The negative attitude of youth towards African traditional values has to a great extent imprisone... more The negative attitude of youth towards African traditional values has to a great extent imprisoned the psyche of most Nigerian youth to the extent that a lag is created with concomitant socio-economic implications. We live in a world where the youth pursue fashions and values that are alien to Africa’s normative customs. Some of these youth condemn African traditional values as archaic, demonic, timid and of no relevance in the present dispensation. It is also obvious that many youth pursue values without knowing whether they are right or wrong and sometimes ignorant of their implications. In a bid to appear “civilized” or “modern”, some youth find themselves entrapped in a world of confusion. The paper employed qualitative research, involving published data and it was observed that factors such as western ideology and the dilemma of globalization as well as western educational system, social media and the family have influenced youth’s negative attitude towards African traditional ...
Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2022
This study investigated family characteristics and adolescent sexual behavior in Yala Local Gover... more This study investigated family characteristics and adolescent sexual behavior in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State. The study employed descriptive research survey type was chosen for this study. The population for this study consisted of all adolescents in public secondary schools from senior secondary one to senior secondary three in Yala Local Government Area. A sample of three hundred (300) respondents (students) from senior secondary school one to secondary three was selected using simple random sampling techniques. The instrument employed in the study was a self-developed structured questionnaire Adolescent Questionnaire (AQ). The data collected after coding were analyzed using Mean, Standard deviation and t-test statistic. T-test statistic was used to test the four hypotheses formulated at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that family structure, parental monitoring, socioeconomic status and religious background have a significant infl...
International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Review, 2020
The study examines the challenges of ethnicity and social work interventions in Nigeria. The cult... more The study examines the challenges of ethnicity and social work interventions in Nigeria. The cultural and religious background of the nation is prune to multi-ethnic and cultural diverse society with conflictogenic challenges. These challenges arose due to complex cultural diversity with socio-cultural differences which anchored on the historical antecedent of Nigerian federalism. It has been observed that National integration in Nigeria and the attempt to foster unity-in-diversity tend to create diverse conflicts and poses obstacles to unification and peaceful co-existence of the people of Nigeria. In other words, ethnicity took the center stage in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the people with pathogenic consequences. In view of the fact that all efforts made to eradicate ethnicity and its negative influence in the body polity of Nigeria were futile, social work intervention becomes imperative and quintessential. That is, the application of social work as a ...
This study investigates fishing business as a source of livelihood and sustainable growth in Baka... more This study investigates fishing business as a source of livelihood and sustainable growth in Bakassi resettlement programme in Cross River State, Nigeria. The major aim is to ascertain whether fishing business promotes sustainable growth in the study area.. A structured interview schedule was designed and administered on 600 household heads and further confirmed with Focus Group Discussions (FCD). The research adopted a descriptive survey design while the stratified and systematic random sampling techniques were applied at appropriate stages to select the sample. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (r) was used to test the only hypothesis formulated for the study. The results show among others that fishing business is the major productive base that promotes sustainable growth in the resettlement. Consequently, the study stresses the need for government to create the right environment for settlers to continue with their fishing business through the provision of incentives,...
GLOBAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2019
Scholars tend to be overwhelmed by the positive impact of globalization on all aspects of human e... more Scholars tend to be overwhelmed by the positive impact of globalization on all aspects of human endeavors, as evident in commerce, learning, communication and technological innovations and transfers with little or no attention paid to its negative impacts on indigenous information technology. Globalization brought about borrowed or foreign technology and western type of information technology, culminating to the loss of some indigenous information technology and cultures. It alienated indigenous people from their traditional methods of information technological processes and lifestyles. Globalization not only pave way for the gradual extinction of some of our cultural information transmission channels, languages and lingual terms, promoted proliferation of deviant and criminal behaviours through the mass media. Through the importation of negative values perpetrated by Hollywood and other imported alien information technology, young ones are enslaved by alien cultures, resulting to t...
GLOBAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2020
Life generally is a dynamic continuum characterized with season and time. Every living being pass... more Life generally is a dynamic continuum characterized with season and time. Every living being passes through birth and eventually die, thus completing a life cycle. The impact of death and bereavement creates a structural dislocations in the family system and society. This void is often experienced by the bereaved and close associates of the dead, in terms of socio-economic valuations. The way people mourn or grief and respond to death relatively differs from culture and background with accompanying socio-economic effects. Every individual is aware of the inevitability of death, even though, the subject matter is often evaded and mostly ignored. Death is seen as evil and bad omen, but its reality is certain. The attendant socio-economic effects must be brought to the front burner to provide effective support system to the family through rehabilitation and adjustment processes. This paper therefore is a descriptive research meant to examine the socio-economic changes in family system...
This paper examines displacement status and welfare of Bakassi settlers in Cross River State agai... more This paper examines displacement status and welfare of Bakassi settlers in Cross River State against the backdrop of the 1980 UN policy on resettlement programmes and its implications for resettlement planning as well as success of a resettlement scheme. The study is predicated on the apriori that the state of Bakassi settlers is akin to status depreciation, impoverishment, loss of sources of livelihood, stigmatization, discrimination, inhuman treatment and infringement of fundamental human rights. The issues discussed have wider applicability for resettlement programmes not only in Nigeria but in Africa as a whole. In the light of these observations, it is suggested among others that vigorous education campaigns should be carried out among settlers and neigbouring communities around the resettlement area. The campaigns should emphasize attitudinal change, accommodation, cooperation, peace and unity amongst the settlers and the neigbouring communities. Efforts should also be made th...
GLOBAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2020
The utilization of management information system (MIS) in democratic process and governance has m... more The utilization of management information system (MIS) in democratic process and governance has made a milestone achievement in western countries today. But in Africa and Nigeria in particular, the case is different as the political elites decide to shun management information system as a support tool for decision making, required for effective democratic governance. The political leadership in Nigeria is yet to come to terms with the importance of scientific and technological management of information that can enhance good democratic government. This is evident during the 2019 electoral processes where electronic voting system was not well utilized, resulting to unwholesome practices such as rigging and ballot box snatching during the electioneering process. Also, political leaders tend to be ignorant or do not have the right aptitude to conduct the affairs of government. The consequence being that political leaders are corrupt, insensitive to the needs of the masses, arrogant, li...
Throughout the world, socio-economic status differentials of individuals have a lot of influence ... more Throughout the world, socio-economic status differentials of individuals have a lot of influence on privileges and opportunities enjoyed by society members. The different social and economic positions of individuals and income levels oftentimes hinder them from effective use of health care facilities. It is against this background, that the study was designed to investigate income differentials and its influence on utilization of healthcare services among the people of Calabar Metropolis in Cross River State, Nigeria. Relevant body of literature were reviewed and survey design method was adopted. The instruments used were the questionnaire, interview and Focus Group Discussions (FGD). A sample of 360 respondents was selected using a multi-stage sampling procedure for the study. Data was presented using simple percentage calculation while Chi-Square and ANOVA statistical tool was used to test and ascertain the relationship between income level and healthcare services usage at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that level of income and occupational status of individual influence health care service utilization among people in Calabar Metropolis. At the end of the study, several recommendations were made among which were a general improvement of socio-economic status of the people in areas of availability and compulsory education, employment opportunities as well as equitable distribution of income and minimizing cost of health care services for effective and equal utilization.
