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![The North Central States of Nigeria Source: Adapted and modified from administrative map of Nugeria Artisanal fisheries production is much favoured in this North Central part of Nigeria as a result of numerous tentacles of inland water and streams as well as flood plains of the River Niger that stretch from Niger State [Borgu Local Government Area, (LGA)] through Kwara State (Edu LGA) to Lokoja in Kogi State. River Benue also cuts across Benue State with prominence in Makurdi and adjacent towns in the State. The fishing](profile/Yusuf-Oladimeji-2/publication/312655955/figure/fig1/AS:454100216225796@1485277336855/The-North-Central-States-of-Nigeria-Source-Adapted-and-modified-from-administrative-map.png)
The North Central States of Nigeria Source: Adapted and modified from administrative map of Nugeria Artisanal fisheries production is much favoured in this North Central part of Nigeria as a result of numerous tentacles of inland water and streams as well as flood plains of the River Niger that stretch from Niger State [Borgu Local Government Area, (LGA)] through Kwara State (Edu LGA) to Lokoja in Kogi State. River Benue also cuts across Benue State with prominence in Makurdi and adjacent towns in the State. The fishing
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Despite Nigeria‟s abundant fisheries resources, the country is still largely a protein deficient nation. This
paper examines the technical efficiency gaps between motorised and non-motorised artisanal fishery enterprises in
North Central Nigeria, with a view to identifying gaps that may help optimize the use of available inputs. Multistage
sampling...
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... study was conducted in North Central Nigeria. The region comprisesStates and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja (Figure 1) Artisanal fisheries production is much favoured in this North Central part of Nigeria as a result of numerous tentacles of inland water and streams as well as flood plains of the River Niger that stretch from Niger State [Borgu Local Government Area, (LGA)] through Kwara State (Edu LGA) to Lokoja in Kogi State. River Benue also cuts across Benue State with prominence in Makurdi and adjacent towns in the State. ...
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... The North Central States of Nigeria Source: Adapted and modified from(Yusuf Oladimeji, 2015). ...
The research is designed to establish the relevance of Shari’ah in curbing insecurity in the North-Central Nigeria with particular reference to Niger, Nasarawa and Plateau States. The study employed descriptive survey, various respondents comprising Islamic Religious Organizations, Muslim Law-enforcement agents, Shari’ah Court Judges and the Muslim society in the North-Central Zone. Proportional sample technique was used to select five hundred and forty (540) for the study, while a total of fifty respondents from neighboring states of Niger for the purpose of pilot study. A reliability coefficient of 0.089 was obtained for all the forty-five (45) items in the instrument. The study found that there has been lack of commensurate disciplinary actions to crimes. The study also found that there is no proper knowledge and guidance of Islam. Added to these findings is that the entire life system of people is not guided by Shariah provisions. Based on this research, the researcher recommended among others that Shari’ah provisions should be well taught and understood with a view to curbing insecurity menace in the affected states. Proper knowledge and guidance of Islam should be adhered to and imparted to people in the society with a view to curbing insecurity acts. Government in collaboration with stakeholders (community leaders, youth leaders and other leaders of Community based Organizations) should come up with lasting solutions to insecurity in their affected states and / or communities. Government should deploy security agents to insecurity vulnerable areas with a view to dislodging the banditry attacks.
... North-Central Capital Cities, Nigeria Source: Adapted and Modified fromOladimeji et al. (2015) ...
Aflatoxins, categorized as carcinogenic mycotoxins, were studied in grains sold for human consumption across North-Central Capital Cities from December 2022 to November 2023. The survey encompassed six cities (Jos, Minna, Markurdi, Lafiya, Lokoja, Ilorin) and utilized structured questionnaires to gather data. Knowledge levels regarding mould infections and aflatoxins contamination were assessed using descriptive statistics, while demographic influences were analysed via independent t-tests. Results indicated that 32.5% to 42.5% of respondents identified moulds infections in grains, while 34.2% to 90.8% were unaware of aflatoxin's association with liver cancer. Notably, females demonstrated higher knowledge scores (71.50±8.34) compared to males (48.00±8.32), individuals with ≥ secondary education exhibited greater understanding (91.17±7.57) than those with less than secondary education (25.83±7.57), and respondents aged > 25 years scored higher (87.85±9.60) than those aged ≤ 25 years (30.80±6.99). Aflatoxin contamination levels exceeded the European limit (not greater than 4.0 µg/kg) in 6.7% of samples, with statistically significant differences observed (p ≤ 0.05). The findings underscore the importance of regional enlightenment campaigns regarding mould infections in grains and the health risks associated with aflatoxins for both humans and animals. Such initiatives are crucial for enhancing public awareness and promoting practices that mitigate aflatoxin exposure, ultimately safeguarding human and animal health within the surveyed area.
