Arisukwu Ogadinmma C. Ph.D

Landmark University · Department of Sociology

Purpose An increase in informal job advertisements has been attributed to high unemployment. However, less scholarly attention has been placed on the experiences of victims of advertised job scams. Design/methodology/approach This explorative study investigates the lived experiences of victims of advertised job scams in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria,...

This study examines the relationship between national identity and conflict prevention in Nigeria rather than conflict resolution which has been the main focus of many scholars. Using the descriptive survey design, through the coding and analysis of 150 purposively selected and administered questionnaires, the study discovers the lapses in the vari...

The prevalence of substance abuse among university students, without due consideration to legal, normative, and medical guidelines for their lives, and the lives of others is worrisome, as it foretells potentially disastrous consequences for the users, the family, the communities, and the larger society. This paper interrogates students on the comm...

The issue of substance use and abuse poses obstacles, which are very tragic to students' aspirations, the prospects of their families, and the government's socioeconomic support for education in Nigeria. This study examines the relationship between University type, religious affiliation, and substance use, which are considered social behaviour fact...

The issue of substance use and abuse poses obstacles, which are very tragic to students' aspirations, the prospects of their families, and the government's socioeconomic support for education in Nigeria. This study examines the relationship between University type, religious affiliation, and substance use, which are considered social behaviour fact...

The National Health Insurance Scheme and Health Maintenance Organization partnership serves as a vital instrument in Nigeria’s government efforts to attain Universal Health Coverage, however, patients’ low-level satisfaction with health service quality has been reported across literatures. This study therefore aims to assess healthcare service deli...

The prevalence of sports betting involvement has permeated every class of the youthful population. The practice had predisposed students of higher institutions to engage in gambling using every means available. The population of youth who resort to sports betting as an alternative and faster route to making ends meet have predisposed society to exp...

Globally, given the spate of wars between nations, climate change, and terrorism, hunger has begun to rise in recent years; returning to levels it used to be from some decades ago. Food security has now become an issue of global concern. The economy of Nigeria is not exempt from the fangs of hunger, even though we are in the savannah where the gree...

The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and its implementation through the Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) is a representation of the Nigerian government attempt in ensuring quality health services are offered to all Nigerians. Yet, anecdotal evidences shows that quality of illness treatment rendered at hospitals is perceived to be low,...

Inequality precedes injustice, as seen in the class difference evident in Nigerian Correctional Centres due to the classification of inmates into high profile and ordinary profile. Therefore, this study examines the dual classification of inmates and its effects on order within correctional centres. Karl Marx’s theory of social conflict was adopted...

The quality of healthcare services depends on the interactions between administrators, customers, and healthcare providers. This study seeks to examine how National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)–Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) enrolees perceive the attitudes of medical personnel while receiving outpatient care in Lagos hospitals. Mixed metho...

The death of one or both parents is one of the most traumatic incidents that can occur in childhood which may affect a child's life course in many ways. This study uses firsthand data as against several studies that have employed secondary data to investigate the consequences of parental death on orphans. Unlike this study, previous studies that ha...

The desire for a more peaceful society and the need to involve the people in crime prevention has led to the adoption of community policing as a policing strategy in Nigeria. Community policing emerged due to the inadequacy of the police in preventing crime and maintaining order in the society. This people-oriented partnership intends to make the p...

Background: In a constantly changing and increasingly globalized world, religion and cultural practices still play a significant role in influencing people's behaviour towards assisted reproductive technologies. Purpose: This study examined the religious, cultural and personal interpretations of artificial insemination. Methods: The research m...

Previous studies on the influence of mass media on students’ academics are common, but none relating to private missionary schools with core values such as these has been rigorously evaluated. To determine the medium of media accessible to students, examine the purpose of media usage and media influence on students’ academic performance triangulate...

This paper examined the awareness and compliance with court judgment/constitutional provisions upholding the inheritance rights of Igbo women in Nigeria. The gender inequality theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels guided this study. A mixed-method research design was employed. A sample size of 490 adults was adopted using a pre-tested semi-str...

This study examined socioeconomic and ecological factors influencing cassava farming, various products and benefits of cassava farming, challenges facing cassava farming, and governmental interventions geared toward promoting cassava farming in Nigerian rural context. Descriptive explanatory research design was adopted to collect primary data from...