This research empirically examined the impact of empowerments of traditional rulers on rural deve... more This research empirically examined the impact of empowerments of traditional rulers on rural development in Cross River State, Nigeria. In order to guide the study, two research hypotheses were formulated. A survey design was adopted for the study and questionnaire was the main research instrument used to collect data from the respondents. Five hundred and twenty government certificated traditional rulers (respondents) were randomly sampled from the study area. For the purpose of sampling, the cluster and purposive sampling methods were adopted. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Scheffe Post Hoc Test were used to test the research hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance, using the appropriate degree of freedom. The results revealed that all the hypotheses were significant. That is, poor incentives given to traditional rulers as well as non-resource allocation to traditional chieftaincy institution have significant negative influence on grass root mobilization for rural development in the study area. On the basis of these findings, it was recommended among others that traditional rulers should be adequately empowered financially, socially and materially; as this would go a long way to influence their effectiveness in grass root mobilization for rural development. Besides, it would help them exercise power and achieve their own goals as well as raise their interests to bear on social responsibilities. It would also pave way for happy, enthusiastic, energetic, hardworking, selfreliant, courageous, purposeful, optimistic, trust-worthy, friendly, and patriotic behavior towards rural development.
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2018
This study examines the impact of conditional cash transfer scheme on poverty alleviation in the ... more This study examines the impact of conditional cash transfer scheme on poverty alleviation in the rural communities of Cross River State, Nigeria. The ex-post facto research design was adopted and three hypotheses were formulated in this study. The instrument for data collection was a thirty (30) item structured questionnaire and Focus Group Discussion. The population of the study comprises 2940 beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer in the eighteen local government areas of the state, from 2010 to 2017. Cluster and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 1176 respondents. The hypotheses were analysed using Pearson product moment correlation. The findings revealed that conditional cash transfer scheme have significant relationship with poverty alleviation in terms of increase school enrolment and had tremendously helped in improving health services utilisation as most of the beneficiaries of this programme were able to access health facilities better than before the scheme. This intervention has equally helped beneficiaries to acquire requisite entrepreneurial skills that helped them to transform their lives and standard of living. On the basis of these findings it is recommended that the government should increase the number of household beneficiaries for wider coverage and spread as well as establish more health facilities in the rural areas. More so, the government should increase the number of people enlisted for entrepreneurial training and skills acquisition. (Word Count 222
The negative attitude of youth towards African traditional values has to a great extent imprisone... more The negative attitude of youth towards African traditional values has to a great extent imprisoned the psyche of most Nigerian youth to the extent that a lag is created with concomitant socio-economic implications. We live in a world where the youth pursue fashions and values that are alien to Africa’s normative customs. Some of these youth condemn African traditional values as archaic, demonic, timid and of no relevance in the present dispensation. It is also obvious that many youth pursue values without knowing whether they are right or wrong and sometimes ignorant of their implications. In a bid to appear “civilized” or “modern”, some youth find themselves entrapped in a world of confusion. The paper employed qualitative research, involving published data and it was observed that factors such as western ideology and the dilemma of globalization as well as western educational system, social media and the family have influenced youth’s negative attitude towards African traditional ...
Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2022
This study investigated family characteristics and adolescent sexual behavior in Yala Local Gover... more This study investigated family characteristics and adolescent sexual behavior in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State. The study employed descriptive research survey type was chosen for this study. The population for this study consisted of all adolescents in public secondary schools from senior secondary one to senior secondary three in Yala Local Government Area. A sample of three hundred (300) respondents (students) from senior secondary school one to secondary three was selected using simple random sampling techniques. The instrument employed in the study was a self-developed structured questionnaire Adolescent Questionnaire (AQ). The data collected after coding were analyzed using Mean, Standard deviation and t-test statistic. T-test statistic was used to test the four hypotheses formulated at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that family structure, parental monitoring, socioeconomic status and religious background have a significant infl...
International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Review, 2020
The study examines the challenges of ethnicity and social work interventions in Nigeria. The cult... more The study examines the challenges of ethnicity and social work interventions in Nigeria. The cultural and religious background of the nation is prune to multi-ethnic and cultural diverse society with conflictogenic challenges. These challenges arose due to complex cultural diversity with socio-cultural differences which anchored on the historical antecedent of Nigerian federalism. It has been observed that National integration in Nigeria and the attempt to foster unity-in-diversity tend to create diverse conflicts and poses obstacles to unification and peaceful co-existence of the people of Nigeria. In other words, ethnicity took the center stage in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the people with pathogenic consequences. In view of the fact that all efforts made to eradicate ethnicity and its negative influence in the body polity of Nigeria were futile, social work intervention becomes imperative and quintessential. That is, the application of social work as a ...
