User:Prof Sam Aghalino

Professor Samuel Ovuete Aghalino, Ph.D., FHSN, is with the Department of History and International Studies, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. In addition to a doctorate degree in History, he holds a certificate in Leadership, Strategy and  Change Management, Coventry University; the Centre of Applied Entrepreneurship, Coventry, UK; Certificate in Preparing to Manage Human Resources, University of Minnesota,  Certificate in Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal and Professional Productivity,  University of California, Irvine, Division of Continuing Education among others. Until recently, he was the Director, University of Ilorin Archives and Documentation Centre. Aghalino's research interests are in the areas of Economic and Social History, with emphasis on the oil armada and socio-economic change in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. He has published extensively in local, national and international journals and chapters in books. He is the author of a number of books including Oil Exploitation in the Western Niger Delta: A Cost-Benefit Analysis, 1956-1995 ( Saarbrucken, Germany: Lambert, 2011 and his  commissioned and edited book ,  Delta Beyond Oil: A Quest for Sustainable Development (Benin City: Mindex, 2014), which  received positive and critical  reviews from scholars and commendation from the Delta State Government. Aghalino is the Vice President and a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria. Aghalino has attended  and presented papers in a number of learned conferences in Singapore, the US, UK, to mention just but a few. In 2016, he received the Presidential Award in recognition of his outstanding services to the Historical Society of Nigeria. As an avid participant in the annual congresses of the Historical Society of Nigeria, he is the Chairman , Conference Organising Committee, Chairman of the Biographical Series Committee, Chairman, Ethics Committee as well Chairman, Fellows Night Committee. Professor Aghalino is a multiple recipient of awards and community mobiliser.