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Papers by Folami Kolade
This study examines the predictors of Work-Life Balance and Engagement among the employees of Acc... more This study examines the predictors of Work-Life Balance and Engagement among the employees of Access Bank plc. This study investigated the impact of the following Independent variables; Flexible work arrangement, Work Hours, Work load, Commuting Time, and Job Stress on Work work-life balance and Work engagement ( Dependent Variable). This sampling technique adopted was the convenience cluster sampling technique. The study made use of both primary and secondary data, the primary data was the use of a questionnaire, and the secondary data was obtained from journals, articles, and e-books from the internet. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 150 copies of the questionnaire were administered and retrieved among employees of Access Bank plc. Statistical Package for Social Science was used in analyzing the data obtained, and Pearson product-moment correlation and regression analysis were used to test for hypothesis using the SPSS package. Results revealed that all the independent variables have a significant relationship with each of the dependent variables. Job stress and Flexible Work arrangement have a significant relationship with work engagement while Job stress, Workload, Work hours, and Commuting time have a significant relationship with work-life balance. Though commuting time showed a positive relationship with work engagement.
The study set out to examine and compare the respective impacts of microfinance banks and rural s... more The study set out to examine and compare the respective impacts of microfinance banks and rural support programs in the creation of self-employment in Nigeria. The study made use of a hybrid or mixed research design. This research design is based on the nature of the study. The hybrid or mixed methodology has been described as using a method and philosophy that attempt
The Battle of Little Bighorn is epochal in the history of military engagements between Euro-Ameri... more The Battle of Little Bighorn is epochal in the history of military engagements between Euro-Americans and Amerindians in the present-day United States since the so-called King Phillips war. Indeed, the Indian victory at Little Bighorn led to recriminations and soul-searching within the United States, and Breveted Major-General Custer was either pilloried or excused for the rout. Over the years, and starting with Libbie Custer, the wife of the officer commanding the U.S 7th Calvary, the outcome of the Little Bighorn has been hagiographically constructed around Custer. Furthermore, existing literature on Little Bighorn has focused on issues of Custer’s defeat . Others have examined used archaeological research to examine the material remains of the battle. The few studies that have examined the battle from the Native American perspective have largely worked within the narrow agenda of a specific tribal group without accounting for the binding factor among the different native tribes who allied to fight the battle of the bighorn.
The Muslim month of Ramadan has arrived. The announcement shall be made anytime, very soon, when ... more The Muslim month of Ramadan has arrived. The announcement shall be made anytime, very soon, when the new month moon has been sighted by the authorities of the Sokoto Caliphate in Nigeria. The last time when the Nigerian Meteorological Agency attempted to use its technology to provide scientific precision to the announcement of moon sighting by announcing the date of the arrival of the new moon, it was sharply rebuffed by the Sokoto authorities who told the faithfuls to disregard the agency's date.
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Colonialism has been subjected to multiple analytical lenses and its interrogation has not abated... more Colonialism has been subjected to multiple analytical lenses and its interrogation has not abated. However, the analysis of how colonialism penetrated the interior of West Africa has largely been explained as a colonizing power single initiative. Indeed Laitin, while arguing against the dependency theory perspective which saw formal colonialism as the consequence of the propping up of areas where trade is necessary and where the undermining of legitimate indigenous authority would further colonization objective, submitted that in the case of Yorubaland, an alliance of missionaries and traders convinced the British foreign officers to protect their interests and thereby extending formal British colonialism into places not weakened by incorporation into the international economy and laissez-faire. The problem with this argument is that it treated the indigenous elites and authority as lacking initiative in the colonization process. The study argues that a faction of indigenous elites in Lagos in the chieftaincy dispute of 1850-51 appropriated both the anti-slavery rhetoric and the sympathies of the Christian missionaries for their specific political objectives but which later culminated in the formal colonization of Lagos.
