Social Sciences and Humanities

This study investigated voter’s perception of the role of e-voting in ensuring credible elections in Nigeria. The study is delimited to registered voters in Calabar metropolis. The research design adopted for this study was the survey design. The researcher adopted the purposive sampling technique in selecting sample from the population of study. A sample size of two hundred and fifty respondents were selected for study. The researcher utilized the questionnaire in gathering quantitative data for the study.

Torture, as a process. is a serious violation of fundamental human rights, especially in cases where torture is committed by civil servants, such as police and other segments of state institutions. The act of torture can be considered as a serious threat to the social and democratic principles of a society. The perpetration of torture by civil servants and institutions suggests that there is a serious omission in the democracy of a given system.

Migration is a very old phenomenon, which means that the person is born, the people he lives with, the people he leaves. There are many compulsory or optional reasons for addressing the person. Migration has both positive and negative consequences for both the abandoned place and the migrated and settled region. The general type of migration is the direction of migration from rural to urban; when abroad, it is towards the rich countries of the poor countries. Even this type of development shows that there are many socio-economic factors on the basis of people's migration.

Solving of disputes through negotiations, in the past and so in present has a key place in international law and international relations. Main purpose of this paper is to explain negotiations as a mechanism of peaceful dispute resolution and providing a brief summary of the similarities and differences in respect to the arbitrage.

In the South African economy, SMEs have been identified as productive drivers of inclusive economic growth and development around the world. SMEs makeup 91 per cent of formalised businesses, provide employment to about 60 per cent of the labour force and total economic output accounts for roughly 34 per cent of Gross Domestic Product of the country. Given the critical socio-economic role played by SMEs, it is vital that they grow and succeed.

Brand Loyalty is regarded as a very important concept in business because business organizations can use it to gain competitive advantage. Competitive advantage has been approached by looking at the external environment of the firm that is how the economic power of firms can be used to create competitive position in an industry. This study focuses on Resource Based View a model that provides a framework for identifying unique set of resources and this perspective shifts the approach of assessing competitive advantage from the external to the internal environment that is the resource power.

The elemental philosophy of the article is not concerning the discourse of the modernists, and traditionalists around the evolution of M&E, however is to see effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the implementation of monitoring systems within the public sector. It conjointly provides a basis for creating public officials accountable to their administrative superiors, political representatives and also the public in generally.

This study examined the dissemination of health information to stakeholders in Tanzania. The study aimed at determining the channels used to disseminate health information and the challenges hindering the dissemination of health information in Tanzania with specific reference to Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) library. This study used the Mixed Approach. Convenience sampling was used to draw a sample of thirty one library professionals and teaching staff at MUHAS Library.

This article attempts to explore basic modes of expression in English poetry. A number of poetic lines or stanzas from diverse poems composed by various poets have been presented as a sample to explore the varied modes of expression in English poetry. Presentation and description of poetic lines that indicate the modes of expression are executed as a method of analysis of verse lines that function as data. This article can turn to be useful to those who are interested in studying and teaching English poetry.

The present study is an attempt to investigate the factors behind spinsterhood, the sort of perception popular mindset hold on spinsters and the consequences of being a spinster. It starts with a theoretical part as a background to the topic. Then, it moves to the practical part where the study depends a field work for testing the constructed hypothesis. The field work is conducted through questionnaires. Briefly, the findings proved that the majority of respondents, 51% believes that the society considers spinsters as those who had never been proposed to.