Abstract/Overview A Charitable Children's Institution (CCI) is a home or institution which has been established by a person, corporate, a religious organization or a non-governmental organization and has been granted approval by the National Council for Children's Services (NCCS) to manage programs for the care, protection, rehabilitation or control of children in charitable children' institutions. This is provided for by the Children Act 2001 Section 58. Safety is the relative freedom from ...
Abstract/Overview The term juvenile delinquency has a very extensive meaning and includes rebellious and hostile behavior of children and adolescents and their attitude of indifference towards society. Juvenile delinquency is a problem that only affects not just one particular society; delinquent youth can be found around the globe. Throughout the nineteenth century, moralists and critics warned that newspapers were the cause of juvenile crime. In the 1920s, scholars were alarmed at what the...
Abstract/Overview Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) reduces risk of HIV acquisition in heterosexual relationships. Kenya adopted VMMC as an HIV prevention strategy in 2008 and has been making significant progress towards achievement of its circumcision targets. In Kenya, Nyanza region with the highest HIV prevalence and lowest male circumcision prevalence has been the focus of VMMC activities. The focus of research around VMMC and VMMC associated activities such as HIV education and...
Abstract/Overview In Kenya, electricity is used as a conduit to facilitate poverty eradication by lighting up the rural and marginal areas thus making such areas to be conducive for small and medium business ventures. A closer scrutiny of small scale business ventures undertaken by women in Kisumu County reveal that contrary to the expectation of social and economic transformation as a result of availability of electricity in rural areas, much is yet to be achieved since small scale business...
Abstract/Overview Children hold a unique and privileged position in society. One of the obligations that state parties assume upon assenting to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of Children (ACR WC) is that of ensuring birth registration. The lack of trend data on birth registration in many countries makes it difficult to analyze progress at global and regional levels. However, in Kenya, the value of birth registration as a...
Abstract/Overview Public relations (PR) in Kenya is a significant discipline and a growing industry. However, it still faces many challenges with one of the major challenges is the misconception of PR in the country. Seemingly, many people still confuse public relations for marketing or advertising. Further, firms are yet to fully understand the benefits of PR in their strategic management particularly when employed to their daily operations. Unilever (K) Ltd faced allegations of sexual hara...
Abstract/Overview Advertising is a form of communication and a marketing strategy that marketers can use to make their products known. There are various marketing strategies and communication media today but not all of them are effective, with some even being at risk of being counterproductive. Marketers are always looking for effective communication media and ways of making their marketing strategies effective. This study analyses the impact of baby diaper television advertising on consumer...
Crime as a social phenomenon is a fundamental aspect of all human life. Nigeria has thus been referred to as one of the most crime-prone nations of the world because of its low social security level and social activities which are criminal. Crime can be seen as an “Internal violation of the criminal law and committed without defense or excuse and penalty by state felony or misdemeanor through judicial proceeding” (Toppan, 2004). This study examined A Content Analysis of Four Nigeria Newsp...
Abstract Latent semantic analysis (LSA) application in information retrieval promises to offer better performance by overcoming some limitations that plagues traditional termmatching techniques. These term-matching techniques have always relied on matching query terms with document terms to retrieve the documents having terms matching the query terms. However, by use of these traditional retrieval techniques, users’ needs have not been adequately served. While users want to search through ...
ABSTRACT This study examined the phonological analysis of some selected songs of Olamide. It specifically determine the influence of popular music on the use of English language among Nigerian youths; ascertain the channels of exposure of Popular music among Nigerian youths and examine the lyrics and elements of some selected songs of Olamide A content analysis research design method was employed to quantify and analyze the rhymes, alliteration, consonant, repetition and others in the selec...
ABSTRACT Serial verb construction (SVC) is a notable feature of many West African languages. Let it, however, be mentioned that these constructions are by no means restricted to languages of Africa, as they are also reported to occur in some languages of Asia such as Mandarin Chinese. The study focuses on the analysis of serial verb constructions (SVCs) in Ijebu dialect of Yoruba, a type of construction where two or more verbs are connected without a clear connective morpheme. The purpose ...
ABSTRACT This study assessed charity home activities, needs and excesses: impact factors of reduction of child neglect and abuse and re-integration into society. Descriptive survey research design was adopted in this study. The population was drawn from Blessed Assurance Orphanage Home. 65 respondents participated in the study. The research instrument used for the study was The Multidimensional Neglectful Behavior Scale (MNBS), Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAP), Orphanage Adolescent S...
In the sphere of technicalities in academic writing, syntax plays a huge crucial role in accomplishing technical documents. Syntax is concerned with the goal of producing a consistent, meaningful grammatical structure for the sentence. The participants in this study are the third - year Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English students from Gensantos Foundation College, Inc. enrolled in the first semester for the academic year 2023 – 2024. The method used in this study is facilita...
Abstract This research is entitled “The poem ‘Adha al-Tana’i’ by Ibn Zaydun, a study “Pictorial Literary Studies” is a graduation project that the researcher divided into four chapters, followed by a conclusion. The first chapter contains the basics of research on the reasons for choosing The topic, objectives of the research, its importance, limitations, methodology, and review Previous studies. The second chapter deals with a historical overview of The poet, his culture, his l...
Scholarly researches abound in psychodrama and drama therapy as they relate to people dealing with one form of psychological setback or the other. However, there is a dearth of scholarship and practice in the specific areas using psychodrama and drama therapy in the treatment of children and adolescents dealing with trauma, especially in the present-day political, economic, social, family insecurity and uncertainty in Nigeria. This study evaluates the effectiveness of psychodrama and drama th...