ABSTRACT Gender and perception of poverty in Surulere Local Government Area of Lagos State is the focus of this study. The main objectives of the study were to examine the way men and women perceive poverty and to understand the gender-based differences in the perception of poverty and to explore the effects of poverty coping […]

ABSTRACT Older persons are known for wisdom because they have experienced more days or years on earth more than others. At some point in live, the older persons are disengage from their long life activities and thus, they are deprived of some basic things. The society had been structured that the older persons cannot hold […]

ABSTRACT This study investigated men involvement in ante-natal care using Ikeja bag Local Government as a study. It was designed to establish the impact of min in ante-natal related issues and its corresponding effect on infant development. Relevant literature and theories related to this study were used Both primary and secondary data were used. The […]

ABSTRACT The participation of women in the modern labour force over the year has been a tropical issue for discussion, when compared with the traditional roles played in the past, it is agreeable that the social status of the present day womenfolk has obviously been uplifted. In this research work, the researcher took time to […]

ABSTRACT This research work investigates the Nigerian community attitude towards Stigmatization and Discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS in Alimosho Area of Lagos State. Two hundred and fifty person who are currently living with HIV/AIDS were interviewed through administration of questionnaires in the area of study. Frequency tables and regression model were used in the […]

ABSTRACT The researcher set out to investigate factors that influence career choice among the senior high school students in Alimosho senior High school and the extent to which those factors influence students’ choice. Survey design was used. The main instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. Simple random sample techniques was used to select 200 […]

ABSTRACT In the Nigerian society, Corporate Social Responsibilities [CSR] has been a highly cotemporary and contextual issue to all stakeholders including the government, the corporate organization itself, and the general public. The public contended that the payment of taxes and the fulfillment of other civic rights are enough grounds to have the liberty to take […]

ABSTRACT Waste is generated universally; the focus of this study was designed to investigate waste management strategies among food vendors in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government. A well-designed research questionnaire and in-dept interview were administered on 150 respondents, returned and analyzed using the frequency counts and simple percentages of data analysis. The concept of waste which this […]

ABSTRACT This study is based on Youth Employment, empowerment and poverty alleviation in Ogun state. The study critically looks into the background of the study, statement of problem, significance of the study, scope and delimitation of the study and definition of terms. In the course of these research works both primary and secondary sources of […]

ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of microfinance on economic, financial and social empowerment of women micro entrepreneurs in Ikeja, Lagos State. A sample of 50 women micro entrepreneurs were selected in Ikeja some of which include traders, hairdressers, fashion designers, fish farmers and boutique owners. Survey method was employed to obtain a picture of […]

ABSTRACT This study investigate the sales and usage of secondhand clothing in Alimosho local government area of Lagos State. Social construction, sales and usage of secondhand clothing. Certain conditions compel individual into taking decisions and actions. Sales and usage of secondhand clothing is a major occupation, for which, Igbo people are famous. With the economic […]

ABSTRACT The world is now a global village with the invention of new technologies. However, the physical migration of people is still inevitable and it is necessary for rural community’s development. There are several reasons while people migrate, like economic reasons, ecological reasons, educational reasons etc. The purpose of the research work is to bring […]

ABSTRACT This research examined the Impact of Occupational Stress on Worker’s Performance with special reference to Neimenth International Pharmaceuticals Plc. The research adopted survey research design. Data were gathered through primary source with the aid of a well-structured questionnaire. Simple random sampling technique was adopted in the selection of sample, this was used to eliminate biasness […]

ABSTRACT The problems of unemployment of youth in Nigeria are increasing in an unprecedented rate. Unemployment is a situation whereby able bodied men who are willing to work could not get suitable job to do. The problems of unemployment have been found to be affecting both the skilled and unskilled persons in Nigeria. More especially, as it […]

ABSTRACT Parent’s status has a problem which has faced the academic performance of the students as a matter of facts this study focused on the effect of socio-economic background of student on their performance in secondary school certificate examination economics. Hence the effects of socio-economic background on student performance were strictly analyzed by and large […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Considerable researches such as Williams and Williams 2005, Simon 2006, Giddens 1998, and Beck 1992, 1994, now reveals the contribution of parental involvement in learning activities of student as well as the school programme to positive outcomes. However, one cannot really ascertain the contribution of either spouse in […]

ABSTRACT This project work is aimed at finding out the extent to which the family role of women isaffected by the newest innovation – urban renewal in our contemporary society today especially in Lagos State – as one of the fastest growing cities in the world Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area was chosen because of its metropolitan nature of the area. Based on the information […]

ABSTRACT This work is about the Yoruba construction of gender and household chores, how the Yoruba share the chores within the house; by gender or age, to ascertain if the construction of gender of the Yoruba people is related to the way they allocate chores within the household. Social construction is an invention of the […]