... Similar attacks have also been reported in other places such as Kaduna (North West), Zamfara (North West), Nasarawa (North Central) and this has been increasing daily (Shehu 2017). These conflicts have also expanded to the Nigerian North-eastern states such as Taraba (Oladimeji et al. 2015). Figure 1 shows the areas affected by Herdsmen and Farmers conflict. ...
... This outcome is consistent with another content analysis, which found that reports on Herdsmen and Farmers conflict were more violent, specific and narrowed featuring words like 'killers' herdsmen', 'gun-carrying herdsmen', 'Jihadist herdsmen', 'greedy farmers', 'intolerable farmers' and so on (Abdulbaqi and Ariemu 2017). These words are more typical of war-oriented journalism than peace-oriented journalism that (Oladimeji et al. 2015) Content courtesy of Springer Nature, terms of use apply. Rights reserved. ...
There is an increase in violent clashes between Herdsmen and Farmers in Nigeria. Along with it, there is a growing amount of research that specifically investigates the conflict. Existing research on this topic mostly employed content analysis to understand media coverage of the conflict and often ignored the conflict victims’ perceptions of media performance regarding coverage of the conflict. This study extends previous studies by examining both media reporting and conflict victims’ viewpoints on the coverages. We used a mixed method approach, which combined a quantitative content analysis of news reports and semi-structured interviews with the conflict victims. Our results suggested that both analyses revealed consistent findings. Three key findings were obtained: low prominence, lack of objectivity, and excessive use of negative language/framing of the conflict. Theoretical implications suggested support for the assumption of Agenda Setting Theory in discussing the influence of the media on news prominence and news sources used and Social Responsibility Theory in explaining the journalists’ lack of objectivity and excessive use of negative framing when reporting the conflict. The managerial implication includes our recommendation for conflict reporting in Nigeria to embrace peace journalism.
... Thus, the increasing supply of farmed seafood, worldwide per capita fish supply has reached a record high in 2014. World aquaculture production now provides half of all fish for human consumption, and for the first time ever has surpassed the contribution of wild-caught fish (Oladimeji et al., 2015;FAO, 2016). Therefore, fish farming has been viewed as a measure of increasing and improving food security, livelihood diversification and income supplements of families (Ibrahim et al., 2014). ...
This study accessed fish farming in AMAC the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. Data were collected from 100 respondents using structured questionnaires. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Borehole water 80 percent and river water 20 percent were top sources of water for fish farming in the FCT. 40 percent of the respondents cleaned their concrete tank twice in six weeks. Some of the major constraints faced by farmers were high cost of feed at 30 percent response, 26 percent admitted their constraint, as lack of funds, lack of ready market was found to be 18 percent. 71 percent did not receive any support from the government to enhance their fish farming, only 10 percent of the respondent got loans from the government as support to fund their fish. The study recommended Governments interventions must be integrated into the local development planning to ensure that basic inputs, extension services, loans and grants are provided for small-scale fish farming, while also taking measures to address the negative environmental impacts of such activities through proper mitigation plans.
... There are six states that formed the North Central Nigeria and this include Benue, Niger, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kogi and Kwara and these states have experienced conflicts at different points (Abdulbaqi & Ariemu, 2017). These conflicts have also extended to the Nigerian middle states such as Taraba (Oladimeji et al., 2015). ...
Nigeria has witnessed many violent clashes caused by herdsmen-farmers conflict. While past research has focused on media coverage of the conflict, conflict victims have seldom become the subject of investigation. This study attempts to understand the conflict victims' assessment and narratives on the reportage of herdsmen-farmers conflict in Nigeria. Sixty (60) participants were interviewed from three (3) large communities in the North Central region of Nigeria. There is a prevailing view that the herdsmen and farmers conflict has not been given prominence by conventional media in Nigeria and the reportage of the conflict often disappear once the clashes subdue. This study considers conflict victims' assessment on the objectivity, depth and outcome of media coverage of the conflict. It was found that Nigerian media do not report actual narratives of conflict victims, as reporters often rely on second hand stories and do not present themselves at the locations to gather news. Conflict victims, hence, claim that the Nigerian media suffers from lack of objectivity and high sensationalism. They also found that excessive use of negative language, which often indicate blame game, contributes to the escalation of the conflict. This calls for an urgent need for socially responsible journalists in Nigeria who promote messages of reconciliation, negotiation and diplomacy when reporting the herdsmen and farmers conflict.
... Productivity measures the quantity of outputs of a production process relative to the level of inputs. The more output resulting from a given level of input, the more productive the process (Ball et al., 1997;Oladimeji et al., 2015). The measurement of productivity analysis of one firm relative to other firm or to the best practice in farm firm has long been of interest to agricultural economists. ...
