Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.37745/bjmas.2022.0395
.Binaebi Bariweni
Justified by the environmental hazards and eco-system disruption in Nigeria, this dissertation investigated the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance of quoted oil and gas companies in Nigeria. The research adopted the ex post facto research design and data was collected from a sample of nine (9) listed oil and gas companies for a period of eleven (11) years from 2010 to 2020. The corporate social responsibility activities of the oil and gas companies in Nigeria were measured against financial performance. The panel least square (PLS) regression estimation technique was used for data analysis. Other statistical/econometric estimation techniques used in the research included: Pearson correlation, Augmented Dick-Fuller (ADF) unit root test, Breusch-Pagan-Godfrey heteroskedasticity and the Hausman test. Findings of the research revealed: a non-significant negative relationship between employees' training activities and return on assets; employees' training activities and return on equity had a negative and significant relationship ;there was a non-significant negative relationship between environmental compliance activities and return on assets; a significant positive relationship between environmental compliance activities and return on equity; a non-significant positive relationship between community development activities and return on assets; a non-significant negative relationship between community development activities and the return on equity. The research thus concluded that costs associated with employees training and environmental compliance activities contribute meaningfully to return equity however, none of the variable are significantly enhance return on assets. Based on the conclusions, it is recommended that: Oil and gas companies conduct a thorough review/audit of their employees' training programs enhance its contribution to financial performance. It is further suggested that oil and gas companies invest more in environmental compliance activities that has the potential to reduce resources expended in environmental remediation programs; community development activities be designed to foster peaceful coexistence between the company and local communities in which the oil and gas companies operate.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.37745/bjmas.2022.0392
Kopakopa Hanzooma, Margrace Kasungo Musonda
The purpose of the study was to find out the relevance of Chitonga as a regional language of instruction from Grade 1 to 4 in multilingual schools of Livingstone. The study objectives were, to assess how teachers are teaching literacy to grade 1 to grade 4 using Chitonga in the multilingual classes of Livingstone and to establish the pedagogical challenges teachers face on the use of Chitonga as a language of instruction in Livingstone. The study used a phenomenological design on the population of Livingstone District. Data was collected using interview guide and classroom observation guide from three primary schools and sixteen (16) participants who included three (3) head teachers, twelve (12) grade 1 to 4 teachers (four (4) from each selected school) and one (1) official from the district education board. The findings revealed that teachers in Livingstone multilingual schools taught Literacy in Chitonga through translanguaging practices like translation and code switching. They also used flash cards, syllabic cards and talking walls. The findings also indicated that Chitonga was not the language of play in multilingual primary classrooms of Livingstone. It was also revealed that there were differences between the Chitonga spoken in Livingstone District and the one used in schools and books. Both teachers and pupils were not proficient in the standard Chitonga. The study concluded that Chitonga despite being the regional language, it was not relevant to the urban primary school learner of Livingstone town because the classrooms were multilingual hence translanguaging practices were used extensively. In the view of the findings, the study recommended that there should be training for primary teachers to teach in multilingual classrooms and schools need to buy more teaching and learning materials in Chitonga for primary schools to help teachers in multilingual classes.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.37745/bjmas.2022.0382
Abubakar Muhammad Ringim
Abdallah bin Fodio, a prominent figure in West African Islamic scholarship during the 19th century, made significant contributions to Quranic translation by employing a unique technique that involved the integration of prohetic stories. This article explores the motivations, methodology, and impact of Abdallah bin Fodio's translation approach. By examining his translated texts and considering the historical and cultural context, this study sheds light on the distinctiveness and relevance of Abdallah bin Fodio's technique in the field of Quranic translation. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of West African Islamic scholarship and its contributions to Quranic interpretation.
