OVERVIEW (UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF LEADERSHIP) “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” Nelson Mandela (1990) Gary Yukl (2006) defines leadership as “the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and coll...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is endemic among children in low income countries. Food-based strategies have been identified globally as more sustainable in addressing micronutrient deficiencies in populations. However, there is paucity of knowledge on the effect of food based interventions in combating vitamin A deficiency in Ghana. The objective of the present study was to determine the serum vitamin A and nutritional status of children fed gari and beans stew prepared w...
ABSTRACT Female initiation involving genital mutilation has been used in many parts of the world as a rite of passage ritual for many years down the history of mankind. Apparently music is one of the prominent features of this rite in almost all the cultures in which it is practised. However, most countries have abandoned these cultural practices due to formal education, Christianity and other modern socio-economic changes. These changes have contributed greatly to changes in behavior and at...
ABSTRACT To reduce deforestation along the Volta Lake and evapotranspiration of water in the Akosombo reservoir, the Volta River Authority (VRA) embarked on a reforestation project. However, the reforestation project was thwarted by the over reliance on trees for firewood usage in Traditional Three stone stoves (T3SS) in communities around the Volta Lake. The VRA then introduced Improved Cook stoves (ICS) which was believed to consume less firewood in communities along the Volta Lake in the B...
ABSTRACT Eshun, A. A. 2000. Logging residue from the tropical high forests in the Western Region of Ghana. 161 pp. M.Sc.F. thesis, Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Major Advisor: Dr. H. Gary Murchison. Key words: Western Region of Ghana, logging residue, volume estimation, harvesting efficiencies, sample size, biomass equations, volume equations, residue utilization. In the face of increasing demand for industrial wood and the...
ABSTRACT The study was aimed at carrying out an assessment on the effects of drug abuse on the students' academ1c performance in the selected secondary schools. The study used a casual comparative research design which involved descriptive, which was used because of its ability to describe results from questionnaires and interviews. The respondents were randomly selected and categorized. They comprised of both sexes, ·but of different marital statuses and age groups and the study used 100 r...
ABSTRACT Persistent communal conflicts in Plateau State underscore the differences between ethno-religious identities and aggravated segregation in human settlements. Existing studies on ethno-religious conflict have focused on colonial segregated settlement policy otherwise known as the Sabon Gari. These studies have neglected settlement dynamics as both cause and effect of ethno-religious conflicts. This study, therefore, interrogated the complex interaction between ethno-religious conflic...
Abstract The development of antibiotic-resistant pathogens due to the indiscriminate use of antibiotics has led to advocacy for the use of natural products in the treatment of fish diseases. The antimicrobial activity of methanolic and ethanolic extracts of walnut leaves and onion bulbs were evaluated against six pathogenic bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphyloccocus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Escherichia coli, Samonella typhi) using the cup – plate method. Min...
Social Media Definition Social media has been analysed and investigated from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, thus generating different definitions of social media. Table 1 provides a list of the most important ones according to different disciplines. The emergence of new and social media is quite a recent phenomenon and became popularised only when the Internet became ubiquitous and accessible to consumers worldwide, giving rise to the so-called Network Society (Castells 2003). Thi...
Abstract Uncontrolled harvesting of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) poses a serious risk of extermination to several of these species in Nigeria. Yet, there is a paucity of information on the distribution, population status and sustainable management of NTFPs in most of the tropical lowland rainforests. We, therefore, assessed the population, distribution and threats to sustainable management of NTFPs within the tropical lowland rainforests of Omo and Shasha Forest Reserves, south western...
ABSTRACT This research was carried out based on how to reduce fraud activities in mobile telecommunication companies. Focusing on subscribers use of internet and mobile telecommunications, which is the main concern of this research, telecommunication fraud occurs whenever a perpetrator uses deception to receive telephony services free of charge or at a reduced rate P. Barson, 2006. It is a worldwide problem with substantial annual revenue losses for many companies. Globally, telecommunic...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine and compare the prevalence of obesity among private and public basic school pupils in the Asante Akim central municipality using a cross sectional survey. A total of 200 children from private and public schools were selected using the simple random sampling technique. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire, a food frequency questionnaire, the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children (PAQ-C) and anthropometry. The data obtai...
Abstract VISIONING UGANDA FOREIGN POLICY 1.1 INTRODUCTION The emerging state of interdependency in the region follows from the intertwined nature of security political, social and developmental problems. This in part creates mutual vulnerability and heavy costs of maintaining and protecting one's sovereignty. Yet with increasing interactions due to advanced transportation and communication and the slowly increasin·g economic exchanges it becomes imperative that the peace and prosperity that ...
The emergence of informal security movements globally and in Kenya has received much scholarly attention. Many of such groups surface in response to social, political, and economic inequalities and dissatisfactions. From the outset, it is important to note that almost every ethnic community in Kenya has security movement perceived to be the security wing of the population. Notably, the government a security threat has declared many of such movements. Following the enactment of Prevention of ...
ABSTRACT The major purpose of the study was to investigate the effects discipline and academic performance of/he orphans of Mang 'u zone Thika District, Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to investigate the relationship between indiscipline and pe1:formance of orphans, investigate the causes of indiscipline by orphans in schools to establish solutions to the problem of indiscipline in Mang 'u zone Thika District, Kenya. The methods used for data collection were questionaires to ...