This dissertation seeks to recover the relational quality of the Holy Spirit who is the Lord and the Giver of life as enshrined in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (381). Neo-Scholastic theology had utilized the conceptual categories of Aristotelian metaphysics with its orien…
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In this dissertation, I examine how notions of authorized and unauthorized English, or Standard and non-Standard English, were at the heart of literary aesthetics in Romantic Britain and Independence Era Africa and how they influenced the editing and reception of John Clare, a 1…
Financial insecurity, inadequate family nutrition, poor health, and low self-esteem are some of the challenges faced by rural women in Southern Nigeria due to lack of income. Although the advantages of microfinance in developing countries are well documented, little is known abo…
The Partnership Framework agreement between the United States Government and the Government of Nigeria in 2010 commits Nigeria to provide at least 50% of its HIV/AIDS funding by 2015. This study is aimed at identifying possible policy directions that the National Agency for the …
Incivility in Nigeria, as in many parts of the world, is a topical issue. In Nigeria there is an outcry against the rise in incivility especially in educational institutions. Generally educational institutions are looked up to for maintaining and transmitting civility. As teache…
This dissertation is concerned with literary and postcolonial (re)configurations of resistance and negotiation as concepts through which to approach representations of postcolonial conflict in contemporary African literatures. These concepts operate at various levels of the narr…
Market integration for agricultural products has been widely explored using different methodological approaches. While a substantial effort has been made towards improving the technical tools, the extent of the understanding of how markets work is still not satisfactory. The cur…
The growth in multinational corporations looking to expand and invest in foreign countries, particularly in the emerging markets such as Africa, has grown tremendously. "Africa is already the world's second fastest growing economy after expanding 5% a year in the past two years,…
Efforts by international nongovernmental organizations and the Federal Republic of Nigeria to reduce the impact of HIV virus infection in Nigeria have been less successful than anticipated. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between attitudes, religious b…
Despite the fact that most multicultural education models have been developed in Western socio-political contexts, such models are increasingly being diffused around the world. Many scholars advocate the widespread use of such models for recognizing diversity and fostering inter…
This dissertation explores health and nutrition in the developing world as both a determinant of economic outcomes and the result of economic realities. Health and nutrition are critical components of economic and social well being and are therefore important factors of developm…
Highway traffic safety is an issue that confronts developing countries as well as those of industrialized nations. A lot of people are injured and/or killed all over the world each day on highway traffic related crashes. Nigeria, as a developing country, has been experiencing un…
What determines the extent to which communities in the Niger Delta experience violence? The dissertation addresses this question by focusing on the role of multinational oil companies in local governance, where state institutions are weak. The available literature often overlook…
Yorùbá culture of present-day Southwest Nigeria and Southeast Republic of Benin, has received much attention from academics over time. In part, this is due to the culturally ingrained female power that has existed and persisted over time in Yorùbáland. However, some scholars hav…
This dissertation, Postcards from the Edge-City: Mass-Media and Photographic Images in Contemporary Novels of the Black Diaspora , examines the use of photographic and mass-media images in literary representations of Black urban slums or "edge-cities." I explore four contemporar…
This dissertation contributes to social interactions returns to schooling and the determinants of women empowerment with the use of careful econometric methodologies. Two chapters investigate the effect of education on freedom of choice and women's empowerment. One chapter looks…
Isoprene emissions affect human health, air quality, and the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere. Globally anthropogenic non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) emissions are lower than that of isoprene, but local hotspots are hazardous to human health and air quality. I…
In recent years, many Nigerian banks have recorded negative financial performance. Guided by organizational theory, this quantitative correlational and comparative study examined the extent to which internal control effectiveness (ICE) is related to financial performance in the …
Consistent with its mission and commitment to spread its values and cultures, the Catholic Church worldwide increasingly has asserted itself in public life with an emphasis on promotion of common good principles through education. In Nigeria, the Church engaged both public offic…