1991 Winner of the Thesis Writing Fellowship of the Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA),Dakar.(M.A. Dissertation)

Winner of Chief M.K.O. Abiola Travel Fellowship for Academic Conferences, University of Ibadan, 1993/94 Session

Second time (1993) Winner of the Thesis Writing Fellowship of CODESRIA, Dakar.(PhD Thesis)

1993 Winner (with Dr. E. E. Osaghae and Mr. V. Isumonah) of the Social Science Council of Nigeria/IDRC Research Fellowship on the study of Economic Adjustment/Liberalization Policy in Nigeria

1994 Winner (with Dr.E.E. Osaghae and Mr.V. Isumonah) of the Social Science Council of Nigeria/Ford Foundation Research Fellowship on University Governance in Nigeria

British Council Visiting Scholar in Peace and Conflict Studies: Visited

• Centre for the Study of Conflicts, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland
• Joint International Programme on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity (INCORE), Peace Programme, Magee College Londonderry, Northern Ireland
• International Alert, London
• Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, University of London
• Rutherford College, Centre for International Conflict Analysis, University of Kent in Canterbury (November 1995)

British Council Visiting Scholar in Peace and Conflict Studies, INCORE, University of Ulster, Derry, Northern Ireland September - October 1996

Winner, Senate Grants for Academic Research, University of Ibadan 1999, “The Shiites and Islamic Fundamentalism in Northern Nigeria”

Winner (for Academic Associates PeaceWorks, Lagos), United States Institute for Peace Grant for the Project “Warri Crisis: Causes, Courses and Transformation”, 1999

Winner (with Dr. J. Sheba and Ms. V. Odelami) OXFAM project on Communal Conflicts and Population Displacement in Nigeria - “Communal Conflicts and Population Displacement in Nigeria: The Ife-Modakeke Case”, facilitated by Pan African Centre for Research on Peace and Conflict Resolution, Enugu, 1999

Winner (with Professors Alex Gboyega and F. Oloruntimehin), CODESRIA-Mac Arthur Foundation Project on African Real Economies - “Economics of Criminality in South-Western Nigeria”, 1999

Winner, Senate Grants for Academic Research, University of Ibadan 2000, “The Role of Culture in Community Conflicts in Nigeria”

Senior Fellow, Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, 2000

Winner, Senate Research Grants for Academic Research, University 2002, “Cultivating Peace in a Transitional State: The Experience of USAID/OTI in Nigeria since 1999”

Principal Investigator, “Ethnicity and Human Security Project”, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity, Conflict and Human Security, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford (January 2003 – April 2007)

Federal delegate, 2014 National Conference (Nigeria), April – August, 2014

Member, Presidential Committee on the Review of Nigeria’s Defence Policy (Ministry of Defence), November 2014 to February 2015

Regional Board Chairman of the West African Network for Peace building (Accra, Ghana) from February 2015 to February 2017

Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center for Scholars (Italy), February/March 2016

Member TETFUND National Standing Committee on Research and Development (Sub-committee on Defence and Security) since 2020

Member (2020), British Academy Project on “The Sahel Crisis in Historical Perspective: Supporting a Conflict-Sensitive Approach Through Interdisciplinary Research” based at the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Member (2021), Advisory Board, “Migration, Urbanization and Conflict in Africa (MUCA)” Research Project supported of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) with a budget of two million Pounds for a period of three years (2021-2023), Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia

Member (2021), Scientific Advisory Committee of the West Africa Peace and Security Innovative (WAPSI) Forum, a platform designed by the ECOWAS Commission in the framework of the ECOWAS Peace and Security Architecture and Operations (EPSAO) Project, co-funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Member (2022), Advisory Board, “Capacity building for the Centre of Excellence in Post Conflict Societies Project”, supported of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) (2021-2023), Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia

Editor in Chief, African Journal on Terrorism, published by the African Centre for Counterterrorism (ACSRT), African Union, Algiers, Algeria