Social Sciences and Humanities

The United Nations Convention on Contracts of Carriage ratified by the UN General Assembly in December 2008. The convention, known as "International goods in total or in part by sea", was published in September 2009. The rules governing the maritime transport of goods internationally are of particular importance to the owners of the goods and to the owners of the maritime fleet in terms of its numerous effects.

According to Karl Marx, in one of his postulations; religion is an opium of the masses. Religion has been part of Nigerians indigenous culture and tradition. In respect to this paper, titled Moral Decadence and Multiplicity of Religious Centres in Nigeria: A case study of Christian churches and ministries in South-East and South-West; the focus would be on the imported religion of Christianity. Before the coming of Christianity, there were several practices which are deemed to be dehumanising and traumatic.

The article reflects on the reformation of tax system as well as the repercussions of “tax cut” during the reign of Muhammad Rahimkhan I. Negative influence of aforementioned system on social life is revealed.

This paper focuses on the Role of Turkey for Central Asian Countries and its influence on China. As of now, there is another active Great Game in the nations of Central Asia, connecting with different actors and foundations who go after impact in Central Asia. China's tyrant government, local issues, and immense vitality demands hold on possible dangers for the security of Central Asian nations. Turkey, as a channel nation among West and East, is in a situation to adjust the potential long-period animosity of China in Central Asia.

The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines chronic pain as: “Persistent pain, which can be continuous or recurring, whose duration and intensity are sufficient to adversely affect the well-being of a patient, their level of functionality and quality of life”. Chronic pain is a global health problem, affecting between 15-25% of adult population, even increasing up to 50% for geriatric population over 65 years old.

Today, the increasing Organization can afford many types of losses but facing losses caused due to financial crises is costlier. Financial Crises leads to financial instability within the organization. the consequences of financial crises may cause disastrous results for the organization. Financial Crises is very common within any organization but this issue is rarely discussed. Taking a track record of occurrence of various financial crises that leads to winding up of organization our research work is based two major causes of financial crises.

The study investigated the difference in academic performance of Islamic studies students taught using activity-based teaching strategy and those taught using traditional method of teaching in senior secondary schools in Katsina Metropolis. One objective and one corresponding research question as well as one hypothesis were formulated to guide the researcher.A quasi experimental pre-test, post-test design was used for the study. The study sampled 118 out of a total population of 12,169 of Islamic studies students from tworandomly selected Senior Secondary schools (SS II).

A manager’s leadership style will definitely influence working motivation and automatically encourage the performance of the employees. The purpose of this study was to figure out (1) the leadership style found in Mandala Finance of Majene branch office; (2) employees’ motivation in working for Mandala Finance of Majene, and (3) whether there is the influence of leadership style on employee motivation of Mandala Finance of Majene.

The study was designed to identify the perceptive views of lecturers on team teaching for effective instructional delivery in Office Technology and Management (OTM) programmes. The forty (40) lecturers in OTM programmes in the three Polytechnics in Delta State formed the population for the study. The study was a survey research design. Two questions which were validated by three experts were used for the study. The questionnaires were subjected to reliability test using Cronbach Alpha formula which yielded 0.87 and 0.79 respectively.

The 2016 WHO statistics show that the African region still bore the highest burden of care reporting 587 Disability Adjustable Life Years (DALYs) per 1000 population. The burden of caring for individuals with mental illness is high globally, more so when there is no commensurate social support for the caregivers. There is a crevice of literature from Nigerian studies on the link between burden of care, social support and psychopathological symptoms.