Labour market participation, alongside unregulated rural sector wage policy could diminish the welfare of household heads and their members in rural areas of Nigeria. Evidence is scanty on the effect of labour market wage ...
Labour productivity growth remains an engine of output growth as it increases a
country’s capacity to create better opportunities for decent and productive employment.
However, the link among these macroeconomic variables ...
Globally, urban expansion is a common phenomenon. However, its inadequate coordination has resulted in slums, sprawl, paucity of infrastructure and competition for land. Previous studies on urban expansion have identified ...
Decline in soil physical and chemical properties, and scarcity of water are major constraints to dry season okra cultivation. Appropriate land preparation and mulch application under irrigation water management could enhance ...
Language accommodation, a phenomenon in urban sociolinguistics, is the conscious
and conscientious use of other languages’ repertoire in communication. Existing
works on urban sociolinguistics, particularly in the Nigerian ...
Semiotics, a science of signs, largely influences audience’s socio-cultural perception of billboard advertisement in postcolonial contexts. Existing linguistic studies on gender have examined various perspectives on gender ...
The Ẹdo guilds system is a professional body associated with the Edo (Bini) socio-cultural and political institutions revolving around the monarch. Extant studies on this system have essentially concentrated on its historical ...
Leadership failure is a perennially vexed issue in African postcolonial discourses, particularly in Malawi where Kamuzu Banda’s dictatorship held sway for about three decades. Existing studies on leadership in Malawian ...
University goal attainment is the extent to which universities achieve their visions through
teaching, research and Community Services (CS). However, literature shows that Goal
Attainment (GA) is diminishing in Federal ...
Learners’ support service is a critical component of an effective distance learning environment that focuses on provision of learning aids and assistance in facilitating delivery of content and skills development for the ...
Stimulation Skills (SSs) are those practices used by teachers in engaging children to learn.
Reports have shown that many preschool teachers are deficient in SSs in the South-west,
Nigeria. Past studies were mainly ...
Public Speaking Anxiety (PSA), the fear of giving an oratory in public because of the
expectation of being negatively evaluated, is a major hinderance to effective public
speaking. Extant literature have shown that many ...
Legal and contractual obligations in the Nigerian electricity sector provide the framework that guides the operation of stakeholders in order to ensure stable electricity supply. Previous studies on the Nigerian electricity ...
Gas flaring in Nigeria has continued unabated despite government‟s attempts to halt it. The
command and control regulation have been largely employed to address the non-compliance with
existing laws addressing gas ...
Industrial disputes between workers’ trade union and employers on issues of conditions of work are
a recurrent problem in Nigeria. Of particular interest are disputes between the Federal Government
of Nigeria (FGN) and ...
Reproductive health and reduction of maternal mortality are major components of the
Sustainable Development Goals. Nigeria‘s Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) estimate from
2000 to 2015 is 814 deaths per 100,000 live births. ...
Wrongful conviction occurs where a court pronounces guilty verdict and sentences a person
for an offence not committed. This phenomenon, which is becoming more apparent in the
Criminal Justice System of Nigeria (CJS), ...
One of the major challenges faced by the colonial administration in Nigeria was chieftaincy issues, which created social disorder. While the changing status of chieftaincy institution during this period had attracted much ...
Monadologism, a philosophical idea depicting a non-communicative, self-actuating system of
windowless, individualistic and deterministic beings, has implications for understanding the
challenge of social order. ...
Quality of life is the standard of health, comfort and happiness, necessary for personal
satisfaction, fulfilment and good health. However, extant literature has shown that some
residents of Benin City, Nigeria have low ...