Throes of Floods‚ in: The Guardian‚ Thursday‚ October 8‚ pp: 9. Durotoye‚ B.‚ 1999. Human Occupation of Hazard Areas in Nigeria‚ in: Oshuntokun‚ A. (ed.) Environmental Problems of Nigeria. Lagos: Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Edward-Adebiyi‚ R.‚ 1997. The Story of Ogunpa‚ in: The Guardian‚ Saturday‚ May 17‚ pp: 5. Folorunsho‚ R. and L. Awosika‚ 2001. Flood Mitigation in Lagos‚ Nigeria Through Wise Management of Solid Waste: a case of Ikoyi and Victoria Islands; Nigerian‚ Paper presented at the UNESCO-CSI
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IBADAN‚ NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION In the 1990s‚ juvenile delinquency has become a major global problem. The rising incidence of juvenile delinquency in many countries may be caused by certain socio-economic problems often associated with development. These includes; poverty‚ rapid population growth‚ unemployment‚ urbanization‚ industrialization‚ inadequate shelter and housing‚ youth unemployment‚ and under employment‚ breakdown of the family unit‚ inadequate provision of social services
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1596-8303. www.transcampus.org/journals. www.ajol.info/journals/jorind THE CHALLENGES OF ADOPTING INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING SYSTEM IN NIGERIA Anthony O. Garuba Department of Accounting and Finance‚ Western Delta University‚ Oghara‚ and Pat Donwa Department of Accounting‚ University of Benin‚ Benin City E-mail: anthonygaruba@yahoo.com Abstract Nigeria is going to adopt International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) from 1st January 2012. Globalization and Information and Communication Technology
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scale businesses in the country had provided job and employment to many citizens. Small scale businesses play crucial roles in the economic development of countries (Ogundele; 2006).They employ more workers than their large scale counterparts. In Nigeria for instance‚ Small Scale Businesses (SSB) Constitutes 85% of all firms operating in the economy‚ and like in most other developing countries they employed the largest number of workers. Increasing number of graduates from increasing number of public
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anonymous Critique #1- Does disaster bring positive social change? Chapter 14- The environment Word count- 513 In his argument‚ Samuel Henry Prince states that disasters bring about positive social change‚ for eg-rebuilding in New Orleans has tended to benefit the society at large. I think even putting the words “disaster” and “positive” together in the same sentence is unimaginable. I don’t think that an improvement in one’s physical surroundings can account to a better future for a given
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Social Change Amongst American Drinkware While walking through the Art of the Americas wing in the Museum of Fine Arts‚ one can see the change in American history by walking room to room as well floor to floor. America has developed year after year since the beginning of its establishment. Throughout time‚ different media and new techniques were practiced in American art history. Richard Humphreys’ Coffeepot (1770) and Karl H. L. Müller’s Pitcher (1876) are examples of how styles‚ techniques‚
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My dream for Nigeria is for a safe country. A country where there are no armed robbers‚ where one can safely walk around in the night; gather together with friends and family without being robbed: a great and corrupt-free Nigeria. Without corruption Nigeria would be a great country‚ where things will work. My dream for Nigeria is a country of hardworking and honest people - where its leaders do not enrich themselves with public funds: I dream of a Nigeria where politicians are not greedy or steal
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POLICE AND CRIME PREVENTION IN NIGERIA Akintunde Kabir Otubu ~ Sunday A. Coker Introduction The importance of law and order to orderly development and growth of a society‚ both in the physical and economic sence‚ cannot be over emphasized. It is only a mind that is secured and at peace that can rationally address the issues of procreation‚ economic development and societal growth. A disturbed mind is a restless and distraught personality. It is therefore imperative to have peace and order in the
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Social change: a significant modification of behaviour‚ beliefs or culture within a society. There are two main schools of thought on how and when this is brought about. The structural functionalist perspective (hereby called functionalism) views society as a bunch of interdependent parts‚ all of which perform a function that is essential to the stability of the society as a whole. It sees change as mainly gradual and due to advancement‚ and considers rapid change to be threatening to society. Conflict
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Strategic Management and Organisational Analysis TITLE OF RESEARCH PAPER: THE PETROLEUM PRODUCTS MARKETING INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA: WHAT ARE THE ISSUES? ABSTRACT: The process of getting petroleum products off refineries and getting them to the costumer has become one of the biggest industries in the energy sector‚ with so much economic implications. Interestingly‚ petroleum
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