Kenya has made tremendous progress towards the achievement of universal primary education since independence. It has experienced an im¬pressive increase in the number of pupils enrolled in primary schools. Despite the tremendous gains in enrolment, some Sub Counties such as Kuresoi South have challenges ensuring that those enrolled, complete the 8 year primary school cycle due to dropouts among other reasons. This study intends to examine the influence of management of school environmental factors on pupil dropout rates in public primary schools in Kuresoi South Sub County. The objective of the study is to investigate how the management of the physical, social, learning, teaching and the instructional environments influence the dropout rates in public primary schools in Kuresoi South Sub County. This study was guided by the institutional theory whose data focus includes individual and institutional perspectives. It utilized descriptive survey research design and the accessible population comprise of 93 head teachers and 744 teachers. Purposive sampling was used to select schools from each of the zones to be studied in the Sub County. Stratified random sampling was then used to select a sample of 28 head teachers and 224 teachers who were involved in the study. The target population included Head Teachers’ Interview guide and Teachers Questionnaire. The reliability of the instrument was at using Cronbach Alpha method. Data was analyzed with the aid of the IBM’s Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 24) that includes Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, Qualitative and Quantitative analysis. The study concludes that management of school physical environment influences the pupil drop out as it was evident that most of schools had inadequate classrooms, furniture, latrines, The study concludes that social factors influence the pupil drop out in schools this was evident due to Peer pressure as it had made most pupils to quit. The study concludes that Learning and teaching influence the pupil drop out in schools. It was evident that some of the pupils were receiving negative attitude from the teachers this made them feel unwanted and hence they opted to drop out. The study concluded that evaluated Instructional factors influence the pupil dropout rate in Schools; this was evident as some schools had shortage of teachers. The study recommends that the school physical environment should be bettered through building of school infrastructure so that pupils would have a conducive learning environment. The study recommends that pupils should be counseled whenever possible to avert the danger of peer pressure which was majorly making them to drop out of school. The study recommends that the teachers should be trained on how to manage the students and treat them equally regardless of their capability in class. The study recommends that the schools should look for alternatives in having more teachers in class such as recruitment of interns to curb the teacher shortage which was also a course of pupils drop out. The study creates a gap that other researchers or academic students can address through concentrating on effect of management of school physical environment on pupils drop out. The results are also expected to assist school administrators and the ministry of education in formulating policies that discourage drop outs and promoting access to primary school education, retention and completion rates.

There has been an increased pressure for fossil fuels divestment due to the carbon emissions from such fuels and this has a great impact on the investment in the fossil fuel sector, particularly, the gas-based industry. Due to the limited funds for investment in the industry, there is a need to make sure every investment count in terms of the quality of its return on investment to the stakeholders. Production is a direct contributor to the revenue from the fields, by virtue of this, there is a need to understand the production trends from the fields produced in the past comparing their forecasted and actual production values. The Que$tor tool was utilized for the modelling of field and generation of the forecasted values. It was observed that the actual production for the gas fields where higher than the forecast for the first 5years/45% of its lifespan and after that the reverse was the case, this implies that the tools generally are highly conservative for gas fields and there is minimum understanding of the fields at the pre-FID (final investment decision) stage. In addition, some production spikes were observed at the declining phase of the fields which aligned with the years the gas market prices increased.

This study examines the correlation that exists between non-performing loan and performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria. The result in Vector Autoregressive Estimate(VAR) with one period lag length revealed that one period lag of return on asset (ROA) has negative and significant influence on current ROA; non-performing loans exerts positive and insignificant influence on ROA; while loans and advances had negative and insignificant influence on ROA and INTR is found to be positively and insignificantly related to ROA.These outcomes entail that a unit change in loans and advances causes -6.31 decreases in ROA .It also shows that a unit change in non-performing loans causes 5.76 increases in ROA and a unit change in interest leads to about 0.45 increase in ROA. Based on the findings, we recommend that monetary authorities should quickly put strong risk management policies in place that would reduce non performing loans and thereby boostdeposit money banks’ performance.

Inclusion of legumes in cropping system can play an increasingly important role to sustain crop production and ensure food security in small holder farmers. The present study initiated with the objective to identify compatible spacing between pigeon pea plants under maize plants with conservation tillage and conventional tillage on growth and yield of component crops. Treatments consisted of three intra row spacing (20,30,40,50 cm) of pigeon pea under maize recommended spacing and two tillage practices (conservation tillage and conventional farmers practices) were lied in randomized complete block design and replicated three times. Maize variety BH546 was used with spacing of 80*40 cm (2 seeds per hill) and Pigeon pea Hindi variety was used in between maize rows based on the intra row spacing of pigeon peato their respective treatments. Fertilizer and field management deployed as to recommendation for maize production. Environment (location by year) had highly significant effect on all maize parameters tested.The highest stand count (45), plant height (247cm), Ear height (138 cm), number of cobs harvest (44). Above ground biomass (18369 kg -ha) were observed from Boricha in 2019. On the other hand, the highest 367g thousand seed weight and 6297kg ha-1 grain yield were from Halaba in 2020. Maize crop was not affected by tillage methods and pigeon pea spacing. The response of all parameters tested for pigeon pea significantly (p<0.05) influenced by environment, tillage and intra row spacing. Thus, maize with either of the pigeon pea intra row spacing and minimum tillage can provide alternative option for resource poor farmers to ensure food security through improved grain yield of component crops at all tested locations.

Sustainable crop production is adversely affected by the degradation of the natural resources. Conservation agriculture based maize legume intercropping was evaluated with objectives of exploring productivity and profitability of the systems in Boricha and Loka Abaya districts of Southern Ethiopia during 2014 to 2016 cropping seasons.The experiment had six crop management practiceslaid in randomized complete block design replicated three times (farmers field as replication).Results showed that mean yield of intercropped maize under conservation agriculture was higher by 11% than that of the sole maize, and lower by 9% than the conventional farmers practice. Similarly, maize /legume intercropping under conservation agriculture resulted by 27and 38 % higher common bean and cow pea yield than that of the conventional farmers practice, respectively. In both cow pea and common bean intercropping with maize under conservation agriculture, 71 and 54% more efficient use of land productivity was observed over sole cropping. The highest MRR (3353%) was measured from maize/common bean intercropping under Conservation agriculture during 2016. The result also indicated that farmers who are engaged in mixed crop livestock production can benefit from production of maize/ cow pea under Conservation agriculturewhere as those farmers who wants to maximize their income can be engaged duly in maize/common bean production under Conservation agriculture. Thus, highest yield, diet diversity and economic benefit of the conservation agriculture over the conventionally tilled plots is an alternative option for resource poor and female headed small holder farmers who does not have oxen to till their land.

Very lately a singular coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, become recognized because the causative agent of a virulent disease of viral pneumonia targeted round Wuhan, Hubei, China in Dec 2019, now referred to as as COVID-19. In this article, the modern-day understanding of lethal, pandemic human coronavirus SARS-Cov2 (COVID-19), with unique connection with its zoonosis, susceptibility, and distinctive techniques to expand its therapeutics, may be discussed