1. POVERTY AND YOUTH RESTIVENESS IN NIGERIA: AN EVALUATION OF THE BOKO HARAM CRISIS

» ABSTRACT Over the years, Nigeria was experienced series of attacks, agitations, restiveness and blests ranging from diverse regions and localities. References are; hostage thing in the south south region, the Niger Delta militancy crisis, the Boko Haram crisis in Northern Nigeria (which is the case study of this research work) etc. most restiveness of youths has often been done under the puise ...Continue Reading »

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2. TERRORISM AND NIGERIA’S ECONOMY: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY

» Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 Background of the study Terrorism according to lodge is an illegitimate means of attempting to effect political change by the indiscriminate use of violence (Lodge 1988:5). Also Madunagu (2001:51) maintains that terrorism is “the use of violence to achieve political objectives”. The bottom line of the above definitions is that terrorism is a...Continue Reading »

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3. THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCE IN NIGERIA: 2009-20...

» Abstract Book Haram figuratively implies that western for non Islamic education is a sin, is a very controversial Nigeria militant group that seeks for the imposition of sharia law in the entire northern states of Nigeria. The hierarchical structure of the group is not presently well defined. The official name of the group id jamaiatu Ahlis sunna lidda ―awai waljihad, which in Arabic trans...Continue Reading »

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4. THE ROLE OF MASS MEDIA IN A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE

» Abstract This study examines the role of mass media in a democratic governance. Specifically mass Media are generally assumed to play an important role in democracies, but how effective are they in performing this function within specific states hence this study. The study adopts four specific objectives to the study which are (i) To ascertain the level of equal media coverage given to politi...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,198 engagements |

5. ASSESSMENT OF HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION IN IRISH POTATOES AND SOILS FROM AN ABAN...

» ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to assay the elemental concentration in some Irish potatoes and soils from farmlands in an ex mining area at Dahwol vwana village, Jos south L.G.A, Plateau state, Nigeria. The total heavy metal concentrations (for Irish potato and soil samples) were obtained using Atomic Absorption Spectrometer. It was observed from the soil sample concentration values gotten ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 12,027 engagements |

6. CONTROL ROD CALIBRATION OF NIGERIA RESEARCH REACTOR -1 (NIRR-1) USING POSITIVE P...

» ABSTRACT Calibration of control rod has become an essential tool for measuring the reactivity changes in a reactor. The Positive Period Method of control rod calibration was shown to be a relatively independent, more accurate and well suited to the core configuration and control rod mechanism of low power reactors. The Nigeria Research Reactor 1 (NIRR 1) is a low power Miniature Neutron Source Rea...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 8,069 engagements |

7. THERMAL POWER CALIBRATION OF NIGERIA RESEARCH REACTOR-1 BY CALORIMETRIC AND HEAT...

» ABSTRACT This research work presents the results of the thermal power calibration of Nigeria Research Reactor 1 (NIRR 1), a low power Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR), using calorimetric and heat balance methods. The calibration was performed at two different power levels: half power (15kW) and full power (30kW). The calorimetric method involved operating the reactor at a constant pow...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,182 engagements |

8. ESTIMATION OF ORGAN EQUIVALENT AND EFFECTIVE DOSES FROM DIAGNOSTIC X-RAY

» ABSTRACT The radiation dose received by the patient during the radiological examination is essential to prevent risks of exposure. The aim of this work is to study organ equivalent and effective dose s for common diagnostic radiographic examinations at General hospital Dutsin Ma local Government Area, Katsina State, Nigeria. We estimated the entrance surface dose received by patients undergo...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 10,876 engagements |

9. DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A PASSIVE SOLAR WATER HEATER

» ABSTRACT Solar energy being transmitted from the sun through space to earth by electromagnetic radiation must be converted to heat before it can be used in a practical heating or cooling system. Solar energy collectors, the devices used to convert the suns radiation to heat, usually consist of a surface that efficiently absorbs radiation and converts this incident flux to heat which raises t...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 13,511 engagements |

10. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF DIGITAL DISTANCE MEASURING INSTRUMENT

» ABSTRACT Distance measurement plays a vital role in engineering, science and business. The distance is always measured between two points. Generally distance measurement is possible only by making contact with the target whose distance is to be measured, but this project discusses the measurement of distance by digital measuring instrument. This is done by providing a circular object (...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 14,612 engagements |

11. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THERMAL PROPERTIES OF SOME COMMON ROOFING MATERIALS IN NIGE...

» ABSTRACT Thermal properties refer to characteristics of a material defining the substance and related to temperature dependent. The most important thing in building design is the protection of people who live and work within the environment. The research work identified some common roofing materials used for building design in Nigeria..The samples include aluminium (coated), Zinc and stone c...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 13,196 engagements |

12. ASSESSMENT OF RADON-222 IN SOME SELECTED WATER SOURCES

» ABSTRACT Radon is one of the sources of nuclear contamination in water and the largest contributor of the total radiation received by the general public from natural radioactive sources. Human exposure to high doses of radon through inhalation as gas or ingestion in water can lead to cancer. In this present work, the activity concentrations of Radon 222 (222 Rn) were investigated from fifteen ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 8,412 engagements |

13. MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR AMBIENT RADIATION LEVELS AT THE...

» ABSTRACT Harmful background radiation in our environment has been identified as one of the primary causes of various ailments such as cancer and tumors in our society today. These Higher radiation levels are emitted from igneous rocks such as granite rocks and soil formed from the weathering of these rocks as well as Radon gas in the atmosphere while lower radiation levels are usually associ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 8,955 engagements |

14. GEOELECTRIC INVESTIGATION OF GROUNDWATER POTENTIAL USING VERTICAL ELECTRICAL SOU...

» ABSTRACT A geoelectric survey of groundwater potential was carried out in the male hostel at Isa Kaita College of Education Dutsinma, Katsina State Nigeria using ABEM SAS 300 Terrameter. The Wenner and Schlumberger electrodes configurations were used for data acquisition. In the process, four Vertical Electrical Soundings (VES) were conducted at stations 01, 02, 03, and 04 covering the area....Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 8,545 engagements |

15. THERMAL PROPERTIES OF SOME SELECTED MATERIALS USED AS CEILING IN BUILDING

» ABSTRACT This work investigates the thermal properties of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), Plaster of Paris (POP), asbestos, and cardboard commonly used as ceiling materials. The steady state method for Lee’s disc apparatus was employed to determine these thermal properties which include, thermal conductivity, thermal resistivity, thermal diffusivity, thermal absorptivity and density. The obtaine...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 11,811 engagements |

16. THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE HEARING AID DEVICE

» ABSTRACT Hearing aid device is a small electronic gadget that is fit in or behind the ear to improve one’s hearing and consequently communication ability.This research work involves the design and development of a hearing aid device withpre amplifier; an acoustic signal picked up using a condenser microphone. TDA 2822M IC is configured to produce an audio amplification which is converted t...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 11,922 engagements |

17. ALTERITY AND REVERSIBILITY IN MERLEAU-PONTY: A DISCOURSE ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY A...

» ABSTRACT Cultural diversity is increasingly becoming an inevitable feature of most modern states. This is because trade, tourism, international dialogue amongst scholars, scientists and artists and the movement of skilled labour as well as migration have ensured that few countries do not contain within them significant numbers of peoples from other cultures. A likely consequence of this diversi...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 8,409 engagements |

18. ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE AND COMPONENTS OF JOSEPH RAZ’S IDEA OF NORMATIVE SYS...

» ABSTRACT This work demonstrates that Raz’s infusion of reason as the basis for enforcing legal demands creates a viable alternative to the previous understanding that coercion is an essential element of law as normative system. Joseph Raz describes normative system as a system for guiding behaviour and for settling disputes which claims supreme authority to interfere with any kind of acti...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,524 engagements |

19. CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF GEORGE EDWARD MOORE’S DIRECT REALIST EPISTEMOLOGICAL A...

» ABSTRACT George Edward Moore, in his quest to establish a direct realist account of cognition and to refute skepticism and absolute idealism, which is a brand of metaphysical monism, argued that at least some of our beliefs about the world are absolutely certain. Moore argues that these beliefs are ‘commonsense’. All the arguments put forth by G.E. Moore in his classic works; A Defense of ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 7,515 engagements |

20. HANS-GEORG GADAMER ON PREJUDICE AND THE TRANSMODERN PROJECT

» ABSTRACT There is no doubt that there is an urgent need to imagine another world in the face of the fall outs of the current world order. The urgency of this need for ‘another world’ or ‘a world in which all worlds fit’ is the primary motivation for this research. In line with this motivation, this work is aimed at examining the concept of prejudice within Gadamer’s philosophy as well...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,491 engagements |

21. JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU’S THEORY OF LAW AND CIVIL STATE AND ITS RELEVANCE TO NIG...

» ABSTRACT Rousseau’s ideas of law and civil state are his efforts to improve the government processes in France during the 18th century enlightenment era. The situation of France at this time was not palatable as there were social injustices and inequalities which characterized the state of nature on ground. Among the three social classes that existed in France at that time, it was the third ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 9,140 engagements |

22. CONTRIBUTIONS OF CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARIES TOWARDS ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

» ABSTRACT This study of five chapters has revealed to a great extent, the contributions of confidential secretaries toward organizational development. It has negated the erroneous impression by some people that secretaries have little or no contribution toward organizational development. This research study has vehemently disproved this mis conception and sho...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 8,649 engagements |

23. EFFECT OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL ON EMPLOYEE’S MORALS

» CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Performance Appraisal is the process of approving staff performance against previously agreed standard and targets. It is based on guidelines given to employees lay the management of what is expected of them in terms of organizational objectives. The frequent evalu...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 6,267 engagements |

24. EFFECT OF STRESS ON SECRETARIES JOB PERFORMANCE

» ABSTRACT According to the research made concerning the relationship between a worker’s life and his job, stress is assuming as number one killer disease in the modern world. The aim of this work was to find out the effect of stress on secretaries job performance, what factors caused this stress and how their effects were manifested and could be controlled. �...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 7,771 engagements |

25. ESSENTIALITIES OF GOOD HUMAN RELATIONS TO THE EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE OF SECRETARI...

» ABSTRACT This project points out the important and necessity of good human relations aimed at improving secretarial functions in an organization. Essentialities of Good Human Relations itself are a reflection of effectiveness and efficiency of the secretary. The success and growth of an organization is based among other competing factors on the effectiveness of the secretary ap...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 67 pages | 6,538 engagements |

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