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Political Leadership and Poverty Eradication in Benue State: A Focus on the Benue State Economic Empowerment Development Strategy Programme, 1999 – 2007.

ABSTRACT This work examined Political leadership and poverty eradication in Benue State with a focus on Benue State economic empowerment development strategy programme between 1999 and 2007. The research questions pertinent to this study were: Did the Benue State Economic Empowernment Development Strategy impact positively on poverty level in Benue State between 1999 and 2007? Did shifts in political leadership affect the performance of the poverty eradication programme in Benue State between...

Oil and National Development in Ghana

ABSTRACT Natural resource discovery in a country can be the beginning of the country’s economic growth. The wealth from the resources if well managed could promote sustained economic development. The exploration and exploitation of natural resources is usually accompanied with the paradox of development and challenges. The discovery of oil in commercial quantity in Ghana in June 2007, has raised the hope of Ghanaians as it regards better days to come. However, oil has its own effect on an e...

Christianity and Autochthonous Burial Rites Among the Ovim Igbo: A Study in Cultural Change in an Igbo Sub-Group of South-Eastern Nigerian

ABSTRACT This research work is a product of the researcher’s desire to contribute to the existing stock of knowledge on Christianity and autochthonous burial rites. The study aims at bringing out the essence of mortuary protocols in the traditional culture. The study also looked at the changes that have taken place in the performance of traditional funeral rites in Ovim and else where. The research adopted the qualitative method of data collection and analysis. Conventionally, in ethnograph...

An Investigation of the Socioeconomic Determinants of Obesity in Nigeria

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...

Risk and Vulnerability to Poverty in Nigeria

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...

Political Crisis and Regional Integration in Africa: A Case Study of Rwanda

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 ...

Management of Industrial Conflicts in Nigeria Tertiary Institutions (A Study of Federal Polytechnical Oko 2004-2012)

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...

Rural Poverty and the Challenges of Local Government in National Development in Nigeria; A Study of Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State.

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....

Niger-Delta Crisis and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria

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...

Boko Haram Insurgency and Gender Based Violence in North East Nigeria (2007-2015)

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 ...

Attribution Style, Self-Esteem and Marital Status as Predictors of Life Satisfaction

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...

Cohabitation And Its Impact on Religion in Ggaba Mission Makindye Division Kampala District

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...

Leadership Styles and Employee Performance in Selected Sub-counties, Bushenyi District Uganda

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 ...

Management Skills and Quality of Business in Selected Small and Medium Enterprises in Addiss Ababa, Ethiopia

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 ...

Mobilizing and Performance of National Savings by Social Security Fund of Rwanda (SSFR) from 2OO2~2OO9

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...


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