According to the report of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the joint UN program (2015), 7.6% children of the total population of the world are orphans. The objectives of this study are among others to examine the challenges facing orphans; and identify the services provided for orphans as vulnerable children in Oredo Local Government Edo State. The research design adopted in this study was the survey research design. The study population was the orphans in Oredo Local Government Area, Benin City.
Volume 7 , Issue 1 ,June 2019
Since the Safe Motherhood Initiative (SMI) was implemented in Nairobi, Kenya, everyone has agreed that good health for all pregnant mothers is a global goal. This has prompted several international conventions and programmes aimed at developing strategies to improve the health of pregnant women and their newborn babies. The study looks at the relationship between socioeconomic factors and maternal health in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1995 to 2019. The panel unit root test (LCC) results indicate that the properties of the variables for the SSA countries are stable at levels.
This paper examines primarily, insurance Risks and SMEs Business in Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study are to: determine the risk exposure SMEs are faced with; the best possible ways SMEs can manage financial risk to increase performance and the implementation of sections 64 and 65 of insurance act for improved performance. The research design for this paper is the survey research design and the questionnaire is used to elicit responses from respondents.
This paper investigated the impact of credit risk management on the performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria, as the main objective alongside the specific objectives of the paper. The paper used the causal research design, the Correlation and the panel least Square regression techniques as the methodology employed in the paper. Thus, data for the study were sourced from the CBN Statistical Bulletin between the 2006 to2018 periods.
This study is an exposition of environmental ethics based on Esan ontology. It begins with a brief excursion into Esan ontology to enable an understanding of the Esan perception of reality and the place of man in the totality of this reality. It explicates how this ontology impinges on the environment and concretely affects the Esan people's relationship with their environment. It argues that the interplay between ontology and the natural environment in Esan worldview constitutes the basis upon which viable environmental ethics can be established.
Contrasting empirical findings abound in literature on the nexus between financial development and industrial growth. It is against this backdrop and that of the declining industrial growth and financial development in Nigeria that this study examines a new evidence of the short-run dynamic, and long- run relationship between financial development and industrial growth in Nigeria. The study employs Error Correction Model (ECM) and Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) regression techniques for a period spanning 1990 to 2021.
This paper espoused the nexus between ecosystems theory and the understanding of the social problems of poverty and social loafing in Benin Metropolis. The paper x-rays the connections between societal processes, class structure and distribution of the resources of the land and contended that social loafing and poverty are caused by the unhealthy and inequitable power-authority relations between different groups in the highly hierarchical Benin Metropolis.
This study examined peer influence and self-esteem as predictors of substance abuse by sex and school ownership among secondary school adolescents in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. The correlational survey research design was used. The population of the study comprised of 11985 students in both public and private senior secondary schools in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 450 students.
The pattern of changes and adjustments in the structure of an economy is an issue of consideration in determining tax performance.
The significance of mental health, particularly among secondary school students cannot be overemphasized. This stage in the life of secondary school students is characterized by numerous physiological, emotional, and mental transformations.