Browsing by Author "Raji, A."

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    Effectiveness of Mediation as Third-Party Conflict Resolution Mechanisms on Industrial Harmony in Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria
    (Department of Sociology, Baba-Ahmed University, Kano, Nigeria, 2024) Agbana, A. F.; Muhammed, A. Y.; Raji, A.; Abdulbaqi, S. Z.; Olatunji, A. G.
    This study examined the effectiveness of third-party conflict resolution through mediation mechanism on industrial harmony in teaching hospitals in Nigeria. The selected hospitals are Federal Teaching Hospital Ido-Ekiti (3371), Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife (4175), University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan (4546), Ondo State University Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital Akure (2820), and Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba (3518). In all, there are 20,475 union members in the study area representing the study population in the selected hospitals. This study combined different sampling techniques to select respondents for the survey. A total of 400 respondents were selected among the thirty-six (36) union bodies in the study area. Additionally, 2 key informants (two union leaders/executives) were purposively selected in each of the hospitals based on their assumed in-depth knowledge of informal conflict resolution mechanisms in settling disputes, giving a total of 12 Key Informant Interviewee (KII). Findings showed that perception respondents regarding mediation mechanism in settling dispute was indicated that 42.3% (165) of the respondents showed high effectiveness, 55.6% (217) showed moderate effectiveness while 2.1% (8) showed low effectiveness. The use of mediation mechanism will first help to achieve peaceful relationship between government and staff (x =3.59±1.174). Secondly, use help in achieving the fulfillment of government agreement made to hospital staff (x =3.58±1.141) and thirdly help to achieve to favourable employment policy (x =3.57±1.075). Regression analysis in Table 4 shows that mediation mechanism significantly contributed to fulfillment of government agreement of workers in teaching hospitals (R2 = 0. 427, F = 30.240, p < 0.01). On the whole, mediation predicted 42.7% dispute resolutions in achieving peaceful relationship between government and staff; fulfillment of government agreement and favourable employment policy in teaching hospitals. This study concluded that third party resolution by mediation mechanism can be used to ensure the fulfillment of government agreement to staff to avoid disputes between hospital staff and employer (government) and thus, significantly promote industrial harmony in teaching hospitals in Nigeria.
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    Marital Practices targeting women and its implications on HIV/AIDS preventive Campaign in South West Nigeria
    (Jimma University, 2016) Mohammed, A.Y.; Kadiri, K.K.; Joseph, O.A.; Raji, A.; Tejideen, O.; Adisa, M.Y.
    In the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, the incorporation of marital values and practices tenet in the campaign programmes remain one of the major assets that has remained untapped. This study was conducted towards understanding the positive and negative marital values and practices in Nigeria and how they can improve HIV/AIDS preventive campaigns. In-depth interviews were conducted on married young people who reside in Abeokuta town in South West, Nigeria. The first and the second categories were HIV positive and HIV negative respectively. The findings show that there are some marital values and practices which promote risky sexual behaviour among men which leads to HIV/AIDS while some curtails sexual excesses particularly among females. Some of the female informants indicated that some marital values and practices were promoting social cohesion and unity while others were having negative influence on their physical and psychological health. Majority of the informants testified that cultural values and practices gave married men the permissiveness to involve in extra marital affairs. The consequences of the above scenario make more women to be vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than their male counterparts. These findings show that inculcating marital virtues into HIV/AIDS preventive communication campaigns would reduce the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among married couple. This study concludes that there is a need to specifically design marital sensitive HIV/AIDS preventive campaigns specifically for married
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    Peer Pressure and Attitude to Premarital Sex among Youths: A study of Students in University of Ilorin, Ilorin
    (Department of Sociology and Anthropology Faculty of Social Sciences, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, 2021) Akor, S. J.; Adegbola, A. J.; Raji, A.
    Youths are an integral part of the society. Contributions being made towards development all over the world involve youths in one manner or another. However, the period of youthfulness is quite problematic. It is a time stage in which people are just discovering various elements of themselves. As such, the youths often fall prey to peer pressure. Peer pressure can be quite harmful to youths, eroding their sense of self-confidence and independence. As such, the study sought to determine the nature of the association between peer pressure and attitude towards premarital sex. The study made use of the Social Bond Theory in order to facilitate better understanding of peer pressure. The study adopted a qualitative design, using a quantitative method of data collection and analysis. Using a multistage sampling technique, 400 respondents were selected for the study. The obtained data were analyzed using spear man rank correlation. The analyzed data reveal a significant association between peer pressure and youths' attitude to premarital sex. Based on this, the study recommends that seminars be organized to enlighten youths on self-confidence
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    Problems and Prospects of African Traditional Medicine in Nigeria
    (Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, University of Ilorin, 2014) Abdulbaqi, S. Z.; Raji, A.; Olayinka, T. T.
    Traditional medicine is the oldest known method of healing the sick. Traditional medicine is being used all over the world for the treatment of all ailments. Inadequate accessibility to modern medicine coupled with high cost of drugs to treat diseases in Nigeria may have contributed to the widespread of use of traditional medicine. In spite of these contributions, however, traditional medicine has been marginalized and its value to communities underplayed. It is within this context that, this paper examines the problems and prospects of African Traditional Medicine in Nigeria. However, integration of traditional medicine to national health programs would invariably go against the situation at which successive governments in Nigeria have continued to neglect this indigenous health care issue in their health policy. After the analysis of the various challenges, the paper then recommends that, there is a need for urgent investment and support of traditional healers and traditional medicine—not only by government, but also by civil society and the private sector.