Recent economic and political transformations in Africa and the rising influence of China in
global affairs have led to increasing migration of Africans to Chinese cities. Scholars have
examined issues such as migration ...
Labour moves across countries in a bid to earn better returns. This has motivated labour into accumulating human capital in order to enhance employment potentials. Human capital makes production more efficient, thereby ...
The factors responsible for the growing disaffection and public outcry against increasing urban land, housing and rental values in Nigeria have been a contentious issue in the literature. The dominant position identified ...
Oil Resource Abundance (ORA) has dominated the Nigerian revenue since the 1970s, contributing over 70.0%. Empirical literature have focused on the effects of ORA on aggregate macroeconomic variables (annual average growth ...
Fiscal non-sustainability which has remained a major challenge in Ghana in the last three decades was precipitated by the uncontrolled procurement of external loans and aid as well as the consequent debt overhang problem. ...
The growing insecurity and fear of crime are among the major factors reducing the quality of life of urban dwellers as people experience fear of crime than actual crime. Previous studies have focused largely on the ...
The pattern of rainfall anomalies have been largely neglected in the literature on climatology in Nigeria in spite of their significance to agriculture. This study examined the pattern of rainfall anomalies in Nigeria with ...
There has been large scale migration of health professionals from Nigeria to other countries with estimated 40,000 emigrants between 1975 and 1984 and over 90,000 in 2000. However, the patterns of movement and the associated ...
Fertiliser procurement and distribution in Benue State has become synonymous with politics
due to the prolonged involvement of government in the sector. While previous studies
acknowledge the political elements of ...
Print media representation of the roles of actors in conflict is a global phenomenon. In
Nigeria, the print media reportage of community conflicts, including Ife-Modakeke and
Aguleri-Umuleri conflicts, revolves around ...
Proneness to Distracted Driving Behaviour (PDDB), the tendency for a driver to voluntarily or
involuntarily be distracted, is assuming an alarming dimension. The most serious form of
distracted driving is phone-related ...
Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of primigravidas is linked to maternal
mortality. Nigeria ranks high among the countries with high maternal mortality rate.
Previous studies in Nigeria have largely focused on the ...
In Nigeria, sex workers by nature of their job are exposed to high risks and multiple
health hazards including mental health. However, little is known about their mental
health challenges and consequences on the sex ...
There is a theoretical link between health expenditure and health outcomes (life expectancy at birth, infant and under-five mortality rates). Public health expenditure is low in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with an average ...
Land grabbing entails acquisition of more than 200 hectares from an indigenous population irrespective of payment or compensation. It is a global phenomenon usually executed by commercial enterprises. In Nigeria, Public ...
Equity investors operate under conditions of uncertainty with the associated risk of Share Price Dispersion (SPD). This risk, being the difference between market Share Price (SP) and its estimated Intrinsic Value (INTV), ...
Aggressive drive towards increased productivity and profit maximisation often
compromise employees‟ welfare, satisfaction and commitment. Quality of work life
programme (QWLFP) such as occupational health and safety ...
The impact of regime types (democracy and dictatorship) on economic performance has continued to be a major controversy in political economy. Previous studies on regime types and economic performance were cross national ...
Sand Mining (SM) is the extraction of sand aggregate from land surface and water bodies. Globally, sand is
a critical resource for construction purposes. In Nigeria, SM is a process that degenerates into land
degradation ...
Rainstorm is one of the major hazards affecting urban areas in tropical region. Previous studies have largely characterised variations in rainstorm based on limited data from synoptic stations that are not evenly distributed ...