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{"title":"An Assessment of the First Wave of Covid-19 and Need for Strategic Management of Education in Kwara State, Nigeria","authors":"","doi":"10.58908/tmuj.v6i1.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58908/tmuj.v6i1.37","url":null,"abstract":"During the first quarter of the year 2020, the outbreak of the global Covid-19 pandemic attracted public attention and raised deep concern to all stakeholders. This has undoubtedly taken the world unconscious, ill-equipped, and unwary thus leaving the countries affected to experience the overwhelming consequences on all sectors of the economy including aviation, sports, agriculture, and education. The virus, which was detected in Wuhan City, China, has affected more than 130 countries globally. The shutdown of educational institutions in Nigeria was due to the outbreak of the virus, which disrupted educational delivery to students. In the light of the foregoing, this study examined the reassessment of the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic and the need for strategic management of education in Kwara State. Assessments from global, African, and Nigerian perspectives were discussed. Various effects of covid-19 on the educational system were carefully assessed. The concept and process of strategic management were carefully looked at. Procedures for diverse strategic management of education were dissected by providing a model that can be used to improve the education system. The study concluded that the importance of education cannot be underestimated; hence the need for diverse management of education is imperative for the overall achievement of educational goals. The measures include the inclusion of online learning in the school curriculum to ensure that teaching and learning are not affected, the availability of digital gadgets for teachers and students in school for effective implementation of education at all levels.","PeriodicalId":376426,"journal":{"name":"The Millennium University Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114378380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teachers’ Perception on the Level of Availability of Instructional Materials in Public Secondary Schools of Zamfara State, Nigeria","authors":"","doi":"10.58908/tmuj.v6i1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58908/tmuj.v6i1.38","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the level of availability of instructional materials among government-owned public secondary schools in Gusau Local Government Area, Zamfara State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research was employed and 190 teachers were simple randomly sampled out of the total population of 367 in-service teachers in Gusau LGA through Morgan and Krejcie’s (1971) table of determining sample size. Three research questions were established in order to achieve the three objectives formulated for the study. Descriptive statistics (Simple percentage, mean, and standard deviation) were utilized in data analysis. The paper observed that Audio Materials were \"Rarely Available\" (M=1.99, SD=1.58); Visual Materials were \"Much Available\" (M=2.73, SD=2.34); while Audio-Visual Materials were \"Rarely Available\" (M=1.68, SD=1.33). In light of this, the study, therefore, recommends that Government, stakeholders in the educational sector, non-governmental and civil society organizations, as well as other well-to-do philanthropists in Zamfara State and particularly in Gusau LGA should endeavor to put more efforts to provide/donate more instructional materials (Audio, Visual, and Audio-Visual) for public secondary schools to meet the required amount of materials for the purpose of the enhancing the learners’ academic performance and successful professional course delivery of teachers.","PeriodicalId":376426,"journal":{"name":"The Millennium University Journal","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123058602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of Rural Development Scheme of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) Upon Economic Development of the Rural Poor of Bangladesh","authors":"","doi":"10.58908/tmuj.v5i1.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58908/tmuj.v5i1.31","url":null,"abstract":"Bangladesh, the smallest but populous country in the South Asia region with 160 million people, More than 60% of its citizens live in the villages, and 50% of the total population depends on agriculture. Rural people also control more than 30% of the entire economy. Most of the village people are highly interested in cultivation and other production where needs physical effort, but they were suffering from the fund crisis that hinders the production of crops and the cultivation of fisheries and livestock. Due to the financial crisis, they involved their children in cultivating and farming instead of sending them to school. According to the necessity of financing to planting different aspects, they are collect petty cash as a short term loan from neighborhood moneylenders and other various NGOs at a high rate of interest. This orientation carries unlimited agonies to the country based business visionaries. The Trending Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) provides small loans among low salaries in Bangladesh with the end goal of lightening neediness and enabling poor people. Commercial business banks in Bangladesh are likewise connected to offer smaller-scale money related administrations. Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, a private Islamic oriented bank, offered the Rural Development Scheme (RDS). This imaginative Islamic microfinance system answers the interest of the country Muslim poor in Bangladesh, who were forgotten about from ordinary smaller scale financing because of religious convictions. The RDS's key empowering agents are social condition, a helpful strategy condition, institutional and authoritative limit, and a devoted administration with the vision to scale up the RDS program in Bangladesh. In contrast to customary NGOs and microfinance organizations (MFI), Islamic MFIs lend advance cash in kind; the product's responsibility carefully lies with the store to the supplier until the client has wholly reimbursed the agent. The reason for this paper is to analyze the capability of Islamic Microfinance as an elective apparatus for destitution lightening. This RDS microfinance's analysis examined both economic and social effects and invested at a general end that this program remarkably affects the chosen financial parts of the customers. Data have been collected through questionnaires from the needy rural beneficiaries from selected three areas in Chittagong district named Boalkhali, Banskhali, and Baroyiarhat. The choice of selected these three areas is located in the surround of the section from three sides. So the outcome of this questionnaire gave an approximate picture of the district. Collected data have been analyzed using different statistical tools to get the results and suggest policy implications, if any.","PeriodicalId":376426,"journal":{"name":"The Millennium University Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116934599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Low Wage Job in the Nigerian Labour Market: Implications for Policy Formulation and Implementation","authors":"","doi":"10.58908/tmuj.v5i1.