CHAPTER ONE Background of the Study 1.1       Introduction     Despite its human and natural resources, Nigeria with a population of  over 170 million and GDP of $235 billion (World Bank, 2012) and $500 billion when rebased in 2014, is ranked among the poorest countries in the world; fifty five per cent live below the extreme poverty line of […]

ABSTRACT This study focused on the assessment of flooding problems in makoko area of Lagos state. The aim and objective was to identify and asses the drainage channel in the study area, the effects of flooding in the study area, to examine the causes of flooding in the study area and to examine past efforts […]

ABSTRACT The essence of this study is to find out why public sector does not fully benefits from the accumulated knowledge of work motivation and what can be done in this context to improve organizational efficiency and employee’s performance. The inability of government workers to improve efficiency through pay rise and other motivational policies necessitated the research […]

ABSTRACT Nigerian public sector industry has long been the exclusive realm of the Nigeria men. This is as a result of the prevalent view in the world that women are subordinates, as a result of which certain jobs were not meant or seen as appropriate for them. Another general assumption is that women are less-educated, […]

ABSTRACT This premise of this research is based on the Impact of National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) on Economic Development of Nigeria. The research adopted a survey research design. A well structured questionnaire was designed and administered to respondents. A sample size of one hundred (100) was drawn from the population of study. The sampling […]

Abstract Alcohol consumption and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have been a global challenge that confronts most countries of the world. Alcohol as it were has always come with more of negative outcomes. And in considering the correlation between alcohol and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) one would be able to know that it is the outcome […]

ABSTRACT There has been a high and growing incidence of poverty in Lagos State in the last two decades. Overtime, what can be discerned in the various approaches to poverty alleviation in Lagos State is that the State is determined largely by making a choice between growth promoting policies and poverty focused strategies. The reality however […]

ABSTRACT This study attempts to examine Stigmatization And Alienation Of Unmarried Teenage Mothers In Sub-Culture (Agege Lga Of Lagos State). The study adopted a qualitative approach. While a total of 90 respondents were selected using simple random sampling, the research instrument was a structured questionnaire having both open and closed ended questions. Also, three hypotheses were […]

ABSTRACT This study attempted to identify some socio psychological effects of conflict in the home on academic performances of students in some selected secondary schools in Alimosho, Lagos State. The research was based on random sampling of selected students and a total of 100 students were sampled comprising of 53 males and 47 females randomly […]

ABSTRACT Proper breastfeeding practices are effective ways for reducing childhood morbidity and mortality, while many mothers understand the importance of breastfeeding, others are less knowledgeable on the benefits of breastfeeding and weaning. The aim in here i to assess breastfeeding pattern, infant formula feeding pattern, and weaning introduction in Nigeria and to investigate the factors […]

ABSTRACT This study attempts to explain the socio-cultural factors influencing student’s career choice in Kosofe Local Government area of Lagos State. The study adopted a qualitative approach. While a total of 150 respondents were selected using simple random sampling, the research instrument was a structured questionnaire having both open and closed ended questions. The social […]

ABSTRACT This research was based on domestic violence in Agege local government, Lagos state Nigeria. The people of Agege local government constitute the study population. The main objectives of this study were to examine how domestic violence influences the people living in this area. The data used for the study was collected through her interview […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY According to Gove (1986), marriage is described as the state of being united with a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife; the institution whereby men and women are joinedin a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose founding and maintaining afamily; an act of marrying or rite by […]

ABSTRACT This research project tends to examine Occupational Safety and Health Hazards among Employees of Beta Glass Plc Agbara Industrial Estate, Ogun State. Survey design was employed with the use of a well structured questionnaire. Respondents were selected based on simple random sampling technique. Sample size of Eighty (80) respondents were selected from the staff of Beta […]

ABSTRACT This research project tends to examine Occupational Hazards among Hawkers in Pen Cinema Area of Agege, Lagos State. Survey design was employed with the use of a well structured questionnaire. Respondents were selected based on simple random sampling technique. Sample size of One Hundred (100) respondents were selected from the staff of 7up Bottling Company […]

ABSTRACT This study examines the implication of nutritional behaviour in pregnancy on maternal child health in Alimosho General Hospital, Igando. Pregnancy deserves planning because many practice and conditions of the mother that harm the developing fetus. The effect of maternal malnutrition on the course of pregnancy, the food pregnant woman eat serve as a mean […]

ABSTRACT Leadership is the key to social upliftment, social stagnation and even social decay, but there is no such agreement as to which kind of leadership is most capable of meeting and enhancing national development. The ability of a leader to coordinate member’s behaviour in the pursuit of goals is referred to as leadership. George […]

