Volume 16, Issue 2 begins with Tina Martha Akinbo and Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah’s article, Investigating the Influence of Recruitment Practices on Performance Metrics: Commitment, Efficiency, Responsiveness, and Goal Attainment in Selected Nigerian Agencies. It examines the relationship between recruitment practices and organisational performance within Nigerian public agencies.

The collaborative article, Masculinity, Gender Role Strain, and Paternal Postnatal Depression in Bayelsa State: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry by Blessing Oyinbrakemi Moroyei, Lawrence Udisi, and Endurance Uzobo examines postnatal depression in men, an understudied subject, vital to the wellbeing of men and their households.

Olufunke Olufunsho Adegoke and Paul Oluwasogo Omoniyi’s Exploring the Social and Cultural Dynamics of Lassa Fever and Household Vulnerability in Urban Slums of Ogun State, Nigeria assesses the awareness and knowledge of Lassa fever among women while examining the socioeconomic status of the household to Lassa fever.

Eguonor Jennifer Oleabhiele, Samuel Ayodeji Omolawal,and  Idowu Sulaimon Adeniyi’s Quality of Work-Life Programmes and Employee Job Attitudes: Insights from Selected Organisations in Benin City, Nigeria investigates the impact of quality work-life programmes on employee job attitudes within organisations in Benin City.

Finally, Olayemi D. Akinwumi, Suleiman Yunusa, Jacho Sunday David and Erunke Canice Esidene’s Citizen Diplomacy and Development: Re-Examining Nigeria’s Afrocentric Foreign Policies for Sustainable Peace in West Africa. It examines the notable achievements of the Nigerian government in the past, while also highlighting some setbacks that have curtailed the road to sustained global relations.