CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Study Education major tool for national socio-economic development and individual monic empowerment and poverty reduction (Jekayinfa, 2000). The tal system is vital because it produces the personnel that are required in various facets of the national life and the development process. The goals orientation, employment generation, poverty reduction and value reorientation or~ffectively pursued, attained and sustained only through an efficient", reI -functional educati...
The main objective of this study is to study the security challenges in the Gulf of Guinea and the role of the U.S-African command have played in cobbling activities of terrorist groups in the region. This paper tries to explore the great power hegemony of the U.S and other world powers over Africa and the importance of the USA military presence in Africa. It goes further to expose the root causes of poverty in the Niger Delta and poverty as an influencer of terrorism. This paper concludes t...
Despite being an extremely active area for academic research, publishing and patent applications, nanotechnology development is being hindered by current intellectual property (IP) law. Patenting of basic science and entire classes of nanotechnologies with overly broad claims is leading to higher transaction costs, slower and sub-optimal technical development and the removal of obvious knowledge from the public domain. This effectively hamstrings the current primal nanotechnology development,...
TABLE OF CONTENTTitle page iCertification iiDedication iiiAcknowledgement ivTable of content vAbstract viCHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION1.1 Background to the study 1.2 Statement of the problem 1.3 Aims and objectives of the study 1.4 Scope of the study 1.5 Limitation and constraints to the study CHAPTER TWOLITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Conceptual issue in micro finance industry 2.2 Rational for the establishment of microfinance 2.3 F...
This work seek to expose the reasons for the study of Intellectual Property Law.
CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INRODUCTION INTRODUCTION This study of research work attempt to evaluate the role of small and medium scale enterprises in rural poverty reduction of Kano state, using tailoring services in sumaila local government as a case study it is well known that sumaila area in which the predominant economic activities have been tailoring for several decades. Majority of the people living in the area both old and young are engaged in this activity. It went to the extent that eight ...
ABSTRACT This study was specifically designed to assess the role of Civil• Society Organisations in the resettlement Programme in northern Uganda, taking Moroto County as a case study. This particular part of Uganda had registered a large number of IDPs. This provides palatable ground for data collection in lieu of the role of CSOs in resettlement programme. The study focuses on the contributions made by the CSOs in the resettlement programme in Moroto County. It further seeks to identify...
ABSTRACT This thesis is an in-depth study of the poetic qualities of one distinctive form of Igbo traditional poetry, namely the traditional elegiac poetry, abu akwamosu. In Chapter 1, after a general survey of Igbo traditional poetry there follows a brief review of the existing literature on this material as well as a critical look at the classification. Chapter 2 starts with a discussion of the sociological background of Igbo traditional elegiac poetry. The emphasis here is on the significa...
ABSTRACT Property management is a concept that deals with the daily management of a real property to add value to it throughout its lifespan. Real property, including buildings, roads, and land, need to be appropriately managed to ensure the developers obtain maximum returns on investment. Roads are a public real property which not only serve as a means of transportation but also serves as a major tool for the development of an economy. This real property will thus need to be managed properly...
1.0INTRODUCTION The need to develop micro economic activities that could enhance self-reliance as a strategy for reducing poverty becomes so pronounced that the three arms of government (Federal, state and local government) come up with various initiatives. Among these were programs and policies that aimed at: -Stimulating economics growth through the engagement, of semi-skilled and unskilled labour in production activities -Immediate reduction of social vices and tension in the society by ...
ABSTRACT Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a public health problem in Ghana, leading to blindness. Year-round access to Vitamin Arich foods will curb its incidence. This study sought to identify appropriate processing, preservation and fortification methods to enhance E-carotene retention in foods towards VAD alleviation. Carrots were steamed, blanched in water, NaHS03, NaCl or alkali rocksalt (Kanwa) solutions. Amaranthus and Xanthosoma leaves were blanched in a range of kanwa solutions (0-0.1%)...
ABSTRACT Oral literature is an unwritten relation that encapsulates African values and aspiration through which their philosophy, customs, beliefs, history etc. are preserved and transmitted from one generation to another by word of mouth. The critical examination of festivals in Nigeria presents highly Aesthetics performances, debunking the Euro Centric assertion that Africans have no literature. The focus of this research work is to attempt/investigate the aesthetic value of Osun festival...
ABSTRACT This study analysed the linguistic devices employed in The Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPP) document which was launched in 2016. The study aimed to explore the discursive ways in which the devices were employed to persuade readers. It employed the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach and the Systemic Functional Linguistic theory to analyse the linguistic devices. Various linguistic devices are employed in the policy document, however, the researcher selected five (emotive, impera...
ABSTRACT Although recent statistics reveal a decline in poverty in Ghana, many people still live below the poverty line. Rural small-holder food crop farmers are the most vulnerable groups affected by poverty. This is due to their limited access to micro-credits. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is a Non Governmental Organization in Ghana and has been working with small-holder farmers in the Yilo Krobo District with the aim of improving rural income and improving the well-be...
ABSTRACT 80% of the Kenyan Population live in the rural areas and are involved in agriculture on a subsistence basis. This represents a lack of enterprise culture that accounts for the poverty in the rural areas. In order to eradicate poverty in the rural areas the subsistence farmers need be made to adopt an enterprise culture by practicing their main economic activity as a business enterprise. GOK,(2005) To attain this the factors that account for the lack of entrepreneurial behaviour amon...