Public sector organizations have often been less inclined to fully explore the benefits of knowledge management than the private sector. This paper is aimed to design a Knowledge Management System (KMS) Model with emphasis on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).Currently, a lot of public sector information is collected, stored and processed using documents, unrelated Information Systems, and in organization practices internalized by employees. Organizational turnover has also created challenges in the form of knowledge retention and knowledge delivery. Inadequate information access due to information storage challenges is a major problem that hampers proper knowledge service delivery at all levels within the Nigeria public sectors e.g. (INEC).To remain at the forefront, INEC also needs to have a Knowledge Management capability that will store, organize, share, utilize, create and integrate their unmatched knowledge resources, hence the developmentofa Knowledge Management System (KMS) Model is proposed. The features proposed KMS for Nigerian public service organizations will be based on, and aligned with the simplified three-layer model of [5]: 1) Infrastructure Services - storage and communication, 2) Knowledge Services – creating, sharing and reuse, 3)Presentation Services – personalization and visualization, and on the technologies relevant to these services. Structured System Analysis Design Methodology (SSADM) was employed; the results indicated that the proposed model can effectively facilitate the process of storage, sharing and application of KM in the public sectors

This study investigated the influence of commercial banks in financing small and medium scale enterprises in Nigeria to determine the extent to which SMEs access relevance services and credit facilities from Fidelity and First banks as well as their contributions to economic growth in Ibadan metropolis. Descriptive research design was adopted. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample 200 owners of SMEs in Oluyole Local Government Area of Oyo state.  Data collected were analysed using frequency counts, simple percentage score and regression analysis.

The study showed that only 9.37% of the respondents had access to the banking services whereas 37.1% had no access to the banking services being provided by Fidelity and First banks in Ibadan metropolis. From the findings, 2.3% of the respondents strongly agreed that they obtained loans frequently whereas 32.1% strongly disagreed; 8% of them strongly agreed that bank charges on loans are moderate and affordable 38.9% refuted the position. The findings generally revealed that SMEs do not have adequate access to loan facilities from the commercial banks. It is therefore recommended that commercial and microfinance banks should offer financial services like credit facilities at moderate rate of interest with less stringent conditions to SMEs to grow their businesses and generate more employment within the economic hub of the country.

This study investigated the impact of fraud on bank efficiency in Nigeria. Specifically, the paper aimed to determine the effect of fraud on customers’ deposit and evaluates the impact of frauds on bank efficiency. To achieve these objectives a descriptive research design was adopted to gather secondary data for the study. The study covered the periods 2008-2017.  The population for this study was made up of all Commercial banks in Nigeria from which a purposive sample size of five banks was selected. In addition, the Generalize Method of Moment (GMM) was adopted for the study. The result of the study obtained revealed that fraud had a sufficient negative effect on customers deposit in Nigeria banks and that the existence of fraud in Nigeria commercial banks hampered the efficiency of these banks. It was concluded that there was substantial evidence that fraud influenced banks efficiency negatively. It was recommended that the management of commercial banks or Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in Nigeria should strength their existence internal control system in order to reduce the incidence of frauds in their banks.

In December 2019 in Wuhan China, came a virus called Corona-virus, otherwise known as Covid-19. The disease spread all over the world, including Nigeria. It has caused the death of many people in the country as well as damage to the economy. To contain the spread of the virus causing death to people, and damage to the economy, government placed a lot of restrictive measures like lockdown and ban on interstate travels. These measures and similar ones all over the world have caused increase in unemployment as well as other hurts in the economy; and made the demand for the country’s major foreign exchange earner, the oil to fall. This paper supports measures by the government to ameliorate the pains of the pandemic on the country’s economy but also is of the opinion that it pays more attention to the non-oil revenue components of the country’s income generation.

