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Every Organization that has something to sell to a target public will certainly think about publicity. This requires promoting their product by educating and creating awareness about the product and its unique value proposition. However, there are problems which these organizations equally face in the course of getting a product promotion done. This marketing project topic and research material takes a deep dive into what these problems are.

What is product promotion?
Product promotion technically is about creating awareness about a new product or service to a target audience. This is done through education, entertainment, influencers, advertisement, public relations and the likes. Promotion is a component of the marketing mix that seeks to understand how the target consumers feel about the product.

The Marketing Mix
There are 4ps in the marketing mix and they include and it sketches the four significant stages business will most likely take when marketing a product or services:-

Product
Price
Place
Promotion

Product
In the early marketing stage, some questions about the product need to be raised; and it includes - who needs the product? Why do they need the product, what does the product do differently from others? Is it new? If not , what new qualities is it introducing in the market?

Price
At this level, lots of consideration has to come when fixing the product's price or charges. Businesses may consider, how much consumers are willing to pay, what does price mean to the product ( exclusive, value, class etc.)

Place
At this point, doing research about the demography of the users and this will help marketers know who the products are really for and where they can find them.

Promotion
At this stage of marketing, the business is on its way to broadcast its product or service to the target consumer presenting reasons why they need the products. Measures deployed to do this included advertising, public relations, corporate social responsibility, and more.

Back to business
Having established this basic knowledge, the business of this marketing project topic is about promotion. The project topic systemically studies problems faced by organizations in promoting their products. See above for the complete document

Year after year, governments across the globe make budgetary plans for public expenditures, income, debt, and financial allocations to the local, state and federal government. The good news is, these financial allocations are utilized duly. But the bad news is, despite the huge amount spent on these infrastructures, there are reported cases of poor maintenance culture or lack of it.

The main objective of this public administration project topic is to do an analysis of the maintenance culture and why the research outcome is so. Moving forward, let us consider what some of these public infrastructure are and possible factors that can influence their maintenance.


As the spotlight revealed earlier, we have several cases in Nigeria at the local, state and federal levels, where government based projects have been left uncompleted and in some cases completed but seem left without maintenance. They range from buildings, schools, roads, railways, refineries, water system, drainage system, electricity transmission channel, post offices, government owned telephone line and what have you.

While this public administration project topic analyses the maintenance culture on public infrastructure, let us quickly consider factors that influence the maintenance culture.

Financing
When there is minimal budget for public infrastructure maintenance, or lack of it, chances are that the maintenance culture will suffer.

Change of government tenure
Poor continuity culture among public officials also influences maintenance culture of public infrastructure. For example, if a previous government builds a water system for Kaduna residents for example, the subsequent government is expected to maintain that project. Just as we see in some cases, a new government goes ahead to start a fresh one when the old one has not received enough attention in terms of maintenance.

Other factors include;
Corruption, poor supervision, political interest, poor attitude towards maintenance or lack of it, poor continuity policy, cost of maintenance and lots more.

This is a very interesting project topic to explore, see second paragraph to access the full project.

Key Variables

Sustainable land management practices
Climate change adaptation

In this agricultural science project topic, issues regarding sustainable land management practices for climate change adaptation is technically evaluated. Talking about climate change, it influence land and natural resources. There has been records of climate change exposing land to unfavorable conditions and reducing the ability to use land for desired practices.

What is Climate Change?
Ads defined by the United Nations, climate change is a shift in temperatures and weather patterns which may be caused by natural solar variations. However, they also suggest that the era of the industrial revolution since the 19th century fostered the effect of climate change. According to them, activities such as fossil fuel burning causes green house effects by trapping the Sun’s heat and raising temperature.

What is Climate Change Adaptation?
Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to current effect of climate change while also mitigation its effect.

What is Sustainable Land Management?
By sustainable land management, it refers to activities towards minimizing land degradation, land rehabilitation an ensuring optimal use of land and its resources.

How climate change affects land management practices.
Climate change affects land management practices in so many different ways, some which includes:-
Influence on soil fertility
Water resources and biomass accumulation
Loss of biodiversity
Vegetation degradation
Organic matter depletion
Poor infiltration of rain water
Reduced soil capacity
Reduced soil productivity

Evaluation of Farmers use of Sustainable land management practices for climate change adaptation
In a 2011 study by the Rural linkage Network, over 89% of Farmers in the Niger delta region of Nigeria suffer land degradation and low farm output due to heavy rainfall patterns.

While other instances in other part of the world lies, this agricultural science project topic is specifically concerned about farmers use of sustainable land management practices available to them for climate change adaptation. See link above for details.

Primary health care centers are pillars of a sustainable health system of any society. Quality health care facilities can really cost a fortune. If we should count, an average family can go short of funds if they spent 10% of their household funds. But here we are primary health care facilities providing more accessible, affordable, quick response and more personal health care services to its immediate environment. However there are determinants of primary health care utilization, which we may not be aware exist. So this health education project topic spotlights this issue in detail in a research work. But what is in primary health care services, let us find out.

What is a primary health care center?
As defined by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, Primary health care center is a whole of society approach to health that aims at ensuring the highest possible level and well being and their equitable distribution by focusing on people’s health need as soon as possible along to promote health and disease prevention, care, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative, and close to the people’s environment.

Primary health centers have proven to be an immediate health care center for many societies while also cutting down the cost of quality health care. Statistics from the WHO shows that establishing primary health care centers across the low and middle income countries could save over 60million lives and be capable of increasing life expectancy by 3.7 years.

Why primary health care centers are established
Among other things, primary healthcare centers serves as
Pillars to the sustainable healthcare systems
They very equitable
Very accessible to remote communities
They are closer to the people and very proactive in detecting early signs of a pandemic or health crisis.
They are very accountable
They offer an effective method of physical and emotional well being including heart to heart talk in the people’s native languages.
Primary health care centers are inclusive in their services.


