1. INFLUENCE OF PEER PRESSURE AND TIME MANAGEMENT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF IN-SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS IN OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, BENIN CITY
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
As children grow and develop, profound physical changes occur. These changes usher them into adolescence. Adolescence is the developmental period of transition between childhood and adulthood which involves biological, cognitive, and socio-emotio...
2. INFLUENCE OF PEER PRESSURE AND TIME MANAGEMENT ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF IN-SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS IN OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, BENIN CITY
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
As children grow and develop, profound physical changes occur. These changes usher them into adolescence. Adolescence is the developmental period of transition between childhood and adulthood which involves biological, cognitive,...
3. SATELLITE TELEVISION CHANNELS PREFERENCE AMONG YOUTHS
Background to the Study
With the shrinking of the world into a global village through the increasing sophistication of communication technologies, the local media in a nation is brought under fierce competition for local audience by the global media. What broadcasting d...
4. THE IMPACT OF ETHNICITY ON NIGERIA PUBLIC SERVICE
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The term ‘ethnicity’ has its roots in the Greek term ethnos/ethnikos, which was commonly used to describe pagans, that is non-Hellenic and, later, non-Jewish (Gentile) or non-Christian, second-class peoples, its acade...
5. THE ROLE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS IN ACHIEVING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
This project comes up as a result of the observation made about ways that public relations can help to achieve the millennium development goals.
Over the years, people are not aware of the millennium development goals,...
6. URBAN DYNAMICS AND CRIME CONTROL
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Urbanization dynamics with the physical power and forces of pulling a large number of people to become permanently concentrated in a relatively small area of forming cities as a result of large number of people migrating in searc...
7. KNOWLEDGE OF RECYCLING IN OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDY
Improperly managed waste from the household and communities is a serious health hazard which causes the spread of infectious diseases. Waste unattended to attracts flies, rodents, and organisms that cause prevalence of diseases. Wet waste de...
8. NEWSPAPERS COVERAGE ON TERRORISM IN NIGERIA: CASE STUDY OF PUNCH AND GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER
EXCERPT OF THE STUDY
Newspapers are certainly the most sought after in terms of transmitting information pertaining to political, religious or cultural issues to the heterogeneous audience (Nigerians). It is in the light the importance of the newspapers during electione...
9. CHALLENGES OF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA PUBLIC LIBRARIES
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The main objective of establishing any library is to satisfy the needs of its clientele by providing the materials relevant to their needs in orders to achieve the aim of setting up library, adequate collection required by the us...
10. CHALLENGES OF TELEVISION BROADCASTING IN A DEMOCRATIC DISPENSATION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The role of television as a mass medium in the democratization process is understood in the context of the public sphere, which is defined by Habermas stated in 2012 as "organs of information and political debates such...
11. ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA; ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
Background of the study
Ethnic consciousness is the loyalty or attachment to an ethnic group either as a social, political and economic entity, or a cultural community. Whichever way we look at it, ethnic consciousness is based on the distinctiveness of...
12. THE IMPACT OF MARKETING SEGMENTATION ON PRODUCTION PLANNING IN AN ORGANISATION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Market segmentation is a vital issue in marketing strategy. Therefore, marketing segmentation is the sub-dividing of a market into district subset of customers where any subsets may conceivably be selected as a target to be...
13. ASSESSMENT OF AUDIENCE PERCEPTION OF MEDIA COVERAGE OF APRIL 2011 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Background to the Study
Development in all its ramifications is a pr...
14. A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE USE OF MEDIA IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SPREAD OF CORONA VIRUS DISEASE
Background to the study
The Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria is part of the worldwide plague of coronavirus illness 2019 caused by SARS coronavirus (SARS Covid-19). Coronavirus was found for the first time in December of 2019 in Wuhan, China. The World Heal...
15. AUDIENCE PERCEPTION OF THE ROLE OF SPORT JOURNALISM IN SPORT DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
Background Information
Mass media messages are often referred to those directed at a large group of person by means of an electronic medium involving the dissemination of information, knowledge and entertainment to a large diverse, sometimes homogenous...
16. INFLUENCE OF NEWSPAPER REVIEW ON CITIZENS POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
Background Of The Study
The mass media have always played significant roles across the globe as the general public typically relies on it to provide information regarding political issues, social issues, entertainment and news in pop culture. In advance...
