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    Assessing construction material manufacturers’ warehouse processes from a customer satisfaction perspective
    (Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2021-03-25) Alumbugu, Polycarp Olaku Winston W.M. Shakantu Ibrahim Saidu
    Background: The objective of warehouse processes is to satisfy customer’s desires and requirements whilst using house, equipment and labour effectively. However, in Nigeria studies have revealed operational problems in warehousing and a lack of customer satisfaction in the delivery of construction materials. Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of customer satisfaction with the delivery of construction material from the manufacturers’ warehouses to customers or other terminals, with a view to improving the operations. Method: This article adopted a case study research design method in which quantitative data were collected and analysed. The target population was the North-Central geo-political zone of Nigeria. A total of 32 construction material manufacturers were purposively selected from the zone. The observation and measurement approaches were adopted for data collection. A total of 72 customers’ orders were observed and recorded to be representative of deliveries from the sampled (n = 32) manufacturers’ warehouses to other terminals. A customer quintile benchmark metric was also adopted for analysis and for comparing field results with best practices. Results: The findings revealed that the involved construction material manufacturers’ warehouse processes, were suboptimal and ineffective in terms of perfect order completion and total order cycle time. These results indicated major opportunities for improvement. Conclusion: This article concludes with providing construction material manufacturers with information about their warehouse processes that might help to ensure that the construction material arrives at its final destination in optimal quality, time and cost.
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    Women participation in nigerian economy: does governance matter?
    (European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy, 2020) Musa, Abdullahi Sakanko; Dakwal, Solomon Mangut
    This study examines the effect of governance measures (control of corruption, accountability, and effectiveness of government) on women's participation in Nigerian economy using annual time-series data for 29 years spanning from 1990 - 2019. The Autoregressive and Distributive Lag (ARDL) Bounds test discloses the existence of a long-run co-integration relationship between accountability, control of corruption, effectiveness of government and women participation in the labor force. The empirical results obtained revealed that both in the short-run and in the long-run, accountability and the percentage of female employment have a positive and statistically significant effect on women's participation in Nigeria. Although, the effectiveness of governance shows negative and statistically insignificant effect both in the short-run and in the long-run while the control of corruption exerted a negative and statistically significant impact both in the short-run and long-run. Therefore, the study recommends that the government at all levels should ensure that accountability prevails in every sector, to allow fair play in representation, employment, and diffusion of decisions to strengthen and energize women's participation.
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    ASSESSMENT OF FARMERS USAGE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN PAIKORO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA
    (International Journal of Agriculture and Development Studies (IJADS), 2017) Ogaji, A., Oseghale, A. I., Jibrin, S., Ibrahim, F. D., & Yusuf, A. K.
    The study was conducted in Paiko local government area of Niger State, Nigeria, with the objective of assessing farmers’ usage and effectiveness of information and communication technologies and also to determine respondent’s level of use of new information and communication technologies. Data were obtained through the use of questionnaire administered on 60 farmers that were randomly selected and analysed using descriptive statistics, 3- point likert scale and logit regression. The study revealed that an overwhelming majority (81.7%) of the respondent were males with an average age of 43years with formal education. Farm size and number of extension visits were the factors that influenced the use of ICT. While increase in the farm size lead to decrease in the odds of ICT usage, increase in extension visit on the other hand led to increase in the odds of ICT usage. Based on the findings of the study, it is therefore recommended that ICT facilities and training should be channeled more to the large scale farmers since they have a higher likelihood of using them.