To take further into the determinants of primary health center utilization, please refer to the research topic above.

Security is at the apex of human's hierarchy of needs and as such very necessary. At the same time, our daily activities make us vulnerable to insecurity. In this sociology project topic, our attention is drawn to developing Security awareness programmes in Nigeria and its implication on safety. This is in response to the prevailing security issues inherent in our daily activities including the use of the internet.

The virtual world that the Internet creates permits interactivity; it beats time and space. This means that people could easily connect, talk, do business together, learn, earn, and disagree without ever having a physical contact. Whereas this development is very welcome, one of its shortcomings is the vulnerability that comes with connectivity.

Taking back to the sociology project topic, security awareness have not been done enough in this regard. Let's call your attention very quickly to this. When was the last time you read a website's security and privacy policy? Ever read through a security and privacy policy of a website before clicking the "I agree" button? Your answer should determine how security conscious you have been.

Successful online businesses adopt the Internet to facilitate their business needs. One of those is user data which helps a business to secure its users and in the interest of the business as well.
However the internet creates room for baseless trust and also allows scam businesses to adopt the same method to accumulate users' data. As such users share their private and sometimes sensitive personal information to such sources including the illegitimate businesses.

To curb this situation, programmes such as security awareness programmes can be organised to sensitize participants on the need to be cautious with data sharing over the Internet.

That being established, this sociology project topic provides adequate guidelines on developing security awareness programmes while also providing its implication on safety.

Accounting is one of the earliest human professions as it shares close ties with businesses. People keep a record of their daily dealings. Fast forward to these days of internet communication technology, the accounting sector is one to be highly reckoned with. On this note, this accounting project topic discusses very intensely, the impact of Internet communication technology on the profession.

How accounting was before the information age.
Accounting was initially tagged bookkeeping. This is because sales records are written in books as well as business inventories. The old bookkeeping method was devoid of technical errors which could result or slow down in function.The old accounting method created lots of job opportunities for graduates of accounting and Secretaries. However it didn't leave as much efficiency and effectiveness for the bookkeepers.

The old accounting method was very tedious and tasking. This is because accountants have to do pen and paper documentation of their records, this is very tasking.

Secondly, the old accounting method is prone to lots of human error which makes accuracy mostly unattainable especially for large business enterprises.

Accounting profession and the internet communication technology.
The evolution of the internet communication technology has changed the human approach towards accounting, apart from making accounting and records keeping a lot easier, it has promoted efficiency and effectiveness.

Without much ado, here are a few ways internet communication technology has impacted the accounting profession.

It makes record keeping efficiency and effective
It hold records together in a unified database rather than piles of documents
Easy record tracking
It helps customer service delivery
It helps to establish great customer relationships
It allows for computerized accounting
It has created a new career curve for accountants and Secretaries so much that new skills are required to practice the profession

However, the downsides of the internet communication technology in the accounting profession cannot be denied. The cases of system manipulation, human input-error, system redundancy, network issues and the likes culminate in associated downsides of the use of ICT in the accounting profession. See first paragraph for full project paper.

Agriculture is a major part of human existence. The food products we consume on a daily basis are all proceeds from agricultural activities. A world without agriculture is a world without food. Likewise, agriculture is equally a major part of an economy. This is because it informs the level of food production and allocation. It also determines what food is produced in excess and which is lacking, which food to import and which to export. Being a large topic to consider, this agricultural science project topic intends to ascertain the role of financial institutions in agricultural development.

The role of agriculture in economic development
Agriculture play significant roles in a economy and that includes:
To increase food supply for domestic consumption
Increase supply of domestic savings
To promote international trades
To increase job opportunities

Now the role of financial institution in agricultural development should not be overemphasized, and while this research project topic does justice to it, let us look at issues that results to poor performance in the agricultural sector.

They include:-

Lack of funds
Inadequate supply and use of quality farm inputs
Economic policy
Land constraints
Poor harvest technology
Poor storage facility
Paste and diseases
Environmental pollution
Lack of labor
Low adoption rate
Bad roads and lots more

So far, we have seen farmers join cooperatives to help themselves and to improve their turnover. Some take loans from financial institutions to scale their farming. But it looks like farmers, especially commercial ones, will need incentives from financial institutions to enhance their production scale. And that may include;

Establishment of agricultural cooperative banks
Issuing loans to farmers
Issuing loans to farmers cooperative
Establishment of agricultural agencies that will protect farmers interest in the face of the government and financial institutions.

For further reading, see the project topic above for detailed research work

The mass media exerts a large reach of influence on their mass audience spread across the nations of the globe, and radio programmes are just one of the earliest mass mediums that has passed the test of time in influencing large listenership. No societal issue is beyond deliberation on radio programmes and issues concerning drug abuse is not an exception. This mass communication project topic seeks to ascertain the effectiveness of radio programmes on drug abuse. But here is a preamble of some of the lifestyle shaping strategies of the mass media programmes.

What is drug abuse?
Drug abuse is indicative of excessive use of psychoactive drugs such as alcohol, pain medications, or illicit drugs that can culminate to physical, social or emotional harm. Persons who are victims of drug abuse may suggest a need to escape emotional distress, addiction, ignorance, habit, peer pressure and similar cases.

The effectiveness of radio programmes
Radio programmes as a form of mass media communication is very significant in the medium of information. First of all, radio is relatively more affordable in every home even in rural communities all they need to do is tune. Nowadays, radio is embedded in almost every mobile phone. This doubles radio as an effective tool in reaching a wide audience.

Secondly, there is something called cognitive consistency in communication. What this means is that there is a relationship between what people are consistently exposed to and how they behave or react to such exposure. In context, users who are consistently exposed to radio programmes kicking against drug abuse are bound to see a positive change over time.

Radio programmes as a form of mass communication informs, educates and shapes the perception of users. This means also that radio programmes can be used to facilitate advertisements and campaigns against drug abuse.

