Mr Danladi is a lecturer and researcher in the department of Economics, Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) and also a Ph.D. candidate on scholarship under the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Collaborative Ph.D. Programme (CPP) for Sub-Saharan Africa. He is awaiting the final defence of his thesis from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
He is currently a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington D.C. United States of America. This came through the collaborative effort of the AERC and the African Department of the IMF spearheaded by Professor Ibi Ajayi, the distinguished Professor of Economics.
Mr. Danladi is going to be there as a visiting scholar in the African Department of the IMF starting for the period June 30 to July 28. He will be working on some very crucial economic issues of concern to the African region and West Africa in particular, bothering on macroeconomic stability of the West African sub-region.
Some of the major areas of research while at the IMF include “A Spectral Density Analysis of External Shocks and Macroeconomic Stability in the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ)” and further exposition on the subject matter of his doctoral thesis which is on “International Reserves Pooling And Macroeconomic Stability in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)”. He will also be receiving advanced training in his core areas of teaching which center around quantitative economics and econometric theory and applications.
Mr. Lekan Faboya, a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Sciences recently came back from China where he undertook an international Postgraduate Fellowship jointly sponsored by Third World Academy of Science and Chinese Academy of Science at the State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Guangzhou, China. He has these to say about ABUAD, “I must commend the vision and the large heartedness of the founder for granting me a year study leave with full pay. This has provided somebody like me the best opportunity of working and relating with professionals in my field of study”. Mr Faboya is pioneering the application of newly identified geomolecular compounds from Niger Delta source rocks and crude oil for migration study.