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Universal basic education in Nigeria: can religious actors make a difference?
(Development Studies Association, 2016-09)
Following a period of sustained progress between the 1950s and 1970s, when the regional and federal governments in Nigeria implemented highly successful policies of free qualitative education, the education sector went on ...
Farmers’ mobilisation of social capital for beneficial uptake of technological innovations in southwest Nigeria
(Inderscience Publishers, 2014-11-27)
Social capital has been identified as an important factor influencing successful uptake of technological innovations among small-scale, rural farmers in developing countries. This study draws on descriptive statistics and ...
Palm kernel waste management through composting and crop production
(Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, 2006-11)
Palm kernel wastes produced from small and medium- scale industries pose a serious environmental problem in Nigeria. A portion of these wastes is used as feed supple- ments for livestock but most are disposed off by burning ...
Impact of Boko Haram activities in the Lake Chad region of Africa
(2018-08-29)
The Boko Haram insurgency has remained the single major security threat to peace, stability and development in the Lake Basin and its fringes. The countries sharing common boundaries along the Lake Chad continue to grapple ...
Impact of social capital on preparedness and response to Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria
(International Humanitarian Studies Association, 2016-03)
Boko Haram insurgency has precipitated humanitarian tragedy on a scale comparable to the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) and arguably the worst of any man made or natural disaster in Nigeria's history. The Internal Displacement ...
Does Entrepreneurship Skill Mediate Entrepreneurial Intention in a Turbulent Environment?
(Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2018-11)
Scholarly research on entrepreneurship education (EE) sometimes fails to grapple with the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship education provision, and the impact of this on intention studies. Entrepreneurship education can ...
Entrepreneurship education service and socio-economic development in sub-Saharan Africa
(Routledge, 2018-07-31)
This chapter draws from two recent education projects in Africa to provide an analysis and implications of entrepreneurship education service provision as a peace-building effort, and a pathway to raising the human capital ...
Picking up the pieces: social capital and entrepreneurship for livelihood recovery among displaced populations in Northeast Nigeria
(Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2019-11)
In the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the rate of forced displacement, often precipitated by persecution, civil wars, terrorism, transborder conflicts, as well as natural disasters. The United ...
Tax compliance cost: the hidden effect on international trade in Africa
(British Accounting and Finance Association, 2019-04-08)
International trade in Africa could be one of the antidotes to the precarious poverty and economic deficiency in which the continent finds itself. An outward orientation towards international trade opens the continent to ...
Displaced, excluded, moving on: a study of refugee entrepreneurship in Kenya
(Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2019)
The global refugee crisis has grown in scale over the last 30 years. There are currently 25.4million refugees worldwide of whom 85 percent reside in developing countries (UNHCR, 2019). As a result of the protracted violence ...