Research
What to do about Climate Change-Caused Flooding and the Associated Diseases in Rivers State of Nigeria
The prime focus of the study is to explain what to do about climate change-caused flooding and the associated diseases in Rivers State of Nigeria. In doing so, this work gives an overview of climate change-caused flooding and effects of flooding on people in flooded areas, as well as explains flooding associated diseases in Rivers State. Besides this, it further proffers legislative, short-term and long-term measures that will help reduce if not eliminate flooding and its associated diseases in Rivers State of today, and indeed of the future.
Media Entertainment and Commercialization of the Body
The desire to accumulate material resources and to have good life-chance is rooted deeply in the sensibilities of human society. Every individual strives to ensure that he meets not only his essential needs of today and future but also accumulate well enough to gain social standing and be able to bequeath wealthy heritage to his children. This tendency predisposes man to looking for economic means with all intensity. And, whenever profit propensity is discovered in any endeavour or vocation, entrepreneurs (or capitalists) mobilize resources – financial, technical, human etc in that direction. This work, relying largely on extant literature which highlights the overarching influence of the mass media on society, media contents, profit goal of media investors and audience response, attempts to situate the roles nudity plays within the broad spectrum of media arts. The focus is on how media moguls profiteer from explicit media content involving the private parts of women and the aftermath connected with that.
Social Entrepreneurship in the Matrix of Economic Action and Social Structure
This paper examines the link between economic activities and human social organization with a view to x-raying the roles social entrepreneurship can play towards addressing attendant consequences of economic activities, and other social problems facing human society today. Point is made about the centrality of human collectivities in market economy and the need for a shift from aggressive capitalism – driven by excessive profit-making - to conscious capitalism – driven by social altruism. The emphasis is on how economic action will spell fortune for society and not woe – like the kind that trailed post-revolution industrial adventurism.