In summary, radio programmes are effective tools in the hands of the mass media. However, by this project topic, we will ascertain how effective it is on drug abuse related issues.

There is no doubt that information communication technology, ICT, is having its way into our everyday affairs. No day passes without using an ICT embedded device or facility like in schools, religious gatherings, in business, at work and hospitals to say the least. So far, the ICT has graduated from the adoption stage and now on the implementation or utilization stage. It is on this awareness that this research project topic looks deeply into the adoption and utilization of ICT in Nigerian hospitals. While I let you check that out, we have discussed a little about how ICT based facilities can help hospitals generally.

ICT adoption in hospitals
While the research outcome of the project leaves us with the level of adoption of ICT in Nigerian hospitals, it is safe to state that the health care facilities have grown overtime from the use of paper-based information systems to Internet-based information systems. However similar cases that have recorded bad practices are still in vogue, so how do we explain that.

I'm talking about situations where patients visit the same hospital over time and they don't seem to have a comprehensive record of that patient's health history. Talking about cases where patients have to join long queues just confirm their card information in another department of the same hospital. Technology has made it easy for health care providers and patients alike but the adoption is lagging.

Use cases of ICT in Nigeria Hospitals
The use cases of ICT in Nigerian hospitals are too numerical, to say the list. To mention a few includes:-

Data collection and record keeping
For book hospital appointments
For prescriptions and diagnosis
To establish interoperability between health departments and other health care service providers
To enhance continuity

The adoption and utilization of ICT really helps to -:
Increases efficiency in health care services
Improve the quality of services
Minimize cost relatively
Foster continuity using smart information management system

Key talking points

The role of mass media in information dissemination
Crisis resolution
Controversies associated with mass media and crisis news

Introduction
The mass media have been pivotal in information dissemination generally. Over time, we have seen the mass media expand their information channel to spread across newspapers, television, radio, and social media. The conventional social media which permits user generated content has overtime become news sources for the mainstream media.

This research project topic considers the role of mass media in crisis resolution in Nigeria. While we recommend your consideration, here is a brush through on the role of the mass media in information dissemination, what crisis resolution is all about and the controversies associated with mass media crisis reportage.

The role of mass media in information dissemination.
The Mass media are mainstream information sources, to say the least. To tag any information credible, is to hear from the Mass media themselves. This is because information from this source is considered verified and valid.

The role of mass media as an information dissemination source includes shaping perceptions, have a larger reach, and serve as a major information source.

Crisis and crisis resolution
Crisis is a period of strong and intense situations affecting an individual or a group enforcing negative changes to their environment, lifestyle or health especially with little or no warning. Crisis is often accompanied with fear and uncertainty.

Crisis resolution are strategic measures put in place either short-term or long-term, to manage crisis and keep it at bay.

Controversies associated with mass media and crisis resolution reportage
The mass media plays significant roles in crisis resolution and management especially in building condolence and correction of mis perceptions. However there are handy controversies associated with their activities.

Firstly, there are as many media stations as the number of reports and news angles. Most times, there exist significant differences in news reports that either confirm or discredit each other.

Secondly the activities of the mass media sometimes can fuel crises rather than minimize its impact.

For more on the role of mass media crisis resolution refer to the page web page above.

Key talking points

What is vocational education about?
Major areas where vocational education apply
Need for vocational education


Introduction

Vocational education are skills sets meant to be acquired for physical, mental, psychological, social and economic development. This form of education can be acquired formally through school or informally through a traditional system of education. However, there are mechanics considered effective by Vocational technical educators. These mechanics are duly researched and detailed in this student's project topic. However, The key talking points is to give a preamble of the research work.

What is vocational education about?
Vocational education is the sort of education that is skill-specific. Students of vocational education aim to acquire skills in skill-specific areas such as trades, arts and craft. Formally, vocational education can span from three to four years, otherwise, it could take over six years to.

Vocational does not seem like a professional career in the educational sense but graduates of vocational education become experts, thought leaders and professionals in their field. You could see entrepreneurs, self-employed and employers of labor.

Major areas where vocational education apply
Technically there are two major areas where vocational education apply, and it includes
The formal educational system
The traditional education system

The formal vocational education system trains students in the classroom, or say in a predictable and formal educational environment. Here students are given guidelines and also acquire skills for their vocation of choice.

The traditional vocational education system admits trainees as apprentices. They enroll for a period of apprenticeship wherein they are exposed to real life situations throughout the period of training. The graduation of students in this system, unlike the formal educational sector, empowers trainees with financial and material resources to start on their own. Interesting enough, this system also guarantees continuity in this form of vocational education.

Need for vocational education
Vocational education is really necessary as it contributes to solving social and economic problems. Keeping young people constantly engaged minimizes the chances of rampant social vices.

Secondly, vocational education enables skilled laborer to participate actively in contemporary economic activities.

The interest rate and the economy of any nation share a relationship that is most likely symbiotic technically. The increase or decrease in interest rate impacts the economy positively or negatively including housing Finance. Housing Finance is an essential aspect of measuring economic growth as a number of factors rely so much on the housing and population and migration both in rural and urban communities. This research project topic delves deeper into the impact of interest rate on housing Finance in Nigeria. Meanwhile, let’s do a quick run-through of what interest interest rate means and what relationship it shares with housing finance.

What is interest rate?
Interest rate is an amount a lender charges a borrower for a loaned asset. The interest rate is often charged in percentages - technically a percentage of the total amount loaned.

Housing Finance in Nigeria

Housing finance is used to describe financial resources, other than that of the individual, that are made available to finance land purchases, building construction and housing.

Housing Finance in Nigeria is very important as long population and migration and urbanization is concerned. In Nigeria, factors related to population growth, unemployment, rural-urban migration are contributory elements to urbanization growth and the need for housing Finance.

