Abstract The Ghana Police Service (GPS) relies to a large extent on human labour. Motivation is critical in service delivery in the area of protection of lives and property, maintenance of law and order, as well as public safety and internal security. This study, therefore, adopted the needs-based theory in examining the perceptions of personnel salary, training, promotion and fringe benefits as a set of motivational tools. In addition, study assesses the perceptions of personnel of manageria...
ABSTRACT Globally, there has been a huge outcry on the need to enhance women political participation because women have been marginalized for far too long. In this regard, gender inequality in all sphere of our society has received international attention and acceptance. For many years, women and other feminists’ groups have fought hard to create room for equal participation of both men and women in the political arena. Their effort has come with a marginal improvement of women’s particip...
ABSTRACT Oil discovery in developing nations is usually met with celebrations and excitement but is later turned into disappointment. This study investigated the socio-economic impact of the oil and gas discovery in Ghana on both Atuabo and Sanzule in the Ellembelle District. The objectives of the study were to explore the changes in the two communities after the oil and gas discovery, to examine how oil and gas discovery has changed family lives, opportunity for work, education and finally t...
ABSTRACT Agriculture is the main pillar of Ghana’s development and the majority of food producers are women. However, women and men do not always have equal access to farmlands. Disparities in access and control over agricultural productive resources contribute to a high incidence of poverty especially for women. This study therefore used Abokobi in the Ga-East Municipality as a case to examine the gender difference in access to and use of farmland. The objectives of the study were to exami...
ABSTRACT This study came about as a result the identification of the persisting problem of teenage pregnancy in La. The study sought to assess adolescents’ knowledge, perception and attitudes of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in the La community. To achieve this purpose, 386 teenagers (15-19 years) living in La were purposively selected from schools as well as some key informants (counsellors and peer educators) through a multi stage sampling technique. Data was gathered from the stud...
ABSTRACT Employee job description is critical for ensuring the performance of employees in an organization. Specifically, the study aimed at identifying the practices of employee job description, evaluating the work performance of employees, and examining the association between job description and work performance at the NHIA. A structured, self-administered questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 168 workers at various departments and units at the Authority. From the findings of the st...
ABSTRACT Many households in Ghana especially rural households experience high poverty and low income. Therefore, as a strategy to ensure that the basic needs of the household are met, children may be forced to participate in the labour market despite the consequences associated with it. Poor households may adopt the use of children in child labour as livelihood strategy. This study examines the relationship between child labour, poverty and health using descriptive statistics and probit regre...
The objective of the study was to provide empirical evidence regarding the impact of vertical integration on the financial performance of Olam Nigeria Limited. Data collected were gotten from Olam Nigeria Limited financial record and questionnaires administered to employees of Olam Nigeria Limited within the study sample frame. The secondary data was cross-sectional between the period of 2010-2018. While the administered questionnaire was to 183 employees of Olam selected using convenien...
More than 60 peace operations have deployed in Africa since 2000, including multiple African-led or hybrid African Union/United Nations initiatives. The frequency of these deployments underscores the ongoing importance of these operations in the playbook of regional and multilateral bodies to prevent conflict, protect civilians, and enforce ceasefires and peace agreements. The study presents a critical review of the concept of the mechanism of United Nations operations, as one of the emergent...
Agricultural products like Cocoa, Palm Kernel/ Oil, Groundnut, Cotton, Timber amongst others, formed the bedrock of the Nigerian economy in the pre-independence period. Hence, non-oil exports sustained the Nigerian economy and served as the source of the country's foreign exchange earnings from around 1 900 up to 1965. However, the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantity resulted to a decline in the agricultural sector. Revenue generated from the non oil export began to declin...
Financial matters are so important that they receive constitutional recognition. To avoid abuse, the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, provides a series of checks and balances over public finance by sharing financial responsibilities among the Executive, the legislature and the Office of the Auditor-General. The research sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the checks and balances on public finance in Plateau State. The research also set out to recommend measures t...
The emergence of Abuja as an urban centre today is traceable to the quest for a new capital city for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This quest became pronounced and received government attention in the mid-70s when, the then nation's capital city, Lagos, was increasingly becoming choked up and thus inconvenient to continue serving the nation in that capacity. Inter alia, traffic congestion, housing and environmental pollution, poor topography, etc continued to afflict both the smooth a...
This study investigated how ownership of television stations, the social structure of the Nigerian society and the deregulation of the broadcasting industry influence the reportage and presentation of news on television in the country. The research further investigated how preferential access in news reportage is given to different social classes in Nigeria. The methodology for this research is both through use of primary sources: Focus Group Discussions (FGDs); Semi-structured Intervie...
ABSTRACT The relevance of political brand relationship has been widely acknowledged in political marketing. This work is an extension of brand relationship theories to electoral markets. The study seeks to determine relationship variables and to examine their influence on voter relationship with political parties. This study attempts to identify and categorise relationship forces using an approach that is based on Fournier‟s brand relationship frameworks. The thesis applies qualitativ...
Abstract Sexual and Reproductive Health Education (SRHE) has become an important phenomenon that has attracted the attention of researchers worldwide, including Ghana. The upward surge in teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections has warranted the need for parents and other stakeholders to educate adolescents on their sexual and reproductive health. Accordingly, the study investigated adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health education among adolescents at Awukugua. The object...