17. PROBLEMS OF MEDIA ORGANISATION IN DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION (A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA TELEVISION AUTHORITY (NTA)
ABSTRACT
The subject matter of this work is “problems of the media in Dissemination of information” in carrying out the research work, the researcher adopted the survey design using the questionnaire measuring instrument; this was to measure the public&...
18. CHALLENGES FACING MEDIA IN DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
The objective of this study is focused on a review of challenges facing media in dissemination of information in carrying out the research work, the researcher adopted the survey design using the questionnaire measuring instrument; this was to measur...
19. THE IMPACTS OF GOVERNMENTS OWNERSHIP ON MEDIA OBJECTIVITY
Abstract
The broadcast media comprise of the radio and television, it has not been as enterprising as it should be. This is due to the majority ownership and control of the broadcast media by the government. Concisely put, broadcast is a society wide ty...
20. SOLID WASTE SEGREGATION AS A STRATEGY FOR IMPROVED WASTE MANAGEMENT IN AMAC, ABUJA.
Abstract
Solid wastemanagement is an established environmental health challenge in most societies. The heterogeneousnature of municipal solid wastemakes its management particularly complex. Waste segregation which is key to proper solid waste management has not been ad...
21. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MEDICAL TEST RESULT INFORMATION SYSTEM
Background of the Study
According to Georgiou, Williamson, Westbrook (2006) a medical test result information system is a means for E-health care that facilitates management of the workflow of medical tests. The ultimate objective is to store patients’ results and...
22. SOLID WASTE SEGREGATION AS A STRATEGYFOR IMPROVED WASTE MANAGEMENT IN AMAC, ABUJA.
Abstract
Solid wastemanagement is an established environmental health challenge in most societies. The heterogeneousnature of municipal solid wastemakes its management particularly complex. Waste segregation which is key to proper solid waste management has not been adopted in the Nig...
23. IMPROVING FAIRNESS IN LOAD BALANCING AMONG RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK
ABSTRACT
The major problems of most wireless technologies such as EDGE, HSPA, WiMax, HSPA+, WiFi G, WiFi and LTE are the imbalance of radio resources allocation as well as unfairness and difficulty to achieve unity index. These result in overstressing the networks while leaving some idl...
24. MEDICINAL PLANTS USED IN THE MANAGEMENT OF DEPRESSIVE ILLNESSES: ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY OF METHANOL STEM BARK EXTRACT OF ADANSONIA DIGITATA L. IN MICE
ABSTRACT
Depression is a heterogeneous mood disorder that has been treated with a number of synthetic drugs. These drugs have adverse effects and delayed onset of action that compromise their therapeutic benefits. This makes it worthwhile to search for new antidepressant agents with pro...
25. PHARMACOGNOSTIC AND BIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE LEAVES AND STEM-BARK OF HYMENOCARDIA ACIDA, TUL. (EUPHORBIACEAE)
ABSTRACT
This study deals with the pharmacognostic and biological aspects of the leaves and stem bark of Hymenocardia acida Tul (Family Euphorbiaceae). Euphorbiceae is a large and heterogeneous family found mainly in the tropics and sub-tropics. H. acida is a savannah shrub or tree with...
26. ASSESSMENT OF THE CAUSES AND IMPACT OF INADEQUATE GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS’ PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
The issue of inadequate geotechnical investigation usually leads to over or under design of structural elements which eventually contributes immensely to project cost overrun and poor performance. This research aims to assess the impact of inadequate geotechnical investigation...
27. Energy-aware resource management for heterogeneous systems
Abstract
Nowadays computers, be they personal or a node contained in a multi machine environment, can contain different kinds of processing units. A common example is the personal computer that nowadays always includes a CPU and a GPU, both capable of executing code, sometimes even in t...
28. DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENHANCED ACTIVE POWER CONTROL TECHNIQUE FOR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION IN MACRO-FEMTO CELLULAR NETWORKS
ABSTRACT Femtocells are overlayed on existing Macrocells to form Macro-Femto heterogeneous network (HetNet), to reduce cost of mounting expensive macrocell nodes, improve cellular network capacity and throughput performance. However, HetNet has a major problem of cross-tier and co-tier interferen...
29. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES REQUIRED BY ADMINISTRATORS FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA
Background to the Study
It is the desire of every society to achieve a sustainable level of socio-economic development through quality education at early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary education level. The Federal Government of Nigeria (FRN) (2013) viewed tertiary institut...
30. GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION FOR POTENTIAL GOLD MINERALISATION IN SHAKWATU AREA OF NIGER STATE, NIGERIA USING VERY LOW FREQUENCY AND ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY METHODS
ABSTRACT
Minerals serve a very important economic commodity to the growth and development of any nation, state or community. In an attempt to delineate potential zones for gold mineralisation, a geophysical investigation was carried out around Shakwatu area of Niger State, Nigeria. Mine...
31. EFFECTS OF JIGSAW IV COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION, RETENTION AND PERFORMANCE IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Introduction
The relevance of science to national goals, aspirations and economy dictates to a large extent, the huge commitment and support which nations make and give to science and technology advancement. This may be the reason why Achor (2006) and Ada (2008) opined...
32. THE UNWANTED METAMORPHOSES OF THE USMAN DAN FODIO’S JIHAD AND SHARIA IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA
Background to the Study
It is the view of some scholars and authors like Danjibo (2012), that in the middle years of the twentieth century, it was assumed that secularism would make religion irrelevant in the politics of mankind. This is because human beings were expect...
33. EXPOSURE TO INTERNET WELLNESS INFORMATION ON INSTANT NOODLES CONSUMPTION AND DIETARY CHANGE AMONG UNDERGRADUATES IN SOUTHEAST NIGERIA
Background of the Study
The advent of the internet has brought about a change in the way tasks are carried out and how information about different subjects are obtained. In Nigeria, there has been a 3 steady increase in the number of people that have access to the Internet. Statistics f...
34. KINETICS AND ENGINE PERFORMANCE OF BIODIESEL PRODUCED FROM SELECTED NON EDIBLESEEDSOILS USING ACTIVATED CLAY CATALYSTS
ABSTRACT
The kinetics and engine performance of biodiesel from African pear seed oil (APO) and Gmelina seed oil (GSO) by modified clay catalysts were carried out. The catalyst was synthesized by activating it with heat, phosphoric acid and sodium hydroxide. They were characterized using...
35. THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF ANAMBRA BROADCASTING SERVICE (RADIO) ON MEDIA OBJECTIVITY
Background of the Study
Mass media are very important tools of communication, through which information is passed to even the farthest end of the society. They enable us to communicate with each other by helping us to overcome the barriers of time and space. They perform both primary an...
36. IMPACT OF BREATH AWAY PROGRAMME CROSS RIVER TELEVISION PROGRAMME AS RELATED TO CHILDREN’S SOCIAL BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS.
Background of the study
This chapter gives us an introduction to the research „‟Impact of Breath away (CRBC TV) as related to children behavioral problems (A study of Yakurr Local Government Area). The mass media is the means of passing information through the use of various chann...
37. influence of home videos on the moral behavior of students of caritas university
Background of the study
Over the years world views have continually detected the moral disposition of the world’s people. This is true for Nigerians and other countries. This comprehensive view is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society, encompassing the...
38. AN ANALYSIS OF THE COVERAGE OF BLASPHEMOUS INCIDENTS IN DAILY TRUST AND THE PUNCH NEWSPAPERS
ABSTRACT
Conflicts precipitated by religious discords or under such pretext, have resulted in the deaths of thousands of people and destruction of property worth billions of dollar in Nigeria, brewing mutual suspicion among its heterogeneous citizens, shipwrecking, ultimately, their cor...
39. AI-DRIVEN TECHNIQUES FOR MALWARE AND MALICIOUS CODE DETECTION
ABSTRACT
Driven by considerable economic profits, there has been explosive growth of malware which has posed significant damages and finical losses to public users. The increasingly sophisticated malware call for new defensive techniques that are capable of protecting l...
40. ISOLATION AND CHARACTERASATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL PRODUCING BACTERIA ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOIL
Background of study
Antibiotic resistance has recently emerged as a significant and alarming problem in the medical community. It is a result of the overuse or improper prescription of antibiotics, which has affected the empirical treatment of patients. Many pathogenic bacteria have dev...
