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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Today’s increasingly competitive business world means that a highly-motivated workforce is vital for any organization seeking to achieve the best results. Many firms are moving away from the “command and control” approach towards the “advice and consent” method as a preferable way of motivating staff. This shift... Continue Reading

This study examined strike actions and the achievement of aims in Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Uyo,Akwa Ibom State. The broad objective of this study was to examine the relationship between strike actions and the achievement of aims in ASUU, in terms of its effectiveness and using it to draw a conclusion on how far... Continue Reading

INTRODUCTION Nowadays purchasing trends are changing from small retail stores to mega store and departmental stores, the buyers are moving to mega stores and undergo different experience and stop depending on old traditional small retail stores.While on the one other hand these mega stores adopt various strategies to offer different experience to... Continue Reading

CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS 1.3 RESEARACH QUESTIONS 1.4 STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS 1.5 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY 1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 THEORETICAL LITERATURE REVIEW 2.2 EMPIRICAL LITERATURE REVIEW CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY 3.1 SOURCE OF DATA 3.2... Continue Reading

This research study appraised the impact of the Banking Sector Reforms on the Real Sector of the Nigerian Economy for the period 1986 to 2009. Data on real sector output, credit to the real sectors, lending rate and interest rate on savings were obtained from the CBN Statistical Bulletin (2009 edition). The data were analysed using... Continue Reading

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUUCTIOM 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY 1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY 1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 1.5 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 1.6 RESEARCH QUESTION 1.7 DEFINATION OF TERMS 2.0 CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 IMPORTANT OF CASH MANAGEMENT 2.2 THE PROBLEM OF LITTLE... Continue Reading

The Treasury Single Account (TSA) was recently implemented fully in the Nigerian economy by the present government in order to ensure prudence and probity in the management of financial resources. With the TSA government expects to block all loopholes and leakages of financial resources of the government and also ensure a robust financial... Continue Reading

The study examined the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Nigeria over the period 1980 to 2010. The study employed multiple regressions in analysis, using the ordinary least square (OLS) regression technique. The result at this revealed that FDI impacted positively on the growth of the Nigeria economy over the period under... Continue Reading

Substance abuse is a social problem that has spread and increased rapidly in our educational institutions even in secondary schools but especially among the under graduate students in Nigeria, this social mal adaptation is considered an issue of serious concern as it adversely affects the lives and performance of students involved as well... Continue Reading

ABSTRACT The study investigated the disposal of medical wastes in health institutions in Ekiti State, Nigeria. It involves visitation, survey work which entails administration of questionnaire and library study to gather information which includes type of waste, volume... Continue Reading

The study investigated the sanitary assessment and physiochemical characteristics of hand- dug wells in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria with a view to support the operation and maintenance of hand-dug wells by providing clear guidance for remedial action to protect and improve water supply in the study area. The town was zoned into ten... Continue Reading

This research was conducted in Ikole-Ekiti to evaluate the effects of four land use types (forest plantation, arable land, fallow land and ranchland) and soil depth on soil organic carbon fractions namely; particulate organic carbon (POC), soil microbial biomass carbon (SMBC), total organic carbon (TOC) and water soluble organic carbon... Continue Reading

This study focus on the physiochemical and microbial characteristics of pure water sachet in Ado-Ekiti. A total of sixteen pure water sachet from sixteen brand were collected at random and their physiochemical and microbial parameters were analysed The colour, taste, odour, turbidity, temperature, pH, electrical conductivity, total... Continue Reading

 ABSTRACT Exploring the impact of changes in land use in soils of the desert margin soils in Nigeria .This research is a key component to global climate change. Soil samples were taken in two vegetation zone Sahel and Sudan Savannah under four different land uses( Forest Area, Arable land, Fallow land and Grazing land) at a depth of 0-15cm. The... Continue Reading

Sustainable use of soils requires in-depth knowledge of the formation, genesis and properties of soil. It is in view of this that some soils derived from granitic parent rock in Ikole, South- western Nigeria covering 33.7 hectares of land where mapped at a scale of 1:50,000 using a combination of convectional and remote sensing methods of... Continue Reading

This study examines the rainfall distribution and the length of the growing season in Northern Nigeria using the daily rainfall data from the selected stations Gasua, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Maiduguri, Potiskum, Sokoto, Yelwa, Zaria. The data were collected from the archives of the Nigerian Meteorological Services, Oshodi, Lagos. The... Continue Reading

Greenhouse study was conducted at Federal University Oye- Ekiti, Department of Soil Science and Land Resources Management between June and August 2016 to compare the growth and yield of maize (Zea mays L.) using different rates of organic (Tithonia diversifolia) and Inorganic fertilizer. The effect of the amendments on the soil chemical... Continue Reading

Many households are used to the construction of shallow wells, but the wells hardly provide adequate water supply in term of volume and quality throughout the year. As a result, government adopted the construction of boreholes as an alternative to pipe-borne water supply and as an immediate solution to water supply and quality problem.... Continue Reading

Water is an important resource for almost all human activities like agriculture, industry, transportation, domestic uses and the proper functioning of the human body, The study examined the physiochemical properties and potentially toxic metals in hand-dug wells and boreholes in Ikole Ekiti and its Environs.  Six functional hand-dug... Continue Reading

Cadmium (Cd) is a common environmental contaminant found in soils. Unlike other metals. Cd has no biological role, and is potentially toxic to microorganisms. The concentrations of cadmium in agricultural soils depend upon the amounts present in the parent rocks from which the soils form, the amounts added in the form of fertilizers and... Continue Reading

The Information on the effect of different land use systems on the aggregate stability and carbon sequestration is crucial for the recommendation of efficient land management practices. This study was conducted to evaluate the variation in aggregate stability and carbon sequestration under different land use systems in two agro ecological... Continue Reading

This project contains details of Coal fired circulating fluidize boiler.The motivation of our project was to develop a method which is energy economical i.e. uses less energy owing to increasing energy issues. Process description, mass balance, energy balance, equipment design, and cost estimation of circulating fluidized bed boiler for combustion... Continue Reading

The household lighting cost accounts for 10% of the electric bill, changing the light bulbs effectively can reduce the long term energy costs significantly. In Nigeria, where less than one percent of the population has access to 24 hours of interrupted power supply there is a need for a complementary, renewable source of light which provides... Continue Reading

Carbon steel corrosion is a commonly encountered issue in pipelines transporting hydrocarbons containing corrosive agents such as CO2, H2S and water. As a result, several corrosion prediction models have been put forward over the years although no standard model exists for corrosion prediction in the industry. Two of such models are the Norsok... Continue Reading

The advent of sachet and bottled water has increasingly filled the gap in household water security. This research work was carried out to assess the quality of bottled and sachet water sold in Bauchi metropolis. Thirty (30) water brands consisting of twenty (20) sachet water brands and ten (10) bottled water brands were assessed for their... Continue Reading