Out of many other options to increase sustainable production of foods to feed its teeming population, Nigerian academics now focus on the possibility of motivating the youths into action in a labour intensive drive; finding reasons why Nigerian youths are not taking to farming. It is well known that a lot of young college and university graduates l...

Out of many other options to increase sustainable production of foods to feed its teeming population, Nigerian academics now focus on the possibility of motivating the youths into action in a labour intensive drive; finding reasons why Nigerian youths are not taking to farming. It is well known that a lot of young college and university graduates l...

Background Pregnancy constitutes a global health concern, thus the need for spousal support during this period cannot be overemphasized. This study examined the kinds of support pregnant women expected and received from their spouses as well as the effect of such supports during pregnancy, labour, and delivery. Methods The study adopted both quant...

Malaria remains a major health challenge in Nigeria despite efforts at reducing its prevalence. Previous studies on malaria focused mainly on the biomedical aspects with little attention given to the social characteristics influencing malaria management among mothers as primary caregivers of under-five children. This study, therefore, investigated...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are common among financial institutions. This process often exerts immense pressure on employees of these institutions. Hence, this study touches on the significant but neglected human angle aspect of M&A. Therefore, the study examined psychosocial predictors of emotional labour among employees of merged and acquired...

This paper focusses on pregnancy related deaths which is a contemporary issue in modern day Nigeria. Maternal Mortality is more pronounced in Ugep, Cross River State with the maternal mortality ratio of l200/100,000 which is higher than the national figure of 1100/100,000 (Nigerian Partnership for Safe Motherhood, 2018). In Nigeria, about 75 % of w...

Background: Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is raising serious concerns about effective pandemic response and preparedness in the context of background fragile health systems and especially in developing countries like Nigeria with alarming poverty indices. Aim: The study aimed to reveal the implic...

Developing countries continually find it challenging to proactively and actively carry out early-stage surveillance for disease outbreaks due to the lack of quality workforce, a dearth of public health data, and the absence of automated surveillance systems in the country. This study presents the potential and ability of Twitter in tracking early d...

The police occupy a very important position in the entire criminal justice system in Nigeria. The nature of police relationship with the people and the manner in which the public were handled at the station and on the street daily within the community affects the way the people perceive them and the level of cooperation they get from the people in...

Nigeria has witnessed some significant changes in gambling which have resulted in more people becoming interested in the activity. In an attempt to increase participation, bookmakers have introduced a variety of innovations. Literature has established that this increased participation is inter-generational, cross-cultural, and inter-religious. Part...

The problem of domestic violence is not new to African societies. This study focused on the remote causes and implications of domestic violence among rural women. The study adopted a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. The respondents were selected using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. Findings...

There is a prevalence of high fertility among the Mbaise of Imo State, Nigeria. This is linked to the perceptions, beliefs and practices of the people. The voluntaristic social action theory by Talcott Parsons and Proximate determinants of fertility framework by Bongaarts were utilized to highlight the links between Catholicism and fertility, as we...

Domestic violence has become a global social problem affecting women and girls across different socio-demographics and culture. Often times a greater attention is paid to the experiences of urban women and girls to the detriment of their counter parts in rural areas who constituted major victims. The study explored the experiences, awareness and pe...

Community is a veritable ingredient for social change and development in a society. The potentials of individuals and groups in the community are a great source or resource for promoting unity, development and patriotism. The general objective of this study is to examine the influence of diversity in community composition, on the operation of commu...

The police occupy a very important position in the entire criminal justice system in Nigeria. The nature of police relationship with the people and the manner in which the public were handled at the station and on the street daily within the community affects the way the people perceive them and the level of cooperation they get from the people in...

In recent years, one of the major challenges confronting the Nigerian Prisons is the problem of overcrowding. The problem has snowballed into various dimensions such as poor feeding, dilapidated structures and unhygienic environment affecting the health of the inmates. This has been a major concern which was bore out of a general problem of overcro...

Background Pregnancy constitutes a global health concern, thus the need for spousal support during this period cannot be overemphasised. This study examined the kinds of support pregnant women expected and received from their spouse as well as the effect of such supports during pregnancy, labour and delivery. Methods The study adopted both quantita...

