1. CLASS SIZE AND TEACHER’S EFFECTIVENESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
For many years, educators, politicians and people in general have debated on the number of students a teacher can work effectively to ensure students adequate learning. Although most people would agree that having a few...
2. COUNSELING TRAINING FOR COPING WITH STRESS IN COUNSELING RELATIONSHIP
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Background of the study
Background of the study
People all over the world experience one form of stress or the other irrespective of their race, color and ethnicity, professional or academic background. Maxwell (2018) shared the view that stress ca...
3. A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT COMPLETION RATE IN NIGERIA
BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The construction sector, according to Ashworth et al. (1997), is one of the most important sectors of the economy, employing a varied variety of skilled and unskilled people. These professionals offer a wide range of products and se...
4. A CRITICAL SURVEY OF TASK SIZE AND ITS EFFECT ON SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOLOGY
Background of The Study
Education is connected to an individual's well-being and chances for improved living and plays a critical part in the development of human capital (Cunningham, 2012). It enables the development of information and skills that...
5. EXAMINING E-NAIRA AWARENESS IN NIGERIA'S RURAL DEMOGRAPHICS
Background of the study
“Rural” means open land and tiny settlements in general, although "rural areas" are typically taken for granted or left undefined in policy-oriented and scientific literature, in a process of description that is sometimes la...
6. AN INVESTIGATION OF GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM TOWARD FRAUD PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN NIGERIA
Background of the study
According to Amidu, John, and Joshua (2011), accounting is important to the success or failure of modern business organizations. Systems are in responsible of recording, analyzing, monitoring, and assessing commercial companies&#...
7. IMPACT OF PRICING AND MARKETING OF BEVERAGE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Decision about prices of a company’s product and services are among the most important activities the business organization undertaken infact few decision that these organization make arouse as much interest as those concerning prices. The...
8. CAUSES OF ROAD ACCIDENT AMONG AUTOMOBILE ROAD USERS USING IJEBU-ODE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Road transport is a critical structure for economic development of a country. It influences the pace, structure and pattern of development. Nigeria has one of the largest road network in Africa. However, Road safety is an issue o...
9. THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF BACTERIA IN THE ENVIRONMENT
Background of the Study
Environment is a comprehensive term, which comprises of all the factors which make up the surroundings. The air that one breathes, the land on which one lives, the water one drinks and all the living and non-living things that ar...
10. STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES AMONG MARKET TRADERS
Background Of The Study
Work-related stress is an increasing concern across the globe, affecting not just individuals' health and well-being, but also the business itself. Most work positions have factors that might induce stress in the individual....
11. CLASS SIZE AND TEACHER’S EFFECTIVENESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
For many years, educators, politicians and people in general have debated on the number of students a teacher can work effectively to ensure students adequate learning. Although most people would agree that having a few stu...
12. THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF BACTERIA IN THE ENVIRONMENT
Background of the Study
Environment is a comprehensive term, which comprises of all the factors which make up the surroundings. The air that one breathes, the land on which one lives, the water one drinks and all the living and non-living things that ar...
13. EFFECT OF FUEL SUBSIDY ON THE ECONOMY OF NIGERIA
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with a 2011population of 162.5 million.It possesses28percentof Africanprovenoil reserves, second after Libya, and it is the top producer of African crude oil, producing 24percentof 2010 Africanoil production equaling2.4 million barrelsper day(bpd)(UN...
14. HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE NIGERIAN PRISON SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF NIGER STATE PRISON
The Prison system is one of the key components of Criminal Justice Administration as it the correctional institution where prisoners and convicts are kept after undergoing the processes of police investigation and trial by a court of law. The prison is responsible for the custody of the conv...
15. THE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF PRESS CLUB IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Background to the Study
In recent years, educational researchers have emphasized the critical role of the principal in creating an effective school environment which involves the development of a strong school culture that prescribes specific goals, rol...
16. AN APPRAISAL OF FACTORS MILITATING AGAINST THE EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF FORMAL RISK MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES IN PROJECT DELIVERY
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDY
In this study, our focus was to carryout an appraisal of factors militating against the effective implementation of formal risk management techniques in project delivery. The study specifically was aimed at determining the internal barriers that militating against...
17. AN INVESTIGATION INTO SS2 STUDENTS DIFFICULTY IN LEARNING ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF BIOLOGY IN IKWO LGA OF EBONYI STATE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Biology is a branch of science that studies life. According to Maduabum (2006), science (Biology) constitute the bedrock of the National development which in its broadest sense refers to all human activities which involves organi...
18. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FACE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION SYSTEM
INTRODUCTION
Face recognition system is an application for identifying someone from image or videos. Face recognition is classified into three stages ie)Face detection,Feature Extraction ,Face Recognition. Face detection method is a difficult task in image analysis. Fac...
