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Challenges and Problems of Rentier Economy in Africa (Nigeria Case Study)

2019-12-01

The mono-cultural nature of Africa economy has a lot of implication on its development, most African countries more especially the oil rich states, otherwise call rentier states depends heavily on external rent, this possess a lot of challenges and problem to their economy the implication of this are enormous, poverty, unemployment economic stagnation, corruption, civil unrest etc. Documentary in textbook, journals, periodical and data on the internet will be explored; Neo-colonization, dependency and imperialism are still but crux of the lack of development. Internal economic mobilization and diversification is seen as the way out.

Muhammed Abideen Abeeb,Ismail Haruna

Limiting factor analysis technique: A literature review

2019-12-01

Limiting factor analysis is a technique usually applied in the short term decisions. It is employed by management to curb the effect of shortages in limiting factor such as raw material, skilled labor

Ibrahim Ali Bappa,Shehu Abubakar Adamu

Influence of Politics on the News Media and Media’s Influence on Politics

2019-12-01

The press/media has had a long and seemingly unending relationship with politics leading to various communication scholars to describe this relationship as ‘polimedia’, ‘a tug of war’, ‘a symbiotic relationship’, ‘marriage de raison’, ‘a tango of give and take’, ‘trust and distrust, love and hate’, ‘uneasy exchange and reliance’, etc. Majority of newspaper contents in Nigeria and around the world are on politics as it is the most selling news. Thus, this paper seeks to find out through observations and literatures, the relationship between the press and politics by determining how they both influence each other. The researcher reviewed existing literatures for the study since the subject is theoretical based. These literatures were works already published on the relationship between the press and politics. This study is anchored on the Politics-Media-Politics Principle model. The researcher concluded that there exist a significant relationship between the press and politics. The researcher also found out that the press has as much influence on politics as politics on the press. On the influence of the media on politics, the media have been the predominant source of political information for citizens in a democratic society. On the influence of politics on the media, politicians, even governments can manipulate the coverage of information to achieve their political and economic goals through diverting audience attention. The researcher recommended that the press should also endeavour to give an unbiased report about politics no matter which politician or political actor is involved.

Buike Oparaugo

Influence of Classroom Environment on Achievement in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Some Selected Secondary Schools in Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria

2019-12-01

Environment plays a significant role in determining students’ level of academic achievement and enhancing their holistic growth. Classroom as an environment is not just an intellectual space, but also a social, emotional and physical environment. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of classroom environment on learning English as a foreign language from selected secondary schools in Mokwa, Nigeria. This study indorses the experimental approach to realize its objective. Two groups of students are classified as the Experimental and the Control group and assigned to study under two different classroom environments. The Experimental group consists of (100) students. These are accommodated in three well renovated classrooms; while the Control group which includes (100) students are assigned to study in non-renovated schools under relatively poor classroom environments. The two groups are taught the same English language material by teachers with similar qualifications and experiences during the first term of the academic year 2018. Scores in the English Final Examination for the two groups are compared to assess the classroom environment effect on the students’ achievement. These scores are tabulated and analysed using descriptive statistics. The results reveal that there are significant differences between the achievements of the Experimental and the Control group in English in favour of the Experimental group who have studied under favourable classroom conditions. The researcher has also explored the administrators’ and teachers’ viewpoints regarding the learning environment in the study zone and its possible impact on students’ achievement in English. The study recommends conducting further studies on the environmental effect on other school subjects and on female students’ achievement.

Fatima Yusuf

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SERUM GLUCOSE AND HEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION IN TYPE II DIABETES PATIENTS

2019-12-01

<p>Glucose and heamoglobin are nutritional parameters that can signal certain abnormality in patients especially in the presence of diabetes. The co-presence of glucose and heamoglobin in the blood in certain ratio can signal health related problems and solutions. Blood glucose level is the amount of glucose present in the blood of a human. Glucose is the primarily source of energy for the body cells. These monomers are transported from the intestine through hepatic portal vein to other body cells regulated by the hormone. Heamoglobin is the iron containing oxygen transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of vertebrates as well as the tissue of some invertebrate. The aim of this research is to determined glucose and heamoglobin concentration in type II Diabetes. The blood glucose of the hundred patients was determined using Chemistry system selectra PROS. The results showed 11 patients with the glucose level 14.2mmol/L have a corresponding heamoglobin concentration of 10-11gm/dL. 56 patients with the glucose level of 12.5mmol/L with a corresponding heamoglobin concentration of 12-13gm/dL, and 33 patients with the glucose level of 10.3mmol/L have a corresponding heamoglobin concentration of 14-15gm/dL. Moreover the mean values of blood glucose and heamoglobin concentration are 12.0 &plusmn; 0.3mmol/L and 12.9 &plusmn; 0.3gm/dL respectively. From the result obtained, it was observed that as the glucose increased the heamoglobin decreased and vise versa. In conclusion, 56% of the study population are within the normal range and 44% deviate from normal. It was recommended that diabetic patients should give proper attention to avoid low heamoglobin as this may play an health related problem. Patients should regularly check their heamoglobin level and also advice to exercise regularly in order to avoid been obese. HbA1c should be carried out as a marker that can be used to determine average blood sugar of normal individuals.</p>