According to a report dated (2016) by the World Bank Group, when housing increases especially when it is to the reach of low income earners, it stimulates job creation and this is grossly associated with economic development.

The relationship between interest rate and housing Finance

Interest rate is determined by a number of factors and one of those is the state of the economy. When the interest rate increases, it discourages borrowing and fuels savings. But when the interest rate is reduced, it encourages borrowing and investments boom but not without a downside in the long run, like inflation.

Interest rate reduction stimulates housing Finance, it makes mortgage loans very accessible compared to when Interest rates are high. With low interest rates housing production increases and so does access to residential lands, effective land administration, legal protection, house availability at low market prices

In summary, interest rate is a major stimulant of housing Finance. But the in-depth understanding of how this works is available in this research project.

Overview

Proper waste management is a necessary practice for environmental sustainability. Having a social, environmental and economic implication, waste management seems to share a relationship with profitability - this we are yet to find out in this research material for students.

What is waste management?
Waste management includes activities surrounding the disposal, treatment, recycling and re-usability of waste resources. Proper disposal of waste is environmentally safe as it guards against harm and outbreak. However, proper waste management is a function of responsible social behavior, economic feasibility and environmental sustainability. This brings in the responsibility of citizens, industries, and public administrators into consideration in this regard.

Why Waste management
The European directives on waste management encourage reuse, recycling, and conversion of waste resources into other forms. However, the environmental sustainability and profitability of this recommendation has remained cloudy. Meanwhile, there really good reasons for proper waste management, and they include;

To protect the environment
Conservation of natural resources
To prevent disease outbreak
Prevents erosion and environmental hazards
To manage environmental pollution
It enhances resource re-usability
Helps maintain environmental sustainability

The saying that ”health is wealth” is nothing short of how proactive measures to remain healthy can save the cost of treatment when one is ill. Man and his environment share a symbiotic relationship which makes waste management a collective responsibility. Waste management has environmental and economic benefits for citizens, industries and government at large.

Therefore, this research material seeks to examine the correlation between waste management and profitability. It also seeks to ascertain whether the profitability of waste management is of best practice.

Summary
Waste management is a necessary practice for environmental sustainability, but the use of waste resources for profitability requires cross-examination. This project takes into account the correlation between waste management and profitability and whether it is of best practice.

Choosing a project topic is often one of the earliest steps into a student undergraduate research journey. It is OK if you cannot have full grasp of what topic to choose. Ours is to guide your thoughts on what research opportunities are there for your field of study. We choose to do achieve this for computer science undergraduates by dishing out new computer science project topics idea.

Below are new computer science project topic ideas

Topic 1: Performance evaluation of satellite global network in communication
Satellite network relays and amplifies telecommunication signals. It opens the communication channel between a sender and receiver. So to keep the satellite global network in constantly evaluated, international organizations regulate the frequency or bands of network providers to avoid signal interference. This computer science project is focus in this regard.

Topic 2: TV show popularity analysis using data mining
This project topic spurs you to mine data from TV viewers to ascertain the popularity of some TV shows. With the data mined, you can be able to tell which TV show is popular and trending via comments, reviews. You can also ascertain this by classifying TV shows into genres.

Topic 3: Computerized transcript management system
This computer science project topic is looking at designing a computerized transcript management system. Basically, a transcript management system especially for universities can be used for record keeping, grading, and information management with schools, data retrieval and security.

Topic 4: Computerized land information system
Land dealers have a lot more to with documents than the lands itself. But with a computerized land information system, land dealers than work smarter with a software system and less with papers. Computerized land information can help you with details on land use, land valuable, right of transfer to other on agreeable term and consequences of transaction cost when transferring land ownership.

Topic 5: Design and simulate a multi-user congestion control system
Multi-users can cause network congestion for network service providers and reduces the quality of network service. This happens when a network node takes in more data than it was built to handle. The effect of this is queuing delay, blocking of new connections and more. A multi-user congestion control system will help network providers’ guide against redundancy and breakdown.

It is so unfortunate how many have become victims of expired items like food, drugs, equipment and all. Suggestions show that in most cases, merchants do not have absolute watch over which merchandise is soon to expire and which is not. This project topic is a proposal suggesting the design and implementation of a product expiry management system.

Several cases abound pointing to the intake of already expired drugs and its effect, some of food, some of household equipment and other associated cases. The situation is probably caused by negligence, poor documentation habits or perhaps ignorance of the possibility of a product's expiration date reaching sooner than expected.

Introducing a product expiry management system
The design and implementation of a product expiry management system helps merchants have handy details of every product they deal on. It is an internet based system that can generate reports of merchandise, report a product's expiry date, maintain stock balance and report product purchase details.

In other words, a product expiry management system is able to generate product sales details, purchase details, expiration details, and profile details of the products organisation.

The resources of a product expiry management system can be adopted and utilized by businesses, product companies and organisations. It could also be used by small and large scale businesses.

Having this system in an organisation can allow businesses and organisations to easily develop inventory management logs, helps maintain inventory details, as well as help them detect almost expired products.

Conclusion
In almost every supermarket or variety store you visit lately, there is a web based inventory system; most popular is the use of a desktop to take stock of what is bought and paid for. The same way, a product expiry web based system could exist to detect expired products while taking stock.

The essence of this innovation is to save users from risk of consuming expired products. Secondly, it saves the organisation or business the reputation of not selling out already expired products.

Arguments on the contribution of women in politics have persisted for a long time now. While others argue, especially from a cultural and patriarchal background, that women’s role is mostly in the home, others argue, agitate and advocate for women’s right to contribute both economically and politically. This Project topic under review has considered Women and their political contribution in the fourth republic as an anchor to its research.

There is perceived gender inequality in leadership and political participation. As defined by the UNICEF, gender equality mirrors how women and men, boys and girls should enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities, and protection. It is an advocacy to give equal opportunities to both men and women. This does not however mean that men and women should be treated exactly the same. This has resulted to several political movements advocating for women participation and involvements in governing councils.

