ABSTRACT The ongoing demographic and epidemiologic transitions in Nigeria are some of the possible reasons why the prevalence of obesity is increasing in Nigeria. The economic impact of obesity in Nigeria may result to a decrease in productivity. Policies have been put in place by the Federal Government to reduce the prevalence of obesity in Nigeria. However, the nature and magnitude of policies put in place are important to note. It is based on this premise that this study investigates the s...
ABSTRACT Recent empirical literature has shown that several factors can expose households to risk, thereby making them vulnerable to poverty. These appear to be the major challenges many households face in developing economies. This study therefore investigates risk and vulnerability to poverty in Nigeria using the revised General Household post-harvest panel survey for Nigeria. One objective is to analyze the types of risks households face and to determine if urban and rural households are d...
ABSTRACT This work has examined the political crisis and its impact on national integration in Africa with a focus on Rwanda. To achieve the aim of this study, we stated the following questions i. Is there any relationship between colonial legacy and 1994 political conflict in Rwanda? ii. Did the Rwandan crisis redress the prevailing political domination by the Tutsi? iii. Has the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda enhanced national integration? To investigate the hypotheses which ...
ABSTRACT Conflict management is inherent in any organization since conflict is inevitable in our contemporary organizations. Effective management of conflicts had become a problem in Nigerian tertiary institutions. Tertiary institution where solely established to meet the needs of human resources required for national development. In regard to the current context of higher educations, the essences of instituting the tertiary institutions seem to have eluded Nigeria. As a result of interdepend...
Abstract Poverty has to do with living below whatever is defined as a minimum standard of living based on per capital income or consumption of individuals or household in a country. The local government system is set up, to help curtail the prevalence of poverty at the local level in order to engender national development in Nigeria. Despite all the efforts made by both past and present regimes to reduce poverty at the rural area and to bring government closer to rural people proves abortive....
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the Niger Delta Crisis and its Impact on Socio-economic Development in Nigeria. The region accounts for the huge revenues to the government generated from its oil wealth. Despite the fact that the region’s major resources serves as the mainstay of the economy, the region is characterized by lack of social infrastructure, poverty, unemployment and environmental degradation, which is usually as a result of oil spillages and leaks from the oil exploration activit...
Abstract Since the dawn of this millennium, terrorism has been on a steady rise worldwide. In fact, terrorism, arguably, is the biggest threat to global peace and security in this era. In Nigeria, the dynamics and manifestation of Boko Haram insurgency have led to the death of thousands of Nigerians. The worst hit among the causalities and fatalities of the attacks by this group that is riding on the back of Islamic revivalism and fundamentalism is women and girls, particularly in north east ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated attribution style, self-esteem and marital status as predictors of life satisfaction. Participants were three hundred and fifty (350) junior and senior staff of Enugu State University Teaching Hospital (Park Lane Hospital) and the University of Nigerian Teaching Hospital, Enugu (UNTH). Their ages ranged between 24 to 53 years, with a mean age of 35.85. Cross sectional design was adopted. Three instruments were used for data collection. Satisfaction with life S...
ABSTRACT The research was carried out in Kampala-Makindye Division; Ggaba Mission, central Uganda to assess issues of cohabitation and its impact on religion, Causes, impacts and strategies for managing cohabitation were discussed. The researcher used questionnaire, interview format and observation methods to find out the information. Stratified sampling and purposive sampling techniques were employed; also the researcher used descriptive and exploratory design to get the findings. The causes...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the effect of leadership styles on local government employee erformance in selected sub-counties in Bushenyi district and was based on four specific objectives: (i) to determine the demographic profile of the respondents in terms f gender, age, marital status, educational level, kind of employment and working experience; (ii) to determine the level of leadership styles, (iii) to determine the level of ocal government employee performance, (iv) to establish whether ...
ABSTRACT The study carried out on the Management Skills and Quality of Business in selected Small and Medium Enterprises in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The data was collected from 210 respondents using questionnaire and interview. The objectives study were; (i) to determine the level of the management skills of small and medium enterprises in Addis Ababa Ethiopia (ii), to investigate the level of quality of small business enterprises in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (iii) to establish whether there is a ...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out with the intention of finding out the profile of the respondents in terms of Age, Gender, Marital status, Occupation of respondents. Lev& of education, Profession, And Time in business/institution, the level of mobilizing the performance of national savings in Rwanda, the extent of the SSFR in mobilizing the performance of national savings and determine whether there is a significant relationship between the extent of SSFR and the level of mobilizing nationa...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine stakeholders involvement and project implementation in Somalia: A case study of Bosaso Airport Road Construction Project. The study objectives were; to determine the effect of stakeholders’ planning on Project implementation of Bosaso Airport Road Construction Project, to assess the effect of stakeholders monitoring and evaluation on Project implementation of Bosaso Airport Road Construction Project and to establish effect of resource mobilization in pro...
ABSTRACT Somalia has been confronted with the challenge of object poverty that lasted well over two centuries. Local government decentralization is one of the strategies adopted by its government in the hope that its implementation could engenders a downward review of the nation’s poverty profile.This study is aimed at investigating the role of local government decentralization in poverty alleviation in Galmudug-Somalia. The objectives of the study were; to determine the nature of local gov...
ABSTRACT The research intended to investigate ICT resource availability and distance education in selected universities in Somaliland. It also intended to achieve objectives such as, (1) to identify the demographic characteristics of the respondents in terms of gender, age, qualifications under the ICT discipline and number of the years in distance education field, (2) to determine the level of ICT resource availability in selected universities in Somaliland (3) to determine the extent of dis...