The Nigerian armed forces are doing their utmost to crush the Boko-haram insurgency. However, killing and dislodging members of the group does not indicate total elimination of its ideology. The arguments of the movement against conventional education remain in circulation among people awaiting another generation to champion the course in a new identity. Toeradicate the ideology and its influence, there is need for thorough intellectual and logical responses to those arguments. It is against this background that this paper sought to analyse the movement’s arguments that conventional education should be prohibited on the ground that it originated from the West and was introduced in the country to promote Christianity. The paper realized that this argument is unfounded because conventional education is not a western property, rather a global heritage comprising the remarkable contributions of the Muslim world. Moreover, Islam does not forbid Muslims to benefit from any useful knowledge irrespective of where it originates from as long as it does not contravene Islamic teachings. It also found that using schools for promoting Christianity is not more applicable to many public and private schools in Nigeria today. Thepaper encouraged Muslims to pursue the education to its highest level.

In this research, we used both statistical and analytical methods to obtain relations that may suggestively indicate unification of the four fundamental interactions. These interactions include gravitational, electromagnetic, weak (nuclear) and strong (nuclear) forces.

Indiscipline among students in public secondary schools is a problem that has persisted over the years throughout the world and is worsening each day. A number of studies have associated this problem to drug and substance abuse. The objectives were; assessing the levels of students’ discipline, the influence of drug intoxication, addiction and drug-related depression on students’ discipline in public secondary schools. The study was guided by the Comprehensive Theory of Substance Abuse Prevention and the Assertive Discipline Theory. Quantitative data were collected from students in Forms III & IV using questionnaires while qualitative data were collected from key informants who included six principals and six teacher-counsellors using interviews. Qualitative data was analyzed thematically along the objectives and presented in narrative forms whereas quantitative data was analyzed descriptively with the help of Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS Version 23) and presented using tables and charts. The study established that levels of indiscipline are high amongst students who manifest incidences of violence against colleagues; strikes and school riots, theft, teenage pregnancies, truancy, poor performance and breaking of school rules and regulations. Students who abuse drugs end up suffering from intoxication and thus suffer memory loss, anger and emotions, loss of consciousness, impaired coordination and dizziness. Intoxicated students end up engaging in disciplined acts at school. Students who are addicted to drugs and substances manifest lack of focus, loss of interest in their studies, truancy and absenteeism and lack of concentration. Drug and substance abuse lead to depression amongst students who exhibit mood swings, feelings of isolation, sadness, withdrawal, lack of energy and hostility. This situation leads students to flip into indiscipline acts and undesirable behavior patterns. Thus, the study recommends that secondary schools should be motivated to take up course on Life Skills since they are the custodians of students’ behavior. Students should be advised on the dangers of drug abuse. Parents should partner with secondary schools in combating drug abuse both at home and at school. Teachers should be advised to desist from hands-off attitude when it comes to combating drug abuse amongst their students. The government should formulate a regulation to ensure stricter implementation of policies against drug abuse in public secondary schools.

In the last three decades, the republic of Kenya has witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of chartered universities and a stiff competition for students. The student enrolment base coupled with the emergence of private university education providers turned the university arena in Kenya into a student enrolment market, leading to intense competition between Public and Private Universities. The researcher realizes that, the existing studies relate competitiveness with performance. Thus, the purpose of this study was to assess the influence of cost-leadership planning strategies on competitiveness of private universities in Nairobi County, Kenya. Resource Based Theory, Competitive Advantage Theory and Generic Framework Theory guided this study. The study applied mixed method approach and thus adopted concurrent triangulation design. Target population comprised 66 Registrar Academics, 66 Registrar Admissions and 33 Directors of Marketing all totalling to 165. Using the Central Limit Theorem, 36 Registrars of Academics, 36 Registrars of Admissions and 18 Directors of Marketing were purposively sampled. Questionnaires were used to collect data from Registrar Academic and Admissions whereas interview guide was used to gather data from Directors of Marketing. Data analysis began by identifying common themes from the respondents’ description of their experiences. Qualitative data were analyzed thematically along the objectives and were presented in narrative forms. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferentially using Chi-Square through Statistical Packages for Social Science and presented using tables. The study established that many private universities have not fully adopted cost-leadership planning strategies to enhance their competitiveness. The study recommends that private universities design and market their academic programmes affordable to students from all socio-economic backgrounds.

Corporate Social Responsibility in Nigeria has gained recognition as obtained in the developed economies of the world as higher proportion of organizations, both local and multinational operating therein have grafted it in their business philosophies. However, the weak legal system and lack of advocacy by the concerned stakeholders have been relegating the actual performance to the background. The host communities of these organizations (safe the explorative organizations) have been in a state of uttermost negligence while the little real CSR initiatives have been concentrated in already developed areas of big cities and health initiatives outside the reach of the uneducated community members of these organizations who have been avoiding their responsibilities to local communities by passing same to the local, state and federal governments who are the original owners of most resources and infrastructures in such communities.

According to statistics, about 80% of the power interruptions result from power distribution system failure. Historical assessment and predictive methods are normally used to evaluate the reliability of a distribution network. Most utilities focus more on historical assessment rather than predictive methods. Hence, it is vital in design and development of distribution network to study and analyse the reliability.

This research adopted methods involving analysis and evaluation of reliability of one of the Nigeria transmission station (Ganmo 33KV Ilorin) feeders to see how reliability could be improved in the distribution system by incorporating reliability analysis in the systematic planning approach so that optimum reliability is achieved. Analytical method such as Markov model and reliability indices of each feeder was evaluated, assessed and compared to see how risk of failure could be reduced. The reliability indices for the year 2016 and 2017 are being considered as the case study.

The outages on the TCN Ganmo 33KV feeders was studied for 24 months on daily outage data collected from the station. Based on the result obtained from the data analysis illustrated with graphs, it was deduced that dedicated feeders such as KAM and UNILORIN have the highest reliability and more available compared to others residential feeders. This can be attributed to the level of their load demands. Generally, the feeders have least reliability during the period of May to October due to high vegetation and rainfall.

In the contemporary business arena, few businesses operate without credit from banks, with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) lending portfolio by banks in Kenya estimated at KSh332 billion. However,Four hundred thousand SMEs did not see their second anniversary in the recent past in Kenya raising questions about the impact of banks loan collateral requirement on success of the SMEs. The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of banks credit accessibility on the performance of small and medium enterprises in Maua Town, Meru County, Kenya. Maua is a cosmopolitan urban centre serving the entire Igembe region of Meru County as well as parts of Isiolo County. Specifically, the study sought to evaluate the effect of loan collateral requirements on the performance of SMEs in Maua Town. The population of the study comprised 250 registered SMEs licensed in Maua Town by the County Government of Meru. Using stratified and simple random, 153 enterprises were selected as the sample of the study. Data was collected using questionnaires and analysed using SPSS Version 21 and presented using frequency tables. Regression Analysis was used to establish the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable. Linear regression analysis indicated that the independent variable (collateral requirements) had a negative effect on performance of SMEs. The study recommended that banks should review collateral demands for SME owners to allow for more items of value to be used as security as this will encourage businesspeople to borrow.