ESUT JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

ARMED CONFLICT AS A FATAL THREAT TO CHILD HEALTH AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Innocent Ahamefule Nwosu — 2025-02-09

Armed conflict is obstacle to good health and peaceful co-existence in many countries. It is an enemy against children. During Nigeria Civil War (1967-1970), millions of children on the defunct Biafra side died from adverse health conditions. In spite of these, the health/social consequences of that war on children have not been adequately addressed. The study therefore assessed disruption of family lives of the children and diseases that affect them during that war. The study utilized in-depth interviews and complemented it with narrative review of literature on the civil war. It was found that there is a strong relationship between armed conflict and adverse health conditions of children before, during and after war. Therefore, war affects children’s health and social development. The study recommends that serious effort should be made to prevent war or where it is impossible, adequate relief support and medical infrastructures should be in place by national and international governments/agencies.

IMPLICATIONS OF CATASTROPHIC RISK FUTURE AS ALTERNATIVE RISKS TRANSFER SOLUTION ON PERFORMANCE OF MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA

Moses Tunde Oyerinde — 2025-02-09

The manufacturing companies are faced with many risks which includes regular business risks such as credit risks, switch in market taste, human and personnel risks, injury, damage to third party and so on. The industry handles these risks by way of risk transfer through insurance by shifting the financial implication of loss, injury or damage to another party or parties. However, there are risks that are existential to the industry that can be described as catastrophic such as hurricane, earthquake, terror attacks etc. These type of risks cannot be adequately covered by regular insurance. This class of risks can only be covered by non-insurance transfer by way of Alternative Risk Transfer, ART. The study aim to determine impact of Catastrophic Risk futures (CRF) as an alternative risks transfer solutions on the performance of Nigeria manufacturing companies revealed significant correlation between CRF as an ART solution and performance with correlation coefficient (r) of 0.630 with a p-value of 0.000. The ANOVA findings also showed performance of manufacturing enterprises could be strongly be predicted by CRF as well as a positive association between CRF solution and performance of the manufacturing companies. Therefore, we can conclude that there is significant relationship between CRF as an ART solution and the performance of Nigeria manufacturing companies and that CRF do have real impact on the performance of the manufacturing concerns. However, stakeholders such as the Government, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and Security and Exchange Commission, SEC needs to work together to create enabling environment for ART to thrive by sensitization of the industry on the concept and benefits of ART. The industry must ensure that all alternative risk transfer solutions comply with local and international regulatory standards to avoid legal complications and ensure growth of the ART solutions in the country..

Research Data Management Services

Joseph Chukwusa — 2025-02-09

This study investigated Research Data Management (RDM) services among 3 selected University libraries in South-South, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was employed in this research. Due to the fact that the population was small (75 respondents) all of them was used for the study. However, after questionnaire administration and retrieval, 72 of the respondents were used for the study. Frequency count and mean statistics were deployed in analyzing the data. Result of the study revealed that the awareness level of (RDM) services amongst the librarians was high; and so was the extent of implementation of RDM. The research recommended that it is imperative that Nigerian libraries and librarians acquire deeper understanding regarding the extent and scope of research data management services so that they can understand where to improve on.

Perceived Risk, Technology Readiness and Adoption of Online Banking among Undergraduates Students

Ifenna D. Ezeanya — 2025-02-09

The study investigated the relationships between perceived risk, technology readiness and undergraduates’ adoption of online banking. Participants were 250 undergraduates of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. They included 118 (47.2%) males and 132 (52.8%) females, whose ages ranged between 18 to 36 years, with the mean age of 21.74 and standard deviation of 2.044. The Risk Perception Scale (Featherman & Pavlov, 2003); Technology Readiness Scale (Celik & Kocaman, 2017); and Online Banking Adoption Scale (Pikkarainen et al., 2004) were used for data collection. The design was correlational design, while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis was used for data analysis. The result revealed between perceived risk did not significantly relate with adoption online banking (r= -.024, p >.05) while technology acceptance was found to have significant relationship with adoption online banking (r = .233, p<.001). It also further revealed that significant relationship exist between perceived risk and technology acceptance (r= -.176, p<.005). Based on the findings, the researcher recommended amongst financial institutions, educational campaigns and universities so in order to improve the student's experience on the use of online banking.