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58908/tmuj.v5i1.34","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the incidence of low wage jobs in the Nigerian labour market and its implications in terms of policy formulation and implementation. It adopted desk review method in examining the incidence of low-wage jobs in the Nigerian labour market. It relied on secondary data from relevant agencies and institutions that provide information on the state of jobs in labour market such as National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), African Development Bank (AfDB), International Labour Organization (ILO) and World Bank. The secondary data formed the basis for interpretation and analyses. The result from the empirical evidence show that majority (80%) of jobs in the Nigerian labour market are low wage jobs. It also found that in terms of distribution by gender, there is higher percentage (not less than 48%) of women in vulnerable jobs whose wages are quite low in Nigeria. Based on the findings, the paper recommends that labour market regulators should formulate and implement policy aimed at upscaling the skill set of workers in low wage jobs through education, training and re-training of workers in low wage jobs. It was also recommended that Nigerian minimum wage policy should be reviewed by adjusting the rate every year and also targeting the vulnerable workers and maintaining a different rate for the vulnerable workers among others.","PeriodicalId":376426,"journal":{"name":"The Millennium University Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128117038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of Resource Utilization on Lecturers’ Effectiveness in Private Universities, Kwara State, Nigeria: A Qualitative Approach","authors":"Yusuf Suleiman, Mustapha Adam, Ishola, K. M. A. I. A. Professor, Olajide Olamide Jemeelah, Eunice Hayochi Muchilwa","doi":"10.58908/tmuj.v5i1.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58908/tmuj.v5i1.36","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the impact of resource utilization on lecturers’ effectiveness in universities in Kwara State, Nigeria. Three research questions were raised to guide the study. The research design adopted for the study was qualitative type. Population consists of all principal officers in private universities. Purposive and convenience sampling techniques were used to select two principal officers from two universities. An interview protocol titled “Interview Protocol on Resource Utilization and Lecturers’ Effectiveness (IPRULE)” was used to collect relevant data. Thematic approach was employed for analysing the data collected. Findings revealed use of resource by the lecturers as perceived by the principal officers of the selected universities. Also, findings indicate nexus between health, library, classroom and lecturers’ effectiveness. In view of the foregoing findings, it was recommended that adequate resources should be provided for lecturers for them to be more effective in the areas of teaching, research and community service.","PeriodicalId":376426,"journal":{"name":"The Millennium University Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127779737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Earnings Management in the Nigerian Listed Industrial Goods Companies","authors":"","doi":"10.58908/tmuj.v5i1.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58908/tmuj.v5i1.32","url":null,"abstract":"There is continuous pressure on companies to be more responsible in their activities to the environment. Companies' engagement in socially responsible projects by companies demonstrates their concern for a society that goes beyond profit. This paper examined CSR and EM in the Nigerian listed industrial goods companies. The lack of studies in Nigeria motivates the researcher to bridge the gap. Secondary data for the period of 2009-2018 of the eleven (11) industrial goods companies listed on the floor of the stock exchange was utilized. A regression analysis technique was used to analyze the data. The finding reveals that EM has a significant and positive effect on the CSR of listed Nigerian industrial goods companies. The study recommends that stakeholders, especially investors, creditors, and shareholders in the Nigerian listed industrial goods companies should give attention to the CSR practices of those companies as management might use that to cover up their manipulative practice. This would help them get insights and pay attention while taking decisions to grants loans on the expected transparency of earnings reported by those companies and should also pay adequate attention to the implementation of CSR projects by companies operating in the sector since the existence of EM practice is confirmed in the sector. Regulators like SEC, NSE, CBN and FRCN and auditors in Nigeria should put appropriate and proper measures in place for adequate scrutinization, examination, and evaluation of those companies for the detection of EM practice and finally, Accounting Standards like GAAP that give free hands to management to decide on the method of accounting policies should come up with definite restrictive methods on some accounting policies to constrain EM.","PeriodicalId":376426,"journal":{"name":"The Millennium University Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130466145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Audit Committee and Earnings Management in Quoted Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria","authors":"Ismail Alhassan","doi":"10.58908/tmuj.v4i1.