The focus of this study is the internationalization of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement during the... more The focus of this study is the internationalization of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement during the Nigerian Civil War. Before delving into the crux of the analysis, it is pertinent to point out that the Civil Rights Movement was conceived from distinct historical contradictions of the personhood and citizenship of racialized individuals within the American idealized framework of equality and freedom and the Nigerian Civil War [1967-1970] boiled down to the national question, citizenship, and political rivalry within a colonially created and midwife African state. The questions that this study intends to contend with are: In what ways did black American civil rights activists construct the internationalization of the civil rights movement during the Nigerian conflict? How did this internationalization dovetail with U.S. foreign policy during the cold war period? From what angle did the black civil rights activists approach the Nigerian civil war and what were the conflict resolution strategies they pursued? Finally, what is the connection between black America’s engagement with the Nigerian civil war and the domestic struggles for racial equality and black improvement? The study argued that the Civil Rights Movement became internationalized under the rubrics of traditional black internationalism, and this informed the strategies pursued by the African American civil rights leaders during the Nigerian Civil War.
Article, 2021
The study examined with history, how political parties and the political elite undermined the Nig... more The study examined with history, how political parties and the political elite undermined the Nigerian federal arrangements. The study
noted that the idea of the military's destruction of federalism in Nigeria is an over-flogged issue and there is need to Identity the real culprits. It is concluded that the unitarist and centarist arrangement which constituted the Nigerian political structure today represents the aspirations of majority of its dominant professional and political elite.
The article focuses on the idea of sacred numbers as the mysterious numerology of Abrahamic relig... more The article focuses on the idea of sacred numbers as the mysterious numerology of Abrahamic religions and Yoruba religion. The study found out that while Abrahamic religions largely focuses on the cycles of celestial bodies, the yoruba religion focuses on the practical need for information storage and retrieval.
Ijapa the trickster is at it again. In this story we were told how Ijapa the Tortoise and his fam... more Ijapa the trickster is at it again. In this story we were told how Ijapa the Tortoise and his family crashed their shells on the rock.
An African folktale on the life of the trickster, Ijapa the Tortoise. The story is about how Ija... more An African folktale on the life of the trickster, Ijapa the Tortoise. The story is about how Ijapa's shell became rough.
This study examines the predictors of Work-Life Balance and Engagement among the employees of Acc... more This study examines the predictors of Work-Life Balance and Engagement among the employees of Access Bank plc. This study investigated the impact of the following Independent variables; Flexible work arrangement, Work Hours, Work load, Commuting Time, and Job Stress on Work work-life balance and Work engagement ( Dependent Variable). This sampling technique adopted was the convenience cluster sampling technique. The study made use of both primary and secondary data, the primary data was the use of a questionnaire, and the secondary data was obtained from journals, articles, and e-books from the internet. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 150 copies of the questionnaire were administered and retrieved among employees of Access Bank plc. Statistical Package for Social Science was used in analyzing the data obtained, and Pearson product-moment correlation and regression analysis were used to test for hypothesis using the SPSS package. Results revealed that all the independent variables have a significant relationship with each of the dependent variables. Job stress and Flexible Work arrangement have a significant relationship with work engagement while Job stress, Workload, Work hours, and Commuting time have a significant relationship with work-life balance. Though commuting time showed a positive relationship with work engagement.
The study set out to examine and compare the respective impacts of microfinance banks and rural s... more The study set out to examine and compare the respective impacts of microfinance banks and rural support programs in the creation of self-employment in Nigeria. The study made use of a hybrid or mixed research design. This research design is based on the nature of the study. The hybrid or mixed methodology has been described as using a method and philosophy that attempt
The Battle of Little Bighorn is epochal in the history of military engagements between Euro-Ameri... more The Battle of Little Bighorn is epochal in the history of military engagements between Euro-Americans and Amerindians in the present-day United States since the so-called King Phillips war. Indeed, the Indian victory at Little Bighorn led to recriminations and soul-searching within the United States, and Breveted Major-General Custer was either pilloried or excused for the rout. Over the years, and starting with Libbie Custer, the wife of the officer commanding the U.S 7th Calvary, the outcome of the Little Bighorn has been hagiographically constructed around Custer. Furthermore, existing literature on Little Bighorn has focused on issues of Custer’s defeat . Others have examined used archaeological research to examine the material remains of the battle. The few studies that have examined the battle from the Native American perspective have largely worked within the narrow agenda of a specific tribal group without accounting for the binding factor among the different native tribes who allied to fight the battle of the bighorn.
