The essence of higher education is to ensure value re-orientation and social transformation in our lives for national culture that would entrench and reshape national character and image via effective student affairs administration. This is with a view to promoting national image, healthier, stronger and courageous graduates; respect for human life, corporate and national values. The study therefore examined student affairs administration in higher education as a tool for value re-orientation and social transformation of the undergraduates. The study adopted survey research design. Using a self-designed and pilot–tested questionnaire, data were collected from a random sample of 400 drawn from four universities in the southwestern geopolitical zone of the country. Using proportionate sampling technique, 21, 24, 48 and 307 respondents were drawn from Redeemer’s University (RUN), Adeleke University (AU), Oduduwa University (OUI) and Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) respectively. Data were analysed using simple percentage. The results showed that municipal facilities were adequately available (89%), functional (98%) and consistently managed (90%) in both RUN and AU. However, these facilities were in short supplies in OUI (42%) and OAU (48%). Thus, it was recommended that more concerns should be shown to the provision, adequacy and management of municipal facilities in the universities such that the potential values in those facilities are benefited to reshape the value system of students thereby enhancing their social transformational process.

This paper discusses the errors and problems attached to strong leadership which could help to pursue new developmental strategies, ensuring continued economic growth and sustainable development in Nigeria. It also looks at various types of leadership styles and the factors that affect the choice of a particular style. Results of the finding show that lack of integrity; goal settings, passion and resourcefulness and lack of self-confident were among the major problems of leadership in Nigeria. Among the recommendations of this study are that one, Nigerian leaders must be dynamic, flexible and passionate in approach to national issues if Nigeria is to experience a good turnaround and sustainable growth. Two, the choice of a leader must pass through normal and transparent democratic processes and not to be predetermined by a few individuals at the expense of collective tasks. The study concludes that leadership and followership in Nigeria requires progressive changes in attitude for the nation's nascent democracy and transformative development.

This paper discusses the errors and problems attached to strong leadership which could help to pursue new developmental strategies, ensuring continued economic growth and sustainable development in Nigeria. It also looks at various types of leadership styles and the factors that affect the choice of a particular style. Results of the finding show that lack of integrity; goal settings, passion and resourcefulness and lack of self-confident were among the major problems of leadership in Nigeria. Among the recommendations of this study are that one, Nigerian leaders must be dynamic, flexible and passionate in approach to national issues if Nigeria is to experience a good turn-around and sustainable growth. Two, the choice of a leader must pass through normal and transparent democratic processes and not to be predetermined by a few individuals at the expense of collective tasks. The study concludes that leadership and followership in Nigeria requires progressive changes in attitude for the nation’s nascent democracy and transformative development. Key words: Leadership, Democracy, Sustainable, Development.

This study contributes to the growing literature on innovation capability in the informal sector in Nigeria. It explores the role of openness as a facilitator for measuring innovation capability, and proposes openness as a metric for the measurement of innovation capability in the informal sector. This new metric was tested using 200 informal information and communication technology (ICT) enterprises at the Otigba hardware cluster, which is located in the Nigerian commercial capital of Lagos and is regarded as a key ICT hub in West Africa. The main research instrument was a set of questionnaires designed to capture the core objective of the research. All 200 questionnaires were retrieved and found suitable for analysis. The questionnaires elicited information on the socio-demographic characteristics of the enterprises, the attributes of the Otigba cluster, the strength of the enterprises, the strength of the cluster, the extent of innovations within the cluster, and the proximity advantages drawn from clustering. Spearman’s correlation and binary logistic regression were used to determine the direction and impact of the various independent variables (determinants of innovation capability) on the dependent variable (the extent of innovation as a proxy for innovation capability). It was found that openness plays a very significant role in access to: information, customers, new domestic markets, tools and technology, suppliers of raw materials, and inputs. However, openness was found to play only a limited role in finished products for the export market. It was also found that much more still needs to be done by the enterprises to build up their internal capabilities, so as to reduce their reliance on external sources of knowledge—notwithstanding the fact that exposure to external capabilities, through cooperation and openness, will remain necessary to complement enterprises’ internal capabilities.

The theme of this lecture is: The Formation of Yoruba Nation and the Challenge of Leadership since the Pre-Colonial Era. The framework of the lecture is an historical approach and a review of the process of nation building and the challenges of producing and sustaining leadership to move the Yoruba nation forward in our course of existence. To give a proper analysis of varied questions and answers before us, we need to highlight and interrogate a. issues surrounding a nation, its nationality and the role of leaders; b. the existence of Yoruba as an ethnic group, the formative and earliest stages of their existence; c. the consciousness of the identity and culture of the Yoruba people as a race or nation; d. the factors sustaining Yoruba nationhood and the parameters of leadership among Yoruba people; e. the emerging Yoruba Leaders from time past and the challenges of Yoruba People in defining and following their Leaders; f. the current and growing concerns of Yoruba and future of Yoruba Leadership and followership in the Nigerian Project; g. the fundamentals of nation building and its challenges; and how Yoruba Leaders and people can survive as a nation. I will attempt to be brief in addressing the questions, though it is impossible to satisfactorily do so without borrowing historical leaf and references from existing works. I cannot do justice to the topic without equally raising more questions for others to answer with inquisitive mind, deep knowledge and appreciation of other traditions and knowledge. If that occurs, I have contributed to knowledge. However, I appeal that this Lecture should also motivate us as Yoruba people to identify with our common sense of history, strengthen our bound of unity and sustain the ideals of our common identity and interest, putting our differences aside to strategically work for the advancement and causes of a people.

