it proud because your wedding day is the only day you can wow everybody with that headdress! STAGES / SIGNIFICANCE OF MARRIAGE CEREMONY In Nigeria‚ there are 3 types of weddings: Traditional‚ Church (white) and Court weddings. Of the 3‚ the first 2 are the most observed types of weddings. Court weddings are usually observed for legal reasons. In Nigeria‚ the traditional wedding is the wedding that was celebrated and observed before the arrival of the Europeans. It was and still is observed in
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Definition of rural non-farm activities‚ determinants of rural non-farm activities‚ challenges of rural non-farm activities and the contribution of rural non-farm activities to poverty reduction. Rural non-farm activities Junior R. Davis (2005)‚ defines rural non-farm activities as comprising all those activities associated with wage work or self employment in income generating activities(including income in kind that are not agriculture but which generate income) including remittances etc. in rural areas
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Just last month‚ a major summit was held at the United Nations headquarters to review the progress made by countries on the Millennium Development Goals MDGs‚ especially in view of the fact that 10 of the 15 years target set by the world body for attaining the target have just reeled by with the attendant skepticisms as to whether it is indeed realizable. 10 years after this noble initiative to improve the lot of mankind‚ the debate has continued on whether these impoverished countries‚ the primary
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CONTRIBUTION OF ICT IN RURAL SECTOR: Various initiatives in the recent past portrayed the significant role that the I.C.T plays in the realm of rural development. Several projects have reduced the costs‚ and it also has increased transparency. A large number of rural e-Governance applications‚ developed as pilot projects were aimed at offering easy access to citizen services and improved processing of government to citizen transactions. This paper presents a brief review of the innovative
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POPULATION GROWTH The absence of virtually any reliable current demographic data has not prevented national and international bodies from generating estimates and projections of population and population growth in Nigeria. The World Bank estimate of Nigeria’s 1990 population was 119 million‚ with an estimated annual growth rate of 3.3 percent. Although other sources differed on the exact figure‚ virtually all sources agreed that the annual rate of population growth in the country had increased from
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RURAL MARKETING STRATEGIES-WITH REFERENCE TO FMCG It’s not only the grass is greener in the country side‚ that’s also where a chunk of corporate top line actually comes from. It’s time to tap the rural gold mine. The Hindu Business Line Abstract: Rural marketing is the much talked subject for the business establishment. A decade ago rural market was seem to be unstructured and this was not found to be a target location of the corporate. This is due to the hurdles such as illiteracy
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Integrated Reporting: ------------------------------------------------- A one step ahead towards Corporate Reporting *Dr.Manisha S.Bhatt‚ Abstract: The annual reports are long and are getting longer. But‚ because reporting has evolved in separate‚ disconnected strands‚ critical interdependencies between strategy‚ governance‚ operations and financial and non-financial performance are not made clear. To provide for the growing demand for a broad information set from markets‚ regulators and
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CHALLENGES OF MICROFINANCE BANKING IN NIGERIA-1 Nigerians‚ like many other Africans are generally known as their brother’s keepers in view of the extended family system. But when truly analyzed‚ there is a possibility that this may not be so? Perhaps a hypothetical deep may reveal that not up to 10% of Nigerians would invest in ventures or people that would yield them nothing in return and here I mean‚ “Returns in the short run or in the immediate”. The returns may be financial‚ emotional‚ spiritual
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Abstract Rural development of the grassroots has been the concern of every responsible and responsive political system. This is because development and participation have continued to elude people of the grassroots. Development remains insignificant if it does not positively affect the lives of those in the periphery of decision making arrangement. The Nigerian state therefore created local government as the third tier of government whose objective is to ensure effective‚ measurable and efficient
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A TERM PAPER WRITING ON READING FAILURE IN NIGERIA I DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this write up to the almighty God for giving me the privilege and knowledge to make this a success‚ to my parents for their sponsorship in all aspect of life and to my pastor‚ for being a great mentor in terms of hard work
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