This study investigates the impact of transportation infrastructure on students’ travel behaviour at Kwara State University, Nigeria, by identifying challenges and proposing strategies to improve travel experiences. Utilising a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach, the research quantifies the effect of transport infrastructure on students’ travel behaviour. It explores the impact of transport infrastructure, safety, trip purpose, convenience, and travel cost on travel behaviour. Data were collected from students at Kwara State University Malete through a survey and analysed through the complex interactions between the latent variables and their observed indicators. The results indicate that transport infrastructure, safety, and trip purpose significantly influence students’ travel behaviour, while trip convenience and cost were insignificant. Specifically, the study established a negative relationship between transport infrastructure and travel behaviour, suggesting that improved infrastructure might reduce off-campus travel. Conversely, safety and security, along with trip purpose, positively impact travel behaviour, indicating that a secure campus environment and purposeful activities motivate students to engage in travel. In conclusion, the study identifies transport infrastructure, safety, and trip purpose as key determinants of students’ travel behaviour in higher institutions. Therefore, the study recommended that campus administrators and policymakers improve transport infrastructure, enhance safety measure, increase the campus shuttles services quality and introduce a real service tracking system to enhance students’ campus travel experiences.

The paper examined the effects of economic, social and political dimensions of globalisation on government size – economic development nexus in ECOWAS countries. The study also tested whether the level of globalisation moderates the effect of government size on economic development. The study employed secondary data covering the period 1986 to 2018. The data for the study are sourced as discussed below: Gross domestic product per capita, government size (government expenditure to GDP), population growth rate, inflation rate, gross fixed capital formation and financial development, were sourced from World Development Indicator (WDI) database; 1 Data on globalisation index was obtained from the database of KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Switzerland. The study found that all dimensions of globalization index except economic globalization promote economic growth and development. Also, the finding suggests that aggregate globalization, economic and social globalization reduces the developmental effect of government spending. It therefore concludes that government spending has growth enhancing impact in ECOWAS countries and this impact can be reduced with high degree of globalization in the sampled countries.

The impact of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions on the long-term development of the host nations is the subject of our exploratory investigation in this paper. In order to examine the degree to which the UN peacekeeping deployment has influenced sustainable development in five African countries, a trend and Fully Modified Least Squares (FMOLS) methodologies were applied. Our findings imply that peacekeeping has considerably aided sustainable development in Sudan, Nigeria, and Chad, three of the five nations we studied. The only beneficial effect of peacekeeping on Ethiopia and Mozambique during the research period was a decrease in the number of casualties, hence, we recommend based on our result that host countries should engage in resilient-oriented policy after the intervention. The UN should promptly offer war-torn countries concessionary funds to support and increase their growth needs.