ABSTRACT The question of how best-developing countries must organize and allocate resources for effective decentralization and local governance has been one that scholars have been grappling with for decades. Several models have been proposed by scholars as a way of providing the most effective and judicious allocation of resources for local government. The focus of this study was to examine the issues of access and use of the Members of Parliament (MPs) share of the District Assemblies Comm...
ABSTRACT This study examines the plastic pollution menace globally and its ramifications for Ghana. The study was motivated by the increasing wave of plastic production and its attendant disposal challenges. Deploying a qualitative methodology, the study used primary sources like interviews and reviewed secondary data on plastic pollution in addition to a field research involving senior public officials and private citizens. The findings of this study show that there is a major global effor...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at assessing the contribution of non- farm activities on alleviating poverty among women. In order to alleviate poverty, women in Mbalizi have resorted to the taking of non- farm activities that are marketed throughout the region. Mbalizi ward was a case study and the research was conducted among women. Data were collected through questionnaire and focus group discussions and processed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Judgmental procedure was...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to examine the differences between diploma and degree holder secondary school English language teachers in implementing competency based language teaching in secondary schools in Tanzania. Specifically, the study aimed at assessing the attitudes and general knowledge towards competency based language teaching, examining the potential differences that exist between diploma and degree holder English language teachers’ delivery skills and assessing the coverag...
ABSTRACT Relationship in linguistics is very essential. There are two types of relationship in linguistics: paradigmatic and syntagmatic. Syntagmatic relations are based on the linear character of speech. They enable language to function as a means of communication. The syntagmatics of noun modifiers are therefore the relation of noun modifiers with the HN and each other. Adopting Dependency Theory from Hays (1972), we base our argument on the hypothesis that the occurrence of any modifier in...
ABSTRACT Compounding is a very productive word formation process in Ewe. Works in Ewe grammar (Ofori 2002; Duthie 1996) only referenced it as one of the word formation processes in the language and have not done an in-depth morphological and phonological study on the phenomenon such as pursued in the current thesis. The purpose of this study is to investigate compounding with the view of providing a broad description of the empirical facts of compounds in Ewe. The study examines: the types of...
ABSTRACT Cameroon since its inception in 1961 has faced a series of secessionist struggles, mainly from its English region. Anglophone Cameroonians who feel marginalized and violated have in recent years revived a quest to secede from Cameroon. This study analyses the secessionist movements in Cameroon, bringing to light the reasons behind their formation, their actors, strategies as well as their chances of success or failure. The study employs the theory of secession as it captures and exp...
ABSTRACT Policing as a profession from its inception in Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) had been a profession reserved for men. This is because policing in all the former British colonies imitated the British style of policing which was base on the British Victorian Ideology. The purpose of this research is to investigate policewomen’s contributions to the development of the Ghana Police Force. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources including archival documents from the Public Recor...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine the overall effect of organizational justice on the job satisfaction of employees among selected firms in Ghana. Guided by the literature, the study sample 60 a respondent from 3 accounting firms to examine the effect of organizational justice on the job satisfaction of employees and found that procedural and distributive justice were the two most common types of justice orientation within the firms. These categories help define the concept of justice to ...
ABSTRACT It is an indisputable fact that ICT plays a very significant role in the development of every nation these days. This is because growth is stimulated by the flow of information and this consciousness has led most learning institutions into knowledge-based ones. Hence, leading to easy access, quality teaching and learning, infrastructure provision as well as management efficiency. In spite of these, the potentials of ICT in teaching and learning has not been fully realized by many ac...
ABSTRACT 1he study essentially demonstrated that the Christian missionaries and the early Eue clergy did not take cognizance of the Eue belief in God, (Mawu) the all embracing creator of humankind. This can be discerned in the manner and methods these early missionaries proclaimed Christ in Eueland. Their interpretation of salvation was far out of tune from that of the Eue. This may be explained by the fact that they failed and disregarded to reach out to the roots of Eue indigenous religious...
ABSTRACT There is a global perception that international migration and terrorism are linked. This perception is due mainly to the fact that the 2001 attacks in the United States; 2004, 2007 and 2015 attacks in Madrid, London and Paris, respectively, all involved foreign migrants or their offspring. Though Africa is often classified as a hotbed of terrorism, little research has been conducted to establish the connection between international migration and terrorism. The activities of terroris...
ABSTRACT The research purpose is to know whether teachers recognize other forms of rewards apart from money. Guided by Literature only on understanding the extent to which teachers recognize other forms of rewards aside from money. Data was collected from Fifteen (15) teachers of Queens International using self-administered questionnaires, based on descriptive analyses it was found that teachers in the school hold the perception that paying everyone the same amount promotes mediocrity.It is ...
ABSTRACT Birth tourism to the USA is a form of mobility that is inextricably linked and symbiotically related to American birthright citizenship, international tourism and migration. Its popularity has grown around the world in recent years, including Ghana, where it is an open secret that some Ghanaian families have American ‘jackpot babies’. An American ‘jackpot baby’ refers to a child born on American soil to one of the foreign parents admitted as a short-term visitor or as a birt...
ABSTRACT Transnationalism had made it imperative and possible for the transfer of social, political and economic processes by people across borders. However, the extent to which foreigners are transnationalized in a country largely depends on the immigration policies and laws existing in the recipient country. Ghana since independence had had immigration policies that had regulated international migrations to the country. The adoption of the Ghana Immigration Act 2000 (Act 573) has influence...