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{"title":"Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance of Quoted Oil and Gas Companies in Nigeria","authors":".Binaebi Bariweni","doi":"10.37745/bjmas.2022.0395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0395","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":479838,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies","volume":"38 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139534042","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 Relevance of Chitonga as a Regional Language of Instruction in the Multilingual Schools of Livingstone Urban in Southern Province of Zambia","authors":"Kopakopa Hanzooma, Margrace Kasungo Musonda","doi":"10.37745/bjmas.2022.0392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0392","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":479838,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139445179","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":"Abdallah Bin Fodio's Technique for Translating the Quran Through Telling Prophetic Stories: An Analysis of West African Islamic Scholarship","authors":"Abubakar Muhammad Ringim","doi":"10.37745/bjmas.2022.0382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0382","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":479838,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies","volume":"60 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139535837","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 Usage of Familiarity Related Address Terms among the Academic Staff of Jigawa State College of Education and Legal Studies, Ringim","authors":"Muhammad Tijjani Ibrahim, Rufa’i Aminu","doi":"10.37745/bjmas.2022.0389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0389","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":479838,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139535639","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":"Cost and Time Efficiency Analysis of Manual and e-Procurement Systems in Roads and Highways Department: Tender Advertising Issue Perspective","authors":"Md. Abdur Rashid, Mohammad Shorif Uddin","doi":"10.37745/bjmas.2022.0387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0387","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":479838,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies","volume":"10 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139535408","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":"Enhancing Continuous Assessment in Jigawa State Senior Secondary Schools: The Impact of Electronically Processed Data","authors":"Mohammed Toro Ibrahim","doi":"10.37745/bjmas.2022.0384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0384","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":479838,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies","volume":"85 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139535582","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":"Ethnicity, Monopolistic Closure, Shifting Inuendoes of Language and Restiveness: A Historicization","authors":"Charles Okeke Okoko, K. Oforji, Cosmas Ikechukwu Ahamefule, Benson Mgbowaji Romokere","doi":"10.37745/bjmas.2022.0346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0346","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":479838,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies","volume":" 31","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138616284","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 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) On The Economy of Jigawa State","authors":"Abba Abdullahi, Najib Salisu, Sani Ahmed","doi":"10.37745/bjmas.2022.0361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0361","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":479838,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138620846","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":"Managerial Effectiveness and Demographic Variables: A Study on Public and Private Sector Banks of West Bengal","authors":"Binay Krishna Halder","doi":"10.37745/bjmas.2022.0359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0359","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":479838,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies","volume":"17 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139017369","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":"Autonomy in Language Teaching and Learning","authors":"Adam Jennings","doi":"10.37745/bjmas.2022.0360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0360","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":479838,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138623541","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}