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Dr. Uzairu Muhammad Gwadabe

Lecturer I

Dr. Uzairu Muhammad Gwadabe

Dr. Uzairu Muhammad Gwadabe holds a PhD in Business Management (Entrepreneurship) from Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Malaysia. He received the Outstanding Supervisee Award at the PhD level and the Best Student Award during his Master’s program. His academic and research career focuses on entrepreneurship, agribusiness, technology adoption, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) development in emerging markets.

With a strong blend of academic and professional expertise, Dr. Gwadabe combines research excellence with over seven years of industry experience at First Bank of Nigeria Ltd, where he specialized in banking operations and financial services. He has published widely in reputable SCOPUS- and Web of Science-indexed journals, presented papers at international conferences, and actively contributes to student mentorship and academic development.

Lecturer I – Skyline University Nigeria, Nigeria Service Executive – First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. (2009–2016) – 7 years of professional experience in banking operations and customer services Classroom Teacher – Riyadul Qur’an Foundation, Kano, Nigeria (2005–2009)

    • Entrepreneurship
    • Business Management
    • Agribusiness
    • Technology Adoption
    • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Development
  • Gwadabe, U. M., Arumugam, N., & Amirah, N. A. (2024). Sustainable agricultural productivity: The role of entrepreneurial orientation in small farmers’ adoption of big data devices for agriculture. Zhongguo Kuangye Daxue Xuebao, 29(4), 146–157.
  • Gwadabe, U. M., Arumugam, N., & Amirah, N. A. (2021). An exploratory factor analysis to develop measurement items for small farmers’ proactiveness and risk-taking in precision farming. Bioscience Research, 18(SI-2), 403–412.
  • Gwadabe, U. M., Arumugam, N., Amirah, N. A., & Isah, S. (2022). The role of the theory of planned behavior and the technology acceptance model in determining the adoption of innovative agricultural technology by small-scale farmers. Bioscience Research, 19(SI-1), 263–275.
  • Gwadabe, U. M., Arumugam, N., & Amirah, N. A. (2022). Exploration and development of measurement items of innovation for new technology adoption among small farmers. Agricultural Research, 10(6), 620–626.
  • Gwadabe, U. M., & Arumugam, N. (2021). Adoption of big data in agripreneurship: A panacea to the global food challenge. In Entrepreneurship and Big Data (pp. 71–82). Taylor & Francis.
  • Gwadabe, U. M., & Amirah, N. A. (2017). Entrepreneurial competencies: SMEs performance factor in the challenging Nigerian economy. Academic Journal of Economic Studies, 3(4), 55–61.
  • Ahmad, A. U., Abubakar, A. M., Senan, N. A. M., Muhammad, M., Sani, B. Y., Gwadabe, U. M., Jamiu, M., Hasan Al-Yazidi, A. M., Mohammed, B. S., & Mustapha, U. A. (2024). Re-examining the key drivers of environmental degradation in Nigeria: A dynamic ARDL approach. Journal of Sustainability Science and Management, 19(8), 49–69. https://doi.org/10.46754/jssm.2024.08.005
  • Ahmad, A. U., Abubakar, A. M., Senan, N. A. M., Gwadabe, U. M., Mohammed, B. S., Muhammad, M., & Mustapha, U. A. (2024). Examining the asymmetric effects of renewable energy use, financial development, and trade openness on economic growth in D-8 Islamic countries. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 14(4), 125–139.
  • Ahmad, A. U., Adamu, I. M., Ahmad, I. M., Ismail, S., Farouq, I. S., Jakada, A. H., & Mustapha, U. A. (2020). Empiric on the relationship between pollutant emissions, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries. International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research, 9(1), 1–13.
  • Ahmad, A. U., Ismail, S., Ahmad, I. M., Adamu, I. M., Jakada, A. H., Farouq, I. S., & Danmaraya, I. A. (2020). Pollutant emissions, renewable energy consumption and economic growth: An empirical review from 2015–2019. Journal of Environmental Treatment Techniques, 8(1), 323–335.
  • Abdul Rahim, M. Z., Amina, U. S., Gwadabe, U. M., Yahaya, I. S., & Yusuf, M. M. (2024). Entrepreneurial orientation: Developing an instrument of measurement. TWIST, 19(2), 166–174.
  • Hashim, H. A., Embong, R., Jusoh, R., Gwadabe, U. M., Chik, Z., & Mahmud, W. M. W. (2023). Instrument development of teaching practice on higher-order thinking skills for 21st-century learning. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 12(1), 1124–1137.
  • Hoque, A. S. M. M., Gwadabe, U. M., & Rahman, M. A. (2017). Corporate entrepreneurship upshot on innovation performance: The mediation of employee engagement. Journal of Humanities, Language, Culture and Business, 1(6), 54–67.
  • Ibrahima, G., Mansor, N., & Gwadabe, U. M. (2020). Mediating the effect of audit committee independence on the relationship between firm physiognomy and real earnings’ management. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity, and Change, 13(1), 1211–1227.
  • Isah, S., Ibrahim, R. M., Karim, F., & Gwadabe, U. M. (2022). Work engagement as a mediator of the connection between compensation and employee competence: Evidence from Nigeria. Journal of Social Economics Research, 9(4), 204–218.
  • Isah, S., Ibrahim, R. M., Shehu, M., & Gwadabe, U. M. (2021). The mediating effect of work engagement in the link between affective commitment and employee competence in Nigeria Universal Basic Education system. International Scholars Journal of Arts and Social Science Research, 4(2), 285–305.
