ABSTRACT This study sought to interrogate factors leading to the low patronage of improved sanitation facilities in peri-urban settings. The study’s main emphasis was on the Prampram community located in the Ningo-Prampram District of the Greater Accra Region in Ghana. A recent study by the Joint Monitoring Programme for water and sanitation (JMP) shows that, in Ghana, only 14% of the people have access to improved sanitation or decent toilet facilities. Ghana was graded 48th among 51 Afric...
ABSTRACT Concurrent tuberculosis and HIV treatment is a standard practice in co-infected patients. However, adherence to combined treatment is challenging because of multiplicity of drugs involved. Although studies exist on adherence to either HIV or tuberculosis treatment, negligible attention has been paid to adherence among patients on combined HIV and tuberculosis treatments. This study therefore examined the factors influencing treatment adherence among tuberculosis-infected HIV patient...
ABSTRACT The Kwawus are from the Eastern Region of Ghana. They are traditionally known to be people with good business acumen which has also its historical basis. They are also known for protecting and maintaining their culture wherever they migrated to, and marriage and mate selection is one of them. It is expected that as people migrate to urban centres most of their traditional lifestyles change as a result of their exposure to people from different cultural and ethnic background. However,...
ABSTRACT Social movement generally seek to effect change in society, and in the process encounter challenges which could extend to physical and verbal threats on the actors involved. In some cases, these threats have extended to the families and close relations of the actors (activists). Despite these threats, there are activists who dare to be different to challenge the status quo to get things done right. The study therefore sort to understand what motivations there to such engagement...
This research utilizes implementation of classic methods for systematic data collection using the medium of the Internet to investigate the idea of culture as a shared cognitive semantic structure. We used the material domain of automobile manufacturer brand names to investigate our intuition that a shared understanding exists within the American culture and is pervasive across a diversity of demographic groups. Semantic structure information for 48 automobile manufacturer brand names was obt...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY All over the world, the importance and relevance of the police institution have been acknowledged. The acknowledgement is predicated on the need of community interest in terms of rights, duties and obligations which are different facts of the contractual nature of the human society (Smah, 2012; Zems, 2013). The police of the community are a beacon of hope and pride at any point in time. They owe the duty to protect the territorial integrity ...
Boko-Haram is a local militia insurgent group hence; their activities have grown to be recognized as a TERRORIST GROUP. Boko Haram has its origin in the activities of their late leader “Yusuf”, a secondary school drop-out who later went to Chad and Niger Republic to study Quran. While in these two countries, he developed radical views against westernization and modernization just like the Maitatsine. Back here in Nigeria after his study, Yusuf established in 2001 what is today known a...
Abstract Nigeria: Corruption has been identified as one of the most aggrieving concepts hampering human and economic progress in developing countries; a finding particularly relevant to the Nigerian case. Corruption exacerbates economic growth, reduces economic efficiency and development despite the availability of enormous human and natural resources in the country of investigation. The cardinal thrust of the present paper is to inquire about corruption in the Nigerian context under apprecia...