ABSTRACT The ongoing breakdown of the extended family support system and the economic hardships brought about by the Economic Recovery Programmes of the 1980s have contributed to visible expressions of urban poverty. These are manifested in two types of precarious urban settlements which have sprung up throughout many parts of Accra, the slum and the non-slum. This study perceives the latter as homelessness. It analyses its nature, causes and responses from the public towards the phenomenon. ...
Abstract Architecture is a social form of art while literature can either be a written or verbal form of art. Reflecting on the literature of a particular region can help to better understand the fundamental basics of the architecture of such region. Just as the Architecture of a region is a reflection of the people’s culture and way of life, Literature more often than not is also a written or verbal documentation of life experiences and narratives that may cut across culture, lifestyl...
ABSTRACT The Rohingya Muslims have been persecuted for numerous years without justification. This dissertation takes a look at their origin story, their plight over the years, various allegations leveled against them, and the response from the international community. An analysis of the Identity and Citizenship Crisis has also been carried out based on the Ontological Security Theory and recommendations have been made to address the plight of the Rohingya Muslims. The study finds that the pre...
ABSTRACT The study was to assess employees’ attitudes towards work and the effects these attitudes have on their job performance. The study employed the quantitative approach using forty- eight (48) respondents from Koforidua Technical University made up of male and female administrative staff both of the senior and junior level forming the target group for the study. Questionnaires administered to these sampled group examined employee attitudes on three phases namely, employee attitudes to...
ABSTRACT Business today operates in a global environment. The flow of goods and services along the logistics chain in the port industry is critical for the survival of businesses. The study was based on the Analysis of the Supply Chain Security in Tema Port. The main objective of the study was to assess the applicability of some of the selected Supply Chain Security Programs in Tema Port. A number of Supply chain security programs were reviewed and one of these were identified as the ISPS Cod...
ABSTRACT Globally, mining activities are mostly deemed to affect the environment negatively especially in developing countries. In view of this, it is important to examine the security implication of immigrant’s participation in the mining sector in Ghana with emphasis on Adaase mining community. The research design adopted for the study was a mixed method. The sample size was made up of 105 respondents selected through simple random sampling technique. Instruments used for the study were s...
ABSTRACT In the context of increasing rural-urban migration, real estate development is becoming fast-emerging as the desire for shelter and individual abode increases. This development has given rise to a high volume of developmental activities. Development project have a few attributes, for example, time limit, budgetary imperatives and financial necessities, individual authoritative and legitimate conditions, intricacy and orderly qualities, so every project in itself is an interesting fra...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of code-switching as a pedagogical strategy by tutors and students of Dambai College of Education, Dambai. The study looks at the reasons behind the code-switching in the English Language classroom, when code-switching occurs in the English Language classroom and the functions of code-switching in the English Language classroom in Dambai College of Education. The study mainly employed qualitative approach in data collection, analysi...
ABSTRACT English as a Second Language (ESL) writing is a challenge to most of the learners in the Ghanaian schools. This study was carried out to investigate the concord problems among students of Gwriman Senior High School, Bamiankor in the Nzema East District. The purpose was to find out the nature and causes of these concord errors which involved subject- verb agreement in students' use of English language especially in writing. The students who participated in the study were students of G...
ABSTRACT This is a qualitative study that analyzed common concord errors in the written essays of Basic 7 pupils of Bulinga Basic School in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region of Ghana. The data used for the analysis comprised pupils’ written essays. From this, a total of 153 errors were identified. Seven error types were identified and they include: Subject verb concord errors, Determiner nouns concord errors, coordinated subject concord errors, Noun pronoun concord errors, In...
ABSTRACT Reading is an essential skill that every child of school age should acquire. The reason is that students who are able to read very well and understand what is read often perform better academically than their counterparts who struggle to read. This clearly demonstrates that there is a very close relationship between reading and academic performance. Hence the researcher’s interest to investigate how reading influences the academic performance of students, especially some first year...
ABSTRACT Takoradi Market Circle is currently experiencing poor environmental sanitation. Open spaces and gutters around the market place are littered with garbage, which in most cases clogs drains thereby creating conditions for disease vectors and posing health risks to traders. The main objective of the study was to assess the sanitation practices of traders in the Takoradi Market Circle. The convenient sampling technique was used to select 90 respondents to whom questionnaire were administ...
ABSTRACT Pension scheme providers in Ghana adopt different asset allocation (the proportion of pension funds that need to be invested into different assets like equities and bonds) as an investment strategy. For instance, SSNIT seems to adopt a 60% bond allocation (fixed income investment) and 30% equity allocation (non-fixed income investment) as an investment strategy over the last decade. This study investigates the role of fixed income in pension schemes investment in Ghana by specificall...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to analyze the school system in the Sekyere Central District of Ghana to reveal the various types of leadership styles being practiced by head teachers of primary schools and relationship between these leadership styles teachers’ level of job satisfaction. This was to determine the extent to which Democratic, Autocratic and Laissez faire leadership influenced teachers’ job satisfaction. The sample size of the study was 66 teachers. The study adopted ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide an understanding on how the issue of low staff remuneration is affecting the job satisfaction of the employees of Bank of Africa-Ghana. Respondents were randomly selected and structured questionnaires were distributed to them to complete over a period of one to two weeks depending on the respondents availability and readiness. At the end of the retrieval all of the questionnaires totaling 50 were used for the research as none of the questionnai...