Abstract: Ticks and the microbes they transmit have emerged in sub-Saharan Africa as a major threat to veterinary and public health. Although progress has been made in detecting and identifying tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) across vast agroecologies of Kenya, comprehensive information on tick species infesting cattle and their associated pathogens in coastal Kenya needs to be updated and expanded. Ticks infesting extensively grazed zebu cattle in 14 villages were sampled and identified based o...
This study is concerned with the evaluation of the roles played by Non-governmental organizations in the advocacy for women human rights in Nigeria. The objective of the study includes identification of the specific objectives and programmes of the NGOs towards advocacy for women's human rights and the impacts of NGOs towards discrimnation against women and also the challenges faced by the NGOs in achieving their women's human rights advocacy. The data collection instrumenta include questi...
Background of theStudy Marriage is a legal union of a man and women as husband and wife. It is usually formalized through some type of solemnization, which may be wedding in the church, mosque or contracted in the registry or in accordance with native laws and custom. It is a life-long union full of expectations and obligations. One of these obligations is the expectation that each should help the other to grow, to promote a life of fidelity and sincerity to each other so that the m...
The research was carried out in Oderai parish Soroti sub county, Soroti District. The study was about the domestic violence and stability of families, a case study of Soroti Sub County. The objectives of the study were to find out the forms of domestic violence, to identify the major causes of domestic violence and to find out the measures for preventing domestic violence to create stable families. The methods used in data collection were structured administered questionnaire and interview gu...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate challenges facing teachers in implementing the mother tongue as a medium of instruction in Gweru urban primary schools which enrol learners from diverse language backgrounds. The objectives of the study were to solicit challenges facing teachers in implementing the mother tongue policy and to find out the measures that have been taken to enhance implementation of the language policy. The research study was confined to Muwunga cluster in Gw...
In today`s dynamic world, the role of talent management has become critical for attaining organizational strategic goals. Having said that, the nexus of effective talent management and employee performance has been one of the core topics in human resource empirical research encompassing diverse variables and mechanisms. Hence, the current paper offers a review of extant empirical literature discussing the talent management and employee performance paradigm. The review has been carried out in ...
Effectiveness of the audit committee to quality financial reporting in Nigeria. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Financial reporting is the preparation of published report for users of financial statements. Theissues relating to financial reporting could be traced back to 1975 with the advent of what wasthen known as corporate report, in England. In Nigeria, following the increasing demand forfinancial information on companies, financial reporting h...
ABSTRACT Stigma complicates the prevention and control of HIV worldwide as it adversely affects the care seeking practices among People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). In Nigeria HIV stigmarelated practices experienced by PLWHA have not been adequately investigated. This study therefore focused on HIV-related stigma, discrimination and coping mechanisms among PLWHA receiving treatment at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria. The study was a cross-sectional survey. Systematic r...
Abstract This study sets motion for systematic academic investigations on the Algiers Charter of 1975 and film production in Zimbabwe and Africa at large. The charter stipulates that filmmakers should be committed to the development of an ‘African’ cinema, radically different from previous cinematic representations of Africa by the Western world, rejecting commercial influence. Despite the centrality of the charter in film production, systematic academic studies on the phenomenon in the Z...
ABSTRACT The major objective of the study was to identify the role of guidance and counselling and the trends of children on the streets in Kampala. Then study used both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, in which questionnaires and interview guide were used to collect data from the respondents. Research question one sought to find out the factors responsible for the high number of street children in Kampala. The study findings revealed that; lack of school fees, divorce, p...
Abstract The status of women in Islam is clear and very unambiguous. Concerns are often raised about the status of women in Islamic law. Frequently, misunderstandings and misinterpretations about how women are handled by Islam are used to encourage. the notion that Islam is misogynistic in the western world. Consequently, the objectives of this study to identify the misinterpretation, misconceptions of woman's rights in Islamic and to provide appropriate refutations for the misconceptions....
ABSTRACT A qualitative study to investigate the school influence on learners with hearing impairments was carried amongst primary school teachers Shinyalu division, Kakamega East district in Kenya. The following objectives guided the study; to identify the number of learners with hearing impairments who are currently in regular schools. To establish the teachers attitude towards learners with hearing Impairments, to establish whether the teachers teaching learners with hearing impairments i...
ABSTRACT Stem rust (Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici- Pgt) disease is currently one of the major biotic constraints in wheat (Triticum aestivum) production worldwide. Access to diverse sources of genetic resistance is important in building a broad base resistance to stem rust in our commercial wheat varieties. The obejectives of this study were (i) to screen wheat genotypes from diverse origins for both seedling (SPR) and adult plant resistance (APR) to the predominant Ug99 race and its varia...
INTRODUCTION As the marriage in Islam is contract between two parties it is clear that it shall continue only so long as the parties carryout the terms and conditions of the contract. But if both or either of them should fail to carryout the term or fulfill their duties towards each other, then the contract may be broken. This is what we called divorce or Talaq. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0INTRODUCTION 1.1STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 1.2SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 1.3PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 1...
ABSTRACT Employing the transitivity framework of the ideational metafunction, this study explored the language of the Sermon on the Mount, found in Matthew chapters 5-7, from the perspective of grammar. To ascertain the predominant process types that were used and the participants that roles were assigned to, the study used two out of the three grammatical components that the framework proposes which are the process types and the participants. This was done to show how the grammatical choices...