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A causal model of family socio-demographic factors on parents’ involvement in the provision of basic education and students’ achievement in english language
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CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AS BASIS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
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Linguistic Forms and Functions of Rhetorical Strategies in the Sermons of Selected Pentecostal Churches in Lagos
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- As encounters and interactions of Nigeria with Western and Asian economic powers intensify and deepen, the Nigerian economy continues to undergo transformations. This paper explores and compares Tokunbo and Chinco economies in this transformation process. As products of processes and patterns of incorporation of Nigeria into the world-economy, Tokunbo refers to an economy that relies on trade in second-hand, imported goods from the West while the Chinco economy is a recent creation through the influx of cheap China-made goods. They are parallel economies existing alongside, but mostly dominating, the local economy whose capabilities have been largely eroded as a result of decades of being in a protracted static position as a periphery nation. Their emergence is intricately connected to the overpowering juggernaut of global capitalism and the opportunistic tendencies and resolve of local entrepreneurs and transnational traders to participate in, as well as benefit from, the deepening incorporation of local market into the world-system, even if it means doing so as low-end actors. Also, while they are characteristically distinguishable, their logic and destabilising consequences are the same in a periphery nation. This calls for a rethink and critical reflection on the value of transnational processes which is currently intensifying in the face of global systems expansion, particularly the sort of trans-nationalism that is being facilitated by China’s interest in African countries. 1 results 1
- Background: The Global Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis will declare the world free of wild poliovirus transmission when no wild virus has been found in at least 3 consecutive years, and all laboratories possessing wild poliovirus materials have adopted appropriate measures of containment. Nigeria has made progress towards poliomyelitis eradication with the latest reported WPV type 1 on 21 Aug 2016 after 2 years without any case. This milestone achievement was followed by an inventory of biomedical laboratories completed in November 2015 with the destruction of all identified infectious materials. This paper seeks to describe the poliovirus laboratory containment process in Nigeria on which an effective containment system has been built to minimize the risk of virus re-introduction into the population from the laboratories. Methods: A national survey of all biomedical facilities, as well as an inventory of laboratories from various sectors, was conducted from June November 2015. National Task Force (NTF) members and staff working on polio administered an on-site questionnaire in each facility. Laboratory personnel were sensitized with all un-needed materials destroyed by autoclaving and incineration. All stakeholders were also sensitized to continue the destruction of such materials as a requirement for phase one activities. Results: A total of 20,638 biomedical facilities were surveyed with 9575 having laboratories. Thirty laboratories were found to contain poliovirus or potentially infectious materials. The 30 laboratories belonged to the ministries of health, education, defence and private organizations. Conclusions: This article is amongst the first in Africa that relates poliovirus laboratory containment in the context of the tOPV-bOPV switch in alignment with the Global Action Plan III. All identified infectious materials were destroyed and personnel trained to continue to destroy subsequent materials, a process that needs meticulous monitoring to mitigate the risk of poliovirus re-introduction to the population. 1 results 1
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- Capitalism with its accompanied liberal ideology has been very successful in expanding its tentacles to and overthrowing other social and economic systems in several parts of the world. The resulting consequence of this historical process is that of globalization which is characterized by increasing homogeneity and interdependence of the various countries of the world on one another. While globalization has been recurrent and become a focus for scholarly discourse, Nigeria right from the time of her independence has remained at a disadvantage position in terms of economic, political, technological and cultural development. Historical events showed that the “supposed giant of Africa” as a peripheral country, has been dancing to the music of the more developed nations, thus experiencing disguised dependency even as an independent republic. However, if the country is serious about achieving its sustainable development goals, it must learn to dictate its own tune and look inwards for the restructuration of its social, economic and political systems in line with her area of strength, as well as addressing her weaknesses. Thus, this paper attempts to describe the current world capitalist system in the light of World-Systems Theory, discuss globalization and then examine key areas Nigeria must look into for the emancipation of its people from the shackles of underdevelopment and dependency. In conclusion, it is recommended that true Federalism and Nationalism should be the watchword and practice of both political leaders and Nigerian citizens in order to achieve grassroots development and national progress. 1 results 1
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- Computers have made the greatest impact in the advancement and development of almost all aspect of human endeavour, particularly in the engineering field. In this research, effort is geared towards improving the universal design and final manufacturing of commercial cams in many automotive and other related companies around the world. A software package for the design and profile simulation of plate cams with a possible choice of two followers(roller and flat-face) using eight standard cam motion for over one hundred and eighty-nine different followers profiles has been developed. The developed software provided the tools to analyze critical aspects of cams design before physical prototyping or production of such cams and followers, thereby increasing their reliability and performance. The developed software provides the tools to analyze critical aspect of cam design process but also speeds it up dramatically thereby making the process of comparative design analysis and optimization easier and faster. 1 results 1
