in spite of the development of various improved cultivars of maize, yield in nigeria has continued to be hampered by the over cropped nature of most farmlands as well as a wide range of pests and diseases. this study therefore carried out an analysis of agro-chemical inputs’ use in maize production among small scale farmers in iwo local government area of osun state. specifically, the study inv...

Many governments today have made significant investment on Citizen Relationship Management (CiRM) implementation. The employment of CiRM systems has increased the operational day-to-day and strategic long-term effectiveness of governments, particularly in relation to the intimacy of their relationship with the public. However, many of the initiatives have failed to deliver the benefits expected...

Accountability is a concept that has been difficult to clearly identify or measure. There is disagreement over definitions of accountability and a lack of empirical evidence about ways the concept might be dimensionalized, although there is agreement that it is multi-dimensional in nature. The aim of this study is to provide evidence of the existence of common types of accountability that are c...

the research analyzed the land tenure system among rice farmers in awe local government area of nasarawa state, nigeria. two hundred and forty (240) farmers were sampled by a multi stage sampling procedure and used as respondents for the study. well-structured questionnaires were used for data collection. the main means of data analysis were percentages and correlation. findings revealed that 4...

We study the empirical consistency of survey based (micro level) indicators of social capital and local government performance on the one, and municipality based (aggregate level) measures of these two concepts on the other hand. Knowledge about the behavior of these indicators is helpful for evaluating the value of studies carried out in isolated contexts, that is, with access to data on eithe...

In spite of the development of various improved cultivars of maize, yield in Nigeria has continued to be hampered by the over cropped nature of most farmlands as well as a wide range of pests and diseases. This study therefore carried out an analysis of agro-chemical inputs’ use in maize production among small scale farmers in Iwo Local Government Area of Osun State. Specifically, the study inv...

Local government remains in a state of flux in Great Britain. Currently being 'modernised' by the New Labour Government, it has been subject to radical programmes of reform for most of the last twenty years. This paper will describe and analyse those programmes of reform focusing attention on the kinds of reform strategy that have been introduced, the goals of those reform strategies (legitimac...

In this paper, a novel hybrid Invasive Weed Optimization (IWO) and Cuckoo Search (CS) algorithm (IWO/CS) is presented for phase-only pattern synthesis of large array antenna. The IWO/CS embeds the Levy flight CS into IWO as global guide, thereby enhancing search ability algorithm. At same time, in order to avoid trapping local optimal solution, mutation operator introduced enhance Finally, comp...