19. DEPRIVATION OF WIDOWS INHERITANCE RIGHT BY THEIR HUSBANDS RELATIVES: A SURVEY OF ITS IMPACT
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
A lady whose spouse has passed away is known as a widow (Catherine Soanes 2001). Widowhood is the status of having lost one's spouse due to the death of that spouse. In many civilizations, the problem of widows has been a major societal conce...
20. 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...
21. AN EXAMINATION ON THE ORGANIZATION OF INVENTORY PLANNING AND CONTROL ON PRODUCTS AVAILABILITY
Background of the Study
In the field of materials management, it is a well-known truth that the continuation of production or the delivery of services is contingent on a steady flow of necessary inventories. However, the challenge that faces those in charge of materials...
22. AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PHYSIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES IN SACHET WATER IN ABA
BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Water is a liquid that has no taste, no smell, no color, and is completely transparent. It is necessary for life. Seventy-eight percent of the earth's surface is taken up by water and other natural resources (Adegoke, 2022). In order to ca...
23. EVALUATION OF NIGERIA CAPITAL MARKET STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT (A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA STOCK EXCHANGE NSE)
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The capital market performs for the economy, at the long-term end of the spectrum, the functions which the money market performs at the short-term end of the spectrum. Iimi, A. (2017) opined that This is because the m...
24. EVALUATION OF SMARTPHONE USAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION AMONG STUDENTS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTION
Background to the Study
Because the smartphone has taken the world by storm, there are now more smartphone devices on the planet than persons. Because of the rapid rise of smartphones and their users, some marketers are struggling to keep up with both n...
25. INVESTIGATION OF MARKETING STRATEGIES AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SMALL SCALE AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA
Background of the Study
The practice of marketing goods and services is nearly as old as commerce itself; however, the marketing of small-scale products in the form in which it is practiced today has had an impact on a sizable port...
26. COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES USED BY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE OFFICIALS IN THE EFFORT TO ERADICATE POLIO (A CASE STUDY OF BAUCHI METROPOLIS)
Background to the Study
The eradication of polio has been hailed as one of the 20th century's greatest successes in primary health care and is universally regarded as a beneficial and cost-effective public health policy (CDC, 2022). Vaccination agai...
27. COUNSELLING TRAINING FOR COPING WITH STRESS IN COUNSELLING RELATIONSHIP
Background of the study
Regardless of their race, color, nationality, occupation, or level of education, everyone in the world experiences some sort of stress. Maxwell (2018) believed that stress manifested in several ways and impacted individual...
28. BROADCASTING MEDIA CHANNEL; DISSEMINATION OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS A CASE STUDY OF EBS BULLETINS, EDO STATE
BACKGROUND STUDY
Communication as we know has now evolved over many centuries. The sophistication and complexity that define modern human communication are the consequence of a very lengthy and ongoing effort by humans to improve on one of the most fund...
29. ASSESSMENT OF THE LEVELS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KANO
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Coronavirus (Covid-19) is an infectious illness that causes respiratory infections ranging from a common cold to severe respiratory difficulties. It began in December 2019 at the Hunan sea...
30. NEWS SOURCE PREFERENCE BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG STUDENTS OF MASS COMMUNICATION IN LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Background to the study
According to history, before radio, television, and newspapers, information diffusion was limited and slow. Regardless, this is due to the socioeconomic structure of the society. Patronage remained economically driven and motivat...
31. THE IMPACT OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN DEMOCRATIC SUSTAINABILITY IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF NGOS IN BORNO STATE).
Background of the Study
The concept of democratic principles is described as a form of political organization that incorporates a number of basic principles that place importance on human life and dignity and, in many cases, defines procedures fo...
32. LIBRARY CATALOGUE AND ACCESSIBILITY OF INFORMATION RESOURCES IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The goal of the library is to provide users with access to its resources and encourage them to make use of those resources. There has been a movement in the definite stance of what a library used to be, which is a location...
33. STRATEGIES FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
Background of the study
Business education which is a sub-set of the general education programme falls within the spectrum of vocational education. Abdulkadir (2021) described business education as the transfer of pedagogical and business competencies n...
34. THE RELEVANCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A STUDY OF SELECTED MILITARY OPERATIONS IN KADUNA STATE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Since the beginnings of the mid 1900s, the scientific field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) went through periods of intense development and drawbacks. From year 2000, however, a significant and persistent growth in AI rese...
35. A LEXICO-SEMANTIC STUDY OF THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISEMENT IN PIDGIN ENGLISH
Background To The Study
The concern of this research is the language of advertisement in pidgin English. The work selects Pride Fm Radio Gusau jingles with emphasis on the features of Nigerian pidgin (NP) which characterizes pidgin in advertisements. It...
36. THE IMPACT OF STRATEGIC MARKETING PRACTICES TO THE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE OF SMALL SCALE AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE
Background Of The Study
The problem of marketing of Small-Scale Enterprises is truly born of our time; it is product of the standard of timing enjoyed by advanced communities and the ways in which those communities organize the res...
