The main object of the present paper is to establish a summation formula tangled with Hypergeometric function and recurrence relation.

Women’s historic exclusion from political structures and processes is the result of multiple structural, functional and personal factors that vary in different social contexts across countries. Political empowerment is among the key issues in third world in general and in pakistan in particular. Despite the fact that there are 33% reserved seats available in both the national and local bodies or electoral college, but due to social and cultural milieu, the participation of female is comparatively meager to male. The current study is an attempt to analyze those cultural barriers, which obstruct female participation and make them disempowered in their political decision making. The study is conducted in ramora village where the data is collected from 150 respondents selected through purposive sampling using semistructure interview schedule. A quantitative approach is utilized with the help of spss (bivariate analysis, chi-square, lambda, gamma and correlation tests) in order to analyze data while the discussion is made-up upon the frequency, percentage, pictorial forms.

Trafficking in human beings is today a global phenomenon with global consequences. Within trafficking in human beings are specifics such as women trafficking, children trafficking and women and children trafficking. Although trafficking in women and children is going to be the subject matter of this paper, trafficking in human being generally is an old phenomenon with a positive effect, until it became abused from the pre-colonial days to now. Culturally, some aspects of Yoruba people‟s culture are consistent with it. Unlike the position of the United Nations which prohibits extracting labor from women and children under certain age, the Yoruba culture encourages it. A Yoruba proverb “atikekere laa ti pee kan iroko, to ba dagba tan apa ko nii kaa mo” (children are better caught and molded when they are young, or else it would be difficult to do so when they are grown up), tells us why. The Yoruba believe in the virtue of training children from tender ages in some forms of trade and craft However, the noble cultural intention of catching and molding children at tender age has been given a dehumanizing tar by modern day trafficking in women and children, locally and internationally. This paper intends to examine trafficking in women and children in the pre-colonial, colonial and post colonial periods with the aim of establishing and understanding the motivational (?) nexus of the operators of these illegal trades across the ages.

Cultural beliefs and philosophies are fundamental in shaping a society. Lately, there have been various discussions about the values of the African Ubuntu philosophy in many aspects as it relates to issues of human relationships, business ethics and corporate governance. As a governing African philosophy, the Ubuntu is inclusive in nature as it considers all members of the community (organisation) as one entity aiming at achieving one purpose. There have been assertions that the ultimate success of any organisation operating in an African environment is premised on this Ubuntu framework. This study aimed at establishing corporate governance approach as practiced by organisations within an African context. Thus, the paper analyses and reports on research findings pertaining to issues towards general business ethics and corporate governance approaches within an African context. The study results show that Africa’s sociocultural framework that is premised on the Ubuntu philosophy resonates with general principles surrounding business ethics and corporate governance. Central to the findings is the revelation that Africa’s socio-cultural framework has a direct impact on business ethics, corporate governance approaches and overall corporate performance of organisations operating in Africa. It is expected that the study findings will influence organisations in Africa to adhere strictly to the provisions and recommendations of the King III Report on Good Corporate Governance.

This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one’s ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital. The trend of using face book among teenagers and students increasing now days therefore we conduct a survey of 200 people in the form of questionnaire, Convenience sampling use in our survey and gather information regarding our research, According to the questionnaire we have found the result that the people do not agree for using face book among teenagers is suitable and beneficial although students are the main user of face book but they are not using face book for right purpose and the result shows the same, therefore teenagers should quit face book and get through for this addictive social networking. Keywords : Social Network, Facebook, Teenagers, Addictive, Online Network.

In this paper author has generalized Ramanujan’s results and established four new relations on q-product identities with the help of Jacobi’s triple product identity using elementary method.

Use of tractor in Nigeria is characterised by various short comings which ranges from untimely tractor services, unsuitable landscape for tractor use, expensive tractor spare parts and unavailability of labour which has made commercial farming difficult. An option that might help farmers overcome this problem is animal traction. This study determined the attitude of farmers towards the use of animal traction technology in savannah zone of Oyo state, one hundred and forty four (144) respondents comprising 72 contact and 72 non-contact farmers were interviewed for the study. The relationships between respondents’ personal characteristics, farm characteristics and their attitudes towards the use of animal traction technology were determined using chi-square analytical tool. Finding revealed that majority of the respondents were males and married. They were literate and had fairly large family size. They were within active age range of 21-50 years and had over 20 years farming experience. They practiced mixed cropping, exhibited a neutral attitude towards the use of animal traction technology.

The adsorption of methylene blue onto Mytilus Edulis shells and corn stalks was studied under various conditions such as concentration of adsorbate, adsorbent dosage and granulometry. Batch adsorption experiments were conducted and the result showed that the adsorption was dependent to granulometry and adsorbate concentration, but was partly dependent on the adsorbent dosage. It was rapid, stable and occurs in less than 60 minutes. The objectives of this work were to compare the process of adsorption of methylene blue with two types of absorbents (Mytilus Edulis shells and Corn stalks) and to use isotherms (Langmuir and Freundlich) for modeling adsorption process. Results showed that Mytilus Edulis shells and Corn stalks are suitable for the adsorption of methylene blue dye and could be used as a low cost effective adsorbent in the treatment of the industrial wastewater.

The talking drums of the Yoruba people of the South West of Nigeria are like many other types of drums found in other parts of the world in that they are melody producing/enhancing musical instruments accompanying song and dance performances made of hollow round frame with tightly fixed plastic or skin membrane on the surface(s) beaten with the hand(s), stick(s) or other materials. However, the Yoruba talking drums of the South West people of Nigeria are unlike the many other types of drums found in other parts of the world in that they are not just mere melody producing/enhancing musical instruments. This is basically because they can be used to disseminate vital messages and to respond to disseminated information. This paper introduces the term drummunication to explain the use of Yoruba talking drums to send and receive messages or information. The paper attempts a taxonomy of the Yoruba drums to establish the real talking drums. It explicates the functions of effective drummunication and barriers to effective drummunication. Most importantly, it suggests steps that can be taken to enhance the effectiveness of drummunication.

The estimation of filariasis prevalence in Biase Local Government has previously relied upon clinical evaluation and examination of night blood smears. However, night blood smears examination fail to detect the infection in individuals having low parasitaemia and cryptic filarial infection. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the prevalence of filarialsis in nine wards of Biase local government by immunochromatographic test (ICT). Methods : Clinical examination was performed according to WHO criteria to classify filarial disease. Night blood smears collected between 21.00 to 00.00h were examined to detect microfilaria (MF). For estimation of circulating filarial antigen (CFA) by Binax Now filarialsis, 2ml of blood was collected from each individual by venepuncture at any time of the day. Results : A total of 425 participants made up of 260 males and 165 females were examined randomly from the community with particular emphasis on those with suspected cases of infection such as elephantiasis of the leg. The result shows that 56 (13.2 percent) of subjects had microfilaria of wuchereria bancrofti from night samples collected, while 207 (48,7 percent) of the population studied had positive result with ICT cards. There was a statistically significant difference in the prevalence of W. bancrofti microfilaria and circulating filarial antigenaemia by method of detection(X2=11.004, P<0.05).We found out that there was no correlation between the two methods of detection of filarial infection (r=0.967, P>0.05).Interpretation and conclusion : The study emphasizes the use of CFA estimation being a more sensitive and specific diagnostic tool for the evaluation of the true prevalence of the disease. The high CFA prevalence in the study area necessitates intervention measures to check its transmission.