This study determined technical efficiency among maize farmers in Doguwa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State, Nigeria. One hundred and seventy nine maize farmers were sampled using a three stage sampling procedure. Primary data was used with the aid of structured questionnaire. The results were analysed using descriptive statistics and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. The results of the socioeconomic analysis shows that maize farmers fell within the mean age of 42 years, mean household size was 15 persons. The mean farming experience was 24 years with average extension contacts of 4 times per year. Results from the DEA shows that the mean technical efficiency scores from DEA using CRSTE and VRSTE specifications were 62% and 47%. Therefore, 38% and 53% of the maize farms were not technically efficient in the use of production inputs respectively. The estimated regression reveals that seed (p<0.01), fertilizer (P<0.1), labour (P<0.05) and farm size (P<0.01) were the determinant of technical efficiency of maize farmers. The result of the technical inefficiency indicates that age (p<0.10), education (p<0.10), farming experience (p<0.05) and extension contact (p<0.05) were the socioeconomic factors influencing inefficiency of maize farmers. Effort should be made by maize farmers to make their cooperative societies more formidable, to benefit from economy of bulk purchase of input supply, farm advisory services, increased access to micro-credit, and access to modern farming techniques.
... Productivity measures the quantity of outputs of a production process relative to the level of inputs. The more output resulting from a given level of input, the more productive the process (Ball et al., 1997;Oladimeji et al., 2015). The measurement of productivity analysis of one firm relative to other firm or to the best practice in farm firm has long been of interest to agricultural economists. ...
This study determined technical efficiency among maize farmers in Doguwa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State, Nigeria. One hundred and seventy nine maize farmers were sampled using a three stage sampling procedure. Primary data was used with the aid of structured questionnaire. The results were analysed using descriptive statistics and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. The results of the socioeconomic analysis shows that maize farmers fell within the mean age of 42 years, mean household size was 15 persons. The mean farming experience was 24 years with average extension contacts of 4 times per year. Results from the DEA shows that the mean technical efficiency scores from DEA using CRSTE and VRSTE specifications were 62% and 47%. Therefore, 38% and 53% of the maize farms were not technically efficient in the use of production inputs respectively. The estimated regression reveals that seed (p<0.01), fertilizer (P<0.1), labour (P<0.05) and farm size (P<0.01) were the determinant of technical efficiency of maize farmers. The result of the technical inefficiency indicates that age (p<0.10), education (p<0.10), farming experience (p<0.05) and extension contact (p<0.05) were the socioeconomic factors influencing inefficiency of maize farmers. Effort should be made by maize farmers to make their cooperative societies more formidable, to benefit from economy of bulk purchase of input supply, farm advisory services, increased access to micro-credit, and access to modern farming techniques.
... For long, Nigeria local pottery households are traditional and major producer of utensils such as cooking pots, water container, saving gadgets, dye equipment as well as varieties of local ceramics to rural and peri-urban households. Despite its long age practices as a complementary occupation for most rural and peri-urban farming households' spouses, the processes still remain local and archaic characterized with low capital investment and high labor intensive practices; and low productivity, and that cannot serve as a useful means of commercial production of households' utensils (Oladimeji et al., 2015). ...
... Nigerian rural communities like other countries are rich in a wide variety of crafts such as pottery, weaving, blacksmithing, carpentry and joinery, visual arts, soap-making, leather-work, canoe-building, sculpturing, garment making, dyeing and bleaching; painting and decoration. In the nineteenth century, most of these crafts developed into extensive industries particularly in most developed countries and a few developing countries which include China, Malaysia and India (Olaoye, 1989, Oladimeji et al., 2015. ...
... The situation has made the potters to seldom engage in the practice based on the demand of the product from individual customer. It is often stated that development of local technology for developing small scale industry such as pottery would lead to rapid development of complex technology industries , Oladimeji et al., 2015. ...
The study analyses socioeconomic characteristics and profit efficiency of traditional pottery technology in Ilorin East Local Government Area (LGA) of Kwara State, Nigeria. Primary data which were mainly used for the study were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire administered through trained enumerators. A total of 80 potters were randomly selected from 3 settlements. The main tools of analysis were descriptive statistics and stochastic profit frontier function. Majority of the potters (62%) have total investment of less than ₦100,000.00 with mean education index of 0.7 years, and 63% had access to credit through cooperative societies. The study also revealed that all respondents belong to cooperative societies with a mean of about 22 years of membership. All sampled respondents were female and 95% were married with preponderance of farmers (94%) as their spouses. Average price of standardized clay (p< 0.01), family labor (p< 0.01) and depreciated items (p<0.05) were found to be positive and statistically significant. The profit inefficiency was statistically significant (p<0.05) and positively influenced by potters' experience while adjusted household size had a negative influence and statistically significant at 1%. This implies that potters with less years of experience exhibit significantly less profit. Household size was negative, indicating that additional increase in family labor could lead to increase in output. It is recommended, that pottery households should strengthen their formidable cooperative societies to access credit, organize training using community based informal education, to enhance increase quantity and quality products that translate into increase profit.
