ABSTRACT The duties and responsibilities as well as the work environment of contemporary public secondary school administrators in Southwestern Nigeria make them vulnerable to high level of occupational stress. This affects not only their mental and physical health but also the entire functioning of the secondary school system, raising concern among stakeholders. Previous studies have identified sources, dimensions and use of some psychological interventions in managing occupational stress w...
ABSTRACT The task of combining motherhood with the demands of academic life is a difficult one. Academic women continue to have primary responsibility for housework, childcare and for instilling cultural values in the next generation. These social responsibilities, coupled with demands of academic life create a role conflict. The study aimed at finding out the challenges faced by student nursing mothers in tertiary institutions in the Greater Accra Region and the strategies they adopt to cop...
ABSTRACT Solid waste management (SWM) is becoming a major issue in most cities as a result of rapid urbanization and population growth. The provision of this public service had formally been the sole responsibility of central government. However, with theory of participation and decentralisation, the municipal authority has to seek new arrangements with the private sector. The purpose of the study was to evaluate Zoomlion Ghana‟s participation in solid waste management in Ablekuma Central s...
ABSTRACT Since the United Nations Declaration of the Decade for Women in 1975 following the global outcry of poor and low participation of women in decision making and in politics in the 1980s, the Government of Ghana with its institutions and international donor agencies and organisations started increasing their focus on empowering women by providing Non-Formal Education (NFE) programmes. This was to raise the women’s consciousness and to build their capacities and skills. The value assum...
ABSTRACT Ghana has considerable problems with road safety which manifest in the numerous incidences of road accidents. In the past, road safety management was characterized by dispersed, uncoordinated, and insufficiently resourced institutional units performing isolated single functions by individual departments within the Ministry of Roads and Transport. Currently, the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), Police MTTU and DVLA together with other stakeholder organizations were mandated to ...
Abstract The campaign for improved sanitation is increasingly threatened as people’s existing knowledge and attitudes seem not to promote proper sanitation practices. Environmental sanitation has become a problem to the extent that it has engaged the attention of authorities as well as concerned citizens. As a result, over the years Ghana failed to achieve her set sanitation target. One area that has suffered from this problem is the market places. The study sought to find out the knowledge...
ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to look at self-help development in relation to the role that has been played by The District Assembly in that direction. Seven research questions and three hypotheses were studied. Descriptive statistics and the Chi-Square (X2) statistic were used to analyse the data. The study took into consideration the independent and dependent variables of interest in this study. The study found out that one way of empowering the people to engage in self-help...
ABSTRACT This study set out to determine the effectiveness of contingency approach to the management of a multicampus institution of higher technical education in Nigeria. This was with a view to making policy recommendations for more effective management of the tertiary institutions in the Country.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to determine the factors leading to wastages among distance learners of the Teachers' Grade II Programme of the National Teachers' Institute Kaduna. This is with a view to finding possible Solutions to reducing the failure rate and increase the rate of retention. The data collected through the instruments used were analysed with the chi-square and analyses of variance (ANOVA) to determine the influence of the various factors on the failure and retention rate of th...
ABSTRACT Low Job Involvement (JI) of civil servants has impacted negatively on individual and organisational goal achievement in the civil service. Low JI has brought about low productivity which eventually affects the rates of economic growth and development. Previous studies have largely focused on JI in the private enterprise with associated personal variables with little attention on combined organisational and individual factors. This study, therefore, examined the extent to which organ...
ABSTRACT Unemployment and employment generation have attracted the interests of governments and other stakeholders of many nations. Governments at all levels in Nigeria have introduced various unemployment intervention programmes which have not achieved total result. Among such are the intervention programmes of the Bureau of employment generation (BEG) in Ogun State since 2003. While these employment generation programmes (EGPs) of BEG have been internally assessed, there has not been an ex...
ABSTRACT The issue of access to university education has been a great concern to the government, scholars, university institutions and the society at large. Studies have shown that public universities have been admitting less than twenty percent of applicants owing to low funding, inadequate infrastructure, poor quality and limited space available for applicants. This has prompted the participation of private institutions in the provision of university education. However, with over a decade ...
ABSTRACT There are lots of constraints facing dry season vegetable production in Nigeria which can be corrected using the group-based extension services platform. Previous studies have focused on individual extension approaches that can only attend to one farmer at a time, thus limiting information dissemination. This study, therefore, investigated the effects of Farmers-Field School (FFS) and Demonstration Extension Methods (DEM) on knowledge and production of vegetables among dry season fa...
ABSTRACT The scraping of the Teachers Grade II certificate programme places great responsibilities on Nigerian Colleges of Education (COEs) in providing manpower with the minimum entry qualification to enter into the teaching profession in the country. The increasing demands for the Nigeria Certificate of Education (NCE) have forced COEs to establish part-time programmes with flexible admission criteria. Despite this, there exists low participation of women in these programmes; a situation p...
ABSTRACT Women are now occupying leadership positions regardless of the existing glass ceiling and other barriers. This has however been demonstrated to be having positive impacts on the job performance of the generality of women and especially the print media houses. Previous studies rather than focusing on the psycho-social factors that enhance women‘s performance in the sector, had concentrated more on issues of work-life balancing, leadership and financing. This study, therefore, inves...