Browsing by Author "Peter Deborah Ibechone"

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    Confession of Married Women Who Abused Their Husbands in Igbesa Community of Ogun State, Nigeria
    (International Journal Of Social Science Research And Anthropology, 2025-02) Ojo Matthias Olufemi Dada; Peter Deborah Ibechone; Funmilola Aduke Akinola
    Spouse abuse is generally considered to be the crime of the masculinity in our society with little or no emphasis on men as victims of it. This study, therefore, investigated the abuses committed by married women against their husbands. The study was guided by the combination of conflict and aggression theories and it adopted descriptive survey design. It engaged a non-probability sampling technique in the selection of study area which was done through convenience sampling method and also for the respondents that were selected for the study. Data were collected through quantitative method. This involved admiration of forty copies of the questionnaire prepared for the study. The largest number of respondents were between 40-44 years and 45-49 respectively years with 20.0% of respondents for each. A total of 72.5% were Christians and 67.5% of respondents were Bachelor degree holders. Twenty-five percent of respondents contracted their marriage in church and 30.0% of them had spent between 1-5 years in marriage. The findings revealed that 26.2% of respondents had denied their husbands sexual intercourse in the past, 21.3% of them had assaulted their husbands verbally in the past, 13.1% had stolen their husbands’ money and 11.5% of respondents had threatened their husbands in the past among others. A total of 20.0% of respondents abused their husbands for not consulting them in decision making for the family, 10.0% of them because their husbands were aggressive, 8.6% did this because their husbands were too generous and 7.1% of them abused their husbands because of infidelity and lack of self-control respectively. A total of 35.9% of respondents entered into personal reconciliation with their husbands after the abuse, 22.6% of them said nothing happened after the abuse, 17.0% of them sought for the intervention of parents/relatives and 11.3% of them abstained from intimate relationship with their spouses. The study conclude that men are also being abused by their spouses. More researched on men as victims of spouse abuse, public awareness on spouse abuse by wives, teaching, training, educational programs, supportive services and government interventional policies to curb the problem were recommended.
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    Rating and Dislike for Challenges Confronting Nigeria Police by Gashua Community People of Yobe State.
    (International Journal of African Reseaarch and Sustainability Studies IJARSS., 2024-09) Ojo Matthias Olufemi Dada; Peter Deborah Ibechone
    Challenges confronting Nigeria police are many and enormous. Several studies have examined these challenges but failed to link them with how citizens rate them and with reasons citizens dislike Nigeria police. This study, therefore, investigated how citizens rated the challenges confronting Nigeria police and how this contributed to their dislike of Nigeria police. The study adopted survey design. Data were collected through quantitative method. This involved administering of 128 copies of questionnaire prepared for the study. The data were analysed using frequency distribution. The analyses show that 65.63% of respondents were male; 28.91% of them were between 20 years and 24years; 60.94% were Muslims and 71.1% of them were holders of Bachelor degree. Those who were somehow familiar with police duties and functions were 37.50%; 25.78% rated the performance of the duties and functions to be averagely good; 22.66% averagely like the ways police perform those duties and functions. Majority of respondent rated police corruption to be very high 20.50%; 28.91% dislike Nigeria police because of corruption. Brutality among police was rated low (26.56%); 31.25% dislike Nigeria police because of brutality; 29.69% rated police pro-activeness to be very low; 28.13% dislike police for not trustworthy; 25.00% rated impolite among police to be very low; however, 40.63% dislike police because of impolite behaviours of some officers. In area of incompetence, 19.53% of respondents rated it to be low; but 38.28% of them dislike police because of their incompetence, colluding with criminals was rated very low to be 19.53% but 25.78% of respondents extremely dislike police for colluding with criminals; 25.78% rated police concern for victims of crime to be very low and 38.28% dislike police for this. All the suggestions made by respondents to improve Nigeria police were recommended and other recommendations from other studies.