阿卜杜拉-本-福迪奥（Abdallah bin Fodio）是 19 世纪西非伊斯兰学术界的杰出人物，他采用一种独特的技术将先知故事融入古兰经翻译中，为古兰经翻译做出了重大贡献。本文探讨了阿卜杜拉-本-福迪奥翻译方法的动机、方法和影响。通过研究他翻译的文本并考虑历史和文化背景，本研究揭示了阿卜杜拉-本-福迪奥的翻译技巧在古兰经翻译领域的独特性和相关性。研究结果有助于加深对西非伊斯兰学术及其对《古兰经》解释的贡献的理解。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.37745/bjmas.2022.0389
Muhammad Tijjani Ibrahim, Rufa’i Aminu
Going by the title of the research, it is purely Institution-based research in nature, as it focuses on the use of familiarity related address terms among academic staff of Jigawa State College of education and Legal Studies Ringim. The objectives of this research are: to study the address terms use in the selected tertiary institution in Jigawa State, examine the sources of address terms use among the academic staff, investigate the reasons and social factors that determine the use of the terms among the academic staff in the tertiary Institution. The study adopts Discourse analysis theory in the analysis of the data and ethnography of communication method for the data collection. The findings of the research reveal four types of familiarity related address terms that are used among academic staff of JSCOELS Ringim. The identified terms are: name, descriptive, honorific and kinship term. Besides, the reasons behind the use of the terms among the academic staff are: to show familiarity, respect, intimacy, politeness and power differential. Similarly, the research findings reveal the existence of four social factors that determine the usage of the terms among the academic staff. Such as: Education, occupational hierarchy, social status, and degree of intimacy. Lastly, the research results show that the academic staff used both English and Hausa familiarity related terms of address in addressing each other.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.37745/bjmas.2022.0387
Md. Abdur Rashid, Mohammad Shorif Uddin
Public procurement is a vital process to procure goods, works and services, ensuring accountability that ensures cost and time-savings. Roads and Highways Departments (RHD) is a big department chosen as a target population for this study. All RHD Procurement Entities (PE) use manual and e-procurement tendering systems. However, cost and time reduction is a considerable barrier to RHD procurement. The manual tendering procedure is costly and time-consuming since it requires big-size tender advertisements in print media like daily papers. In RHD, however, no comparative analysis of the efficiency in the cost and time context of tender advertising has been explored. Therefore, using a stratified sampling method, the RHD's e-Procurement-related PE officers were chosen as a sample. The mean value of advertisement cost and time of the e-tender system and the manual tender system as a continuous normally distributed variable was utilized to compare two groups using the independent samples t-test model. The study's novel contribution is the comparison of efficiency in terms of cost and time context between two sets of manual and e-tender advertisements. According to the survey results, the e-procurement system showed lower cost and time involved in the tender advertising comparing manual tender. The results will also aid academicians and students and improvements to e-GP policy standards.
公共采购是采购货物、工程和服务的一个重要过程，可确保问责，从而节约成本和时间。道路与公路局（RHD）是本研究选择的一个大部门。所有路政署采购实体（PE）都使用人工和电子采购招标系统。然而，降低成本和缩短时间是食环署采购工作的一大障碍。手動投標程序既昂貴又費 時，因為需要在日報等印刷媒體刊登大篇幅的招標廣告。然而，在食环署，尚未对招标广告的成本和时间效率进行比较分析。因此，我们采用分层抽样法，选取了食环署与电子采购相关的首席采购干事作为样本。电子招投标系统和人工招投标系统的广告成本和时间的平均值作为连续的正态分布变量，利用独立样本 t 检验模型对两组进行比较。本研究的新贡献在于比较了两组人工招标和电子招标广告在成本和时间方面的效率。调查结果显示，与人工招标相比，电子采购系统的招标广告成本和时间更低。这些结果也将有助于学者和学生以及电子政府采购政策标准的改进。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.37745/bjmas.2022.0384
Mohammed Toro Ibrahim
This journal article explores the relationship between electronically processed data and continuous assessment in senior secondary schools in Jigawa State. The study investigates the potential benefits of using electronic data processing methods in continuous assessment and evaluates their impact on student performance and educational outcomes. Through a mixed-methods approach involving qualitative interviews with teachers and quantitative analysis of student data, the research provides valuable insights into the advantages of electronic data processing in improving the efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of continuous assessment practices. The findings demonstrate the transformative potential of electronic data processing in enhancing educational outcomes and informing instructional decisions. Based on the results, the article provides recommendations for successful implementation and future research directions.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.37745/bjmas.2022.0346
Charles Okeke Okoko, K. Oforji, Cosmas Ikechukwu Ahamefule, Benson Mgbowaji Romokere
Languages spoken by the agglomerating ethnic groups in Nigeria instanced monopolistic closures. These closures were political, linguistic, socio-religious and settlement patterns. Regarding settlement patterns, Nigerians from particular ethnic groups tended to aggregate to live in defined patches of urban centres. For instance, are the Hausa quarters (Ama Awusa) or the Gariki in Igboland; Sabon Gari (where peoples from Eastern Nigeria or, particularly, the Igbo lived in Kano) in Northern Nigeria; the Munchi (from Tivland or the Tiv) in the Middle Belt of Nigeria; the Omumini ajaokuta (those who could eat stone without drinking water, referring to the Igbo) in Yorubaland; and Ndi ofe manu, referring to the Yoruba by the Igbo. There were equally day-to-day spoken monopolistic closures, such as “I bi Warri pikin” (I am a Warri youth) and “Ima kwa ndi anyi bu” (Do you know who we are by Igbo youths). Individuals and groups used their spoken languages to create barriers and monopolistic closures through voiced innuendoes against perceived, real or imagined marginalization, which became rife when the majoritarian and minoritarian concepts were blown out of proportion by Nigeria’s political elite. A worst-case closure manifested after the Biafra-Nigeria Civil War, when the Igbo, a hitherto majority group in the then Nigerian tripod of the Igbo, Huasa/Fulani and Yoruba majoritarian(s) umbrella became drowned into a minority through a gang-up of all the minority groups in the South-south and the South-south east. Ever since, the Igbo cried out to be marginalized. The paper concluded that the events in the political and socio-economic landscape of Nigeria were ethnically and politically motivated; and clinically underpinned by languages and their speakers. The paper was written with primary sources while secondary sources served subsidiary and complementary purposes.
