ABSTRACT The introduction of school-based adolescent sexuality and life skills education in Nigeria’s formal education sector raises the misgiving that out-of-school youths who constitute more than half of the youth population might be neglected. This study investigated the extent to which out-of-school adolescents have been reached with sexuality education in Nigeria. The study took place in the six geopolitical zones and the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, and involved out-of-school adol...
ABSTRACT Unobtrusive methods in social research are an interesting aspect of the broader qualitative procedures in social science research which seek answers to questions by examining in non – intrusive manner various social settings and the individuals who inhabit these settings. Qualitative researchers are most interested in the day to day activities of a people, how humans arrange themselves and their settings and how inhabitants of or in a particular location make sense of their surroun...
ABSTRACT This study examined the dispensing outreach programme of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and its influence on the health status of users. It specifically examined the influence of the organizational structure of NHIS on the referral process in the utilization of health care services by clients, documented the satisfaction client’ derived from NHIS service. It adopted a descriptive survey design through the use of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection ...
ABSTRACT Research on maternal health was conducted among the residents of the Seme boder community in republic of Benin to determine the available matem1 health care services in the community and the level of accessibility to residents, to find out the pattern of the maternal health seeking behaviour and to examining the relationships between the sociocultural characteristic and maternal health care seeking behaviour in the area. The major instruments used wed structured questionnaire, key in...
ABSTRACT Introduction The whole world has gradually become a global village whereby everybody relates in terms of communication, trade, exchange of ideas, increase in job mobility, improved GDP, etc. The driving force behind this great advancement is knowledge-based economy. A knowledge economy is one where organisations and people acquire, create, disseminate and use knowledge more effectively for greater economic and social development by providing more efficient ways of producing goods an...
ABSTRACT Nigeria is classified among high fertility countries, which despite sustained campaigns, has experienced very slow rate of fertility reduction. The Igbo ethnic group contributes substantially to the country’s prevailing fertility regime. Population pressure in Igbo sub-groups is a product of patriarchy and specific reproductive practices. This study examined onyima, which is a relatively less emphasized pronatalist custom among the Igbo, as way of understanding the inherent ideolo...
ABSTRACT Hardly a day passes without cases of robbery being reported in both the print and the electronic media. It is against this backdrop that the study: Fighting Robbery in Ghana: Rethinking the Policies and the Strategies was conducted to analyse the kind of policies and strategies that have informed robbery control in Ghana from 1993 to 2017. The study adopted the mixed method research design, using content analysis, interviews and survey methods. The study is predominantly qualitative ...
ABSTRACT Traditional Medicine (TM) has been practised in Ghana from time immemorial and many Ghanaians still patronise the services of traditional medical practitioners (TMPs). However, TM has not been integrated into the formal healthcare delivery system of the country. This might be partly due to attitudes and perceptions towards it. The aim of the study was to find out the attitudes and perceptions of Scientific Medical Practitioners (SMPs) towards TM in Ghana and then propose measures for...
ABSTRACT Wildlife is an important socio-cultural and economic resource in West and Central Africa. The declining wildlife population in the recent time is as a result of a combination of factors, namely, increased access and demand for wildlife resources by rural and urban dwellers, population growth, improved hunting technology and lack of protein alternatives in many households.. This paper investigates the contribution of bush meat extraction to household’s livelihood (income, health, n...
ABSTRACT With limited evidence of decreases in malaria-related mortality and morbidity, and nearly half the time to the 2010 deadline of Roll Back Malaria (RBM)targets now past, we conducted this study to assess the awareness, accessibility and use of malaria control strategies among at-risk groups within the context of RBM in Nigeria. It was a descriptive, cross-sectional pilot study of 34 registered women attending antenatal clinics and 34 mothers of children less than five years old, using...
ABSTRACT The adoption of community policing-oriented strategy in Nigeria in 2004 has led to a shift in police training focus and curriculum contents. Studies on community policing-oriented training have largely been general in nature without paying much attention to the training content, competence of trainers and post-training challenges. This study therefore, assessed the perceived influence of community policing-oriented training on police interactions with the public in crime prevention ...
ABSTRACT Street begging is a social problem in Nigeria. Although studies have been extensively conducted on street beggars in Nigeria, sufficient attention has not been devoted to transnational street begging as a distinct phenomenon. The continual influx of transnational street beggars into Nigeria makes the investigation into the dynamics and patterns of transnational street begging imperative. The study examined the socio-demographic profile of transnational street beggars in Lagos and Ib...
ABSTRACT Nigeria’s crises of development are more evident in her persistently poor electric power regime. This paper focuses on the consequences of use of gasoline generators as alternative source of energy among business operators in Ibadan. Data were collected from 543 questionnaire responses, 15 In-depth Interviews and 6 Focus Group Discussions. Findings revealed that 83.6 percent of the respondents often utilized gasoline generators and 76.8 percent could not do without it. While the r...
ABSTRACT The police profession has been identified as one of the most stressful occupations in the world. Using the ABCX model of stress and stress process model (SPM), the study sought to examine factors that influence occupational stress among Police Officers in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The study adopted a cross-sectional design using mixed method approach of research. Stratified random sampling technique was used to sample 194 Police Officers from five police stations whiles purposive sa...
ABSTRACT Traditionally, people from the southwest Nigeria believe and place high premium on the use of indigenous resources for warfare like some other groups in Nigeria. The sustenance of the belief in these values has largely been promoted by the inadequacy of modern policing system and the rising crime rate in our society. It is against this background this paper attempts to examine the prevailing values, belief and practices among the people of the southwest and its utility in the mainten...