| The underdevelopment of Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region: Who is to blame D Babalola Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (3), 118-128, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| The political economy of federalism in Nigeria D Babalola, Babalola, Finotello Springer International Publishing, 2019 | 38 | 2019 |
| Nigeria’s 2019 general elections–a shattered hope? H Onapajo, D Babalola The Round Table 109 (4), 363-367, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |
| Fiscal Federalism and Economic Development in Nigeria: The Contending Issues D Babalola Global Journal of Political Science and Administration 3 (2), 53-69, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| The efficacy of federalism in a multi-ethnic state: the Nigerian experience D Babalola The Journal of Pan African Studies 8 (2), 74-92, 2015 | 25 | 2015 |
| New clamour for “restructuring” in Nigeria: Elite politics, contradictions, and good governance D Babalola, H Onapajo African Studies Quarterly 18 (4), 41-56, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| The origins of Nigerian federalism: the Rikerian Theory and beyond D Babalola Federal Governance 10 (1), 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| Ethno-religious voting in Nigeria: Interrogating voting patterns in the 2019 presidential election D Babalola The Round Table 109 (4), 377-385, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Contending issues in political parties in Nigeria: the candidate selection process D Babalola, S Abba Journal of Pan African Studies 11 (1), 118-134, 2017 | 16 | 2017 |
| Resource abundance and the dilemma of fiscal federalism in Nigeria D Babalola, C Okafor Journal of African Political Economy and Development 4 (1), 3-21, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
| Nigeria: A Federation in Search of Federalism D Babalola Shades of Federalism 1, 27-4, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Youth unemployment and armed insurrection in post-military Nigeria: The contending issues D Babalola, C Ayuba The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies 40 (3), 263-288, 2015 | 11 | 2015 |
| Nigeria, a Country under Siege: Issues of Conflict and its Management in Democratic Nigeria D Babalola Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| Nigeria: A federation in search of ‘true federalism’ D Babalola, D Babalola The political economy of federalism in Nigeria, 133-151, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| Nigeria: Federalism Works D Babalola International Peace Institute Newsletter, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
| Restructuring, political gimmicks and elite manipulation in Nigeria H Onapajo, D Babalola A Sleeping Giant? Nigeria’s Domestic and International Politics in the …, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict and the Elusive Quest for Peace in Post-Military Nigeria D Babalola Nigeria, a Country under Siege: Issues of Conflict and its Management, 21-46, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| Nigeria, a federal state and federal society: The origins D Babalola, D Babalola The political economy of federalism in Nigeria, 27-56, 2019 | 4 | 2019 |
| Federalism and the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective from Nigeria D Babalola Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2021, 139-148, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| Secession and Self-Determination in Nigeria D Babalola, D Babalola The Political Economy of Federalism in Nigeria, 111-131, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