As reported by the United Nations in 2019, there are about only 27 nation states where women can account for less than 10% parliamentary participation globally. Other women rights organizations globally laments on the neglect of women where political interaction, social concerns, and political decisions are made.

There are associated reasons to the relegation of women to the background in politics. One is chiefly due to the patriarchal practices in some societies, others include cultural background and orientation and societal constructs. The contribution of women in politics is mostly demonstrated during voting.

However, there are possible ways to intercept in this pending situation and improve women political contribution. They include, among others;

• Addressing gender inequality and opportunity in governance
• Documenting rules that protects women political rights to participation
• Guaranteeing equal access to quality learning to both men and women
• Providing capacity building training for female political aspirants and engaging them in decision making.

Anyways, there many underground issues surrounding gender equality and women’s active contribution in politics. This project topic has done and underground analysis.

Aside from startup capital, one big thing that small business enterprises have to deal with is the industrial policy prevalent in their business location. The impact of government industrial policy on the development of small business enterprises should not be over emphasized; it could be positive or negative. This business education project topic digs into the impact of government industrial policy on the development of small scale business enterprises in Nigeria. This is an empirical research that requires rigorous procedure to arrive at a conclusion.

However, some of the impacts of government policies on businesses are too obvious to be ignored. We will be discussing what really defines small scale businesses and few of the regular impact of government regulation on small businesses. You can follow up the project topic above for full project research finding.

What defines small scale businesses?
What defines small scale businesses varies with location. What it means and how it applies in one part of the world can vary widely from another. But going in more general term, small scale business enterprises are businesses that are:-

• Owned and managed by one person like the case of a sole proprietorship
• Has small number of employees
• Has low capital investment
• Usually privately owned
• Has low net profit, low annual sales and whose asset value is relatively low

On a highlight note, here are the following ways government industrial policies can affect small scale business enterprises;

• Government policies can influence the tax rates. High or low, it will certainly influence the business development positively or negatively

• Minimum wage is like a benchmark the government as set for payment of employees, however not all small business enterprises can meet with that expectation.

• Some government policies on businesses can either attract or repel local or foreign investors

• Unstable administrative systems like when a new government does not tag along with the policies a former administration limits
continuity and causes instability for businesses especially if they are such that would affect businesses.

More of the impact of government industrial policy on small business development in Nigeria is contained in the research project.

Environmental health is a global issue that requires every individual to take personal responsible for it. Negligence to proper environmental health practices can result to adverse consequences. This project topic is considering the effect of improper disposal of industrial solid waste on man and his environment. This is to ensure empirical examination of the actual effects of improper industrial waste disposal.

According to the World Health Organization, solid wastes are useless or unwanted waste materials that arise from man activities that are not free flowing. Aside from discarded wastes from homes, industrial solid wastes materials are always on large scale are make up a larger percentage of solid waste. However, the improper disposal of these waste are hazardous both to man and his environment.

This environmental science project topic embarks on an empirical journey to arrive at tangible conclusions to the effect of improper solid waste disposal. However, here are downsides to improper waste disposal as we talk about this on a lighter note:-

Generally, proper disposal of industrial solid waste includes collecting, storage, transportation and sanitary disposal of these wastes.
Inclusive also is proper recycling knowledge and habit. Otherwise, the effect of improper solid waste disposal includes:-

Soil contamination
Solid wastes when they breakdown release toxic waste into the soil. Plastic wastes, for instance when they decompose, release DEHA, a carcinogen that has a negative effect on reproductive health. Solid waste causes a dysfunction on plant growth and in extension the animals that feed on them. In humans, the DEHA causes weight loss and liver dysfunction.

Air contamination
Toxic chemicals are also emitted into the atmosphere from the decomposition of toxic waste. The effect is the inhaling toxic air into the human respiratory system and destruction of the ozone layer. Toxic air can easily contaminate water and make it poisonous to both humans and aquatic animals.

Other effects of improper solid waste disposal includes
• Quick spread of disease causing paste
• Climate change
• Impact on animal
• Disease outbreak

Single parenting is a result of societal malfunction. It is a shift from two-parenting to one parenting. In some cases, a father is left with the children to raise alone and in other cases, mothers are left to nurse and raise the children alone. However, this project topic, considers the causes and challenges of single parenting among women in Jos North local government council, Nigeria. But for this review, we will consider the causes and challenges of single parenting among women in general.

What is single parenting?
This is a situation where one parent, either the father or mother is left to nurture and raise a child or children in the absence of the other. Single parenting is it worth praying for, although a handful wish for it, but it has proven not to be the best way to raise a child. There are many reasons, some which may not be discussed here, why a single parent has to raise a child or children alone.

Common causes of single parenting

Divorce
When a couple decide to go their separate way either by consent or not, they are automatically subjecting their children to single parenting. It is either the mother and father take custody of the child or children or their children are shared among the parents.

Premarital pregnancy
Another automatic way to become a single parent or a single mom is to take-in outside wedlock. Young female adults who get pregnant premaritally get to raise their child alone although otherwise could be the case in a few cases.

Challenges of single parenting among women
There a number of challenges associated with single parenting among women especially and they include the following:

Compromised lifestyle
Being with a partner creates an atmosphere of fulfillment for the both parties when raising a child. But with single parenting women, it may lead them to compromise their lifestyle and search for companionship. This could apply in terms of going out of their way to fetch another partner who will satisfy their emotional needs.

Huge financial obligation
There may result in a huge financial responsibility, more than necessary. Single parenting mom exposes women to taking up financial burdens that initially planned.

Discipline
Being a single mom does not give the child or children the healthy dose of discipline they actually need to develop. Fact is, there is no amount of parenting a single mom or dad can give a child that can equal the amount two parents can give. In a situation where the lifestyle of the parent is compromised, it becomes difficult to transfer discipline in a child as children grow and learn by imitation.