ABSTRACT The study cantered on Labour Welfare and Industrial Relations in a Depressed Economy; a case study of Grief Nigeria Pic which intends to show the importance of labour welfare and industrial relations in a workplace and the environment at large. The study revealed that interaction in workplace boost performance. The organisation’s welfare system should […]

Abstract The purpose of this cross sectional study was to explore university students’ knowledge, attitude and practice towards smoking and to compare these factors between smokers and non-smokers. A sample of 300 students was randomly selected to complete a self-administered questionnaire about knowledge, attitude and practice of smoking in the University, Ojo. The Majority of […]

ABSTRACT Characteristics, family planning communications campaigns and contraceptive behavior; to examine the relationship between specific media campaigns and family planning methods. Our population and sample size will be from the general public living in Agege Local Government Area and also some selected staff of the secretariat. Evaluation of data collected and seemed to establish relationship withour earlier […]

ABSTRACT The study concerns how the KEKE NAPEP programme of Federal Government Poverty Eradication Programmes has fared in alleviating poverty among youths in Ojokoro Local Government Area of Lagos State. Poverty rate occasioned by unemployment has consumed a frighten dimension in Nigeria. This prompted the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2000 to set up National Poverty Eradication Programme by […]

ABSTRACT This project is an analysis of Drug and Alcoholic abuse among the youths in Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State. The nature of continuous exposure to the street and its associated lifestyles makes most youths vulnerable to the use of psychoactive substances. At present, there is insufficient information regarding the pattern of psychoactive […]

ABSTRACT This paper explores how unemployed graduates cope through various strategies. Unemployment in Nigeria, particularly in the form of graduate unemployment, has become pronounced in the last two decades due primarily to upsurge in the output from tertiary education and inelastic labour absorptive capacity of the Nigerian labour market for the services of university and […]

ABSTRACT Checkmating unemployment among Nigeria youth: fish farming option is a project meant to look into the unemployment situation in the country, identify the course and effect and possible effort being made by the government to remedy the situation. The fish farming option can be seen as an option to checkmate unemployment. So, this project […]

ABSTRACT This research work titled ethic affiliation and resource challenges in Nigeria with particular reference to Igbo Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State. The researcher examined the effect of ethnic affiliation on the development of Nigerian economy. Four research questions and hypotheses were formulated in this project work. The research instrument used in this […]

ABSTRACT: Media hazards is one of the major issues in journalism but attracted less attention in the last few decades especially now that democracy is waxing stronger in Nigeria making it appears as if there were no hazard any more. The focus of this research is to examine the hazards (i.e. problems) facing journalism practice in […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Human trafficking as a new trend meriminelity is often referred to as “modern day slavery”. Some people call it “the exploitation of the vulnerability of a person by a mother, having control over such person or for mainly exploitative purpose or financial gains, the manner of such exploitation very from force labor […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Current World Population include an estimated 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 years, which is about 24.7% of the world’s working age population. Worldwide youth unemployment is high, almost three times higher than the adult unemployment rate. With the economic downturn, the […]

ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of social studies in correcting societal vices and improving social values among the youth. A case study of Abeokuta South Local Government Area. The population for the study involved some selected secondary schools and five school were randomly selected in the area, one hundred (100) questionnaires were developed to […]

ABSTRACT This work is meant to show how home video can curb or eradicate the problems of drug abuse and how it can be controlled among the youths in our society: this project will be carried out through a critical approach of research using empirical methods to find out the causes, problem as well as […]

ABSTRACT The main involvement of the study was an investigation into the problems and prospect of running separate homes by married couples in Pankshing Local government area, plateaus state. Specifically, the study intends to find out the causes of running the home separately by married couples in Pankshing Local government area, plateaus state. The possible […]

CHAPTER ONE 1.0            INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND STUDY Divorce is the dissolution of marital relations; in this process marriage is completely broken down either in social or legal context. The Black Dictionary of law has defined divorce as “the legal separation of husband and wife affected by the judgment of decree of a court and either totally […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     Background to the Study Adolescence is the time to gain individual identity and emerge sexual excitement along with rapid physical, mental, and emotional changes Dahl RE, Gunnar (2009). Puberty and sex appeal would cause teenagers to be more sensitive toward sexual subjects; therefore, they would try to find answers for their questions. […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     Background to the Study Many development workers around the world recognized early marriage as an international issue which is mostly common in Africa, Asia and Latin America, however. Millions of young people suffer its negative consequence around the world as it diverts them from opportunities of personal growth and development thus […]

CHAPTER ONE 1.0    INTRODUCTION 1.1    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The issue of gender inequality is one which has been publicly reverberally through society for decades. The problem of inequality in employment being one of the most pressing issues today, in order to examine this situation, one must try to get to the root of the problem and […]

