The study examined selected thermal comfort indices over Oluyole Industrial region in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Specific objectives were to describe the thermal condition of the selected industrial region and examine the relationship between the unitary and integrative indices over the area. Temperature and relative humidity data were collected using a whirling psychrometer. Dew point temperature and heat index or humidex temperature (temperature felt by the skin rather than the actual temperature due to the humidity level) were calculated by using Fanger’s formula in an NOAA’s weather calculator. The study showed that average temperature was 35.2oC while average relative humidity was 51%, and the dewpoint temperature and heat index were 22.8oC and 41.9oC, respectively. Dewpoint temperature was shown to relate stronger with heat index, and lesser with either air temperature or relative humidity. The study concluded that residents in the industrial region are likely to feel warmer than the ambient air temperature, and this is associated with the effect of the industrial activities in the area. The study recommends greening of the industrial area for effective reduction of the heat stress in industrial region. It also suggests policy for adequate monitoring of industrial region for significant temperature change.

The long standing criticisms of healthcare products is that it is aimed at making profits, through persuading patients that they have need of certain products and how it would make them healthier, happier and project them as well-off or at least bourgeois in the society to which they belong. This matter is intricate especially in hospital management and is certainly worth considering in a bid to understand whether marketers in healthcare systems offer self- motivated products in what they think patients ‘need’ or what the patients actually require. This study is an explorative study, which attempts to draw attention to the importance of consumerspace in the emerging markets of Africa and its environs. In turn, hospitals and pharmacists develop new ways of proffering product solutions in catering for the need of patients. However, patient satisfaction has witnessed some criticism as it is believed that the marketing system creates self-motivated healthcare and societal demands, which only their products could satisfy. Notwithstanding, to compete favorably with global demands it is imperative for healthcare organizations especially those in Afrique Noire to pay attention to this phenomenon currently sweeping across America, Europe and Asia..

The role of energy in any economy cannot be overemphasized. Agreeably, Nigeria is endowed with numerous sources of energy. Despite these sources however, Nigeria still depend mainly on non-renewable energy sources which are drivers of carbon (CO2) emissions. Other identified drivers of CO2 emissions are urbanization and economic growth. This paper therefore examines the dynamic relationship among energy use, urbanisation, economic growth and CO2 emissions for the periods of 1970 to 2014. The paper also test for the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. The paper employs Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bound testing Approach developed by Pesaran, Shin and Smith (2001) to estimate the short-run and long-run relationships among the variables. The estimated results of the paper reveal that energy use, urbanisation and economic growth have significant impacts on CO2 emissions both in short-run and long-run in Nigeria. However, the paper shows that there is no evidence to support EKC in Nigeria. For Nigeria to have a sustainable development, the paper recommends that there must be a paradigm shift from the current rate of energy use by which CO2 emissions are inherent to other alternative and low-carbon energy sources that are relatively free from CO2 emissions. The paper also recommends the establishment of efficient and sustainable urban energy infrastructure to control the growth of emissions in urban areas and that Nigeria should look beyond the EKC notion that economic growth is a solution to environmental pollution.

Northeast Nigeria is gripped with the threats of terrorism, which is linked with bad leadership, poverty, unemployment, pervasive illiteracy and extreme deprivation. According to the report, over two million children either have lost their parents or have been separated from them due to insurgency and over fifteen thousand people have been killed. The need to ensure peace in the northeast has gained currency in the intellectual space. However, there has been insufficient interrogation of the relationship between corruption and deradicalisation process, including the effects of this relationship on Boko Haram insurgency in the north east, Nigeria. This article examined the effects of corruption on deradicalisation strategies of the government and the escalation of insurgency in the region. Using in-depth interviews, the article found evidence that the insurgents had more credible intelligence about the moves and strategies of the armed forces than the latter had on the former, and that military approach alone was inadequate. The findings revealed the dynamics of the relationship and existing social ties between the insurgents and the locals on the one hand and between the military and the locals on the other hand.

The study's purpose was to examine the relationship among of inflation, manufacturing sector and economic growth in Nigeria over the period 1980 to 2017 using econometrics analysis (Ordinary Least Square (OLS)). The study performed several pre- test and post-test: such as unit root, co-integration, etc. and it was confirmed that the spurious relationship and serial correlation do not exist among the adopted variables for this study. The ECT was correctly signed and the result showed that there is insignificant inverse relationship between inflation and GDP in one hand and insignificant direct relationship between manufacturing output and economic growth in another. The Enger Granger Causality test indicated that no causal relationship existed between inflation and economic growth or economic growth to inflation. However, causal relationship existed between manufacturing out and economic growth. This implies that as manufacturing productivity increases, it tends to increase economic growth in Nigeria in the years under study. The paper recommended that inflationary rate must be monitored and curtailed to a single digit so that growth can be sustained, diversification of the economy to enhance the performance of the manufacturing sector activities in Nigeria.

The study investigated the impact of trade openness volatility on economic growth in Nigeria. Time series data were used for the study sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin and World Bank Indicator, which spanned from 1986 to 2017. Considering the volatility of total natural resources rents, oil revenue exchange rate and non-oil export revenue, the study used unit root test, co-integration test and employed Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasity GARCH (1 1) for empirical analysis. The Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) and Philips Perron (PP) tests showed that all variables were stationary at first difference at both tests while Johansen co-integration test result showed 5 co-integrating equations at the 0.05 level. The findings revealed that trade openness, total natural resources rents, oil revenue, exchange rate and interest rate impact positively on economic growth. On the other hand, non-oil revenue has negative impact on economic growth. The ARCH term found the presence of volatility clustering in the variables investigated while the GARCH term ascertained the existence of long term persistence volatility in economic growth. Based on the findings, the study recommended adequate policies to improve non-oil export to contribute significantly to economy growth. There is need to diversifying the products base of the economy and building local capacity to make trade openness profitable to Nigeria economy. Effective and efficient channelling of oil revenue to develop other sectors should be prioritised to reduce the impact of volatility clustering on oil revenue in Nigeria.

This study investigated the influence of welfare package on employees’ motivation in a Nigeria brewery company. The multistage sampling technique was used to select 150 respondents on whom questionnaire were administered. In-depth Interviews (IDIs) were also conducted. The mean age of respondents was 29 giving a standard deviation of 2.3 and with the prevalence of male (63.3%), married (70.0%), income N110,001 and above (46.0%) and Bachelor Degree (44.7%). Access to welfare packages consisted of medical health care (91.3%), car loan (76.0%), staff housing (19.3%) and off/on the job training (90.7%) and (89.3%) respectively. Consequently, 85.3% of the employees expressed high level of motivation due to welfare services available. At the levels of employees’ status, professionals (69.6%), managerial (88.9%), skilled non manual (89.8%) and skilled manual (78.6%) expressed high level of motivation. Respondents remained committed to the goal of the organization as there was desire for job retention and readiness to sustain productivity. Employees that benefitted from welfare package were excited and exhibited positive attitude to sustain their productivity. Organization should regularly review its welfare package services to be competitive. This should be done by agreement between management and workers’ unions.