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Family Instability And Juvenile Delinquency: A Study Of Owerri Municipality

ABSTRACT The increasing rate of juvenile delinquency has become a major social problem globally and locally. Researchers and concerned individuals have traced the preponderance of juvenile delinquency to the increasing rate of family instability among other factors. However, concerted inquiries into the influence of family instability on juvenile delinquency have resulted in a raging controversy. While some researchers have found a significant relationship between family instability and juve...

Oil Management And The Resource Curse In Uganda: A Case Study Of Hoima District

ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between oil management and the resource curse in Hoima District. The study was premised on three specific objectives: to analyze the relationship between planning for oil exploration/production and a resource curse in Hoima District, to examine the relationship between coordination of oil exploration/production and a resource curse in Hoima District and to assess the relationship between monitoring of oil exploration/production and a resource curs...

Lifestyle, Perception of Health and Blood Pressure among Accra’s Urban Poor

ABSTRACT Lifestyle behaviors are the major determinants of risk factors such as high blood pressure and also a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. These lifestyles include tobacco use, poor diet, physical inactivity and excessive alcohol consumption. Perception of health is an important and valid measure of people’s general wellbeing. Perceived health status does not replace or substitute actual health outcomes but rather complements it. Now more than ever, hypertension is the single ...

Influence Of Corporate Governance Compliance Programs And Performance Of State Corporations In Kenya: The Case Of National Social Security Fund (Nssf

ABSTRACT State corporations are reluctant to provide concrete incentives for implementation of corporate compliance programmes. Currently, compliance is achieved by hiring expensive auditors who typically use a heuristic approach to select and investigate audit trails to show evidence about compliance. In addition to the impact on the organization’s budget, compliance checking with this approach incurs a large overhead in terms of time consumed to check for compliance. The objectives of the...

Bureaucracy and National Integration in Nigeria: An Appraisal of the Federal Character Policy

ABSTRACT This study was prompted by the recurrent Jnter-ethnic crises that have become a common feature of our national life. It was observed that the better part of the forty years of political independence in Nigeria has witnessed a disturbing trend of ethnic nationalism that has continued to threaten her corporate existence. This development, notwithstanding the interpretation that many observers may have given it, simply underscores the inability of the Nigerian political system to accom...

Occupational Safety And Health Status In The Informal Non-Food Manufacturing Sector In Kampala City, Uganda

ABSTRACT The informal sector is an engine of growth with more than 1.8 billion people globally and one billion workers in developing countries producing a greater portion of GD (25-60%) in developing countries. It provides employment opportunities to majority of the population in both developing and developed countries. However the sector is unregulated and recorded in government statistics. There are high and tragic incidences of occupational related accidents and injuries that go unabated i...

Analysis And Evaluation Of Network Intrusion Detection Methods; A Case Of Anomaly Detection And Signature Detection Approaches

ABSTRACT Many Network administrators and network analysts in organizations do not know which intrusion detection system to use. This is partly due to the fact that there is no clear comparison between the different intrusion detection systems. Therefore. organizations need concrete comparisons between different tools in order to choose which best suitc for their needs is. This research aims at comparing anomaly with signature detection methods in order to establish which is best suited to gua...

A Comparative Analysis of Digital Diplomacy by the Obama Administration to the Trump Administration and Its Influence On Effective U.S. Foreign Policy

Abstract: The world is continually hearing about the unrelenting expansion of the use of digital technologies like social media around the globe. The relevance of social media channels to diplomacy goes far beyond usage numbers. The universal use of social media has important strategic implications for the diplomatic community because it has fundamentally changed the ways that governments engage with their citizens and position themselves on the global stage. Social media has fundamentally i...

EFFECT OF PRIVATALIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF GOVERNMENT OWNED INDUSTRIES IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY

ABSTRACT Emphasis on affects of privatization and commercialization of government owned industries in developing Economy. (A case study of Nitel Enugu) in order to emulate a concrete result the researcher constricted questionnaire. At the end of the work the research result in identifying some effects emanating from privatization and commercialization and among them are  Increase in employment due to GSM  Increase in productivity an efficient. Reduction in government expenditure.  Increas...

THE IMPACT OF STAFF CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL IMAGE (A CASE STUDY OF UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA (UBA) PLC)

 ABSTRACT Since the abstract is a précised summary of what is actually done in a project it then means that the following information should be contained there in the topic under study location.  The statement of problem the research questions and research hypothesis also carried out relevant literature review of the topic under study  for purpose of carry out this study a questionnaire was designed with concrete validity and reliability. Relevant data were collected from the respondent...

Aflatoxin B1 Affects Kenyan Markets: How It Can be Managed

Abstract/Overview Aflatoxin B1 is a toxin produced as secondary fungal metabolites by the fungus Aspergillus, particularly A. flavus. The toxin has significantly contaminated the food supply chain especially cereals in Kenya. Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has recently banned five maize flour brands, citing high aflatoxin levels. They also suspended seven peanut butter products and the permits of their parent companies over aflatoxin contamination. The huge losses encountered by these c...

Terrorism: A Threat to Security and Human Existence

Terrorism attracted a lot of attention in recent year. Many theories have been  developed by scholars to explain terrorism, its causes, while people resort to extreme violence to make their point. This paper examines some selected theories that could help us gain insight into terrorism and various activities associated with it. One of the major recommendation made by this paper is that terrorism  as a global issue require  increased global attention. There must be concerted effort from bo...

Teachers’ Practice In Diverse Classrooms And Inclusive Education; A Case Of Selected Secondary Schools In Tabora Municipal

ABSTRACT This phenomenological case study documents teachers‟ perception and practice of inclusive education and the barriers they encounter in twelve public secondary schools in Tabora municipality. The study is framed with socio-cultural theory and paradigm shift model. Questionnaires, structured interview schedule and focus group discussions with teachers elicited data on: teachers‟ perception; strategies they use; and the challenges they encounter as they practice inclusive education...

ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY AND THIRD WORLD UNDER DEVELOPMENT (NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE)

ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between the third world countries and the western capitalist countries. It shows dependency as a phenomenon or problem of relationship that gave rise to the economic growth and development of the western world in expense of the third world societies which are economically underdeveloped, and lack  the capacity  and ability to control the economic system or productive processes of the societies. In our attempt to analyze and address this problem ...

Teaching History Out Of The Box: Exploring Into Effective Teaching And Learning Of History. A Case Of Zhombe East Cluster Of Secondary Schools.

ABSTRACT History is a core subjects studied in Zimbabwean secondary schools from form one to form four. History is also studied at Advanced level as an Art subject. Students who proceed to tertiary education especially technical and teachers colleges are obliged to study National Strategies Studies which takes its components from the History subject. Hence the study of History at secondary level provides a concrete foundation for these students. Thus the subject need to be taught and lea...


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