ABSTRACT This study critically examine the inmate and the workers welfare as it relates or affects job satisfaction  in social welfare services department of Oko Federal Prison, Benin City, Edo State. The impetus for the study derives from the realization that social welfare services improve the condition of inmates and the workers in the prison […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The Nigerian youth have been denied opportunities to develop in diverse realms of human endeavours. Ineptitude, mediocrity and intellectual dearth have become the three hallmarks of Nigerian Youth. In a national survey jointly sponsored by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Education Trust Fund (ETF) in […]

ABSTRACT The research study investigated “The Social Context of Bus Rapid Transit use among women in Lagos state”. Over the years, sustainable public transport has being viewed as not just a technical issues or questions, but as an inevitable need. This stemmed on the premise that, without adequate consideration of social benefits of public transport […]

ABSTRACT The purpose of this project work was to identify how family planning is an agent of population reduction of the increasing population of Nigeria in Ovia North East Local Government Area using some selected community as a case study. In the course of this study, the following research questions were developed: How profound is […]

ABSTRACT The research is an in-depth analysis of childlessness and socio-cultural impact on married couples in idah urban community of Kogi State. The study explored ways of reducing pressure both from the family and the society as a whole with particular reference to examining the existing causes and effects of infertility in the society. The instrument for […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Ika South is a Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Agbor. It has an area of 436km2 and a population of 62,594 (Onyeche, 2012). Child abuse and neglect is a social and public health problem in Nigeria, as well as a […]

Chapter one Introduction 1.1       Background to the Study Nigeria is sitting on a tourism goldmine, which is as rich if not richer than oil. The tourism industry boasts of potentials capable of generating significant investments toward economic development (Kraal, 1993). In spite of enormous opportunities for wealth creation, growth of national income, foreign exchange earnings, […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study Globally, the nexus between migration and development has remained an issue under vigorous academic debate. Therefore, the process of people migrating to other areas in search of a better life is not a novel one. What has however gained currency is the increasing voluntary movement in quest of […]

ABSTRACT The influence of the use of social media on people’s behaviour has recently become more visible than before. Stakeholders in several democracies have since harnessed the utility of social media in their electoral process. This study examined the effect of social media on voting behaviour in Nassarawa Ward “ONE” in Chikun Local Government Area […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Family planning is a way of thinking and living that is adopted voluntarily on the basis of knowledge, attitude and responsible decision by individuals and couples in order to promote health and welfare of the family, groups and thus contribute effectively to the social development of the […]

  1.0 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Globally, women participation in community development has been generally less than encouraging despite their numerical strength. The situation has grown so worst that it has generated both national and international recognition. Women empowerment remains the focal point of international conference on women held in Beijing, China […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to Study Family planning is one of the most ―health-promoting‖ and cost-effective activities in public health promotion and has the potential to avert approximately 30% of maternal and 10% of child deaths.1 Thus, FP contributes to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through healthier birth spacing and by reducing mortality […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to Study With an expanding population of over 120 million, and an estimated oil reserve totaling to about 41.5 billion recoverable barrels, Nigeria arguably remains one of Africa’s richest economies. Nigeria ranks as the sixth largest producer of oil and petroleum products in the entire globe, which has also seen […]

  CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Academic performance (most especially of senior secondary school students) has been largely associated with many factors. Most students in senior secondary schools in Nigeria are daily confronted with challenges of coping with academic under serious emotional strains occasioned by long walk to school, poor school environment, and […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study In defining cultism, Azelama, Alude and Imhonda (2000) noted that “cult is an assemblage of people united by certain ideals, or symbols and whose rites and ceremonies of veneration are unique and shrouded in mysteries with a secrecy that cannot be broken.” Maxey (2004) traces the meaning of […]

ABSTRACT This research study is to investigate the conflict management in local government service with particular reference to Ojo local government being the local government use as a case study for this work. Conflict management is very crucial in the achievement of each other actually when there are employers over some issues like condition of […]

ABSTRACT The study investigated the causes and effects of domestic violence in Ajegunle Lagos State, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised all he registered married couples in Ajegunle Lagos State from 2010-2015. 500 respondents made up 250 couples were used as sample. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire entitled: Domestic Violence Question […]

ABSTRACT Higher education systems have grown exponentially in the last five decades to meet the demands of quality education for all. This aspect has further gained momentum due to swift advancements in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The focus of this paper is to examine the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in higher […]

  CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study The exclusion of women in political participation and decision making processes was one inherited by human history. Even when democracy had birth ancient Athens in 5th century BC, the exclusion of women from political participation and decision making was existed. The Athenians women had no a […]