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The Effect of Health Status on Labour Force Participation in Nigeria

ABSTRACT Health status in recent times has been a major concern for developing and under-developed economies. This results from the fact that a healthy population increases labour force participation, productivity and output levels. Poor health has negative effect on participation rate and output. This study examined the effect of health status on labour force participation, across gender and age groups, in Nigeria. An estimation technique to be used is the logistic binary model. Data for the...

Effects of Imagery, Cognitive Style and Gender on Prospective and Retrospective Memory

ABSTRACT This experiment investigated the effects of imagery, cognitive style, and gender on prospective and retrospective memory. One hundred and sixty (160) participants, comprising 80 males (mean age = 22.54 years) and 80 females (mean age = 21.30 years) were randomly selected using the table of random numbers on a population of 200 third and second year undergraduate students of the Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The stimulus materials used were Group Embedded Fi...

Impacts of Trade Openness and Technology Transfer on Economic Growth and Total Factor Productivity in Nigeria

ABSTRACT Foreign direct investment (FDI) is often seen as an important catalyst for economic growth in the developing countries. It affects the economic growth by stimulating domestic investment, increasing human capital formation and by facilitating the technology transfer in the host countries. The main purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of FDI on economic growth in Pakistan, for the period 1990- 2006. The relationship between FDI and economic growth will be analyzed by using...

The Impact of Millennium Development Goals on Gender Equality in Nigeria (2005 – 2010)

ABSTRACT This research work examines the impact of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on gender equality and women empowerment in Nigeria 2005-2010. The study contends that women have the same potentials, abilities, and skills to contribute in national development. However, in Nigeria, gender equality/women empowerment is still a serious challenge to effective participation of women in politics. The data used in this study was collected from both primary and secondary sources. The primary me...

Communication Between Management and Workers in Government-Owned Transport Companies in Anambra State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT This study examined communication between management and workers in Government-owned Transport Companies in Anambra State, Nigeria. The research was inspired by the vital role of effective communication in organizational efficiency. To carry out the study effectively, descriptive research design was used to; examine the kind of communication channels used to send messages to workers by managements of the transport organizations; find out how communication affects the performance of w...

Fuel Subsidy and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria (1990 – 2012)

ABSTRACT This study unraveled the political and socio-economic factors that made Nigeria to import fuel which is supposed to be its major export. Primary and secondary sources were used to generate data. From the data generated, the study concluded that among other factors, corruption is the primary factor for which Nigeria refineries are not working and the importation of fuel. To address the situation, the work recommended that the federal government should engage experts instead of politic...

Control Mechanisms and the Management of the Funds of Local Governments in Nigeria: A Case Study of Anambra Case Study of Anambra State.

ABSTRACT The role of the third-tier of government in societal development has become broader, deeper and even more sophisticated in the current dispensation. Thanks to the numerous reforms which have been visited on local government within the last few decades. In spite of this however, the performance of the third-tier so far in developing the society, more especially the grassroots has been quite unsatisfactory. It is in the light of this that this work dwelt on the control mechanisms and t...

Effects of Levels of Processing, Distinctiveness and Gender on Prospective Memory

Abstract This study investigated the effects of levels of processing, distinctiveness and gender on event-based and time-based prospective memory. One hundred and twenty students (60 males and 60 females) of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki (EBSU) with a mean age of 23.31 years participated in the study. The stimulus material was a meaningful prose passage. Event-based and time-based prospective memory were tested with the Prospective Memory Test (PMT). Data were subjected to multivariate a...

Human Capital Development and Utilization in Public Corporations (A Case Study of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (Phcn), Ugbowo Business District, Benin City)

ABSTRACT Following the establishment of the Electricity industry in Nigeria which dated back to the 1920s, the country has not recorded reliable and adequate services over the years. More worrisome is the fact that successive Governments in Nigeria devote substantial funds to the improvement of the sector to no avail. We often hear that the officials are corrupt, they are incompetent, and lack requisite training to grapple with the situation. It has also been confirmed from valid research fin...

Nigeria-China Economic Relations, 2000-2010

ABSTRACT Since the post-Cold War era China is perceived as being a rising super power. This perception is linked to the changes in China’s foreign policy role that took place these past few years as China’s foreign policy “possesses a predominant strategic content based on geopolitical considerations.” Nigeria’s relations with China have grown in the last decade from the limited and intermittent contact that marked the immediate post-independence era to an increasingly complex and e...

Frustration/Aggression Theory and Niger Delta Militancy, 1999-2015

ABSTRACT The dynamics and manifestation of Niger-Delta militancy is rooted in long years of neglect marginalization, poverty and underdevelopment of the region by the Nigerian state and MultiNational-Corporations. Therefore this study interrogated the nexus between frustration/aggression theory and militancy in the Niger-Delta. It noted like in previous studies that frustration over long years of misery, poverty, unemployment, environmental pollution in the Niger-Delta transmogrified into agg...

Political Economy of Nigeria-China Relations (1999 – 2013)

Abstract That China has positioned itself as a country to reckon with in today’s world economy is no longer contestable. This reflects in the influx of economic activities from various foreign investors who are attracted to the existence of a market for their products and services in the over one (1) billion populated country (Ayantunji & Ayodele, 2009). The study examines the Political Economy of Nigeria-China Relations (1999-2013). The analysis of China’s relations with Africa has often...

World Bank Loan Conditionalities and Politics of Poverty Reduction in Africa: The Nigerian Experience, 1999 - 2012

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Music Preference, Parental Monitoring and Gender as Factors in Adolescents’ Sexual Permissiveness

Abstract This study was a survey aimed at ascertaining whether music preference, parental monitoring and gender are factors in adolescent sexual permissiveness. A sample of 405 adolescents were drawn from three secondary schools within Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State. Three instruments were used in the data collection. They include: Sexual Permissiveness Scale (SPS), Music Preference Scale (MPS) and Parental Monitoring Measure (PMM). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to ...

Public Perception of Drug Addiction and Its Socio-Economic Implications in Nigeria: A Study of Enugu Urban

ABSTRACT This study was aimed at investigating the perception of the general public on the socio-economic implications of drug addiction in Nigeria. The study was conducted in Enugu urban and a sample of six hundred (600) respondents aged 18 years and above resident in Enugu urban were selected through simple random sampling. Structured questionnaires developed by the researcher were administrated to the respondents by six research assistants. In addition in depth interviews were conducted wi...


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