ABSTRACT The study was conducted to assess the perception of teachers on the leadership styles of head teachers of public basic schools at the Bolgatanga Municipality. The objectives of the study were to determine the leadership styles of Junior high schools head teachers, ascertain the perceived influence of Junior high schools head teachers leadership style on teachers’ job performance and to find out the challenges headmasters faced in their leadership. A descriptive survey design ...
ABSTRACT This study examines factors that account for spousal communication in Juo and Joa communities in the Nanumba-North Municipality. The study also examined how spouses communicate and how spousal communication can be enhanced. A case study research design was adopted while in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and non-participant observation were used to gather qualitative data. Twenty married couples were sampled for the study. Data were analyzed thematically and explained usin...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to explore the classroom challenges teachers face in Bosomtwe District of Ashanti Region. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. The research population for the study comprised all teachers in public senior high schools in Bosomtwe District. Purposive sampling was used to select a sample of 115 respondents from three public senior high schools in the District for the study. Instrument used for data collection was the closed-ended qu...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the poor reading skills among pupils of St. Paul‟s R/C Primary School „B‟. The purpose of the study is to find out the causes of poor reading skills, the effects of poor reading skills on the pupils and the strategies that can be adopted to improve upon them. This was done through data collection tools interview, observation and questionnaire. The sample size used was thirty-eight (38) class six pupils and six (6) teachers of St. Paul‟s R/C Primary S...
ABSTRACT Maternal, infectious and non-communicable causes of death combine to be simultaneously a major health problem for women of reproductive age (WRA) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Yet, little is known about the relative risk of each of them when considered together and their demographic impacts. Consequently, the focus of research and funding has been on maternal health. However, the evolving demographic and health transitions in LMIC...
ABSTRACT This study, entitled “L’espace dans Le Pleurer-Rire et La Nouvelle Romance d’Henri Lopes”, looks at how the structure of spatial setting serves the discourse of the two texts. The antithetic or contrastive structure of the spatial setting, made up of Places of domination, characterized by power, luxury, infrastructural development, but also torture, repression, discrimination…, and Places of disenchantment, typified by insalubrious conditions, poverty, suffering and misery...
Abstract The general objective of this study was to examine the factors affecting project performance in Somali region: the case of NGOS in Jigjiga city. The study was employed a descriptive survey method. In purposive sampling technique, Jigjiga city administration was selected as a purposively sampling technique based on geographical sites, favorable for transportation accessibility and other social services were selected. Hence, staff from NGOs, experts in Bureaus and Customers from proje...
ABSTRACT This study measures the extent of effects of insurance fraud on the financial performance of insurance companies in Ghana. It also examines the causes, and stringent measures that can be used to fight against insurance fraud. Primary and secondary data obtained from 39 insurers in Ghana are employed in this study. A multiple regression model is used to determine the relationship between financial performance and insurance fraud variables. The results from the model indicate that stat...
ABSTRACT The issue of transnational justice was made popular in the 20th century by the American liberal philosopher, John Bordley Rawls, who tries to evolve a conception of justice that would be applicable at the transnational level. Unfortunately, his liberal prescription for transnational justice does not provide for any principle of redistributive justice that would be morally obligatory at the international level and, as such, fails to adequately address the question of justice at that ...
Abstract Secondary gatekeeping—a practice where a news medium selects and broadcasts fragments of the contents of another, primary media—is a novel, but prevalent phenomenon especially in the Nigerian broadcast media. The practice, unlike primary gatekeeping, is yet to receive copious scholarly attention. This study, through a combination of In-depth Interviews and Documentary (Content) Analysis, explored the rationale for newspaper reviews as performed by Radio O-Y-O, Premier FM, and Sp...
Abstract Home videos are entertainment media but their use by adolescents transcends leisure to sexuality aspirations. A survey of 180 students in selected secondary schools in Ibadan showed that viewing influenced their sexuality knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP). The paper argues that exposure to home movies affect young people’s life aspirations as higher viewership (95.6 percent) corresponds with high negative sexuality response (93.3 percent). Accordingly, the media teach 87 pe...
ABSTRACT Arab as a tribe is generally known to have originated and lived in what is known as Arabian Peninsular. Its borders later extended to what was previously known as Mesopotamia, Assyria and Phoenicia. P.K. Hitti would though believe the reverse.1 In the medieval period, the emergence of Islam in the Arabian Peninsular as a religion and ideology, made the Arab conquerors of most of the then civilized world. Arab occupies a territory larger than the United States, the region is strategic...
ABSTRACT Any education which does not immediately benefit a person either in finding employment or to improve his/her living conditions, would not attract public attention. Therefore, Arabic education in Nigeria particularly for women should be designed so as to lead to useful work life. Arabic, being a Semitic language of major religion and culture which demands some skills and lengthy duration before its learners could attain an appreciable level for useful work life in Nigeria .This prereq...
ABSTRACT Land and social justice are central to social life in the society of Prophet Micah (Micah), thus their motifs are dominant in the book of Micah of the Old Testament because of the oppressive government in power during the prophets time. Related situations obtained in Ogbomoso between 1978 and 2008, particularly among the Christians, when a number of people and organisations lost their land to the government or other individuals. Previous studies have identified several land and soci...
Abstract The Nigerian media are key instruments of HIV/AIDS communication. They use different techniques to influence human knowledge, attitude and practice. Through the qualitative approach, the study identified the media and strategies commonly used for HIV/AIDS behaviour change communication in Nigeria. It triangulated unobtrusive observation and in-depth interviews through the viewing of selected broadcast, film and outdoor media in South-West Nigeria. In-depth interviews complemented th...