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58908/tmuj.v4i1.30","url":null,"abstract":"This study evaluates the audit committee impact on earnings management of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria. The study uses secondary data which were extracted from ten (10) sampled manufacturing firms listed in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for the period 2010-2019. The study used Random Effects Model (REM) for the analysis of data. The results showed that financial expertise of audit committee has significant negative impact on earnings management while audit committee tenure has an insignificant negative impact on earnings management. Furthermore, share ownership of audit committee has significant negative impact on earnings management. The study therefore, concludes that both the audit committee expertise and share ownership of audit committee enhance the financial reporting quality of manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Based on the impact of members of audit committee with financial expertise, the study recommends among others that, the board should ensure appointing the sufficient audit committee members that are experts on financial matters. Similarly, the study also recommends the enclosure of more members with substantial shareholdings in the audit committee. This can enhance their willingness to protect their investment and helps in proper monitoring and supervision, thereby reducing earnings management.","PeriodicalId":376426,"journal":{"name":"The Millennium University Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132280776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Managers’ Emotional Intelligence Skills and Organisational Performance in Selected Telecommunication Companies in Lagos State, Nigeria","authors":"F. C. Anyim","doi":"10.58908/tmuj.v4i1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58908/tmuj.v4i1.27","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines emotional intelligence skills and organisational performance in the Nigerian telecommunication sector. To achieve the objective of the study, survey research design was used for data collection. The study relied heavily on quantitative method by using a structured questionnaire which was administered on the employees of three selected telecommunication companies, MTN Nigeria, Airtel and Globacom at their Head offices respectively. The study adopted stratified sampling technique to administer Five hundred and thirty-three (533) questionnaires with three hundred and forty-two (342) (i.e. 64 percent) valid responses. The Cronbach’s Alpha reliability test of all the variables indicated 0.87. Data gathered were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings revealed that Managers’ emotional intelligence skills have no significant effect on organisational performance. The implication of this finding is that most managers in private sector tends to be interested in regulations, monitoring and evaluating subordinate’s performance without caring for their feelings and emotions. Therefore, it is recommended that the telecommunication companies should expose their managers to trainings that focus on the acquisition of emotional intelligence skills all in a bid to achieve their corporate objectives.","PeriodicalId":376426,"journal":{"name":"The Millennium University Journal","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116848656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Environmental and Social Disclosures on the Financial Performance of Oil and Gas Companies in Nigeria","authors":"Ismail Alhassan","doi":"10.58908/tmuj.v4i1.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58908/tmuj.v4i1.28","url":null,"abstract":"This paper critically examines the effect of environmental and social disclosures on the financial performance of oil and gas companies in Nigeria. The study is crucial as it describes the level of environmental and social disclosures impact on companies' performance. This study uses environmental and social disclosures as independent variables while Returns on Assets (ROA) as a proxy for financial performance. The study formulates two hypotheses to guide the study and uses a panel regression model in testing the statistical parameter estimates. Ex Post Facto design was adopted and data were collected from the NSE Factbook and published financial statements of the oil and gas companies listed in the NSE with data ranging from 2010-2019. The findings of the study show that corporate environmental and social disclosures have a significant impact on companies' performance at a 5% significant level. Because of this, the study concludes that environmental and social disclosures have improved companies' performance over the years. The study also recommends that companies should have an optimistic outlook regarding environmental and social friendly services and also disclose more of such information in their financial statements as over the years the degree of disclosures of these information has exercised considerable impact on companies' financial performance.","PeriodicalId":376426,"journal":{"name":"The Millennium University Journal","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127792244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contrastive Analysis of Various Speech Acts Events in English and Bangla","authors":"S. M. Kamal","doi":"10.58908/tmuj.v3i1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58908/tmuj.v3i1.16","url":null,"abstract":"In the early years (i.e. the 1950s through the 1970s), the contrastive analysis was limited only in the grammatical structure and phonology. At present, more effort is given on speech acts and its behavior. Contrastive analysis is based on similarities and dissimilarities between two or more languages. Crystal (1992) has defined contrastive analysis or contrastive linguistics as the identification of points of structural similarity and difference between two languages. Speech acts mean a minimal functional unit in human communication. According to Green (2009), ‘speech acts are staple of everyday communicative life’. Generally, we perform speech acts when we offer an apology, greeting, request, complaint, invitation, compliment, or refusal. A speech act might contain just one word, as in \"please\" to perform a request, or several words or sentences: \"Please help me.\" In this paper, the main focus is highlighting the contrastive analysis of various speech acts events in English and Bangla with regard to range, frequency, structure, formality, and politeness etc.","PeriodicalId":376426,"journal":{"name":"The Millennium University Journal","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124093813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}