Browsing by Author "Francis, Ojonugwa Onu"

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    ASSESSMENT OF FADAMA III PROGRAMME ON FOOD SECURITY IN BENUE STATE, NIGERIA.
    (Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University Keffi., 2019-04-21) Onuche, Uche Innocent; Francis, Ojonugwa Onu; Bilyaminu, Suleiman Muhammed
    There have been heated debates on the effectiveness of foreign aid like FADAMA III programme on the well-being of the beneficiaries. Most of the studies established a positive relationship between foreign aid like FADAMA III project and development using economic indicators like: Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Gross National Product (GNP), and per capita income. None of these studies used development indicators like: food security and poverty among others. This study examines the effects of FADAMA III programme on food security in Apa Local Government Area of Benue state. The study adopted survey design and purposive sampling procedure to select seven (7) informants from Apa Local Government Area. Key Informant Interview (Kll) was the instrument used to collect information from the key informants and analyzed non numerically. The study found that, training constitutes the major activities of the FADAMA III programme, targeting poverty, unemployment reduction and food security. The study equally found that, most of the beneficiaries are still within the moderate and low threshold in their condition of living: and therefore concluded that, FADAMA /// programme did not eradicate and reduced to the barest minimum cases of food msecunty and poverty in Apa Local Government Area of Benue State. The study of scope of subsequent FADAMA III assistance programme in terms of training and coverage to enableit ameliorates the challenges of food insecurity in Apa Local Government Area Benue State, Nigeria.
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    ASSESSMENT ON THE COMPLEMENTARY ADMINISTRATION OF HERBAL AND CONVENTIONAL MEDICINES IN JOS SOUTH LGA OF PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA
    (Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2021-04-16) Badung, Vivian Dalyop; Francis, Ojonugwa Onu; Ogidi, Ambrose Woyengiemi
    In spite the development of more researched andformulated orthodox medicines, herbal medicines continue to be widely patronized by persons across the world with some patronages complementarily using both forms, oblivious of the harmful effects that may occur. Hence, this research assesses the complementary administration of herbal and conventional medicines in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria. A community based cross-sectional research design was adopted. Primary data were obtained using both quantitative and qualitative methods. In the survey, 375 questionnaires were distributed, of which 362 were retrieved, among the sample size using multi-stage sampling techniques of wards, settlements, households, and individuals. Also, qualitative data were collected using in-depth interview from community leaders, ward heads, and few people within the studied communities. Descriptive and inferential statistics of the data were carried out using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) Windows version 20.0. Results from the study shoM' that the rate of herbal consumption in Jos South is very high. It also showed that, most people consume herbal medicines to complement orthodox medicine for faster results when they are dissatisfied with orthodox mode of treatment. The study also reveal that complementary use of herbal and conventional drugs can lead to drugs-herbs interaction which can have negative effect on the body system. Thus, the study recommends health professionals to always enquire the use of herbal medicine from their patients in order to give adequate administration of drugs, and be able to monitor the kinds of herbs consumed by patients in order to avoid drugs interaction in the body. Also, people should be sensitized on issues of complementary use of herbal and conventional medicines
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    GENDER PERSPECTIVES AND ISSUES IN WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
    (Department of Sociology, Nasrawa State University, keffi., 2017-03-11) Francis, Ojonugwa Onu; Yiga, Helen Sadi
    Gender and women studies are gaining currency in the social sciences. However, there are dearth of information on the application of theories and issues that surround the woman question and empowerment. The objective of this paper is to contribute a part in solving this lack of information by reviewing six theories and raising issues concerning women empowerment using secondary data. It is the conclusion of this paper that efforts at gender and women studies must be hinged at reducing the inequality between men and women by improving the five levels of empowerment which are: welfare; access; conscientization, participation and control. That development projects must include the target population in this case women, in the process of needs assessment, problem identification, project planning, management, implementation and evaluation
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    THE POLITICS OF FOREIGN AID AND THE DEVELOPMENT DEBATE IN NIGERIA
    (Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University Keffi., 2019-02-21) Onuche, Oche Innocent; Francis, Ojonugwa Onu; Bilyaminu, Suleiman Muhammed
    The growing gap between the developed and developing countries has led to constant flow of foreign assistance from developed countries to developing countries with the aim of helping them to overcome their development challenges. According to Easterly, (2006) the West - developed countries have spent over $ 600 billion on aid to Africa which Nigeria also benefited from. Despite this flows into the country, poverty still loom large and underdevelopment still persist; just as there are still continuous and a seemly unending debate on the effectiveness of aid on development. This paper examined the politics of foreign aid and the development debate in Nigeria. This objective was accomplished via the utilization of secondary data sourced majorly from journals - national and international, textbooks among others. The paper is strictly an evaluative research, analyzed from the platform of soft power, soft governance perspective. The study found that, foreign aid has not critically address development challenges in Nigeria using development indicators like poverty and unemployment among others as a measuring rod; though the international community's still insist on increasing the volume of development aid to developing country like Nigeria. As such this paper recommend that Nigerian government should negotiate foreign aid with the potential of addressing critical development challenges of her citizens and direct aid to critical sectors in other to explore the potentials in foreign aid to Nigeria development.