37. STRATEGIC PLANNING AS A TOOL FOR CORPORATE SURVIVAL (A CASE STUDY OF CADBURY NIG. PLC)
ABSTRACT
This project is on strategic planning as a tool for corporate survival with reference to Cadbury Nigeria Plc ,Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos.
Effective management of business environmental changes depends on careful planning. Strategic...
38. THE CHALLENGES FACING NIGERIA TELEVISION IN SWITCHING TO DIGITAL BROADCASTING IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
This study was carried out to examine the challenges facing Nigeria television in switching to digital broadcasting in Nigeria with special reference to ITV Benin City. Specifically, the study aimed to examine if the transition from a...
39. DIVORCE AND ITS EFFECT ON THE FAMILY
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Spouses usually work had toward handling these differences and difficulties but
some are not able to resolve the differences and difficulties. Their marriage fails. When marriages fail, divorce is the resultant effect....
40. A STUDY OF MODIFICATIONS OF FILLER DIMENSIONS AND THE EFFECT OF PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PINEAPPLE LEAF FIBRE REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES
ABSTRACT
This research studied the effect of filler dimensions on some major properties of pineapple leaf fibre-reinforced polypropylene composites. In this study, composites of PALF/PP were produced, the PALF were extracted from pineapple leaves. This was achieved by adopting the mecha...
41. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ONLINE EXAMINATION SYSTEM FOR STAFF RECRUITMENT
INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
An online examination system for recruitment of staff is a web application that establishes a network between the organization and applicants. The organization enters on the site the questions they want in the exam....
42. DETERMINATION OF AN IMPROVED SPECTRUM SENSING THRESHOLD FOR COGNITIVE RADIO USING SMOOTHED PSEUDO WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION
Problem Statement
The successful operation of cognitive radios depends largely on the results of spectrum sensing. Energy detection being the simplest to implement in terms of computational complexity has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers in order to...
43. FURFURAL PRODUCTION FROM MICROALGAE
Abstract
This research focused on the production of furfural from microalgae biomass and optimizing the process parameters using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Furfural production was carried out by hydrolysis of Pentosans to Pentoses where Pentosans in hemicelluloses is hydrolyzed...
44. MODAL ANALYSIS OF VERTICALLY CURVED CONCRETE FLYOVER BRIDGES
ABSTRACT
The effectiveness and sensitivity of vertically curved concrete flyover bridge (VCCFB) profile is presented. Modal analysis was conducted on three VCCFB models; one for a profile achieved using horizontal beams, profile achieved using slightly curved beams and a profile achieve...
45. ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF THE LEAF EXTRACTS OF ALCHORNEA CORDIFOLIA (Euphorbiaceae) AGAINST ISOLATES FROM PATIENTS WITH RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION IN UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL
ABTRACT
Many bacterial species have been reported to develop resistance to antibiotics commonly prescribed for respiratory tract infections. Therefore, the need to search for natural products for remedy of this problem cannot be overemphasized. One hundred and eighty (180) specimens wer...
46. ANTIBIOTICS SUSCEPTIBILITY AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF CLINICAL ISOLATES OF E. coli FROM UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
Antimicrobial drug resistance is a global challenge with the emergence of resistant bacterial strains worldwide. This study was conducted to determine the incidence of E. coli in ABUTH Shika, Zaria (from March 2011 to February 2012), their antibiotics susceptibility pattern, mo...
47. COMPARATIVE IN VITRO BIOEQUIVALENCE EVALUATION OF SIX BRANDS OF AMOXICILLIN CAPSULE MARKETED IN DUTSE, JIGAWA STATE, NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
Comparative in vitro bioequivalence study of biopharmaceutics class I and III drugs hadgained prominence in recent times. In vitro bioequivalence offered many benefits compared to conventional in-vivobioequivalence studies, due to its reduced cost and time of product release as...
48. MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTIDRUG RESISTANT BACTERIAL UROPATHOGENS FROM PREGNANT WOMEN IN IBADAN METROPOLIS, SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the commonest infectious diseases of women worldwide, and pregnant women are more predisposed. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of bacterial infecting agents in UTI during pregnancy, to establish their antimicrobial susceptibi...
49. PHARMACOGNOSTIC AND ANTIBACTERIAL STUDIES OF THE LEAVES OF CHROMOLAENA ODORATA (L.) KING & ROBINSON (ASTERACEAE)
ABSTRACT
The plant, Chromolaena odorata (L.) King & Robinson is a member of the Asteraceae family. It grows abundantly in Southern Nigeria where its leaves are used as traditional herbal treatment for wounds and fevers. The plant, C. odorata was therefore investigated for antibacter...
50. Spectrum Regulation Framework: A Case Study of NCC, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
Spectrum is a vital requisite for growth enhancement in this Digital Economy, and the efficient way of managing the use of the spectrum resources is very important. In recent years, wireless and mobile data traffic in Nigeria has increased dramatically and requires significant...