... It is essential to move towards more sophisticated, more knowledge intensive forms of fish farming practices. The technologies and incentives that make it viable for fish farmers to adopt and adapt should be made available (Oladimeji et al., 2015). However, the most critical issue is to increase production in fish farming by closing yield and efficiency gaps and, where possible diversify the technological practices and reduce loss. ...
... Developing appropriate policies for fish farming development requires a detailed understanding of the variation between systems and the most viable options for farmers (Adeogun et al., 2014;Oladimeji et al., 2015). For example, a gap analysis of technical and allocative efficiency differentials in the earthen and concrete segments of the fish farming fisheries sub-sector will indicate a better efficient utilization of resources in the production process and reveal the inefficiency factors with respect to socio-economic factors in both sectors. ...
... But, 5% of the fish farmers with no formal education could only attain 60% level of efficiency. Squires et al. (2002) cited in Oladimeji et al. (2015) posited that additional schooling can improve literacy and cognitive skills which may reduce technical inefficiency by increasing the ability of farming household heads to adopt technical innovations. Table 5 depicted the estimated results of the stochastic frontier model. ...
Fisheries are potential resources in Nigeria which could be harnessed through sustainable fishery development to improve output, raise the income of the farmers and bridged protein demand-supply gaps. The study focused on technical efficiency of concrete and earthen pond systems in Kwara State, Nigeria. One hundred and fifty respondents were randomly selected through field survey with the aid of structured questionnaire and filtered into sixty-three and eighty-seven earthen and concrete fish farmers' respectively. Net margin and Stochastic Frontier production model were employed for data analysis. The net margin analysis revealed that fish farming systems were profitable but that earthen pond unit had higher net margin than concrete pond. However, empirical result showed that the concrete pond farmers were more technically efficient (TE=0.79) than their earthen counterpart (TE=0.73). The earthen and concrete fish farmers were operating TE of 0.21 and 0.27 below the frontier respectively. Formal education was also found to increase efficiency level as over 70% of fish farmers with formal secondary training had their efficiency greater than 60% but only 5% of respondents with no formal education could attain that level. The fish farmers are encouraged to imbibe modern technology and management practices to increase their output and move closer to both technical and allocative efficiency frontier. This would be an impetus to the transformation of the aquaculture from subsistence to commercial production, to achieve the self-sufficiency and export goals.
... Thus, the increasing supply of farmed seafood, worldwide per capita fish supply has reached a record high in 2014. World aquaculture production now provides half of all fish for human consumption, and for the first time ever has surpassed the contribution of wild-caught fish (Oladimeji et al., 2015;FAO, 2016). Therefore, fish farming has been viewed as a measure of increasing and improving food security, livelihood diversification and income supplements of families (Ibrahim et al., 2014). ...
... Low investments had a profit, loss of N31, 639 and N28, 003 for high investment and this could be as a result that the latter has wherewithal to make inputs available to reduce shock and losses. The result is comparable with Oladimeji et al. (2015) findings on profit loss due to variance in socioeconomic factors among motorized and non-motorized fisherfolks in North Central Nigeria. ...
The study focused on the profit efficiency of concrete and earthen fish ponds in aquaculture enterprises in Kwara State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire administered through personal interviews. A multi-stage random procedure was used to obtain information from 63 and 87 earthen and concrete fish farmers respectively. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive, budgetary and stochastic profit frontier models. The study revealed that both fish farming systems households were male headed, of average productive age and have access to productive credit through their formal cooperative organizations. The earthen pond system operators earned total revenue of N464, 033 per 1,000 pieces with net fish income of ₦144.1 per fish sold and concrete pond system operators had total revenue of N465, 599 per 1,000 pieces with net fish income of N69.2 per fish sold. The result showed profit margin of 31.04% and 14.86%; gross ratio of 33.80% and 19.66%; return on investment of 1.45 and 1.17 for earthen and concrete pond system respectively. There were statistical significant differences between the average profit efficiency levels of earthen fish ponds (0.747) and concrete ponds (0.793) at 5% level of probability. Profit loss was significant among farmers who did not go to school for both systems. In conclusion, aquaculture is a profitable and viable business regardless of the culture system. Fish farmers should form a formidable social organization to benefit from the economy of bulk purchase of fish input supply, fish farm advisory services, increased access to micro-credit, and access to modern fish pond techniques.