Agripreneurship is a word that is used to describe entrepreneurship in agriculture. That is to say that some agricultural practices are entrepreneurial in nature. That being the case, here is a project topic that is concerned about the agripreneurship orientation and fruit businesses among a select population. Perhaps, the fruit farmers and business dealers need more orientation about entrepreneurship in agriculture.

According to a research conducted in 2020 on ‘Education in agricultural entrepreneurship: training needs and learning practices’, a good number of farmers possibly have low level of entrepreneurship education but indicate higher need for it. From the research findings, it was concluded that while only a handful of farmers have received entrepreneurship training, a good percentage that have not, expressed willingness to participate in agripreneurship orientation. Statistically, from that research, 30.6% of farmers have entrepreneurial skills while over 50.2% are willing to learn.

What does it take to be an agripreneur?
Agripreneurship is about risk taking and taking advantage of new agricultural and business opportunities while it lasts. Unfortunately however, there are too many regular farmers and very few risk takers and that a led to low rate of locally produced food products.

Agricultural entrepreneurs are meant to be risk takers; they secure new agricultural ventures and business opportunities. They take personal responsibility of their gains, losses, success and failures. They seek after huge financial agricultural investments that are impactful in terms of scale, sales, losses, and profit. In fact many agricultural entrepreneurs turn out to be large scale agricultural producers and have good chances of becoming large employers of labor.Agricultural entrepreneurs are large producers and create development agricultural business opportunities.

Why is agricultural entrepreneurship orientation very important to 21st century farmers?

• It will promote large scale farming and large scale agri-products
• It exposes farmers on several business opportunities that lies within the ambit of agriculture
• Promotes the several opportunities in agriculture
• Attracts investors both locally and internationally

Sex is a biological phenomenon that is meant to occur between two adult. This makes sex education an important global public health issue. This project topic is health and sex education department is geared towards the assessment of parental attitudes towards the teaching of sex education in secondary schools. While I let you check that research details out yourself, lets us highlight the circumstances surrounding sex education in secondary schools putting the students' age bracket into consideration.

What is Sex Education?
Sex education is the kind of education that is geared towards improving the sex related knowledge, attitude, lifestyle, choices, and behaviors. Sex education is applicable in schools, secondary school most especially to groom young people in their puberty and adolescent ages of better ways to make positive health and sex life choices.

There are several ways to transfer this knowledge to students and some include but not limited to; developing students decision making skills, through health information and creating experiences.

Why is sex education important?
As an important, global public health issue, sex education is important to inform students about a safe sex life, about how much freedom they have to decide when, how and if they want to engage in it and how often.

Adolescence is the good time to help students build a great healthy sex lifestyle. Some of the topical issues discussed under sex education include puberty, pregnancy, use of contraceptives, sex abuse and violence, premarital sex, unsafe abortion, child birth complications especially for the girl child and others.

Sex is a reality that must be faced squarely and its education is highly acknowledged globally because
It makes for safer sex practices and lifestyle
Provide access to high quality Sex related health services
Promotes safe life
Promotes a productive lifestyle
Help young people engage less in unprotected sex
Limits teenage pregnancy
Limits the potential to have multiple sex partners
Drives delayed in sexual initiation

Ending note
Sex education is acknowledged globally as it is very necessary for child growth and development. However for the sake of this project topic, an assessment of parental attitude towards sex education teaching in secondary schools has to be done.

The environment is one of the greatest gifts of nature that can be used to attain a life of comfort. But a wrong approach to it's usage can cause more harm than good. This is the case with the construction of a drainage system. A well constructed drainage system makes for a motorable and more accessible environment but a badly constructed one is a mess to the environment. Running with this, the project topic, citing the implication of poor construction of drainage system on the environment comes to bare.

According to environmental scientists, Thomas and Dede 2002, "the basic underlying purpose of any drainage system is to keep people from water, to keep water from people and to protect and enhance the environment while doing so". In their opinion, the the fundamental function of a good drainage system is to harmonize the relationship between human activities with water so as to keep the environment friendly.

What constitutes and good drainage system?
Before a good road network is constructed, there must be a well constructed drainage system in place so that water logging does not distrupt the road pavement. And so for a good drainage system to be worth its name, it should constitute the following;

Side drains
Longitude slopes

These are very necessary to;
Prevent flooding and ponding on the main road surface
Protect the bearing capacity of the pavement
Avoid erosion of side slope

Visible implications of bad drainage system
Increase in moisture content on road pavements
Water logging in wrong areas
Decrease in soil strength
Wave formation
Stripping bitumen
Frost action
Edge cutting

The implication of poor construction of drainage systems is the drive for this project topic, and to get the actual answer, it requires empirical research.

The impact of training and development in organizational productivity should not even be overemphasized because it is an integral part of organizational development. The fate of any organization is in the hands of its work force, what you make out of them becomes evident in the organizational productivity. This Business education project topic is has an intent to identify unique impact of training and development in organizational productivity through detailed research. But on a lighter note, do can make out of training and development?

The need for employee training and development arises when there is equally a need to improve job performance. The success or failure of any organization depends partly on the makeup of its labor force and the quality of output. Therefore engaging systematic process of human resource development including education, training and motivation is functional to achieve better output quality.

What does employee productivity mean?
Employee productivity is an assessment of a workers’ efficiency often evaluated through employees’ output within a period of time. So there is provision for training geared at improving employees’ productivity, growth is inevitable in the organization.

When employees engage in Jobs and their contributions are valued and supported, it fosters motivation and high performance.

Now why is training and development in organizations necessary

The list of possibilities to be explored with proper training in organizational setting is endless. Aside from fostering productivity it also;
Help prevent avoidable mistakes through proper training. Training and development breathes new life into old task, help the organization adopt new and smarter ways of becoming more efficient with tasks. Training the in-house employees and constantly retraining them is less expensive than constant employee turn-over or training new ones each season.