Further researches have been on-going in the application of natural organic polymer (NOP) coagulants in contaminant removal from industrial wastewater. The relevance of using Moringaoleifera coagulant (MOC) as NOPfor colour removal from crystal Ponceau 6R dye was investigated in this study. The proximate analysis, structure, surface morphology, and fibre metric study of the precursor were investigated. Response surface methodology (RSM) using face-centred central composite design (FCCD) optimized four process variables including pH, coagulant dosage, dye concentration, and time. The proximate analysis showed a high protein content of 39.34% and fibre content of 1.16%. FTIR analysis showed the presence of O-H, N-H, C=H in the coagulant precursor. The SEM image revealed the image of the polymer rough surfaces,the most occurring pore size 0f 0.41 μm2, different fibre length between 948.44 nm -13.85μm, and a compact net structure. The pH has the highest influence on the colour removal, followed by time as indicated clearly in the main effects plots. Coagulant dosage and dye concentration have less influence on the process. The verification experiments agreed with the predicted values having a standard error value of 1.58%. Overlay contour plot established optimum areas where the predicted response variable is in an acceptable range (≥ 80%) with respect to optimum conditions. The FCCD approach was appropriate for optimizing the process giving higher removal efficiency when compared to the main effect plots. Therefore, protein extract from Moringaoleifera(MO)seed has potentials for application as efficient coagulant while showing significant polymeric characteristics.

Spider mite is a major constraint in rose flower production. Though flower producers have not quantified the magnitude of the losses incurred, the quantity of the miticides used on their control is enormous. This experiment was designed to investigate the effect of UV spectrum through different poly-films on the occurrence of two spotted red spider mite a common rose flower pest. The study was carried out at Egerton University Horticulture Research and Teaching field. The experiment was split- split plot laid down in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with polyfilms forming the main plot treatments. Two rose cultivars were tested for tolerance and calcium foliar feed was applied at four different concentration levels. Rose cultivars and calcium concentrations formed the sub and sub-sub plot treatments respectively. Poly-film samples were scanned through UV- 1800 shimadzu spectrophotometer to assess light transmission properties at different wavelengths. Data collection involved measuring of light transmission through Poly-films, the temperature and relative humidity in the tunnels was also monitored. The data was subjected to analysis of variance at 5% probability level and mean separation was performed using Tukey's Studentized Range (HSD) Test.Poly films modified the tunnel microclimate and this impact on prevalence and population of two spotted red spider mite. Mean temperature values of 41°C, 35.2°C and 32.8 °Cwere recorded under UV-A clear, IR 504 and UV-A 205/N poly films respectively. It was observedthat the number of spider mites increased with increase in temperature.A mean spider mite population of 5 mites/cm2 was recorded under the clear poly-film compared to 3 mites/cm2 under the UV-A 205/N. Changes in greenhouse microclimate influenced the population and prevalence of spider mite. Clear poly film that transmitted high light recorded high temperature and subsequently high number of mites.

Background:A number of bacterial and viral pathogens can survive in the cadavers and be transmitted through infected body fluids or aerosols and cause infection.  Just like employees from other occupations, Morticians are exposed to various hazards that may put their health at risk as they perform their duties.

Objectives: The study investigated knowledge on health hazards and safety Practices among Morticians in Port Harcourt metropolis.

Methods:Descriptive survey design was used in the study with population 307of three hundred and seven morticians in all registered mortuaries both government and private in Port Harcourt metropolis. They were all used as sample.  A Self-Structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Content validity of the questionnaire was established as valid by three experts and reliability coefficient of 0.86 was obtained. Research questions were answered using mean, standard deviation and percentage. Data were analyzed using chi-square and z-test to test hypotheses.

Results: The result showed that, majority 296 (96.4%) were males while 11(3.6%) were females. 67(21.8%). 291(94.8%) of the respondents had knowledge of health hazards and safety practices. The result showed that average, of 64(20.8%) of the respondents were within the age of 18-30 years had knowledge of health hazards while 226(73.6%) of 31 years and above had knowledge of health hazards.The findings showed that age has a significant influence on knowledge of health hazards among morticians (X² = 3.847, df = 1, P value 0.46, p<0.05).

Conclusions: Based on the findings, morticians in Port Harcourt have knowledge of health hazards. However, Occupational health hazards are common in public morticians. The use of personal protective equipment highlighting the need to improve knowledge and availability of facilities for personal protection from infection in this occupational risk group.

