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The primary function of any government is to ensure an equitable distribution of public goods and services to its citizens. Despite the material and human resource in Nigeria, Nigerians have been short-changed by the quality of public service delivery in the country. Against this backdrop, this paper: examined the issues affecting public service delivery and demonstrated how motivation can enhance ethical behaviours among public servants. Corruption Perception Index (CPI) from year 2000 to 2016 was used to argue the position of the paper. The study discovered, among other things that certain Human Resource (HR), political and institutional factors have led to the erosion of moral conduct by public servants. While measures such as reforms and campaigns have been taken to curb political and institutional issues, limited remedial actions have been proffered to tackle that of HR. These have negatively affected public service delivery in Nigeria. Therefore, apart from putting some ethical principles in place, there is need to motivate public servants to get at their best. In addition to this, good behaviour is to be rewarded and bad behaviour is to be punished across all public services in the country, by a truly independent and incorruptible statutory body. By doing this, sanity and equitable service delivery will be achieved.

The primary function of any government is to ensure an equitable distribution of public goods and services to its citizens. Despite the material and human resource in Nigeria, Nigerians have been short-changed by the quality of public service delivery in the country. Against this backdrop, this paper: examined the issues affecting public service delivery and demonstrated how motivation can enhance ethical behaviours among public servants. Corruption Perception Index (CPI) from year 2000 to 2016 was used to argue the position of the paper. The study discovered, among other things that certain Human Resource (HR), political and institutional factors have led to the erosion of moral conduct by public servants. While measures such as reforms and campaigns have been taken to curb political and institutional issues, limited remedial actions have been proffered to tackle that of HR. These have negatively affected public service delivery in Nigeria. Therefore, apart from putting some ethical principles in place, there is need to motivate public servants to get at their best. In addition to this, good behaviour is to be rewarded and bad behaviour is to be punished across all public services in the country, by a truly independent and incorruptible statutory body. By doing this, sanity and equitable service delivery will be achieved.

The study interrogated the relevance of governance for macroeconomic convergence criteria and development in West Africa Monetary Zone (WAMZ) comprising Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The methodology of the study involved the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square regression using time series data (1996 – 2015) from five countries. The study used five proxies for governance variables, namely, control of corruption, rule of law, government effectiveness, political stability and attraction of investment. The results showed that government effectiveness and political stability did not enhance economic development. the result revealed that rule of law and government effectiveness have appreciably enhanced economic development but control of corruption, political stability and investment attraction have not. The study concluded that for WAMZ to achieve the macroeconomic convergence and stability within its fold, there is need for quality representative democracy that will work through institutional reforms and deliver set targets within and across the member states. The fight against the dark spectra called corruption must be won within a reasonable time frame through strengthening of existing institutional arrangements that are saddled with the responsibility of promoting transparency in public domain.

Purpose
Waste management is a critical element of the campus sustainability movement in which Nigerian universities are yet to actively participate. The purpose of this study was to investigate prevalent waste management practices and the disposition of undergraduate students in a Nigerian University.


Design/methodology/approach
Data collection involved the use of a questionnaire, focus group discussion and participative observation. Respondents consisted of 840 students drawn from four academic faculties of the university. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to address the research questions raised to guide the investigation.


Findings
Indiscriminate littering, open dumping of waste, weedy and overgrown lawns, proliferation of power generating sets, uncollected refuse sites and defaced walls with postings were the major observed environmental challenges. Open burning of refuse was found to be the single most prevalent way of managing large volumes of waste generated on the university campus. Although the problems were widespread, only 40.5 per cent of the students expressed serious concern for the solid waste practices. Also, while the students were positively disposed to innovative ways of addressing the challenge of waste management in the university, there were significant differences in students' awareness and disposition according to sex, age, academic level and faculties.


Research limitations/implications
The implications of the findings for campus-based sustainability education are discussed.


Originality/value
This study is an original research article which interrogated the students' attitudes to solid waste management in a Nigerian University. It used a combination of both qualitative and quantitative techniques, such as questionnaire, focus group discussion and participative observation.

While intelligent Quotient (IQ) has long been used as a predictor of student success, as the worldenters the 21st century, research shows that Emotional intelligence (EI) is a better predictor of successthan the more traditional measures of cognitive intelligence (Goleman, 1995). Emotional intelligence isdefined as the ability to perceive emotions, to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotionalknowledge, to reflectively regulate emotions, to promote emotional and intellectual growth (Mayer &Salovery 1997). McQueen (2004) suggests that EI is highly predictive of an individual's generaldomains such as career performance.