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- Cultural knowledge, centred on the belief systems of a people and abstracted from the totality of their skills and values, is very crucial to the development of a society. Previous studies on development have proved to be inadequate in resolving the dilemma of development in Africa because they emphasised economism – a uni-dimensional idea and approach to development that gives primacy to individualism, market liberalisation, and material aspect of development, while ignoring the cultural realities of the people. This study, therefore, examined the centrality of cultural knowledge to development in Africa. The study adopted Arturo Escobar’s Ethnographic model, which argues that societies of the Global South should be allowed to pursue their own development as they deem fit without the influence of the Global North. Ten relevant texts in Philosophy of Culture including Escobar’s Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (ED), Hoppers’ Culture, Indigenous Knowledge and Development (CIKD) and Verhelst’s No Life Without Culture (NLWC); eight texts in Epistemology including Descartes’ Discourses on Method (DM), Hobbes’ Leviathan (LN) and Bacon’s The New Organon (TNO); and six texts on Political Economy including Sachs’ Common Wealth (CW), Stiglitz’ The Price of Inequality (TPI), Stiglitz and Charlton’s Fair Trade for All (FTA) were analysed. These purposively selected texts dealt with the idea of development and how it should be approached from the cultural and economic perspectives. Conceptual analysis and reconstruction were adopted for analysis. Texts in Philosophy of Culture revealed that Western conception of development is ethnocentric, authoritarian and technocratic and rejected models that provided Western theories alone as ideal models for the Global South, which Africa has been following (ED, CIKD and NLWC). Texts in Epistemology upheld the quest for social change through the essence of knowledge in order to liberate and expand the horizons of intelligence of the people (DM, LN and TNO). Texts on Political Economy emphasised that market forces built on capitalist ideology made development linear and tailored towards economism (CW, TPI and FTA). Critical intervention shows that the totality of skills, experiences, beliefs, values, taboos, norms and insights of a people guide the contents and processes of their development. Knowledge of these cultural elements not only forms the basis for decision-making but also informs the survival strategies adopted by people in matters relating to critical issues of life. The challenge of development in Africa has remained because of the uni-dimensional approach to development, which emphasises economism, to the neglect of other cultural elements that define the people’s reality. Therefore, cultural knowledge can better enhance development in Africa. 1 results 1
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- Imported Used Electronics (IUEs) are officially conceived in research oriented policy as potential and actual toxic “solid waste”, yet Nigeria remains a high consumer demand economy for them. IUEs include electronic monitors, digital devices, docking stations, cell phones, hand-held diagnostics, screening tools, television sets among others. Nigerian economy has evolved a socially constructed merchandise structure, which sustains IUEs trade. Literature, however limits IUEs discourses to pure-scientific framing of toxicology and dump in the Third World countries. This study, therefore, examined the subjective meanings that sustain the demand and merchandise of IUEs against official prohibition. Social action theory guided the study. The research design was exploratory. The qualitative research method was used. Data were generated from both primary and secondary sources. The research area was Lagos, and data were collected from Ikeja Computer Village, Westminster Used Electronics Market, Alaba International Market, Apapa Customs Office (ACO) and National Environmental Standards and Regulatory Enforcement Agency (NESREA). Participants were selected through purposive and snow-balling techniques. Non-participant observation for 15 months, In-depth Interviews (IDIs) were held with 22 IUE consumers and 22 market-actors. A total of 15 Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) were held with ACO officers (three), Association Heads of the three markets (eight) and veteran market actors (four). Six FGDs were conducted with IUEs consumers and market-actors, while five case studies were carried out on large scale consumers and market actors with at least 10 years working experience in IUEs merchandizing. Secondary data were sourced from NESREA and Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for African Region, Ibadan. Data obtained were content analyzed. Demand for IUEs was hinged on peculiar social relations of consumption and merchandising which rationalized and constructed IUEs as desirable and affordable modern material objects. This relations involved processes of upgrading “solid waste” into tradable commodities infused with deluxe values and potentialities for leveling class. Artful transactions involved offer of disused electronics to market-actors in exchange for upgraded IUEs at a little token. A structure of interdependent actors sustained the IUEs merchandise. It included official gatekeepers such as Customs and NESREA, whose variable roles sustained entry of solid wastes into the market as IUEs; and administrators, merchants and interlinks-security who provided administrative, economic and coercive functions respectively. Furthermore, resuscitators upgrade otherwise wastes into merchandisable goods. Scavengers-collectors extract the irredeemable from merchants, to scrap-collectors who trade them to bulk-scrap-buyers. Bulk-buyers in turn, trade the scraps to domestic iron-smelting companies and/or illegally export them. In essence, IUEs remained tradable even in their end-of-life stages. Thus, local meanings of utility of IUEs and of employment potentialities were constructed against official policy perception of them as solid waste. Through a structured system of market interactions, actor-merchants contrived utility for Imported Used Electronics in the process of merchandise and consumption. Government should therefore accommodate local realities in order to proffer inclusive and robust IUEs policy. 1 results 1
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