Training and development helps employees and the organization explore diverse career growth opportunities

Nigeria as a country has several revenue generation streams just like other countries of the world. One of those sources of revenue is taxation. Taxation is an age long revenue source for government, infact it is one of the earliest forms of income to government. This accounting project topic seeks to critically evaluate taxation as a mechanism for revenue generation in Nigeria.

What is taxation?
Taxation is an imposition of compulsory levies on individuals, entities, goods and services by government in order to fund its expenditures. The taxes are often levied on products sales, import and export duties, properties, services, etc. Taxes are fundamental to raising funds for development purposes.

Before now, taxes were the earliest form of government revenue but they were not as many as they are now. Governments often levy taxes on import duties and less on domestic products. They levied what would be better explained now as overhead tax and the properties and gross sales. But nowadays, decisions on taxes are now at the mercy of parliamentary bodies.

Taxes in recent times now flow from import duties, income tax, labour tax, sales tax, Value added tax, consumption tax, payroll tax, corporate tax, property tax and lots more.

Purpose of tax mechanism in an economy
Generally speaking, taxes are levied to generate funds for governments. Although it differs with climes and government, the following are possible purposes for tax mechanism as a revenue generation source.

• It helps to finance government and its projects.

• Secondly, taxes helps to manage resource allocation

• Taxes help to manage income distribution. This means that it helps to reduce inequalities among citizens

• Taxation is used to maintain economic stability. This means that government use taxes to maintain high employment rate, maintain price stability, manage dept, monetary policy, government expenditure policy through tax policies.

That was in a more general sense; this project topic however seeks to evaluate taxation as a mechanism for revenue generation In Nigeria.

Entrepreneurship is a deliberate act to make wealth by creating value in the form of products, programmes and services. It is a way of taking advantage of existing opportunities as well as creating new opportunities. Entrepreneurship is an age long wealth creation strategy, it is easy to become independent, creating value than to rely on government jobs. As this project topic makes it clear, the advantages of entrepreneurship is already known but this project topic focuses on the role of entrepreneurship on economic development in Nigeria.

The Nigerian government dishes out empowerment incentives to support entrepreneurship and foster financial independence and create opportunities especially for young people. But entrepreneurship seems to be more than just empowering people with sewing machine and motorcycles. It is the ability to see opportunities and creating value from it. In more details, it requires you to identify opportunities and what need it will serve, decide which opportunity to secure, pool resources both human and material necessary to chase the dream, do risk analysis, and set the ball rolling.

To say the least, entrepreneurship is one of the easiest ways to escape unemployment and attain self-employment because one may need capital to start a business for example. Talk about vocations like fashionpreneurs, designers, programmers, makeup producers, logistics services and many other endeavors that people have found opportunities in.

Having a skill does not make you an entrepreneur, it is about identifying a problem which your skill can solve and solving that need. There are only few people who do that. A lot of people are into business i.e buying and selling but very few are into production and service. Entrepreneurship has indeed impacted the economy but this project topic seeks to identify how.

This project topic does not include the benefit of foreign entrepreneurship; rather it focuses on the entrepreneurial effort of indigenes in the Nigeria economy.

School closure has yielded benefit in terms of curbing contact, spread and the effect of the pandemic. But logically speaking, having students at home doing nothing due to covid-19 has adverse effect on the economy in addition to other societal effects. This research project topic suggests that introducing new technologies in teaching and learning can ensure academic continuity, while also managing the risk of contacting the pandemic.

During the pandemic, if you can recall, schools, churches, marketplaces and all public gatherings and travelling were put on hold. But hunger grew more than over before because people could no longer fend for their families. So the rate of robbery, rape and other societal vices grew in their number putting the rich at risk and young people in danger. As recorded by UNESCO, over 166 countries closed schools and universities to limit the spread of the pandemic.

However, recommendations were made; very remarkable was one from NGOs like UNESCO suggesting that distance or remote learning programmes should be applied as well as open education system. This according to them will allow for continuity in the educational systems.

Researchers have studied the impact of remote or distance learning technologies. They found that it has lots of benefits for both the students and their teachers alike. When there are tech-based learning materials, it is easy to connect and learn.

Using new technologies in teaching and learning manages covid-19 associated risks and also ensures continuity in education. That seems to be a better way to improvise, save students from idleness and minimize divided attention especially on social vices.

Another suggestion from researchers is of the view that the use of new technologies in teaching and learning should be applied alongside physical classes. This, according to the researchers will minimize redundancy in the academic system especially in such situation as the pandemic.

It is often said that human beings learn by imitation; that is to say that what you see, hear and engage in has a way of shaping who you become. This age long myth is applicable to students’ learning habits and academic performance. The teachers’ quality and students’ academic performance in secondary schools have a lot in common that feeds into the students growth. However, this education project topic is not sure if it is actually teachers’ quality alone that affects the performance of students academically. Chances are that there may be other contributing factors which may be external.

Secondary school is a necessary tool for good youthful development. Whatever students at that age bracket and level of education learn, feeds into their future a great deal. For example, much emphasis and importance is placed on the age-long West African Secondary School Certificate Examination not because students need it to finish up but because it has become a public standard and yardstick for future academic endeavors even for occupying public offices at the barest minimum.

To gain admission into any university, secondary school leavers must present at least a credit and passes in their course of choice and if that is missing, then there is a problem.

However, when students perform poorly academically, much attention is called to the quality of teachers. Many academic stakeholders including students, parents, ministries of education, principals, commissioners of education and all have a way of driving blames back at the teaching quality but we can’t be so sure if proper research is not done.

It is not entirely safe to conclude if actually the teachers’ quality affects students’ performance when proper research is not done; there could be other contributing factors. But the federal of Nigeria in the National policy of education in 2004 insists that no education system can rise above the quality of teachers in its system.

This situation and more, I guess feeds into the purpose of this education project topic.