The HIV-AIDS epidemic is perhaps one of the greatest challenges to countries of the world today.Since it was first diagnosed in 1981, it has become a significant threat to everybody throughout theworld irrespective of gender and sexual orientation. The widespread of the disease especially in theAfrican continent has become a major source of concern to government and non-governmentalagencies and others concerned with curtailing the pandemic disease. In fact in hard hit areas of Africa,infection rate has been higher in teenage groups than that of adult (Hopkins, 2000). In 2008 alone, anestimated 3 million people in the region became newly infected (Avert, 2009). The situation in Nigeriais fast becoming an unprecedented crisis. The incidence of HIV-AIDS was first reported in 1985among commercial sex workers (prostitutes) in Lagos and Anambra states. Since then the epidemichas been on the increase. For instance, in September 1991, the Federal Ministry of Health reported aprevalence rate of 0.66% out of the total population. However by the end of December 1992, thenumber has increased to 552 cases nationwide (Salami, 2002).

Traditional African Medicine (TAM) is our socio-economic and socio-cultural heritage, servicing over 80% of the populations in Africa. Although, it has come a long way from the times of our ancestors, not much significant progress on its development and utilization had taken place due to colonial suppression on one hand, foreign religions in particular, absolute lack of patriotism and political will of our Governments, and then on the other hand, the carefree attitudes of most African medical scientists of all categories. It is incontrovertible that TAM exhibits far more merits than demerits and its values can be exploited provided the Africans themselves can approach it with an open mind and scientific mentality. The degree of sensitization and mobilization by the World Health Organization (WHO) has encouraged some African countries to commence serious development on TAM. The African Regional Director of the WHO has outlined a few guidelines on the responsibilities of all African nations for the realistic development of TAM, in order to sustain our health agenda and perpetuate our culture. The gradual extinction of the forests and the inevitable disappearance of the aged Traditional Medical Practitioner should pose an impending deadline for us to learn, acquire and document our medical cultural endowment for the benefit of all Africans and indeed the entire mankind.

This study examined the impacts of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) reportage on Abeokuta residents' opinion of corruption in Buhari's administrations (2015-2023). The objectives were to find out the level of Abeokuta residents' awareness of NTA reportage on corruption in Buhari's administration; examine Abeokuta residents' opinion of NTA's objectivity in reporting corruption during Buhari's administration and ascertain Abeokuta residents' opinion on the impacts of NTA's corruption reportage in Buhari's administration. The Agenda setting theory was the theoretical framework. Survey served as research design while questionnaire was the instrument for data collection. The researchers found that NTA's corruption reportage during Buhari's administration had both positive and negative impacts. The positive impacts include increased pressure on the government to curb corruption, strengthened anti-corruption agencies, and recovery of stolen funds. Based on the findings, it was recommended among other things that the media should give more attention to the issue of corruption to set the agenda for the public to focus on this important issue and that this can be achieved by increasing the frequency and depth of coverage of corruption-related issues.

Europeana Media unlocks the potential of audio-visual (AV) media in Europeana by drastically increasing the appeal, visibility, re-use, interaction and research of Europe's AV heritage available directly through Europeana Collections and 3rd party platforms that use Europeana content. Audio-visual media objects are a powerful primary source of entertainment, information and creativity. AV media show Europe in all its facets: fictions, realities, politics, high culture and daily life. Today, Europeana provides access to 1.1 million videos and 735000 audio recordings. Access statistics on the Europeana Collections portal have consistently reported a greater interest for these items over images and texts. However, there are several shortcomings in the user experience that stops AV material from reaching its full potential: (1) Different playout services used by content providers; (2) current playout on Europeana offers no additional features that make AV more appealing and reusable, e.g. quoting, subtitling, interactivity; (3) guidelines and rules currently defined by the Europeana Licensing Framework need clarification for researchers and educators to interpret how they can reuse AV content. Europeana Media addresses these shortcomings through the development of an enhanced unified playout service for time-based media. This service offers an interoperable and sustainable solution for audio-visual media playout, providing ease of use, intuitive design and functionalities tailored specifically to the Europeana's key stakeholders as defined in Europeana Strategic Plan. In particular, it delivers a suite of functionalities that will offer researchers and educators the possibility to better access and incorporate audio visual content from Europeana in their working environment. Specifically, providing video fragment quoting for research and support for subtitling and video-based discussions in an educational context. This playout platform will be integrated in the Europeana Core platform, ensuring long-term support. In ...