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Item Institutions and the Challenges of Development in Africa(Department of Sociology College of Business and Social Sciences Covenant University Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria, 2019) Onwuma, Anthony C.; George, Tayo O.Africa's development and how it could be engendered has been the subject of scholarly interrogation for many decades. This finds expression in the many development policies fonnulated by African policy makers and political leaders to bail the continent out of the quagmire of underdevelopment. Painfolly, all the achieved results and success stories were disappointingly modest. This paper examines some key institutions such as Economic, Education and the political institutions. It concludes that weak institutions and the failure to fonnulate Afrocentric policies are the bane of development in the continent. Thus, the strengthening and repositioning of institutions in Africa will go a long way in ushering development in Africa.Item RIPPLES OF INEQUITY: GENDERED CURRENTS IN NIGERIA’S WATER AND SANITATION SECTOR(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Ile-lfe, Nigeria., 2024) George, Tayo O.; Oku, Arit; Oladipo, Funke C.; Odiboh, Oscar O.The need to improve gender access to water and sanitation in Africa has elicited a lot of discussions and scholarly research in developing countries worldwide. Women's rights activists and other concerned stakeholders have argued for the gender’s increased access and control over water and sanitation. This chapter examines the relationship between the ripples of gender inequity in Nigeria’s water and sanitation sector of the environmental space. The study highlights the impacts of discrimination against women concerning access and control in the critical water sector and the ripple effects on sanitation for a healthier family and society. It identifies the gaps and challenges in women’s access to water and sanitation. It seeks ways of strengthening women’s rights to water and sanitation; achieving the possible benchmark in the context of seven United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 6 which focuses on clean water and sanitation by ensuring water and sanitation for all is available and sustainable. The study relied on secondary data sources and the review of extant literature on major sub-themes of gender access to water and sanitation, the situation analysis, regional disparities, and challenges in the sector for improved access in the sector. It concludes by providing recommendations on how to promote policies, dialogue, advocacy, partnerships, and capacity building to support gender access to water and good sanitation practices.Item THE ROLE OF COVENANT UNIVERSITY IN COMBATING THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS(Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, DELSU, Abraka, Nigeria, 2026) George, Tayo O.; Amoo, Emmanuel 0 .; Asaolu, Aderonke 0.Item LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERCEPTIONS AND MEANINGS OF COVID-19(the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria, 2026) George, Tayo O.; Asakitikpi, Alex; Kasumu, Taiwo; Olore, Amos; Kasumu, Modupe; Adebayo, MercyThe outbreak of a strain of coronavirus in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 was initially a local issue. However, the. rapid spread of the disease in Hubei Province soon alerted the Chinese government to an epidemic and prompted it to share its concern with the world. By 11th January 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had publicised the scientific nomenclature of the virus outbreak, COVID-19, and by January 2020, the epidemic was pronounced a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The relentless spread of the virus, which met the essential criteria of an infectious disease transmitted from one human to another across a large geographic area and affecting a significant number of the world's population, forced the WHO to declare COVID-19 a pandemic on 11th March 2020. Since the disease's declaration as a pandemic and the moral panic it sparked worldwide, there was confusion over its scientific, spiritual, and social meanings. In this chapter, we examine Africa's and global perspectives on COVID-19 and their implications for individuals and the societies in which they live and function. Within post-. structuralism and postmodemity, we examine how meanings are attached to the virus and how its interpretation influences behaviour, especially within governments' extreme measures to curtail the virus outbreak in Nigeria and worldwide. We also examine how COVID-19, as a health symbol, assumes different shades of meaning as individuals perceive risk across different socio-cultural, spiritual, and political contexts.Item A REVIEW OF FAMILY DYNAMICS AND COPING STRATEGIES IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19 LOCKDOWN IN NIGERIA(Faculty of Communication and Media Studies Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, 2026) Amaike, Bola; Jawando, Jubril; Olabisi, Yusuf; George, Tayo O.Since the emergence of the Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in December, 2019 in Wuhan, China and its importation into Nigeria on February 27, 2020, Nigerians faced diverse challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic was more than a health challenge; it had, social and economic implications, attacking the core of human society and increasing social inequality, vulnerabilities and gender-based violence. Consequently, the Nigerian government introduced measures to contain the virus' spread, including a total or partiallockdown. Many families faced a massive crisis during the lockdown, raising many issues and imposing wrenching trade-offs . This paper focuses on family dynamics and coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown by examining how families managed financial difficulties and : conflicts, maintained social ties, and