This study assess enrollees’ perception of Health care facility’s (HCFs) physical structure and equipment quality across 9 accredited National health insurance/ Health maintenance organisation (NHIS-HMO) providing healthcare facilities within the 3 local government areas in Lagos, Nigeria. Anchored on the phenomenology of time consciousness and the...

The rural areas in Nigeria have become notorious with all kinds of crime. Inadequate amenities such as good roads and communication infrastructure in rural areas in Nigeria have made it difficult for the Nigeria Police to effectively detect and prevent crimes in rural Nigeria. It is consequent on these escalations of criminal activities that rural...

Abortion awareness and the legal understanding on who and when to result in abortion

Globally, youth participation in agriculture has been perceived as one of the vital keys for the revitalization of the economy of many countries. Several studies have focused on the different ways of encouraging youth participation in agriculture. However, little attention has been given to the awareness and the willingness of the youths to partici...

Gender inequality of women participation in agricultural production has become a worrisome discussion in the present dispensation. This is because women constitute large portion in agriculture business. The study therefore examines this issue, stressing on the extent of women’s participation in agriculture. The highest frequency of women that engag...

Unintended teenage pregnancies are associated with several negative outcomes, which include unsafe abortion, school dropout and emotional distress. Contraceptives, especially emergency contraceptives, which offer a second chance of preventing an unplanned pregnancy after unprotected intercourse, may be useful in reducing teenage pregnancies. There...

The aim of this work is to measure and determine the awareness on abortion and its legality amongst youths in Nigerian Universities. The undergraduate students of some selected universities in Nigeria constituted the study population. These were male and female undergraduate students across the faculties and departments of the schools. The study ma...

Uterine fibroid has been identified as one of the most prevailing health challenges among African women. Previous studies focused on the prevalence and prevention of fibroid among women in general, especially with regards to the biomedical science perspective. However, little attention has been given to social dimension of this medical condition pa...

Industrial conflicts in organizations are inevitable due to disagreement between the employees and employers which can either benefit or harm the organization. For the efficacy of the employer, there should be very positive ties between employer and workers. This study therefore, focuses on the use of collective bargaining as an effective instrumen...

Today, around three-quarters people affected by poverty live in countries whose economies are dominated by the natural resources sector; this leads to the weakening of state structures and the destruction of the environment, and it can give rise to or exacerbate social conflict. Political democracy is a key ingredient in Africa's regeneration or re...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between feeding habit and the health of undergraduate students and to also ascertain the level of awareness of students on the nutritional value of food consumed followed by what necessitate their choice of food and how it affect their health. A stratified and simple random sampling method w...

Dependence on the oil sector by the Nigerian government has generated a question about economic sustainability. Even though the country experienced substantial growth in the economy before the economic recession in mid of 2016, the growth had not improved unemployment and poverty rate. Therefore, the study investigates the impact of financial devel...

CHALLENGES OF WORK AND COPING STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY CASUAL WORKERS IN SOME SELECTED FIRMS IN LAGOS, NIGERIA 1RASAK Bamidele Ph.D, 2ARISUKWU Ogadinmma C. Ph.D, ASAMU 3Festus F. Ph.D Department of Sociology College of Business and Social Sciences Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State E-mail: delerasak@yahoo.co.uk, delerasak@gmail.com 080349556...

The increase in crime rates and poor police-public relations in crime prevention and control has led to the dissatisfaction with traditional policing style of enforcement. The clamor for change in policing focus has led to the emergence of community oriented policing. Community policing is a policing style that allows the police to partner with the...

Migration at various levels affords migrants the opportunity to move from their point of origin through a transit point to their point of destination. This movement of people is most often triggered by political crisis, natural disasters and socioeconomic push factors. As people move, they move with their culture and value orientations into an unkn...

The quest to maintain law and order and enforce the rules of the government has led to the emergence of different policing styles in Nigeria. Though the people of Nigeria had their unique, informal means of maintaining order embedded in the culture and traditions of their various ethnic groups, contact with the ‘white man’ through colonialisation c...

The quest for police to relate better and partner with the public in crime prevention has led to the adoption of community policing style in Nigeria. The adoption of community oriented policing has implications on the training of the police in Nigeria. The traditional police training focused on crime control by the police through the use of force....