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Membership of professional bodies

Royal Economic Society (UK)
Nigerian Economic Society
American Economic Society(USA)
The Oxford Society, England (UK)
Chartered Institute of Development Administration (Nigeria)
Global Association of Risk Professionals (USA)
International Studies Association (USA)
Development Studies Association (UK)
The Aristotelian Society (UK)
Forum d’Échanges et des Rencontres Administratifs Mondiaux (FERAM), Paris, France

Honours and special assignments

Member, Advisory Board of Economists, Office of the Vice-President, Abuja
Associate Fellow, UN University Regional Studies Centre, Bruges, Belgium
Visiting Professor, The Free University of Brussels
Board Member, National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria (NCCN), Lagos
Non-Executive Director, Nigerian Breweries PLC (NBPLC), Lagos
Board Member, International Energy- IEI Anchor Pensions Capital Ltd
Chairman, Juvicle Energy Resources Ltd, Lagos
Member, Oxford Rhodes Scholar Trust Selection Committee for West Africa
Nordic Institute Visiting Fellowship to the Nordic African Institute, with multiple accreditation to Norway, Finland and Denmark), 1990
President Mamoun Beheiry Award for Professional Excellence, African Development Bank, Tunis, 2003
CBN Staff Award for Excellence in Leadership, 2005
Expert to the Netherlands Commission for International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, Netherlands, 2013
MacArthur Foundation Research Award 2008
Foreign & Commonwealth Office Scholar, Oriel College, University of Oxford
Webb Medley Research Grant, Faculty of Social Studies, University of Oxford
Distinguished Lecturer, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Annual Distinguished Lecture Series, 2016
Special Speaker, National Merit Annual Conference, National Merit Commission, Abuja, November 2016
Special Award for Excellence, West African Students’ Parliament, 2016
Award for Distinguished Service, National Economics Students Association (NESA), University of Port Harcourt, 2017
Grand Patron (Garkuwan Matasan Arewa), Northern Youths Consultative Assembly, February 2017
National Patron, Nigerian Youths Parliament, Abuja, 2017
Patron of the Boys Brigade, Nasarawa State, Nigeria