Babatola, Jadesola - This Fiery Man (An Insight into the political Thoughts of Chief J.E. Babatola) Samadek Publishers, Lagos, 2008 ISBN 9783830856, 9789783830851. A 135 pages Essay in History book documenting interviews, interpretation of personal records, historical and philosophical insight into the life and times of Chief J.E. Babatola, the Olora of Ado-Ekiti DBA (Staton), B.A. (London), STC (St. Andrews)

Literature, as a reflection and refraction of life, has been providing commentary and interpretation of life for proactive action and sustainable development. It is however unfortunate that pragmatic criticism of literature in Nigeria has not achieved much in righting the political vices in the country owing to the attitudinal problems of literary audience to reading, the government and the governed. Among the factors responsible for these political vices in Nigeria is hegemonic masculinity, identified with the political functionaries and elites, as evident in the series of intra - /inter- party crises and ethno-religious violence. With the reading and understanding of Achebe's Arrow of God (AG), the paper discusses the treatment of hegemonic masculinity through a consideration of characterisation, plot and thematic pre-occupation. Particularly, the characterisation of Ezeulu, Captain Winterbottom, Idemili and Nwaka is a demonstration of hegemonic masculinity that advances the plot and action of the novel. This demonstration of hegemonic masculinity is therefore situated in the Nigeria's quest for sustainable democratic governance characterised by unhealthy ethnic loyalty and solidarity. The characterization of Ezeulu shows a leader with inordinate ambition to perpetuate him/herself in power. For sending his son, Oduche, to learn the ways of the white is a calculated attempt to remain in the control of affairs of Umuaro, if the community is eventually engulfed by the looming civilisation and modern governance. Ezeulu's decision and action has its reflection in the democratic governance of Nigeria that has "conventionalised" clanship and kinship in the country's political affairs. In the contemporary Nigerian society, democratic governance has been seen as a dynasty reign patterned after filial relationship, political affiliations, ethnic backgrounds and tribal interests. All these anti-democratic practices are reflected in the novel through the characterisation of Ezeulu, Ezidemili and Nwaka. The hegemonic masculinity demonstrated by Ezeulu, with the refusal to eat the sacred yams is an abuse of power and authority that is common with the contemporary democratic governance in Nigeria. In the contemporary Nigeria, the populace have not enjoyed dividends of democracy owing to the demonstration of hegemonic masculinity by the political leaders and elites. Among the demonstration of hegemonic masculinity in Nigeria, particularly among the political leaders and functionaries, is arrogation and arrogance of power. As understood in the novel, ethnic loyalty and unhealthy ethnic rivalries among the six villages of Umuaro, particularly from the village of Ezeulu and the village of Idemili and Nwaka makes the phenomenon of hegemonic masculinity gets worsened in the characterisation of these three characters. Situating the phenomenon of ethnic loyalty and unhealthy ethnic rivalry in Nigeria's political scene, it can be said that this phenomenon has been militating against the attainment of sustainable democratic governance. The paper, therefore, concludes that hegemonic masculinity, as evident in unhealthy ethno-religious and political rivalries, are the remote causes of incredible democratic leadership in Nigeria. Key words: Literature, hegemonic masculinity, Arrow of God, democratic governance, Nigeria

The paper draws an interlocking relationship between political leadership and development and concludes that, while leadership had played tremendous role in the socio-political and economic development of most nations of the world, the reverse is the case in Nigeria. Apart from identifying other social vices that accounted for the protracted state of Nigeria’s underdevelopment, the paper also singles out corruption as the major impediment to Nigeria’s quest for development since independence. Drawing from the World Bank, Transparency International and highly knowledgeable scholars in this field, the paper demonstrates the process through which Nigerian political leadership became ‘neck-deep’ in corruption with several cases of monumental diversion of public funds meant for the economic development of the country into individual pockets. The multi-dimensional consequences of corrupt practices on a nation’s socio-political and economic development cannot be overemphasised, as virtually all sectors of the country, including education, health, agriculture, politics, technology, e.t.c, are negatively affected, with the resultant outcome like extreme poverty, high level of illiteracy, economic dependency, technological backwardness, political instability, e.t.c, as the order of the day. Nigeria’s situation typifies the above as shown in the paper. Keywords: political leadership, corruption, poverty, development, politics

The 398 pages Biography of the Olora of Ado-Ekiti detailing his origin, childhood and growing years exploits, his family and career life, politics and his role in issues surrounding the development of the Society and humanity at large. Reference: Babatola, Jadesola - A Will in the Wind (A Biography of High Chief Dr. J.E. Babatola), Samadek Publishers, Lagos, 2008 ISBN 9783830848 9789783830844, OCLC 673450581 Description xiv, 398 p. : ill. ; 22 cm