There is a relationship between a successful business and good customer relationship management. Businesses that invest a lot in customer-relationship building hardly get it wrong. The project topic under review seeks to find out the impact of customer relationship management on small retail stores. While I leave you to check the full project, let’s do a prelude to the topic.

Customer relationship management in business is not a one-off activity; it is a practice, a process that must be built continuously as long as the business exists. It is more of a business behavior than a solution to the business problem. Customer relationship management requires you to learn more about customer’s needs and purchasing behavior to build a stronger relationship with them.

While business growth can be achieved through good customer relationships by diversifying their marketing communication channels including direct sales, online sales, franchise, leveraging social media channels, and marketing agents more could be achieved by

Understanding customers’ habits, opinions, and preferences

Profiling individuals including men, women, children, pregnant women, young adults, babies, aged to help you classify their market needs per time while promoting your marketing efficiency.

Adjusting on your market operation to accommodate customer preferences

Giving discount sales, giveaways, raffle draws that involves customer engagements from time to time

While this project is particular about the Impact of customer relationships on small retail stores, we will consider the benefits of good customer relationship management on businesses at large. They include but are not limited to;

Helps to increase sales

Enhances targeted marketing by understanding customer purchasing behavior

Help in predictive marketing

Help in cross-selling complementary goods

Helps you identify which customers are more profitable and not.

It helps you maintain loyal customers and enhances business growth and popularity

They say that the best marketing strategy is to have a satisfied client. One way to achieve this is to build a loyal customer base. If you take your relationship with customers personally, you will understand what they love and prefer. Making them loyal to your offers becomes inevitable.

This project topic digs into the impact of monetary policy on foreign direct investment in Nigeria. The monetary policy of any country exerts a severe impact on its economic growth or downfall. Irrespective of what the goal is, local fiscal policies influence direct foreign investments.

What are monetary policies?
Monetary policies, also called fiscal policies are strategies and regulatory policies enacted and published by a country’s central bank to manage the circulation of money in its economy. It is used to determine a nation’s economic worth and to achieve long-term economic growth.

What are the reasons for monetary policies?
There are reasons why monetary policies/fiscal policies are made by a country’s central bank. These reasons are based on the economic goal of the country in question. The Bank of Canada for instance has a goal to maintain inflation at 2% as they believe that low and stable inflation has a contributory effect on economic growth. The United States Federal Reserve monetary policy aims to promote maximum employment, stabilize prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.

However, on a general note, the following are common reasons for monetary policies;
• To keep inflation, employment, and economic growth stable
• To regulate interest rates although the high or low-interest rates could discourage investment and depression of asset prices
• During an economic recession where there are low-interest rates, the monetary policies could determine if liquidity and money should be added for circulation
• Helps to position investors to take advantage of changes in interest rates and other measures.

Impact of monetary policies on foreign direct investments

The impact of monetary policy on foreign direct investments can be double-edged depending on the nature of the policies. There are accommodative and tight monetary policies.

Accommodative monetary policies could be set in when the economy is very slow and policies that could lower the interest rate could be set in to stimulate growth
A tight monetary policy could be adopted when the economic growth spurs the inflation rate, policies to raise short-term interest rates could be set in.

The world thrives in information and communication; what you listen to, how you listen to it, what you watch, from what channel you watch it, from what perspective, and from whom you heard it are all that defines the information and communication cycle of the 21st century. These factors and even more have motivated a research project topic in mass communication like the one under review. It seeks to examine the ‘influence of ownership on media credibility.

The mass media is very influential for information dissemination. Whoever owns it can leverage its resources to decide what people listen to, what they view, what they read, what they talk about, and from what perspective they see the information.

In addition to the cost of acquiring a license to own a media station, media ownership have become very attractive to political leaders and influencers alike as it has become a tool to help make the masses see the world from their own lenses not without choosing what they want them to listen to, watch and talk about.

Like this project, it intends to find out, the credibility of news coverage and reportage could be influenced due to its ownership. Consider a government-owned TV station, for instance, information regarding the ruling government must not be aired without due scrutiny because nothing must be aired against the interest of the ruling government. The same thing applies to privately owned media stations that perhaps belong to a particular political party, a certain region, a religious sect, etc.

Moreover, the ownership of media stations could be indirectly influenced by the activities of advertisers. No media station can survive financially without advertising and its resources except if it is internally funded. Therefore, whoever pays the piper calls the tune. The possibility of projecting a negative reportage about your media financial sponsor- poor leadership, an irresponsible leader, a bad politician, etc is very slim.

These and more are what this project topic seeks to find out in this empirical study.

Information and communication channels constitute a major aspect of human existence and survival strategies, and in this digital era, the means of communication have spread across several channels creating a source of symbiotic relationship for both the new media and mainstream.

This project topic focuses on the impact of the Twitter ban on security threats and information dissemination. Following recent events, the federal government of Nigeria has placed a ban on the use of Twitter in the Nigerian social media space. While this ban lasts, this project topic seeks to dig into the impact of this ban on national security threats as well as information dissemination.

Considering some units of analysis in this project, the world as it is, is currently digitally linked, following a consistent information flow from the mainstream media (television, radio, and newspaper) and the social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Whatsapp, telegram) alike. But there seems to be more engagement with information on the online social platforms than the mainstream which is where the ban on Twitter leaves a gap.

Before the era of social media became popular, news houses relied on correspondents to get information that often doesn’t come in real-time. News gathered today would be reported the next day as it were. Later on, social media platforms like Twitter provided an avenue for crowdsourcing real-time news although it lacked censorship, unlike the mainstream.

In recent times, however, social media channels like Twitter is more than just an avenue to crowdsource news, it has become a place to locate news ideas, story sources, monitor feelings and reactions and discussions from the masses.

In essence, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter serve huge importance to the mainstream media channels. They feed them with constant information in real-time while also helping diversify their reach in information dissemination.