At a time like this when the quest for good governance is a global desire of people of different land and clime, most especially in the African region, the discourse of good governance and progress at the grassroots’ level in Nigeria could not have been more apposite. This paper examines the concepts of governance, development, progress and corruption within the Nigerian socio-economic and political milieu with the view to showing assessing the governance status and the various efforts of the government in combating the scourge. The position of Claude Ake is perfectly supported in this paper.

The integrated social studies curriculum has always advocated for the use of innovative method in the teaching and learning of the subject at all level. While this advocacy is well orchestrated by theoretical assumptions in literature, empirical support evidences are still extremely scanty. It was in the context of enhancing learning outcome through Inquiry Method that this study was undertaken. The study examined the relativeness of Inquiry Method and Teacher Guided Discussion method as against the conventional and traditional methods in teaching and learning outcome of some aspects of social studies in secondary schools.A pre-test, post-test, control group experimental design involving two experimental groups and one control group was used in the research work. The subjects of the study consist of one hundred and twenty (120) junior secondary schools two (JSS 2) social studies students in Ifo Local Government areas of Ogun State. A twenty (20) item objectives questions consisting of fillinthe gap and multiple choice objectives test was used for relevant data collection. The results of the pre-test and post-test scores in SSAT were analyzed, using both the descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings showed that there were significant differences among the treat situations. The Inquiry Method (IM) was found to have been most effective in enhancing learning outcome of the subjects. It was also discovered that a significant statistical interaction existed between the methods of instruction and academic ability were however found to have performed better in SSAT than those on low academic ability in the treatment conditions.

Comparative politics is one of the sub-fields within the academic discipline of political science as well as an approach to the study of politics and development across countries. As a field of study, comparative politics focuses on understanding and explaining political phenomena that take place within a state, society, country, or political system. However, it should be noted that while the field of comparative politics continues to change over time, it is important to note that its definition too changes. This paper, therefore, provides a comprehensive debate on the ontology, epistemology and methodology within the entire field of comparative politics with critical reflections on the continuing relevance of the states in a globalizing world. As a critical reflection, this paper is not wedded to any single world-view or conclusion about globalization. As a whole, this paper is guided by the proposition that, despite the assault on the state from a number of directions, its role will remain central to the study of comparative politics as well as in the contemporary era of globalization.

A DOCDMA (dynamic optical code division multiple access) communication system is projected for high-bandwidth communication systems. At the receiver, a synchronized TOF with the same function is used as a decoder. In this system, an electrically controlled tunable optical filter (TOF) is used to encode the modulated broadband light source. This technique dynamically modulates the central wavelength of a TOF as per a functional code at the transmitter during the bit period earlier the transmission of the data. The system is examined taking into account multiple access interference (MAI), thermal noise, and phase-induced intensity noise (PIIN).In these paper we understand that the performance of proposed dynamic OCDMA. It’s improve the bit error rate & reduce the MAI (multiple access interference) & PIIN (Phase Induced Intensity Noise). The simulation result show that the proposed DOCDMA system reduces the PIIN effect on the performance of the system and improves the bit error rate (BER) performance at a maximum number of users. Also, it is found that when the effective power is large enough, the MAI becomes the main factor that limits system performance, whereas when the effective power is comparatively low, both thermal noise and PIIN develop the main restrictive factors with thermal noise having the main effect.

We have studied the behaviour of a radiating star when the interior expanding, shearing fluid particles are traveling in geodesic motion. A systematic approach enables us to write the junction condition as a Riccati equation. In this article we obtained two new solutions in terms of elementary functions with assuming a separation of variables and also have discussed the physical significance of these solutions.

Technological growth in semiconductor industry have led to unprecedented demand for faster, area efficient and low power VLSI circuits for complex image processing applications. DWT-IDWT is one of the most popular IP that is used for image transformation. In this work, a high speed, low power DWT/IDWT architecture is designed and implemented on ASIC using 130nm Technology. 2D DWT architecture based on lifting scheme architecture uses multipliers and adders, thus consuming power. This paper addresses power reduction in multiplier by proposing a modified algorithm for BZFAD multiplier. The proposed BZFAD multiplier is 65% faster and occupies 44% less area compared with the generic multipliers. The DWT architecture designed based on modified BZFAD multiplier achieves 35% less power reduction and operates at frequency of 200MHz with latency of 1536 clock cycles for 512x512 image. The developed DWT can be used as an IP for VLSI implementation.

The paper analyses Spatial nature of activities of the people in Ilorin especially the length of time spent on each activity. Data were collected from 500 residents of Ilorin, each of whom completed a time budget diary over one week. Descriptive statistics wereused to summarize the data while stepwise regression analysis was used to determine the factors responsible for the spatial fixity of respondents’ activities. The result shows that the activities were fixed in time and three variables: age, income and occupation were the major determinants of the time spent on the activities. The study also shows clearly that the temporal structure of activity in Ilorin is different from what obtains in Western cities where there is flexibility in the usage of time.

The objective of this is paper to study the impact of TV food channels on society, with respect to economic, social and psychological aspects. Survey method is used to collect the primary data. In subcontinent eating is source of pleasure, entertainment, fun, and way to express love & respect to others. No clear evidence, but assumed by anthropologists that cooking fires began only about 250,000 years ago, accidently. Television is most effective means of communication; it has altered our activities, family and social interaction patterns, cultural practices, domestic & personal expenditure, and has greatly influences in decision making procedure. In Pakistan there are three 24-hours dedicated food channels, and study depicts they have created three factors in society i.e. Improvement, Change, and Awareness.

We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for finding if the given hyperedge set in a simple hypergraph is a minimal hyperedge cover. Then we give a set theoretical proposition to find minimal hyperedge covers.

Two phase fluid systems are concerned with the motion of a liquid or gas containing immiscible inert identical solid particles. Common examples of two phase fluid systems include blood flow in arteries, flows in rocket tubes, dust in gas cooling systems to enhance heat transfer processes, movement of inert solid particles in atmosphere, and other suspended particles in seas and oceans. Naturally, studies of these systems are mathematically interesting and useful for modeling the physical phenomena to address complex issues related to fluid flow characteristics.