This study investigates fishing business as a source of livelihood and sustainable growth in Baka... more This study investigates fishing business as a source of livelihood and sustainable growth in Bakassi resettlement programme in Cross River State, Nigeria. The major aim is to ascertain whether fishing business promotes sustainable growth in the study area.. A structured interview schedule was designed and administered on 600 household heads and further confirmed with Focus Group Discussions (FCD). The research adopted a descriptive survey design while the stratified and systematic random sampling techniques were applied at appropriate stages to select the sample. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (r) was used to test the only hypothesis formulated for the study. The results show among others that fishing business is the major productive base that promotes sustainable growth in the resettlement. Consequently, the study stresses the need for government to create the right environment for settlers to continue with their fishing business through the provision of incentives,...
GLOBAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2019
Scholars tend to be overwhelmed by the positive impact of globalization on all aspects of human e... more Scholars tend to be overwhelmed by the positive impact of globalization on all aspects of human endeavors, as evident in commerce, learning, communication and technological innovations and transfers with little or no attention paid to its negative impacts on indigenous information technology. Globalization brought about borrowed or foreign technology and western type of information technology, culminating to the loss of some indigenous information technology and cultures. It alienated indigenous people from their traditional methods of information technological processes and lifestyles. Globalization not only pave way for the gradual extinction of some of our cultural information transmission channels, languages and lingual terms, promoted proliferation of deviant and criminal behaviours through the mass media. Through the importation of negative values perpetrated by Hollywood and other imported alien information technology, young ones are enslaved by alien cultures, resulting to t...
GLOBAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2020
Life generally is a dynamic continuum characterized with season and time. Every living being pass... more Life generally is a dynamic continuum characterized with season and time. Every living being passes through birth and eventually die, thus completing a life cycle. The impact of death and bereavement creates a structural dislocations in the family system and society. This void is often experienced by the bereaved and close associates of the dead, in terms of socio-economic valuations. The way people mourn or grief and respond to death relatively differs from culture and background with accompanying socio-economic effects. Every individual is aware of the inevitability of death, even though, the subject matter is often evaded and mostly ignored. Death is seen as evil and bad omen, but its reality is certain. The attendant socio-economic effects must be brought to the front burner to provide effective support system to the family through rehabilitation and adjustment processes. This paper therefore is a descriptive research meant to examine the socio-economic changes in family system...
This paper examines displacement status and welfare of Bakassi settlers in Cross River State agai... more This paper examines displacement status and welfare of Bakassi settlers in Cross River State against the backdrop of the 1980 UN policy on resettlement programmes and its implications for resettlement planning as well as success of a resettlement scheme. The study is predicated on the apriori that the state of Bakassi settlers is akin to status depreciation, impoverishment, loss of sources of livelihood, stigmatization, discrimination, inhuman treatment and infringement of fundamental human rights. The issues discussed have wider applicability for resettlement programmes not only in Nigeria but in Africa as a whole. In the light of these observations, it is suggested among others that vigorous education campaigns should be carried out among settlers and neigbouring communities around the resettlement area. The campaigns should emphasize attitudinal change, accommodation, cooperation, peace and unity amongst the settlers and the neigbouring communities. Efforts should also be made th...
GLOBAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2020
The utilization of management information system (MIS) in democratic process and governance has m... more The utilization of management information system (MIS) in democratic process and governance has made a milestone achievement in western countries today. But in Africa and Nigeria in particular, the case is different as the political elites decide to shun management information system as a support tool for decision making, required for effective democratic governance. The political leadership in Nigeria is yet to come to terms with the importance of scientific and technological management of information that can enhance good democratic government. This is evident during the 2019 electoral processes where electronic voting system was not well utilized, resulting to unwholesome practices such as rigging and ballot box snatching during the electioneering process. Also, political leaders tend to be ignorant or do not have the right aptitude to conduct the affairs of government. The consequence being that political leaders are corrupt, insensitive to the needs of the masses, arrogant, li...
Throughout the world, socio-economic status differentials of individuals have a lot of influence ... more Throughout the world, socio-economic status differentials of individuals have a lot of influence on privileges and opportunities enjoyed by society members. The different social and economic positions of individuals and income levels oftentimes hinder them from effective use of health care facilities. It is against this background, that the study was designed to investigate income differentials and its influence on utilization of healthcare services among the people of Calabar Metropolis in Cross River State, Nigeria. Relevant body of literature were reviewed and survey design method was adopted. The instruments used were the questionnaire, interview and Focus Group Discussions (FGD). A sample of 360 respondents was selected using a multi-stage sampling procedure for the study. Data was presented using simple percentage calculation while Chi-Square and ANOVA statistical tool was used to test and ascertain the relationship between income level and healthcare services usage at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that level of income and occupational status of individual influence health care service utilization among people in Calabar Metropolis. At the end of the study, several recommendations were made among which were a general improvement of socio-economic status of the people in areas of availability and compulsory education, employment opportunities as well as equitable distribution of income and minimizing cost of health care services for effective and equal utilization.
This research empirically examined the impact of empowerments of traditional rulers on rural deve... more This research empirically examined the impact of empowerments of traditional rulers on rural development in Cross River State, Nigeria. In order to guide the study, two research hypotheses were formulated. A survey design was adopted for the study and questionnaire was the main research instrument used to collect data from the respondents. Five hundred and twenty government certificated traditional rulers (respondents) were randomly sampled from the study area. For the purpose of sampling, the cluster and purposive sampling methods were adopted. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Scheffe Post Hoc Test were used to test the research hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance, using the appropriate degree of freedom. The results revealed that all the hypotheses were significant. That is, poor incentives given to traditional rulers as well as non-resource allocation to traditional chieftaincy institution have significant negative influence on grass root mobilization for rural development in the study area. On the basis of these findings, it was recommended among others that traditional rulers should be adequately empowered financially, socially and materially; as this would go a long way to influence their effectiveness in grass root mobilization for rural development. Besides, it would help them exercise power and achieve their own goals as well as raise their interests to bear on social responsibilities. It would also pave way for happy, enthusiastic, energetic, hardworking, selfreliant, courageous, purposeful, optimistic, trust-worthy, friendly, and patriotic behavior towards rural development.
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2018
This study examines the impact of conditional cash transfer scheme on poverty alleviation in the ... more This study examines the impact of conditional cash transfer scheme on poverty alleviation in the rural communities of Cross River State, Nigeria. The ex-post facto research design was adopted and three hypotheses were formulated in this study. The instrument for data collection was a thirty (30) item structured questionnaire and Focus Group Discussion. The population of the study comprises 2940 beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer in the eighteen local government areas of the state, from 2010 to 2017. Cluster and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 1176 respondents. The hypotheses were analysed using Pearson product moment correlation. The findings revealed that conditional cash transfer scheme have significant relationship with poverty alleviation in terms of increase school enrolment and had tremendously helped in improving health services utilisation as most of the beneficiaries of this programme were able to access health facilities better than before the scheme. This intervention has equally helped beneficiaries to acquire requisite entrepreneurial skills that helped them to transform their lives and standard of living. On the basis of these findings it is recommended that the government should increase the number of household beneficiaries for wider coverage and spread as well as establish more health facilities in the rural areas. More so, the government should increase the number of people enlisted for entrepreneurial training and skills acquisition. (Word Count 222
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