A database holds essential assets of an organization. Students’ information, customers’ information, employees’ information and employers’ information of an organization are being kept in the databases. There has been an increase in reported occurrences of data abuses especially by insiders. This research work aimed to investigate for appropriate database auditing techniques applicable on students’ academic records and present logical steps and procedures for implementation using SQL/PLSQL programming in Oracle 11g. Yobe State University (YSU) was used as a case study. Trigger-based auditing, fine-grained auditing, auditing SYS users, and audit trail management are found to be appropriate techniques implemented and evaluated in the proposed developed YSU system. In addition, database security in term of careful creation of database users, privileges allocation to the users, and auditing the activities of the users are also found to be things of significant concern for the reliability and integrity of data. Empirical evaluation showed that application of database auditing on students’ academic records could check proud and internal threats imposed by insiders.

The paper examines incorporating innovation and reforms in philosophy of education and practice of teacher educational management in Nigeria. The changes and development that take place in the society infiltrate into the school system and influence the actions and activities in the system. In recent times, educational establishments are facing the challenge to do more with fewer resources as they try to meet the complex and changing demands of the society. The effective management of educational institutions depends on the quality of the institutional administrators, their qualifications, experiences and professional exposure. We are living in a knowledge driven society in which technological development has turned the world into a global village. There is need to catch up with the changing needs of institutions as well as coping with meeting the challenge of individual reforms that looks a daunting task, all of them to be achieved within a limited time frame presents a management challenge that thus requires planning. . The nations of the world, of which Nigeria is a part, are also becoming more interconnected and interdependent. To avoid possible “future shock”’ nations must respond quickly, preferably and proactively to these rapid changes. Effective management is a sine-qua-non to the successful implementation and institutionalization of curriculum change in order to achieve the desired goals. The paper in details described innovation in education, Conceptual review of philosophy and philosophy of education, philosophical practice on teacher education, reforming teaching as a high level profession management and sphere of educational management in Nigeria.

The energy yield of a photovoltaic module is affected by many factors includingmodule active surface orientation, angle of tilt, module surface temperature, ambient temperature and contaminants.  Contaminants could be bird droppings or dust.  Dust is a major problem in sub-Sahara Africa.  Dust can reduce the transmittance of the module cover and also can create partial shading.  The performance of the solar module with reference to dust accumulation and cell surface temperature, has been experimentally studied.  It has been found that for a given dust size, the cell surface temperature reduces with area density or dust loading (kg/m2).  When particle size is the variable and the loading is kept constant, the cell surface temperature increases with increasing particle size.  This behaviour is attributed to the wider interstitial spaces of the larger particle sizes that expose uniformly larger area of the module surface to irradiation.

The rapid transformation and transition of cities of developing countries in the 21st Century is becoming a difficult proposition and a clog in the wheel of achieving sustainable development. The New Urban Agenda (NUA) is a replacement of a number of earlier agreements and declarations which had reached their lifespan around the same time, often referred to as the post 2015 agenda, was significantly aimed at achieving global urban sustainable development framework in the next few decades. Since the formal adoption of the New Urban Agenda at Quito’s Conference, many governments and municipalities around the world have started commencing the process of translating the principles of the New Urban Agenda into their policies, plans and actions. The paper explores ‘political will and the structure of governance’ in Nigeria as a  tool for achieving, delivering, fostering, localizing and implementing the New Urban Agenda that will provide all citizens with an opportunity to benefit from economic growth, inclusiveness and the right to live in harmonious, safe and resilient environment. The paper argues that the NUA is not just like any other agenda, which having being signed and debated in seminars and workshops are eventually ended up not seeing the light of the day. Instead, the paper observes that turning policies and strategies into actions through political will of the government in the 21st Century will facilitate achievement of sustainable development outcomes. The paper therefore, canvasses for the full implementation of the New Urban Agenda by institutionalizing its key elements into strategic policy frameworks for inclusive and sustainable growth among the levels of governments in Nigeria.