Co-recipient of TETFUND Grant for research on Grazing Prohibition Law and Strategies for Peacebuilding in Ekiti State, Nigeria (2019).

APSA Centennial Grant for Supplemental Research Support for a field-based study on commercial drivers and violence in southwestern Nigeria (2018)

Individual Research Grant/Fellowship by the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) of New York to conduct a field-based study on conflicts in oil-bearing communities of Ondo State (July – December 2017)

Co-recipient of the American Political Science Association (APSA) African Workshop Alumni Networking grant to organize Methodological Workshop for Social Science Graduate Students in Nigerian Universities at the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, from 6th to 9th April (2014)

Postdoctoral Research Grant by the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New York to carry out a field-based study on disability and political participation in Southwestern Nigeria (May 2014 – April 2015).

Grant by the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban to carry-out a fieldwork on farmer-herder conflicts in Ghana, from May to June (2013).

Postgraduate Scholarship Award (Ph.D. Category) by the Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies (PEFS), Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan for completion of doctoral research (2003).

Postgraduate Scholarship Award (MSc Category) by the Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies (PEFS), Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, for completion of fieldwork for master’s research (2002).