ABSTRACT The supply of food, water, and agricultural resources is fast becoming a difficult issue. This is because the resources are heavily polluted as a result of intensive crude oil spill, and oil related activities in the state. This study focused on the assessment of soil samples from Ogoni, (k- Dere) community. To ascertain the level of pollution that may have occurred. Different parameters were analyzed, namely pH, total petroleum hydrocarbons, nitrate, phosphate, sulphate, zinc, iro...
ABSTRACT This research assessed the Impact of Road Transport Infrastructure Development in Port Harcourt. It also examined critically, the importance of quality road infrastructure in Port Harcourt and its relative impact on the Nigerian economic development. Relevant literatures on road infrastructure development and its impact on Rivers State were reviewed. A time-series data (2004 - 2016) on road infrastructure quality index (RIQI), GDP per capita, cost of cargo haulage and volume of cargo...
ABSTRACT We are in the technological age and everything including teaching and learning is affected by it. The research was conducted to examine the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning in seminaries through a case study at Trinity Theological Seminary, Accra. The research concentrated on the awareness, the extent to which the available ICT was used, the skills and knowledge, reasons, challenges to and recommendation on the use of ICT among teachers a...
ABSTRACT” The study investigated the use of electronic resources by graduate students of the University of Ghana to find students awareness of electronic resources in the university library, “frequency of use of these resources and challenges” associated with the use of these resources. A survey methodology was employed for the study with a population of 302 Regular “MBA” students from the University of Ghana Business School. A sample size of 100 was used and the .Convenient Samplin...
ABSTRACT The petroleum industry is one of the essential industries globally. State participation and vertical integration are some of the most prevailing phenomena in the industry. This study sought to assess the impact of ownership and vertical integration on the performance of petroleum firms. Petroleum firms were categorized into four different clusters, based on ownership types, comprising fully private, minority state owned, majority state owned and fully state owned for the assessment o...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to investigate the accessibility of academic library services to distance learners, with specific reference to University of Ghana Library System (UGLS). The general objective of the study is to assess the level of awareness and accessibility of library services to distance students. A survey was conducted and one hundred and thirty eight (138) Level 400 distance learning students in the Accra Learning Centre together with University librarian of the University of Gh...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to explore how the use of digital technology has impacted value creation in the music industry with focus on the Christian Music Industry of Ghana. This research argues that notwithstanding the universality of digital technologies in most human activities in recent years, there is still paucity in research in the area of the impact of digital technologies in the Christian Music Industry. Moreover, it was also revealed that very scarce research has been ...
ABSTRACT Integrating technology into the educational sector is progressively influenced by different multicultural settings across the world. Accordingly, this research employed a modified Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to investigate how culture directly affects the acceptance of ICT in education. This study focused on the Hausa-Fulani cultural group in Jimeta-Yola, questionnaires were administered to gather data (quantitative approach) which was analysed using sm...
ABSTRACT Software engineering projects (SEP) nowadays acknowledge the importance of incorporating many people, groups, and organizations with interest or requirements during project development phases for the realization of successful project. These groups who are collectively referred to as stakeholders are not limited to those who use it, rather those who build, test, operate, maintain, evaluate, and pay for it. One of the major concerns in SEP is the recognition and management of project s...
ABSTRACT This study investigates airlines level of service to domestic passengers in Nigeria using process stages with a number of service quality attributes each. These attributes represent points where the passenger experience varying kind of services. Data were collected from passengers waiting for their flights using a well-structured questionnaire on a five-point likert scale regarding passenger's expectations and perception of service offer. The data was encoded into Microsoft excel and...
ABSTRACT The composite soymilk yogurt flavoured with pineapple as sweetener was produced from composite blend of dano milk and soymilk. It was pasteurized at 850c for 5 minutes. It was cooled , homogenized and inoculated with mixed yogurt starter culture of Lactobacillus bulgaricus, and Lactobacillus acidophilus at 250c for 24 hours. The proximate, physicochemical properties and sensory evaluation of the composite yogurt were determined. In the proximate, the study reveals that the combin...
ABSTRACT Electronic Learning (e-learning) – the use of ICT to support learning – has become paramount in the growth of universities worldwide. Universities are now including e-learning modules in their curricula to support and in some cases replace the face-to-face educational methods. This has spurred a lot of studies into e-learning adoption in higher learning institutions. However, studies looking at e-learning adoption from a multi-stakeholder perspective are quite missing in literatu...
ABSTRACT Increased oxidative stress arising from the maternal hyperglycemic-induced disturbances in fetal metabolism has been suggested to play a role in the pathogenesis of disturbed embryogenesis in diabetic pregnancies. Maternal diabetes in pregnancy and the associated hyperglycemia is also believed to expose the fetus to disturbed metabolic conditions in-utero creating a ‘metabolic memory’ that programs the fetus for glucose intolerance, diabetes mellitus and obesity later in life. ...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to understand affordances and constraints of seaport smart service systems in a developing country context. Smart service systems refer to configurations of smart technologies, people and processes to co-create value for stakeholders. Examples of smart service systems discussed in information systems literature are smart homes, smart cities, smart health, and smart energy. While traditional service systems relied on people and physical processes, smart service system...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to examine the influence of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation and price value on consumers’ behavioural intention to adopt mobile money in Ghana. Studies on mobile money in developing countries have so far focused more on issues relating to adoption, use, deployment and diffusion. The most dominant among these areas is studies on adoption. However, there still remain salient facto...