ABSTRACT This study shows the effect of changes in GDP, population, foreign trade and seaport access corridors of ECOWAS member countries, especially the littoral States, on the growth of freight volumes of their respective economies. The primary aim of the research is to develop a short sea shipping model for the ECOWAS sub-region, with the objective of reducing the cost per transported unit within the sub-region and predicting the growth of short sea shipping freight in ECOWAS economies. T...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed to investigate and analyze the implementation of constructability in project delivery process in the Nigerian engineering / construction industry using Rivers state as case study area.Data was collected through questionnaire and interview approach. Analysis of data was carried out with the use of SPSS V16.Results of data analysis revealed that although a high percentage of the sampled population are familiar with the term “constructability”,nearly alldo not h...
ABSTRACT This research was conducted to analyse the incidence and trend of cargo pilferage from 1999 – 2012. In other to do this, the periods were segmented into pre concession years (1999 - 2005) and post concession (2006 - 2012). The effect of concession policy on cargo pilferage was duly considered. To analyse the trend of cargo pilferage for both the pre and post concession era, four hypotheses were formulated. The first hypothesis was tested using the cumulative moving averages (CMA) ...
ABSTRACT As competitive strategies shift to the area of quality management, this research seeks to predict contributions of input variables to quality outcome. The research was conducted using 7-Up Bottling Company Plc; Aba. Data relevant to the study were secondary data from past company production records. However, observation of manufacturing processes was done in the course of the study to enhance understanding of production and quality control processes. A random sample was analysed int...
ABSTRACT This is an evaluative study of Inland Waterway Transport Development in Nigeria. Three sets of 5 point Likert Scale questionnaire were crafted for the study for the following categories of respondents; National Inland Water Authority (NIWA) Staff, Ferry Operators and the Inhabitants respectively. Five research questions and five hypotheses were also formed for the study. Data collected were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics such as mean procedure and One-way Anova...
ABSTRACT In this research work, the researcher researched on level of manpower planning i.e. if there is adequate manpower planning in the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. And the objective of the research work is to know the cause of frequent retrenchment/sack of FAAN workers. As a guide to this study, two propositions/hypothesis were drawn on which the researcher focuses his research work. In the course of the study some related literatures were also reviewed based on this propositio...
ABSTRACT An Efficient Model for the Healthcare Management is an element of health informatics that focuses on the administrative needs of a health environment. It is a comprehensive, integrated information platform that manages all aspects of operation in the environment. This study generates a model that seeks to integrate all aspects and major playing parts of the operation within the medical ecosystem using the Agile methodology.
ABSTRACT This research work titled „‟An Econometric Study of tanker Shipping services in Nigeria‟‟ aimed at examining the demand for tanker shipping services with the resultant crude oil to be exported from Nigeria to other parts of the world using a time series regression approach and correlations. The objective is to ascertain whether the demand for tanker vessels (tonnage) corresponds with the resultant volume of the crude oil available at oil terminal to be exported. Our findings...
ABSTRACT The Nigerian maritime industry is dominated by foreign shipping companies. The foreign firms dominated over 95% of the activities whereby, rendering the indigenous companies useless and non-active. However, these have resulted to many companies to go underground since they cannot participate or complete favourably with the foreign companies. As a result of this, Nigeria loses billion of naira annually though capital flight which has affected the economy negatively. Nigeria is an imp...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to appraise the impact of Micro Projects Programme of European Union (MPP6) in Abia State on the living standard of the people. The introduction on the activities of micro projects programme in the Nine States of the Niger Delta tagged MPP3 and MPP6 respectively were traced. Attempt was made to review related literatures which formed the theoretical framework. This study, being empirical, primary data was collected through questionnaire administered to two hu...
ABSTRACT This study is designed to examine the cargo traffic from Nigerian seaports, using the Calabar and Port Harcourt port complexes as case study. The objective being to identify the function for assessing cargo movement from the aforementioned seaports to different towns in the country. This culminated in a model depicting the functional relationship which exists between the variables used in the study. A chronological review of related studies by different scholars was carried out to s...
This study undertakes a critical analysis of risk management as a formal technique for managing risks in project execution. It specifically probes into the proximate sources of risk into construction projects in Nigeria, the level of awareness and use of the technique amongst Nigerian construction professionals with a view to properly situating the remote causes of project distress and abandonment in Nigeria. In carrying out the study, large scale construction projects were targeted. Primary ...
ABSTRACT The Napier grass stunt (NGS) phytoplasma is a phloem limited bacterium that is transmitted by insect vector, Maiestas banda (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). The phytoplasma causes NGS disease in Napier grass resulting into huge forage yield losses hence impacting negatively the economy of smallholder dairy farmers in East Africa. Phytoplasma infections causes massive changes in phloem physiology including the sieve elements which may lead to reduced rate of phloem mass flow that interfere...
Abstract Anatomical variations in paranasal sinus may differ among the different ethnic groups. And it is important to recognize the clinical and surgical significance of these variations. This descriptive study was conducted at Khartoum - Sudan to evaluate anatomical variants of paranasal sinus region.100 images of Computed Tomography for paranasal sinus (61females and 39males) were evaluated in both axial and coronal plane, nasal septal deviation, haller cells, onodi cells, and aggar cells...
Abstract This is descriptive study and was conducted in three months during the period from November 2016, to February 2017 in Aljazeera injuries and orthopedic surgery center in Wad Madani and Wad Madani technical hospital. This study carried out in a sample of 50 patients (34 men and 16 women) who underwent to brain computed tomography examination. The objectives of this study is to assess of acute stroke using computed tomography , to measure % percentage of ischemia to hemorrhage , to i...