ABSTRACT Illegal mining appears to be one of world’s major mining problems and to a large extent Ghana’s greatest environmental hazard. However, small scale and large-scale mining are not excluded from this problem because current statistics point to mining industries consuming almost 20% of the world’s water supplies, also when a mine closure is done haphazardly, the area becomes an environmental and safety risk for the communities that live close to the mine. Mining in general can pol...
Introduction Since 1964 various DFIs were established at both the national and state levels in Nigeria to cater for economic development of some specific sectors. The anticipation was that the DFIs would be able to cover the areas neglected by the commercial banks. This is because it is impossible for these banks to meet the huge financial requirements of the different sectors in the economy. It is also believed the DFIs would become specialist in their various fields to the extent that they...
ABSTRACT The importance of the direct object complement pronouns in both oral and written communication cannot be underestimated. It avoids repetitions thus, making the communication nice. For instance, « Oui, je le connais » as a response to the question « Tu connais ce garçon ? » instead of repeating the direct object complement as in « Oui, je connais ce garçon ». However, pronominalising the direct object complement in French remains a difficulty for quite a good number of Ghanaia...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the effect of education on child survival in Ghana using the data from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. The study involved a total of 2099 children born to mothers within the ages of 15-49 years in the last five years preceding the survey. The analysis was limited to the last child of each mother born within the study period. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate statistical tools were used to analyse the data. Of the 2099 children, 3.8 percent died ...
ABSTRACT The status of Ilorin Emirate as a border community straddling Nigeria’s Northern and Southwestern regions where different languages, ethnic groups and cultures co-exist makes identity construction and manifestation complex. Existing literature largely posit an inseparable link between language and identity, hence, language loss constitutes identity loss. Extant literature barely focuses on the influence of politics on the linguistic and ethnic identities of people. This study, the...
ABSTRACT Rapid urbanisation, largely due to rural-urban migration, has not only led to increased city slums but has also led to an increase in health related challenges for the rural-urban migrant slum dweller. Health seeking behaviour among these sub-populations can only be achieved when policies designed take contextual issues into consideration. Although, considerable amount of research on the health seeking behaviour of slum dwellers exist, studies on the contextual exploration of rural- ...
ABSTRACT Energy security became critical in the past few decades when governments and intergovernmental organisations saw it prudent to ensure constant supply of energy for domestic and industrial consumption. This became pertinent after the devastating effect of global wars on energy supplies. With increased awareness of the significance of energy to the socioeconomic development of nations, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) formed the West African Power Pool (WAPP) to i...
ABSTRACT 1992 marked the dawn of liberal democratic governance in Ghana that made it possible for liberties such as having political stability and freedom from arbitrary detention and arrest to be enjoyed without creating any constitutional crises. The activities and role of the Electoral Commission of Ghana have been very indispensable in this regard to Ghana‟s democracy. This study seeks to examine the role of Ghana‟s Electoral Commission in promoting its democratic governance in the Fo...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the factors influencing pre-service management teachers‟ decision to take teaching as a career. The descriptive cross-sectional survey design was adopted for the study. The total population of pre-service management teachers involved in the study was 229. The census method was used to include all the respondents for the study. The FIT-Choice questionnaire was adapted from Watt and Richardson (2012) for the gathering of relevant data for the study. The data ga...
ABSTRACT Migration has long been a response to unfavourable environmental conditions, and an engine for population redistribution. Studies acknowledge that gender influences vulnerability to environmental change and migration. However, there is a paucity of empirical research on the interconnectedness between vulnerability to environmental change and migration from a gendered perspective. Further, studies rarely migration intentions, actual migration and immobility migration in a holistic man...
ABSTRACT A number of research works have investigated civil wars, cannibalistic rituals, the hypocrisy of religion, rawest topics developed by Léonora Miano in her first two novels: L’intérieur de la nuit ( Dark Heart of the night in English) and Contours du jour qui vient. The aim of this study is to identify and analyse the image of women in L’intérieur de la nuit and Contours du jour qui vient, both contemporary works whose main characters were young women: Ayané and Musango respec...
ABSTRACT The environment has since time immemorial been useful to human beings. However, demands of development have put a great deal of pressure on the environment to the point that it is undergoing rapid transformation which conservationists consider an unpleasant phenomenon to human beings. The estab,lishrnent of protected areas (PAs) became, and is, in fact, stiU an important global pmctical conservation tool. PAs exclude livelihood activities because they are incompatible with the conser...
ABSTRACT The study presents a case study on the use of rhetoric in anniversary speeches of heads of Wesley Girls’ Senior High School and St. Augustine’s College in Cape Coast, using Halliday and Matthiessen (2004) model of transitivity and Bhatia’s (1993) genre theory. The results show that anniversary speeches of heads of public Senior High Schools have a six- move structure, with moves two and three used by the schools to persuade audience and promote the schools. It was also found th...
ABSTRACT This study examined the relationships between transformational leadership, transactional leadership, laissez-faire leadership and organizational climate as perceived by workers of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the Accra Office, Ghana. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) 5x and the CFK Ltd. School Climate Profile were adopted, merged and used to design a Leadership-Climate Questionnaire (LCQ) for the collection of data. A census study was conducted, ...
ABSTRACT Plan Ghana as a Non-Governmental Organization in search for a good structure went through re-structuring in 2011 and adopted decentralization strategy, where every Programme Unit operates as a semi-autonomous unit. Study has shown that an appropriate organizational structure is contingent upon the many factors including the environment, in which the organization conducts its business. The major objective of the study is to examine the relationship between the Plan Ghana structure and...