尼日利亚聚集在一起的少数民族使用的语言出现了垄断性封闭。这些关闭是政治、语言、社会宗教和定居模式。关于定居模式，来自特定种族群体的尼日利亚人倾向于聚集在城市中心的特定区域居住。例如，在冰岛的豪萨区(Ama Awusa)或加里基区;尼日利亚北部的Sabon Gari(东尼日利亚人，特别是伊博人居住在卡诺的地方);尼日利亚中部地带的芒奇人(来自蒂夫兰或蒂夫);约鲁巴兰的Omumini ajaokuta(指的是伊博人，可以不喝水而吃石头的人);和Ndi ofe manu，伊博人指约鲁巴人。同样每天都有垄断性的闭语，比如伊博青年说的“I bi Warri pikin”(我是瓦里青年)和“Ima kwa ndi anyi bu”(你知道我们是谁吗)。个人和团体用他们的语言制造障碍和垄断关闭，通过对感知的，真实的或想象的边缘化的声音暗示，当多数主义和少数主义的概念被尼日利亚的政治精英夸大时，这种现象变得普遍。最糟糕的情况出现在比夫拉-尼日利亚内战之后，当时在伊博、华萨/富拉尼和约鲁巴人占多数的保护伞下，伊博人一直是尼日利亚的多数群体，但由于南南和南南东部所有少数群体的联合，伊博人被淹没为少数群体。从那以后，伊博人大声疾呼要被边缘化。该文件的结论是，尼日利亚政治和社会经济形势中的事件是出于种族和政治动机;并且临床上以语言和他们的使用者为基础。这篇论文是用第一手资料写成的，而第二手资料则起到辅助和补充的作用。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.37745/bjmas.2022.0361
Abba Abdullahi, Najib Salisu, Sani Ahmed
In recent years, progress in information and communication technology (ICT) has caused many structural changes such as reorganization of economy, globalization, and trade extension, which leads to capital flows and enhancing information availability. Moreover, ICT plays a significant role in development of each economic sector, especially during liberalization process. Growth economists predict that economic growth is driven by investments in ICT. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) such as the world-wide application of mobile phones and internet etc. have contributed substantially to the fast-growing world economy in unprecedented ways. The objectives of this study was to identify and determine the role that ICT played/playing in improving the economic growth and development of Jigawa state, also factors limiting the use of ICT in most of the key areas that support economy are identified. A questionnaire survey was administered manually to 184 sampled respondents. Descriptive statistic were used in analyzing the data and testing of hypothesis among different classes of the respondents. The result showed that everyday more people are getting involved in using ICT technology, these tells that ICT brings positive change in diversifying the Jigawa state economy. The implications of these results are that most people of Jigawa state are doing farming as their occupation and have a disperse settlement, because of these, they requires maximum support from either government or private organizations to provide them with ICT facilities, orient the people on the use of ICT and the possible ways to use it for self-entrepreneurship program in order to boost the economy.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.37745/bjmas.2022.0359
Binay Krishna Halder
In order to find out the managerial effectiveness of the managers in both public and private sector banks of West Bengal, demographic variables (age, gender, education, experience, income and marital status) and managerial effectiveness of managers are used in this study. The purpose of the present study is to find out the role of demographic variables in managerial effectiveness of managers in both public and private sector banks of West Bengal. The sample consists of 566 managers from three public (State Bank of India, Allahabad Bank, and United Bank of India) and three private (ICICI, HDFC, and AXIS) sector banks of West Bengal, out of which 487 are public bank managers and 79 are private bank managers working at various positions of management. The stratified random sampling is used for collection of data. The standard structure questionnaire named “Managerial Effectiveness Scale” was developed by Prof. S. Gupta (1996) was administered. Mean, SD, t-test and ANOVA were used to test the seven hypotheses formulated in the study. The study concludes that the mean scores of the managerial effectiveness of public and private sector bank managers are statistically significant. It also exhibits that the private bank managers are more effective than the public bank managers. The result reveals that the managerial effectiveness of both public and private sector banks managers are different with respect to some demographic characteristics like gender and experience, and age (partially). But managerial effectiveness is independent of other demographic characteristics like education, income and marital status.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.37745/bjmas.2022.0360
Adam Jennings
The present study attempts to test the hypothesis of compromised learner autonomy hinders students’ ability to demonstrate critical thinking in oral communication activities in Japanese University EFL classes. Two surveys were administered to advanced-level L2 learners (N=168). The results showed a correlation between teacher dependence and the inability to demonstrate critical thinking skills in the majority of the students (N=168). Furthermore, twenty students, who represented the remaining minority, perceived themselves as independent/autonomous learners in the initial survey and identified as the ad hoc group. In the second survey, the ad hoc group checked all the affirmative statements of critical thinking skills. Despite being a small sample, the positive correlation between autonomous language learning experience and critical thinking warrants further investigation into the link between learner autonomy and critical thinking in English language education.
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