ABSTRACT municipal solid waste (MSW) as soil organic input has become a corn Zaria urban farming. This is due to its high nutritive effect on crops'his waste has some negative effects on the quality of soil and cropsrefore examines the effects of municipal soliel vvasfe application on send crop qualities in Zaria urban area norlhern Nigeria. Soil sarnped from eight irrigated farm plots where municipal solid waste is u sec! znemice! fertilizer as soil organic amendment and one plot (the c cs...
ABSTRACT The study set out to examine the social barriers that affect contraceptive non-use among adolescents in the Gomoa East district. The Gomoa East district was selected for the study due to its high rate of teenage pregnancies associated with high birth rates, and maternal morbidity. The study was carried out among 238 in-school and out of school adolescent males and females. Two secondary schools were purposively selected (one urban and one rural) and the out of school adolescents from...
ABSTRACT Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become the fundamental pillars of the modern society today. They have brought along a lot of changes, many of them deep-seated, in almost all the aspects of societal functions and services. Just like any other field, the field of education has been greatly influenced by advancement in technology. Ultimately this has led to changes in teaching, learning and research. Despite the potential that ICTs have in enabling and enhancing a tea...
ABSTRACT This study investigated effects of armed conflicts on delivery of social services in Kyuso District of Kenya. The region continue to experience intermittent conflict from Somali and Kambas. The specific study objectives include; to find out the services affected by the conflicts; to identify the people affected by conflicts in accessing services and to find new methods of delivering the services in such violence — tone areas. The literature indicates little success in resolving t...
Concisely, the term mass media simply translates to the modern means of giving news, opinion, education, entertainment and agenda-setting to large numbers of people, especially through radio, television, newspapers, magazines and films. According to Joseph Dominick (2009:36), a medium is the channel through which a message travels from the source to the receiver (medium” as singular, media” is plural). When we talk about mass communication, we also need channels to carry the message. Ther...
ABSTRACT This research work focused on determining the effect of investment decisions on financial performance of Savings and Credit Cooperatives in Kitui Central Sub-County. This is was due to the observed decline in performance of SACCOS in Kenya due to a low investment culture. The research adopted four objectives as a drive towards the results as follows; to assess the effect of Replacement decision on Financial Performance of SACCOs in Kitui Central Sub-County, to find out the effects of...
ABSTRACT Access to the Internet is becoming more affordable especially in Africa and with this the number of active social media users is also on the rise. Twitter is a social media platform on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". These tweets are usually short with a limit of 280 characters. With over 100 million Internet users and 6 million active monthly users in Nigeria, lots of data is generated through this medium daily. This thesis aims to gain insights from ...
Agricultural Journalism can be described as that part of social activity, which is primarily concerned with the gathering, packaging and reporting of agricultural related news and views to the publics in a timely manner. This is achieved through various media, including Print, electronic (TV and radio), Internet, etc. Agricultural journalism has also been defined a specialized branch of journalism which deals with the techniques of receiving, writing, editing and reporting from information th...
ABSTRACT The effect of three different concentrations of sucrose namely 2, 3 and 4% were investigated on the in vitro regeneration of embryo explants of Treculia africana Decne. on the media of Murashige and Skoog (MS) (1962) and Gamborg et al. (B5) (1968) respectively without any growth regulator. The experimental design was a 2 x 5 factorial in a completely randomized design with each treatment consisting of ten replicates. Results showed that while both media including control supported th...
ABSTRACTThis research work is aimed at finding the journalist that is freer between those in private and government owned media organizations, using Ray-power and FRCN Enugu as a focus, to achieve maximum and accurate findings. The researcher made use of survey design. To gather necessary information, copies of questionnaire were administered and retrieved from the respondents who were randomly selected and also personal interview was conducted, the findings show that the journalists in gover...
TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION BY STUDENT ................................................................................................ ii DECLARATION BY SUPERVISOR ........................................................................................ iii DEDICATION.............................................................................................................................. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................................
ABSTRACT This study is aimed to ascertain the impact of Mass Media Campaign aimed at curbing the spread of the disease Aids among teenagers in Benin City. The objective of the study is also to find out through sample survey whether the teenagers are really getting sufficient information about AIDS blue so as to enable them inform their opinion about the diseases. The study takes account of the sex, marital status, “Occupational variables that were of relevance to the study. The research...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Pagei Declarationii Certificationiii Dedicationiv Acknowledgementv Table of contentsvii List of tablesx Abstractxi CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1-6 1.1Background to the study1 1.2Statement of the problem5 1.3Research questions6 1.4Research objectives7 1.5Significance of the study7 1.6Scope of the study 7 1.7Clarification of concept8 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW9-18 2.1Literature review9 2.2Effect of mobile phone on students’ academics activities 9 2.3Effec...
MASS COMMUNICATION PROJECT ABSTRACT This study examined Effect of Mass Media on Yoruba Culture and Tradition. The study was guided by four objectives specifically to find out the level of exposure to “Yoruba Ye Mi” programme among Ibadan residents, to examine their perception of the programme in the promotion of Yoruba culture and tradition, to find out the influence of the programme in the understanding of Yoruba cultural and traditional practices among the residents of Ibadan and t...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out whether Outdoor Experiential Education (OEE) has any beneficial effects on the overall life effectiveness and team skills of Kenya Army and Administration Police based on an 11 days outdoor programme. Life effectiveness skills are a measure of how proficient a person perceives himself or herself to be in areas necessary for success in life. OEE programmes utilize the outdoors and/or activities to accomplish goals that are recreational, educ...