addressed changes during the lockdown. The impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns were deeply felt within the family structures, especially among the most vulnerable groups such as people with low incomes, women, older persons and persons with disabilities. Since family members were at home during the lockdown, family dynamics would be threatened, magnified positively or negatively, depending on the coping strategies adopted. Functionalism was adopted as the explanatory tool. This paper reviewed. various publications on family dynamics and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria. Insights were drawn from family types, socio-economic status and their coping strategies. The article concludes with recommendations for effective management of pandemics and the impacts of their lockdown in Nigeria without compromising the social well-being of vulnerable families.Item VIOLENCE AGAINST YOUNG WOMEN IN INFORMAL CROSS-BORDER TRADING IN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY REDUCTION(Internation Journal of Gender and Development Issues Vol., 11 No. 4, 2015) Geeorge, Tayo O.; Chukwuedozie, O. N.; Ozoya, M. I.Nigerian women, through history, actively participate in the social, economic and political development of their societies. This is particularly true of women in southern Nigeria, especially Yoruba women. Women traders working in the informal sector are often subject to harassment and extortion at the border. These constraints undermine their economic activities. Women are more readily denied access to key trader networks than men. Time-consuming trade procedures and documentary requirements impinge more heavily on women, given the time they need for their household duties. And women working to produce exportable goods and services are typically less able than men to get the inputs and materials that would raise their productivity and allow them to compete better in overseas markets. A major setback for women in cross border trade is violence. This ranges from rape and other forms of sexual abuse, theft, robbery to seizure of goods. This paper therefore, examined the incidence of violence against young women . in informal cross-border trading in South-West Nigeria and its implications for economic development and poverty reduction, relying purely on secondary sources of data and relevant sociological theories. Findings in this project will bring to the fore, the constraints to the success of economic activities of young women and the effects on wealth creation and poverty reduction in South-West, Nigeria.Item Generating Research Objectives in Social Research(badan University Press, Publishing House, University of lbadan, lbadan, Nigeria, 2020) Jegede, Ajibade E.; Idowu, A. E.; George, Tayo O.Item ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN GERIA: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES(Department of Sociology College of Management and Social Sciences Covenant University Ota, Nigeria, 2026) George, Tayo O.; Ozoya, M.; Olonade, O. Y.; Olore, A. A.Item CAPACITY BUILDING FOR WIDOWS : PATHWAYS FOR SUSTAINABLE GRASSROOT DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA(Covenant Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 3, No 1 & 2, 2010) Georl!e, Tayo 0.This paper examines capacity building for widows and pathways for sustainable grass root development in Nigeria. The increasing n'umber of widows with little or no means of capacity for economic empowerment at the grass root has become an acknowledged social problem in most developing societies like Nigeria. This paper argues the need for capacity building as an urgent step for attaining the needed sustainable national development for this segment of the population. The study relies on survey of942 widows across sixAwori communities, in Ogun state, Nigeria. Using descriptive statistics, the result shows that, about 60 percent of the sampled population had no form of fbrmal or informal education. Thus, they live in abject poverty. This paper recommends the need for both government and Non Governmental Organizations (NGO's) to drive capacity building through formal and Non-formal education, to enable widows especially at the grass root maximize their potentials in the ever changing world.Item RIPPLES OF INEQUITY: GENDERED CURRENTS IN NIGERIA’S WATER AND SANITATION SECTOR(Obafemi Awolowo University Press, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2024) George, Tayo O.; Oku, Arit; Oladipo, Funke C.; Odiboh, Oscar O.The need to improve gender access to water and sanitation in Africa has elicited a lot of discussions and scholarly research in developing countries worldwide. Women's rights activists and other concerned stakeholders have argued for the gender’s increased access and control over water and sanitation. This chapter examines the relationship between the ripples of gender inequity in Nigeria’s water and sanitation sector of the environmental space. The study highlights the impacts of discrimination against women concerning access and control in the critical water sector and the ripple effects on sanitation for a healthier family and society. It identifies the gaps and challenges in women’s access to water and sanitation. It seeks ways of strengthening women’s rights to water and sanitation; achieving the possible benchmark in the context of seven United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 6 which focuses on clean water and sanitation by ensuring water and sanitation for all is available and sustainable. The study relied on secondary data sources and the review of extant literature on major sub-themes of gender access to water and sanitation, the situation analysis, regional disparities, and challenges in the sector for improved access in the sector. It concludes by providing recommendations on how to promote policies, dialogue, advocacy, partnerships, and capacity building to support gender access to water and good sanitation practices.