  • Sabo, A. U., Abdul Rahim, M. Z., Gwadabe, U. M., Yahaya, I. S., & Yusuf, M. M. (2023). The effect of individual entrepreneurial orientation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 4.0 on women business venturing survival in Nigeria. International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences, 12(4).
  • Usman, S. A. A., Zulkifli, M., Muhammad, G. U., Suleiman, I. Y., & Yusuf, M. M. (2024). Nigerian climate change and its effects on environmental and human health: A narrative review. NUIJB, 22–26.
  1. Ado, A. B., Abubakar, A. H., Mustapha, U. A., & Gwadabe, U. M. (2018, November 30–December 2). Sustainability reporting disclosure on Malaysian companies: Evidence from prior literature [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Global Humanitarianism and Human Rights, Terengganu, Malaysia. https://www.academia.edu/38000354/Book_of_Abstract_ASOP_2018_pdf
  2. Ahmad, A. U., Ismail, S., Loganathan, N., Abdullahi, A. J., Muhammad, U. A., Ahmad, I. M., Gwadabe, U. M., Haruna, M. A., & Ibrahim, G. (2018, November 21–22). Financial globalization uncertainty/instability and financial development in Nigeria: A nonlinear ARDL analysis and nonparametric test for nonlinear causality by Diks and Panchenko [Conference presentation]. Postgraduate Research Conference UniSZA, Terengganu, Malaysia. https://ecdcpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PRC-Book.pdf
  3. Arumugam, N., & Gwadabe, U. M. (2021, March 2–3). Adoption of big data in agripreneurship [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Agriculture, Animal Sciences & Food Technology, Terengganu, Malaysia.
  4. Balarabe, A., Abdullah, M. F., Gwadabe, U. M., & Muhammad, A. J. (2022, December 15). Islamic banking in Malaysia: The journey so far [Conference presentation]. The 2nd ADPEBI International Conference on Management, Education, Social Science, Economics and Technology (AICMEST), Bandung, Indonesia. http://series.adpebi.com/index.php/AICMEST
  5. Gwadabe, U. M. (2023, June 13–14). Modelling entrepreneurial orientation on agripreneurs’ intention to adopt big data devices for agriculture [Poster presentation]. FBIM Research Festival 2023, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia.
  6. Gwadabe, U. M., & Amirah, N. A. (2017, October 7–8). Entrepreneurial competencies: SMEs performance factor in the competitive Nigerian economy [Conference presentation]. International Academic Conference on Business and Economics, Terengganu, Malaysia. https://www.unisza.edu.my/iacbe2017/index.php?lang=en
  7. Gwadabe, U. M., & Arumugam, N. (2020, July 24–25). Adoption of big data in agripreneurship: A panacea to the global food challenge? [Conference presentation]. International Van Conference on Social Sciences, Van, Turkey.
  8. Gwadabe, U. M., & Arumugam, N. (2020, August 17–20). Development and exploration of measurement items for innovativeness for small farmers’ adoption of new technology [Conference presentation]. 2nd International Tokyo Conference on Innovative Studies of Contemporary Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. https://www.academia.edu/45614849/TOKYO_SUMMIT_2_2nd_International_Conference_on_Innovative_Studies_of_Contemporary_Sciences_I_The_Book_of_Full_Texts_Social_Sciences_and_Humanities
  9. Gwadabe, U. M., & Ibrahim, G. (2018, July 22–23). Sustainable entrepreneurship: A panacea to poverty alleviation in Nigeria [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Global Humanitarianism and Human Rights, Terengganu, Malaysia. https://www.unisza.edu.my/icchl2017/
  10. Gwadabe, U. M., Arumugam, N., & Amirah, N. A. (2021, March 2–3). An exploratory factor analysis to develop measurement items for small farmers’ proactiveness and risk-taking in agricultural technology adoption [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Agriculture, Animal Sciences & Food Technology, Terengganu, Malaysia.
  11. Gwadabe, U. M., Amirah, N. A., Ahmad, A. U., Hoque, A. S. M. M., & Jallow, H. (2018, November 21–22). The effect of innovation in achieving excellent SMEs performance [Conference presentation]. Postgraduate Research Conference UniSZA, Terengganu, Malaysia. https://ecdcpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PRC-Book.pdf
  12. Hoque, A. S. M. M., Awang, Z., & Gwadabe, U. M. (2018, November 21–22). The effect of entrepreneurial marketing on Bangladeshi SME performance and the role of organizational culture: A structural equation modelling [Conference presentation]. Postgraduate Research Conference UniSZA, Terengganu, Malaysia. https://ecdcpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PRC-Book.pdf
  1. Research Methodology Classes (2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2018/2019 Sessions) – Postgraduate School, UniSZA, Malaysia
  2. Pre-Conference Workshop: Application of Multiple Logistic Regression in Scientific Research (2018) – Institute for Community Development, UniSZA
  1. Banking operations and service delivery improvement projects during 7 years at First Bank of Nigeria Ltd, focusing on customer service, fraud management, and operational efficiency.
  2. Research consultancy in entrepreneurship and agribusiness technology adoption projects in collaboration with academic colleagues.
  1. Outstanding Supervisee Award (PhD) – UniSZA, Malaysia (2024)
  2. Best Poster Presenter (Gold) – FBIM Research Festival, UniSZA, Malaysia (2023)
  3. Best Presenter – 2nd ADPEBI International Conference, Indonesia (2022)
  4. Best Student Award (Master’s) – UniSZA, Malaysia (2018)
  5. Graduate on Time (GOT) Award – UniSZA, Malaysia (2018)