and Budgetary Failures: Clogs in the Pathways of Nigeria’s Economic Development”. In: Akin Alao and Adetunji Ojo Ogunyemi (eds.). Contending Issues on Nigeria’s Development Trajectory since 1914 (co-edited). Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, pp. 423-464.
  • (2020). “Funding of Nigerian Federal Universities: The Myth and Reality of Budgetary Allocations, 1999-2020”. In: Sola Akinrinade, Siyan Oyeweso, Samuel G. Odewumi & Anthony Kola-Olukoya (eds.), Pivotal Issues in Higher Education Development in Nigeria. Ibadan: University Press Plc., pp. 579-597

Articles in Journals

  •  (2011). “Financing Nigeria’s Colonial Administration: A Comparative Study of Its Revenue and Expenditure Profiles, 1940-1960”. Lagos Historical Review: A Journal of the Department of History & Strategic Studies, University of Lagos. 11, 37-58.
  • (2011). “Rethinking the Origin of Nigeria’s Debt Burden: A Historical Reconstruction”. Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, 20, 26-44.
  • (2012). The Trouble with Nigeria’s Fiscal Federalism: Non-statutory Accounts and ‘Un-Due’ Processes in Fiscal Matters, 1967-2004. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, New Series, 14, 131-164.
  • (2012). “Nigeria’s Fiscal Deficits: A History of Its Colonial Foundations, 1899-1959”. Lagos Notes and Records: Journal of the Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, 18(2), 153-170.
  •  (2012). “The Capital Budget of Nigeria, 1954-1966: An Assessment of its Contribution to Infrastructure Development”. Uzu: Journal of History and International Studies, 3(1), 76-93.
  •  (2012). “Politics of Budget Making in Nigeria, 1999-2003”. African Journal of Economy and Society, 6(2), 187-215.
  • (2012). “The Nigerian Naira: Its Origin and Challenges up to 1973”. Journal of African Politics and Society, 1(2), 60-81.
  •  (2012). “Deconstructing Corruption in the Public Service: Historicizing the Legal Framework for Fiscal Accountability in Post-Colonial Nigeria”. Wilberforce Island Journal of History, 1, 53-71.
  •  (2014). “Auditing and Corruption in Nigeria: A Review of the Legal Weight of the Audit Act of 1956”. Historical Research Letters, 15, 1-7.
  •  (2014). “Historical Evidence of Corruption in Colonial Nigeria: An Analysis of Financial Records in the Decolonisation Period, 1950-1960”. Journal of Asian and African Studies, DOI: 10.1177/0021909614541250, 1-17.
  • (2014). “Revenue Allocation in Post-Colonial Nigeria: Its Laws, Dynamics and Challenges Since 1960”. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, New Series, 16, 27-43.
  •  (2015). “A Historical Reconstruction of the Colonial Government’s Expenditure in Nigeria and the Place of the Girl-Child”. Historical Research Letter, 27, 21-29.
  • (2016). “Justice, Due Process and the Rule of Law in Nigeria: the Story of Constable Thomas Shorunke, 1940-1946”. West Bohemian Historical Review, VI(2), 309-322.
  • (2016). “Historicising the Budgetary Problems of Ghana and Nigeria under Democratic Governance, 1999-2010: Common Lessons in Fiscal Management”. Lagos Historical Review: A Journal of the Department of History & Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, 16, 69-92.
  • (2016). “Disaggregating Abuja’s Expenditure Budget: An Analysis of the Dimensions of its Appropriation Acts, 2004-2014”. Mandyeng: Journal of Central Nigeria Studies, Mid-Rains, 109-127.
  • (2017). “A Historical Reconstruction of the Essential Characteristics of Nigeria’s Federal Budget, 1954-2000”. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 5(1), 55-82.
  • (2017). “Managing Nigeria’s Development through the Public Budget: Lessons from the Foundations Laid by Okotie-Eboh, 1958-1965”. Africa’s Public Service Delivery and Performance Review, 5(1), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/apsdpr.v5i1.148; 1-9.
  • (2017). “Between Altruism, Colonial Hegemony and ‘Nationalist’ Struggles: Lessons from the Alleged Fraud in the National Bank of Nigeria, 1952-1953”. Historical Yearbook, XIV, 17-35.
  • (2017). “Public Budget Making in Nigeria: A Historical Analysis of its Legal Framework since 1954”. Revista de Historia Actual, 44(3), 53-60.
  • (2019). “Reforming and Modernising Nigeria’s Federal Budget Process, 1999-2017: A Historical and Legal Analysis”. Historical Yearbook, XVI, 81-98.
  • (2019). “Administrative Structures for Accountability in Colonial Nigeria: A Review of their Impact on Fiscal Prudence, 1950-1960”. West Bohemian Historical Review. IX (2), 191-214.

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National Universities Commissions’ Prize for the “Best PhD Thesis in the Discipline of Arts within the Nigerian University System during 2008”. Awarded 24 May, 2012.