ABSTRACT The insurgency caused by Boko Haram’s insurgency is among the primary challenges faced by Nigeria. The group’s activities in the North have resulted in thousands of casualties, the displacement of more than one million people, the destruction of hundreds of schools, mosques, churches and government establishments and have ravaged the economy of the region. This study analyzed Boko Haram insurgency and Human Rights violation in North Eastern Nigeria. Accordingly, the study was g...
The research project was undertaken to determine the performance of donor funded projects in Mwingi-sub-county in Kenya. Donors play a crucial role in the development process in many areas of the world. They assist nations with acute shortage of funds, experiencing natural disasters like hunger and floods among others which results into predictable environmental circumstances, the level of the citizens per capital income decreases and severely limits their ability to acquire the goods and ser...
ABSTRACT In light of the current literature on green grabbing, this study is motivated by the need to understand whether TFCAs are characterized by green grabbing and what form they take if indeed they are unfolding there. It investigated the modes of land control and transfer - within the Lesotho component of the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area and South Africa’s Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area – in order to explore the politics of land in TFCAs thro...
ABSTRACT In several quarters, there have been allegation making round, that state governments use their state Broadcast media as propaganda machinery. The focus is to investigate such allegation using Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) radio/TV as a case study. The study was based on critical theory by staurt Hall. The theory views the means by which the “haves of society gain the willing support of the “have nots” to maintain the status quo. The study uses empirical method ob...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the extent of participation of girls in basic education in the Eastern part of the Nadowli District in the Upper West Region of Ghana and to examine the reasons for that level of participation. Two sets of data were used in the investigation. These data were documentary data and interview data. The respondents comprised parents of pupils, female girls in basic schools, school dropouts, head teachers of the selected basic schools and the Nadowl...
ABSTRACT Farmer groups (FGs) approach is seen as a fundamental solution to income poverty and food insecurity. On the basis of a data set on “Contribution of FGs to household income”, this dissertation analyses the extent to which farmer groups alleviate both income poverty to small scale farmers who are rural poor in four villages in Iramba District. The overall objective of the study was to determine the contribution of FGs to household income. A cross-sectional design was adopted wher...
ABSTRACT This study explored the perspectives of farmers in the Shai Osu-Doku district about social security pensions in the Informal Sector. On the whole Small Holder Farmers are known to be low irregular income earners who despite their entire years of contributing to GDP, employment and the food basket in Ghana lope into abject poverty at old age. Social security pensions become a necessary tool for securing the minimal meaningful livelihood of farmers at old age. The study purposed to asc...
The objective of the study was to establish the factors associated with child drop out in government aided primary schools in Rukungiri District. The study focused on both males and females between the ages of 6 and 12 years during the UNHS survey year (2012/1 3). The Analysis was done using frequency distribution and cross tabulation. In the results, Out of the 63 total children aged between 6 and 12 in Rukungiri District that were found in the survey, a total of 9 children were reported to ...
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of domestic violence on girl child education in Lira District. The objectives of the study were to investigate whether drunkardness affects girl child education in lira municipality; to find out the extent to which unfaithfulness affects girl child education in lira District and to assess the effect of poverty on girl child education in lira District. The methods used for data collection were questionnaires to the major respondents and int...
ABSTRACT This study, aimed at examining the contribution of the informal sector to youth poverty reduction. By analyzing the contribution provided by the youth as well as other stakeholders and the government, the study also intended to assess the trading situations of small scale trade which could influence and hence impact the level of youth participation as well as their contribution in the informal sector. The study was conducted at Mbugani and Mirongo Ward of the Nyamagana district in M...
ABSTRACT African nations have been characterized by conflicts, total war, slave trade, poverty of the highest order, corrupt leadership, undeveloped infrastructures, indisciplined society, we can go on to mention as many as the vices that estranged the continent. It is an irony to see all these in African continent, where civilization of the world began. For all these calamities that befell Africa, I sometimes wonder, if that is why the observation of our God in Genesis 6:5 was made. “The L...
ABSTRACT African nations have been characterized by conflicts, total war, slave trade, poverty of the highest order, corrupt leadership, undeveloped infrastructures, indisciplined society, we can go on to mention as many as the vices that estranged the continent. It is an irony to see all these in African continent, where civilization of the world began. For all these calamities that befell Africa, I sometimes wonder, if that is why the observation of our God in Genesis 6:5 was made. “The L...
SYNOPSIS Property rating is not a new phenomenon in history; it is as old as a man himself. The payment of tax was originated as man learnt to live together in an organized community. In Africa society for instance, grown up males are often participating in a communal labor to maintain the path way leading to village, farm kinds, construction of roads, public square. In view of the above historical facts, Abeokuta North Local Government Area is been involved in the course of rating exercise. ...
ABSTRACT Ensuring food security is a global significant challenge despite struggles to increase agricultural productivity, food distribution and identify appropriate policy interventions to cub food shortage. The recent recurrent incidences of food deficit in Kenya have placed the nation among the 20 most food insecure countries in the world. Food insecurity in the country is a prevalent issue since approximately 84% the country’s landmass is covered by arid and semi-arid land. Achieving su...