The study generally investigated indiscriminatory waste disposal and health hazards in Ado-Ekiti, State. Specifically, the research work assessed the challenges of waste management, the causes and effects of indiscriminatory waste disposal, practices related to indiscriminatory waste disposal and the relationship between indiscriminatory waste disposal and health hazards. The research adopted a descriptive and exploratory-cross-sectional-non-experimental survey design. Data collection wa...
Since Nigeria returned to democracy in May 1999, after almost three decades of military rule, and almost two decades of economic crises, the country has been faced with the complex challenges of national reconstruction and economic reforms, and democratic consolidation. Even after many general elections including that of 2019, Nigeria continues to grapple with these challenges and the citizenry is still anxious to see and enjoy the benefits of “democracy dividends” – social welfare, jus...
This study seek to evaluate whether or not the contributory pension scheme has an impact on employee retirement benefit of quoted firms in Nigeria: to determine the relationship that exist between the impact of the contributory pension scheme on employee retirement benefit and standard of living in Nigeria.the study also assessed the relationship between pension cost and independent variable: total assets and profitability of quoted firms in Nigeria. TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER ONE: INTRO...
This study is an assessment of the effect of implementation of contributory pension scheme on retirement benefits of kano state: A case study of kano state pension fund trustees from 2007-2015. The problem investigated revolves around the effect of implementation of CPs on timely payment of retirement benefit the effect of compliance with kano state pension and gratuity law 2006 in the remittance and the investment of the contributed fund on effective payments of retirement benefit among othe...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the influence of parenting styles and personality traits as predictors of aggressive behaviour among adolescents in Makurdi metropolis using the cross sectional survey design. A total number of 213 adolescents comprising of males and females were randomly drawn from different areas and secondary schools in Makurdi metropolis. The study used three standardized instruments which include; Big Five Inventory (BFI) developed by John and Srivastava (1999), Parental ...
Abstract This study the influence of peer and gender on adolescent health risk behavior in Makurdi local government. The study employed cross sectional survey method. Two hundred and thirty two (231) participants were selected using simple random sampling among Adolescents in Makurdi Local Government. Their age ranges from 12-17 .The study used two instruments which include (i) Peer group caring interaction scale (ii) Health risk assessment (HRA) scale. Results from the hypotheses tested show...
ABSTRACT The study on the impact of budget deficit on economic growth in Nigeria employed time series data within the period of 34 years (1981-2015). The data was sourced from central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), National Bureau of statistics (NBS) and World Bank: World Development indicators. The series was subjected to unit root test of both ADF and PP test and was found stationary, some at level and others at first difference. The researcher further tested for short run and long run relationship...
The study examines Electoral Malpractice and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria with reference to Benue state. This study utilized both primary and secondary sources of data and also adopted prebendal theory as its framework of analysis. The findings from this work revealed that, the most common forms of electoral malpractice in Benue state includes ;announcement of electoral result where election are not held, under age voting, snatching of ballot boxes, and harassment of voters. it can als...
Terrorism in Nigeria is an impediment to national security and sustainable development. Nigeria is presently preoccupied with multi-polar insurgency, with antecedents dating back to the 1960s and 1980s. The attacks on security agencies, civilians, churches, mosques, foreign embassies in Nigeria and the United Nations offices in Abuja have become more worrisome as such attacks have always resulted in collateral. With the new media, improved and sophisticated weaponry, the terrorists have unlea...
ABSTRACT This research work is aimed at investigating the impact of planning and control as a management function on the survival of small scale business in Benin City, Edo state. Descriptive survey was adopted for this research. Primary source of data collection was utilized and a total of 100 questionnaires was sampled and, used for this research. Descriptive statistics using SPSS was used to analyse the data from the questionnaire. The result from the study showed that proper planning and ...
Audit policies are specific principles, rules and procedures that guide the auditing processes. It could also be a checker of standards that govern the way auditing can be carried out in various firms or enterprises. These policies differ from company to company, but however, must be anchored around the auditing standards. In this sense audit policy is a framework by which an auditor is expected to operate. But there is more.
ABSTRACT This study aims to evaluate the impact of management accounting techniques on the decision making of manufacturing organization. This arose because of how dynamic the business environment has proven to be. In conducting the research, survey research design method was adopted. A sample of 50 respondents were selected using the simple random sampling technique. Primary and secondary sources of data were used. The secondary source consist mainly of textbooks and journals. Questionnaires...
ABSTRACT This research was conducted to investigate the influence of hypercompetitiveness and birth order on interpersonal relation. Hypotheses were generated from Karen Horney and Alfred Adler s’ theories about hypercompetitveness and birth order respectively. Birth order was defined in terms of three groups only: first, middle and last borns. Participants (N= 300) students sampled from Yaba College of Technology and University of Lagos. The instruments that were used are Hypercompetitive ...
ABSTRACT This research examined the influence of parenting style and religiosity on altruism among adolescents. The participants for the study were recruited using convenience sampling technique and they consisted of 192 males and 208 females between ages 13-20 years from three secondary schools and four tutorial centers namely: Ifed Comprehensive College, Lagos Baptist Senior Secondary School and Fitjoy Academy; Success Assured Tutorial, Santos Tutors, Bright Future Academy and Erudite Tuto...
ABSTRACT Over years, Nigeria’s public funds have not been properly accounted for. This has drastically increased the cost of governance. There is no gain saying the fact that, the cost of governance in Nigeria is too high and has in no small way hindered the Nation’s development both human and infrastructural. It is also one of the reasons why corruption has eaten deep into the fabrics of our society. To eliminate or mini...