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Abstract This study was on attitude of mass communication students towards journalism as a career. Three objectives were raised which included; To find out if the hazard of journalism as a career scare many away from the profession, to find out if the fragile nature of women make them drop their profession for less hazardous jobs after their training and to find out possible solutions to the apathy to the ...

ABSTRACT The use of X-rays in medical diagnostic radiology has increased globally. The medical use of X-ray for diagnosis of illness is subject to the principles of justification and optimization for the protection of exposed individuals. Medical X-ray accounts for the largest exposure of humans to man-made ionizing radiation. Exposure of individuals can lead to long-term stochastic effects. Over exposure of humans in interventional procedures can also lead to deterministic ...

Abstract The Nigeria’s health system is in a poor state and this is traceable to several factors especially the gross under-funding of the health sector and shortage of skilled medical personnel at the primary health care level. Nigeria is one of the several major health-staff-exporting countries in Africa. As a result of inadequate infrastructure and poor compensation packages, a sizeable number of physicians, nurses and other medical professionals are lured ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The conventional wisdom among Third World planners today is that the mass media should integrate with the indigenous modes of communication in promoting development. This wisdom has become intuitively logical because the traditional forms of communication are innate to Third World societies and, therefore, better suited for the dissemination of culture-centred development information to people at the grassroots. However, while the intrinsic nature of the indigenous forms ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Journalism is the collection, preparation and distribution of News and related commentary and feature materials through such media as pamphlet, News letter, magazines, radio, motion pictures, television, Bill Boards the internet and Books. Journalism according to World Book encyclopedia (Vol. 11) is the profession of recording events they maybe of interest to the public. It is therefore both World-wide in scope and ...

Abstract Healthy eating is one of the ways of disease prevention around the world. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice of adult healthy snacking in Nigeria. Some Nigerian street snacks, including sausage roll, bons, scotched egg, doughnut, meat pie, gala and bean cake (akara Ogbomoso), Snacks, the light, fast and ready-to-eat foods, are demanded in large quantities mainly in towns and city centres ...

ABSTRACT One company (ANAMMCO Plc., Enugu) was used in this empirical work o determine the attitude of top management towards public relations function. Four research objectives and three hypothesis formed the basis of this work.  and the library research and sample survey methods of research were used in this study.  Among nine(9) questionnaires sent out, they were all duly completed and returned. The textual, tabular and simple percentage modes of ...

CHAPTER ONE     INTRODUCTION     1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY      Journalism is the collection, preparation and distribution of news and related commentary and feature materials through such media as pamphlets, newsletter, magazines, Radio, Motion Pictures, Television, the internet and books. The earliest known Journalists product was a newssheet in ancient Rome called the ACTA DIURNA published daily from 59 BC, it was hung in prominent places and recorded important social and political events. Journalism ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The high level of moral decadence and insurgencies in Nigerian nation is an indication that there is poor religious teaching in secondary school system. Christian religious studies (CRS) as one of the religious subjects taught in secondary school in Nigerian takes a central position in ensuring moral and spiritual well being of individuals in the society. 1. The key roles of CRS in equipping the individuals and ...

ABSTRACT This study was designed to assess the knowledge, attitude and adoption of appropriate infant feeding practices of mothers and the anthropometric indices of their children. Three hundred and seventy three mothers who attended infant welfare clinics at the three health settings (General hospital Ekwulobia, Primary health care Ekwulobia, and Primary health care Akpo) all in Aguata L.G.A were involved in the study. The study evaluated the nutritional status of ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background to the Study According to Adeyemi and Adu (2010), it is widely accepted that education is one of the leading tools for promoting economic development as it covers some processes individuals go through to help them develop and use their potentials. Furthermore, Okeke (2007) said that, through education, individuals acquire knowledge, skills and attitude that are necessary for effective living. In an attempt to have sound ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1    BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Since the general public cannot be in all places at the same time, journalists through the media bring the world closest by reporting politics, sport, disasters even in far away China, UK, US, Russia e. t. c within some seconds. Isamuko, B. (2010) Journalist is the nose, eye, mouth, ear of the public who help the public to see what is happening, ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1         BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY. One of the main features of higher education in Nigeria before 1995 was the over compartmentalization of academic field of study. There were no common university courses to all students both at the instructional level and across the country. Cross – fertilization of knowledge between humanities and science students were not there. In 1975, the newly created commissions over see the Nigeria universities. ...

 ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to find out the attitude of girls towards the study of Chemistry as a subject in secondary schools in Oredo Local Government Area. The study was carried out using seven randomly selected secondary schools in Benin City. From the data collected and analyzed, it was observed that girls in schools with well qualified chemistry teachers learn chemistry effectively compared to those in schools ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The attitude of parents towards female education is a topic many people frown at in the developing and undeveloped countries. It is regarded of them as taboo that female education is very important to enable matured persons especially parents acquint themselves with the efficacy of female education in the position sense. Female education has been misunderstood by many as a means of sexual ...

  CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1            BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The major challenge facing science educators and researchers in the state is the underachievement in science subjects among the secondary school students. Science is an umbrella covering many subject areas including physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics. For stance Sweeny (2003) declared that of particular science education, as suggested by the number of students who successfully pass secondary level science examination. He ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study  Education builds the human wind, which is the key component for economic growth technological capability and social transformation. People are perceived as the ultimate resources whose substance constitutes all encompassing goals of development with education as its well spring unfortunately, students of college of education Ekiadolor in Edo State. This could be attributed to problem of students towards buying of textbooks the issues ...

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the attitude of teachers towards the teaching of sex education in some selected schools in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. The research study was also aimed at ascertaining whether the attitude of teachers towards the teaching of sex education make the students to shy away from sex education or the teachers are shy to teach sex education to ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1             BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Guidance and counselling as the name implies in the mode and conduct by which an individual or a body of individual assist in the aspect of co-ordination, which lead to efficiency in a given state or policy for the up keep of the future, in a situation as it was from origination traditionally, people were guided through the use of “Ikoro” ‘Ekwe’ ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Of all the problem facing the human race in the world today, that of rapid population growth is a major one. All over the world, medical science have succeeded in reducing the death of infants and children especially in advanced countries such as United States of America (USA), Britain, France, etc also in Nigeria there is increase in population especially in the present ...