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About Mabrig Research Institute

Mabrig Research Institute (MRI) is a Nigeria-based academic publishing organisation dedicated to advancing research output from African scholars, postgraduate students, and institutions.

We provide a full-stack publishing ecosystem — from manuscript submission and peer review to DOI assignment, citation tracking, and grant access through our partner platform AfriGrantPipeline.

Our flagship outlet, the Mabrig Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (MJIR), publishes original research across disciplines including public health, education, agriculture, social sciences, and technology.

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Mabrig Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

MJIR is MRI's peer-reviewed open-access journal, publishing original research that bridges disciplines and addresses real-world challenges facing Africa and the Global South.

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Recently Published Research

A selection of papers published through MRI and MJIR.

NEW Development Economics

Inflation, Food Insecurity, and Household Resilience: An Empirical Analysis of the Cost-of-Living Crisis in Nigeria

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 1, Issue 1 • 2024 • pp. 1–20

Traces Nigeria's 2023 subsidy-removal shock to household level — dietary collapse, asset depletion, and gaps in social protection.

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NEW Climate Science

Digital Agro-Meteorology and Index-Based Micro-Insurance for Smallholder Climate Resilience in Nsukka, Nigeria

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 1, Issue 1 • 2024 • pp. 41–60

Proposes IoT weather stations and parametric micro-insurance via mobile money for smallholder farmers in the Guinea-Savanna transition zone.

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NEW Pharmacology Drug Discovery

Cassia senna (Senna alexandrina) Leaves as a Prospective Source of Anti-Ulcer Therapeutics in Nigeria

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 61–80

Integrative ethnopharmacological review and six-phase drug discovery framework targeting peptic ulcer disease using Nigerian Senna alexandrina leaves.

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NEW Political Economy Development Policy

"Na Statistics We Go Chop?" Macroeconomic Gaslighting and Nigeria's Trillion-Dollar Delusion (2023–2026)

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 81–100

Introduces 'macroeconomic gaslighting' and the 'stomach infrastructure paradox' to critique Nigeria's subsidy-removal era — the trillion-dollar delusion and the lived crisis behind the statistics.

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NEW Security Studies Governance

State Capture, Institutional Decay, and the Limits of Sovereignty: Assessing the Risks of State Fragmentation in Nigeria

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 101–135

Examines documented cases of security-sector capture and collusion across Nigeria's conflict zones, and asks what institutional decay and a hollowed-out sovereignty mean for the country's risk of fragmentation.

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Pharmacology Natural Products Research

Preliminary Investigation and Mechanistic Synthesis: A Novel Quadriherbal Formulation Targeting AMPK Activation and PPAR-γ Downregulation for MASLD and Diabetes

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 136–158

Synthesizes evidence on Bambusa vulgaris and Mangifera indica extracts to propose a hypothesis-generating quadriherbal formulation for MASLD, built around AMPK activation and PPAR-γ downregulation, with a staged roadmap toward validation.

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Computational Pharmacology Network Biology

Preliminary Investigation and Network Pharmacology Synthesis: Mapping Multi-Target Mechanisms of Anacardiaceae and Poaceae Leaf Combinations through Secondary Data Integration

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 159–184

Synthesises extensive secondary literature documenting the molecular targets of five compounds from Mangifera indica, Anacardium occidentale, and Bambusa spp. into a preliminary, hypothesis-generating multi-target network pharmacology picture.

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Pharmacology Hepatology / Metabolic Disease

Hepatoprotective and Metabolic Effects of Bambusa vulgaris and Mangifera indica Leaf Extracts in MASLD and Diabetes: A Preliminary Investigation and Secondary Data Synthesis Across Biochemical, Histological, and Molecular Endpoints

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 185–208

Reorganises the documented Bambusa vulgaris and Mangifera indica literature around six biochemical, histological, and molecular endpoint categories, identifying where documentation is strong and where a future combined validation study would need to start.

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Religious Studies Security Studies

Manufacturing a Threat: A Critical History of the "Civilizational Jihad" Narrative and Its Divergent Effects on Christian Communities in Nigeria, Europe, and the United States

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 209–228

Traces the "civilizational jihad" narrative to a single 1991 memo, identifies who built it into policy, and contrasts it with documented anti-Christian violence by Boko Haram and ISWAP in Nigeria, Europe, and the United States.

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Theology AI Ethics

Deus ex Machina? A Theological Framework for Imago Dei and Moral Agency in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 229–258

Re-examines the substantive, relational, and functional readings of the imago Dei against generative AI's capabilities, and proposes a public theology distinguishing algorithmic automation from authentic moral agency.

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Security Studies Human Rights

The IPOB Shield: Narrative Labeling, Moral Panic, and the Architecture of Impunity in Nigeria's South-East Security Crisis, 2017–2026

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 259–286

Documents how police and army narrative practices in South-East Nigeria substitute classification for investigation, grounding the pattern in moral panic and labeling theory and proposing a six-point accountability agenda.

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Social Policy Social Work

Household Poverty and Social Protection in Nsukka, Nigeria: A Secondary Data Analysis

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 287–306

Synthesizes national, state, and locally grounded evidence on poverty and social protection delivery in Nsukka, Enugu State, finding that Nigeria's flagship cash transfer programme can coincide with worse food security outcomes when transfer values are inadequate and irregular.

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NEW Security Studies Political Economy

Wanted but Untouched: Banditry, the Contested “ISIS Link,” and the Political Economy of Impunity in Northwest Nigeria

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 2, Issue 1 • 2026 • pp. 307–326

Examines why bandit leaders publicly named on Defence Headquarters wanted lists remain at large in Zamfara and Sokoto, weighing the contested ISWAP/Lakurawa jihadist link against political-settlements, rentier-conflict, and warlord-politics theories of why states negotiate with armed groups they could otherwise name and arrest.

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Public Health Migration Studies

The 'Japa' Phenomenon and Human Capital Flight in Nigeria: A Public Health Analysis of Youth Migration Intentions, Mental Health, and Implications for National Development

Korie, M. • MJIR Vol. 1, Issue 1 • 2024 • pp. 21–40

Examines migration intentions among young Nigerians through a public health lens — mental health, health-worker emigration, and what human capital flight means for the country's development.

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Public Health Systems in West Africa

Public Health • MJIR Vol. 1 • 2024

AI in African Education Systems

Technology • MJIR Vol. 1 • 2024

Climate Change & Agriculture in the Sahel

Environmental Science • MJIR Vol. 1 • 2024

Publishing Fees

Transparent, Naira-based pricing designed for African researchers.

Basic

₦5,000 – ₦20,000

Standard upload, DOI assignment, and listing on the MRI platform.

Premium

₦50,000 – ₦120,000

Full editorial support, formatting, DOI, and promotional listing.

MJIR Submission

₦150,000+

Peer-reviewed publication in the Mabrig Journal of Interdisciplinary Research.