The Muslim month of Ramadan has arrived. The announcement shall be made anytime, very soon, when ... more The Muslim month of Ramadan has arrived. The announcement shall be made anytime, very soon, when the new month moon has been sighted by the authorities of the Sokoto Caliphate in Nigeria. The last time when the Nigerian Meteorological Agency attempted to use its technology to provide scientific precision to the announcement of moon sighting by announcing the date of the arrival of the new moon, it was sharply rebuffed by the Sokoto authorities who told the faithfuls to disregard the agency's date.
Colonialism has been subjected to multiple analytical lenses and its interrogation has not abated... more Colonialism has been subjected to multiple analytical lenses and its interrogation has not abated. However, the analysis of how colonialism penetrated the interior of West Africa has largely been explained as a colonizing power single initiative. Indeed Laitin, while arguing against the dependency theory perspective which saw formal colonialism as the consequence of the propping up of areas where trade is necessary and where the undermining of legitimate indigenous authority would further colonization objective, submitted that in the case of Yorubaland, an alliance of missionaries and traders convinced the British foreign officers to protect their interests and thereby extending formal British colonialism into places not weakened by incorporation into the international economy and laissez-faire. The problem with this argument is that it treated the indigenous elites and authority as lacking initiative in the colonization process. The study argues that a faction of indigenous elites in Lagos in the chieftaincy dispute of 1850-51 appropriated both the anti-slavery rhetoric and the sympathies of the Christian missionaries for their specific political objectives but which later culminated in the formal colonization of Lagos.
The focus of this study is the internationalization of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement during the... more The focus of this study is the internationalization of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement during the Nigerian Civil War. Before delving into the crux of the analysis, it is pertinent to point out that the Civil Rights Movement was conceived from distinct historical contradictions of the personhood and citizenship of racialized individuals within the American idealized framework of equality and freedom and the Nigerian Civil War [1967-1970] boiled down to the national question, citizenship, and political rivalry within a colonially created and midwife African state. The questions that this study intends to contend with are: In what ways did black American civil rights activists construct the internationalization of the civil rights movement during the Nigerian conflict? How did this internationalization dovetail with U.S. foreign policy during the cold war period? From what angle did the black civil rights activists approach the Nigerian civil war and what were the conflict resolution strategies they pursued? Finally, what is the connection between black America’s engagement with the Nigerian civil war and the domestic struggles for racial equality and black improvement? The study argued that the Civil Rights Movement became internationalized under the rubrics of traditional black internationalism, and this informed the strategies pursued by the African American civil rights leaders during the Nigerian Civil War.
Article, 2021
The study examined with history, how political parties and the political elite undermined the Nig... more The study examined with history, how political parties and the political elite undermined the Nigerian federal arrangements. The study
noted that the idea of the military's destruction of federalism in Nigeria is an over-flogged issue and there is need to Identity the real culprits. It is concluded that the unitarist and centarist arrangement which constituted the Nigerian political structure today represents the aspirations of majority of its dominant professional and political elite.
The article focuses on the idea of sacred numbers as the mysterious numerology of Abrahamic relig... more The article focuses on the idea of sacred numbers as the mysterious numerology of Abrahamic religions and Yoruba religion. The study found out that while Abrahamic religions largely focuses on the cycles of celestial bodies, the yoruba religion focuses on the practical need for information storage and retrieval.
Ijapa the trickster is at it again. In this story we were told how Ijapa the Tortoise and his fam... more Ijapa the trickster is at it again. In this story we were told how Ijapa the Tortoise and his family crashed their shells on the rock.
An African folktale on the life of the trickster, Ijapa the Tortoise. The story is about how Ija... more An African folktale on the life of the trickster, Ijapa the Tortoise. The story is about how Ijapa's shell became rough.