ABSTRACT The delivery of waste management and building permit has engaged the attention of governments, development partners and citizens because of its deleterious consequences on public health, the environment and socio-economic development. Several frameworks and regulations including the Local Governance Act, 936 (2016), Environmental Sanitation Policy (1999), National Building Regulations, LI 1630 (1996), and the Town and Country Planning Ordinance of 1945 (Cap 84) have been i...
ABSTRACT The aim of the study is to examine the impact of performance appraisal system on employee’s performance, at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA). The study adopted the descriptive survey design and employed the quantitative research approach. The population of the study was staff at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Convenience sampling technique was used to select the respondents. The study used questionnaire to collect data from the respondents. Data processing was do...
ABSTRACT Electricity continues to be a major contributor to the development of the economy of every country, Ghana not exempted. There is, therefore, growing interest to ensure that the supply of electricity meets the demand in all sectors of the Ghanaian economy. The economic costs and environmental issues underpinning electricity is, however, a huge bottleneck to the aspirations of Ghana as a country. The study seeks to explore a long-term (2018 to 2048) comprehensive energy supply strateg...
ABSTRACT This study examined pension reforms and retirement income security for Ghanaian workers. The study also considered how the three-tier pension scheme is positioned to meet the retirement needs of informal sector workers. Using a qualitative research method, the research sampled views from 83 informal sector workers from selected markets and 3 officials from the regulator, regulated and informal sector foundation using a combination of elite interviews and focus group discussions. Re...
ABSTRACT Research conducted on political participation over two decades of democratic governance in Ghana, have been overly skewed towards the conduct of elections. Also, explanations on popular participation have been largely descriptive, with exclusive focus on structural or macro level explanatory factors. First, it begs the question of what the actual levels and the trends in political participation among Ghanaians are. Again, as research conducted focused on institutions and sociopoliti...
ABSTRACT 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 1 9 6 5 . However, the discovery o f crude oil i n commercial quantity resulted to a decline in the agricultural sector. Revenue generated from the non - oil export ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which the Swedru Junior Boys Correctional Centre facilitated the reformation of juvenile offenders who have passed through its walls. Cross-sectional research activities were undertaken based on a triangulated approach which used both quantitative and qualitative research strategies. As methods of data collection, the quantitative research made use of the face-to-face interview while the qualitative strategy made use of key...
ABSTRACT The emergence of Abuja as urban centre today is traceable to the quest for a new capital city for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Being a new artificial creation, it should be expected that the inhabitants whose land had been acquired for the development of the new capital city be justly compensated and resettled . However, since the promulgation of the enabling Decree that created the new federal capital in 1976, the question of resettlement and compensation to the original inhabit...
A B S T R A C T The purpose of this study was to obtain information regarding the understanding of the schizophrenic patients’ beliefs about voices (auditory hallucinations) and their adopted coping strategies. The Ways of Coping Checklist, a Semi-Structured Questionnaire and the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale were used to explore the beliefs patients suffering from schizophrenia have about auditory hallucinations and the ways of coping patients adopt to cope with auditory hallucin...
ABSTRACT 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 Inter...
ABSTRA CT This thesis provides information on the Management of Public Enterprises in Nigeria: A Case Study of Nigerian Telecommunication, a Federal Government statutory public corporation, dealing with communication aspect in Nigeria. It focused attention on all relevant bodies that have connection with communication. This project attempt to explain the general concepts of public enterprises, and its management, thereby relating it to the Nigerian Telecommunication Limited. The constraints o...
ABSTRACT Ever since Nigeria's independence in 1960, Leaders, Elites and Scholars have engaged in various debates on the notion that political independence without economic independence would be ridiculous. Which simply put, national yearnings and aspirations of Nigerian Leaders and Scholars have both economic and political connotations. There is this general consensus that where economic power is concentrated in the hands of foreigners, the economy 1s undersiege as foreign investors drain the...
ABSTRACT Most Nigerian public corporations/parastatals have been accused of negative attitudes to work and producing below capacity. These ugly situations have affected their productivity. Consequently, it has resulted in the repeated calls for their privatization and commercialization. The Federal Capital Territory-Agency For Mass Education is one of these parastatals bedevilled with such problems. While the workers are exonerating themselves from the allegations of productivity and responsi...
AnSTnA('T j cfficic.:nl and c.:llcclive civil service is a sinequanun ror a country like .lJ/ I lr.1 Nigeria, which yearns to catch up.lather nations in the race towards socio-economic nd industrial development after almost a cenrury of backwardness under British rule. However an effective civil service had eluded us as a result of the imperfections inherent in the nations socio-economic and political systems. Since independence there have been a growing dissatisfaction with civil servic...
ABSTRACT This research study investigated the impact of staff development policy on productivity with particular reference to nasarawa state civil service. Nasarawa state government has been making genuine effort to train and develop its employee.