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Business Related Instructions and Profit Outcome of Igbo Traders in the Building Materials Market.
(Crawford Journal of Economics and Management, 2026-03) Onochie Maxwell Prosper; Omolewa Ese Egor; Oladipupo Eunice
The study assessed the relationship between business-related instructions and profit outcomes of Igbo traders in the building materials market within Lagos and Ogun States, specifically targeting Alaba Suru market in Lagos and Ota market in Ogun state, Nigeria. It adopts cross-sectional survey research design, data were collected from 210 respondents using structured questionnaire, data generated from the respondents were analysed using the SmartPLS. The study showed a strong positive relationship between business related instructions and profit outcome of Igbo traders; the study therefore recommends that traders should prioritize business related instructional practices in their business operations to increase their profit outcomes.
Development And Validation of a Composite Flood Impact Index (CFII) for Ecowas Countries
(Crawford Journal of Economics and Management, 2026) Amire Comfort M; Afariogun Adeshola Oluwaseun; Enilolobo Oluwafemi
Flood disasters represent a major socio-economic and environmental challenge within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Assessing disaster severity through individual indicators provides only a partial representation of flood impacts, as isolated metrics often fail to capture their multidimensional nature. This study developed and statistically validated the Composite Flood Impact Index (CFII) for the comparative assessment of multidimensional flood impacts across ECOWAS countries. The study covered the fifteen ECOWAS member states over the period 2000–2023 and utilized data from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT). The CFII was constructed from flood frequency (ff), total persons affected (tpa), and total deaths (td) using Min-Max normalization and an equal-weighting aggregation framework. Statistical validation was conducted using an Independent Samples t-test. The principal findings revealed significant variation in flood impacts across the region and enabled the ranking and classification of countries into distinct vulnerability groups. Statistical validation confirmed the discriminatory capability of the CFII. The study contributes a transparent, reproducible, and standardized framework for multidimensional flood assessment. The CFII complements traditional single-indicator approaches and supports comparative flood risk assessment and evidence-informed disaster risk planning across ECOWAS.
Flood Disasters and GDP Per Capita in Ecowas Countries: A Pooled Mean Group ARDL Analysis
(Crawford Journal of Economics and Management, 2026) Amire Comfort M; Afariogun Adeshola Oluwaseun; Enilolobo Oluwafemi
This study evaluates the macroeconomic impact of flood disaster shocks on material living standards within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) from 2000 to 2023. Operating within a Pooled Mean Group (PMG) ARDL dynamic panel framework across ten countries, the study regresses real GDP per capita against flood frequency, total persons affected, and total deaths. Long-run panel estimations reveal that aggregate material output appears insulated from disaster shocks, as shown by the insignificance of flood frequency (1.0365, p = 0.7012), total deaths (0.0996, p = 0.1257), and affected populations (0.0014, p = 0.8124). Short-run dynamics reveal acute structural disruptions, with the error correction term (ECT) registering at -0.2496 (p = 0.0048). Rather than proving economic immunity, these benign long-run coefficients validate the Schumpeterian reconstruction paradox, where forced post-disaster capital replacement temporarily inflates output metrics using newer capital vintages, masking severe qualitative human capital erosion. Consequently, the study recommends that ECOWAS macro-planners transition from short-term reconstruction funding cycles toward structural capital-upgrading resilience frameworks. Policy should prioritize safeguarding regional transportation infrastructure to minimize short-run equilibrium deviations and mitigate long-term capital stagnation.
Absentee State, Dismissive Peasants:Interrogating State-Rural Community Relations in Nigeria
(International Journal Of Social Work and Development Studies (IJSDS), 0000) Adegbenga Isaac Aladegbola; Olaniyan Azeez O; Odewusi Oluwasola M
This study explores the pattern, nature, and outcomes of the relationship between the Nigerian state and its rural communities. The central argument of this work is that factors shaping the interaction between the Nigerian state and the rural communities are in the realm of two interrelated perceptions: absenteeism and
dismissal. Using the rural communities in Ekiti Southwest Local Government Area of Nigeria as case studies and employing an ethnographic, qualitative research method, the study interrogates the absentee-dismissive conundrum of state-local community relations in Nigeria. Fieldwork was conducted between 2020 and 2021 across the villages and hamlets of Ogotun Ekiti, drawing on twenty key-informant and in-depth interviews with village inhabitants, community leaders, and government officials, supplemented by direct observation. Specifically, the study discovered that with a state presence that is at best sporadic and minimal in substance, the Nigerian state is perceived by rural dwellers as habitually absent, and this perceived errant behavior has resulted in a dismissive attitude towards the state. The study further engages Goran Hyden’s thesis of the uncaptured African peasantry, which attributes rural underdevelopment in Tanzania to peasants’ refusal to be captured by the modern economy, and finds that the Nigerian case differs: no modernizing project was ever extended to the rural populace under study, so their dismissiveness functions not as a cause of underdevelopment but as a coping mechanism for surviving it. While state absenteeism deepens underdevelopment, dismissive attitude serves some psychological purposes, and acts as a coping mechanism for the rural populace. The study concludes that so long the Nigerian state continues to neglect the rural majority in planning and execution of policy, rural communities will continue to display dismissive attitudes
toward it, complicating efforts to mobilize them for nationhood and development.
Domestic Violence: The Role of the Church and Society in the Management
(Sapientia Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Development Studies, 2023) Akinlotan Raymond Adeniyi; Akinlotan Joan Olamitokunbo; Oladipo Eunice Molayo
In our society, many women are violently treated by their intimate partners while they suffer in silence. In some cases, domestic violence leads to the death of those women. This should not be allowed to continue because women are crucial to the growth and development of any nation and the world at large. They are homemakers, custodians of social, cultural and fundamental values of the society; and permanent change is often best achieved through them. Full community development is impossible without their understanding, cooperation and effective participation. Considering all these, women deserve better treatment but opposite are usually the case. Wife battery affects the physical and psychological wellbeing of the abused women and even that of their children. It is on this premise that this paper discusses the meaning of domestic violence against women, types of intimate partner violence, effects of these types of violence on abused women and their children. This paper also discusses causes and management of domestic violence against women. In conclusion recommendations were made to eradicate this menace from the society