Abubakar El-Ishaq, Falmata Hussaini

FACTORS ANALYSIS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP READINESS VARIABLE AMONG SMES PERFORMANCE IN BAUCHI STATE

2019-12-01

<p>The aim of the study is to determine the factor structure of entrepreneurship performance among SMEs in Bauchi State. Target population of the study was small business manufacturing enterprise in Bauchi State. Based on a random sampling, the sample size of the study was 302 SMEs Bauchi State. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data from owner managers of the enterprises. The data was analyzed through exploratory factor analysis. The finding of the study revealed that entrepreneurship readiness variable can effectively measure the performance of SMEs in Yobe State.</p>

Kagu Bukar

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND THE ROLE OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS IN NIGERIA

2019-12-01

<p>Evolving information and knowledge has impacted all organizations, including libraries. This has made knowledge management become important. The development of knowledge management in recent years has become the key concern for librarians and libraries. As a result, the role of academic librarians in changing to provide the competitive advantage for the parent institution is necessary. This paper studied the interconnections among human needs, academic processes, information and communication technologies, and the processes for their management. It is followed by a discussion on the nature of human needs and the vision of the library, as well as the information and knowledge requirements for meeting such needs in a digital society. It also explored some implications of the trends in digital society for information, knowledge and technology management in the context of library services. The paper would conclude with discussion on some management related challenges for librarians/libraries in knowledge management and suggests that librarians/libraries in the digital and knowledge age should be in charge of knowledge management in their respective institutions in order to leverage the intellectual assets and to facilitate knowledge creation.</p>

Laraba Kagana Muhammad

Language Revitalization in Karai-karai: An Effective Tool Against Language Endangerment in Nigeria.

2019-12-01

<p>The paper highlights the Karai-karai language situation as one of the threatened minority languages in northern Nigeria facing the extinction saga and the possible ways of revitalizing it. As it stands, the use of Karai-karai keeps declining drastically in almost all domains of language use: market, schools, mosques, churches, town hall meetings, and more interestingly, the home domain. A recorded interview technique was used for generating the required data from two speech communities in Bauchi and Yobe States. Results show that over 78% of Karai-karai youths barely use the language anywhere because they can&rsquo;t express themselves freely in the language. With this clear prospect of extinction, a drastic revitalization plan has therefore been proposed to address the matter in order to reactivate the speakers to love and speak karai-karai in order to save it from the imminent extinction. A recommendation is made for adult speakers to step up and teach younger ones deliberately and save the decline and eventual death of the language</p>

Musa Bate Barde

Evaluation of Serum Lipid and Lipoprotein in Diabetic and Hypertensive subject Attending Specialist Hospital Damaturu Yobe State

2019-12-01

<p>Absorbility and availability of food nutrients depends on many factors. In serum, lipid molecules are present in combination with proteins. Such lipid-protein complexes are called lipoprotein. This combination promotes solubility of lipid in an aqueous environment, this make it more available for cells up take. Lipoproteins have a core of insoluble (non-polar) cholesterol esters and Triglycerides. The study is aimed at determining the lipids and lipoproteins profiles in the serum of diabetics and hypertensive subjects. Automated chemistry analyzer (selectra pros) was used for these analyses. The results obtained from sample analyzed for serum Total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein, low density lipoprotein and triglyceride from hypertensive and diabetes patients are TC 9.3 mmol/L, HDL 1.9 mmol/L, LDL 2.3 mmol/L, TG 0.9 mmol/L. This study has generated data which shows that dyslipidemia exists in patients at Damaturu who suffers from diabetes and hypertension, or both diseases as compared with normal individuals. It was recommended that the patients of diabetes and hypertensive are at risk of cardiovascular disease due to the composition of the analysed lipoproteins.</p>

Abubakar El-Ishaq ,Aishatu Ismail Yusuf

Micro-Finance and Real Sector Growth in Nigeria

2019-12-01

Mustapha Ali