Cross River University of Technology

About: Cross River University of Technology is a education organization based out in Calabar, Nigeria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Exergy. The organization has 465 authors who have published 507 publications receiving 2705 citations.

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Extent of Its Implementation in Host Community

Abstract: The topic of this research work was based on corporate social responsibility and the extent of its implementation on host community. Four research objectives, questions and hypotheses were formulated to address the problem of the study. The main instrument for data collation was questionnaire, administered to 245 respondents in the geographical area where the companies are situated and where the research took place. The researchers tested the hypotheses using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) as the statistical tool and the main findings include; companies operating in quarry sites in Akamkpa local government area were not sensitive to their corporate social responsibility, and thus were not ready to incorporate it in their business mix, but place emphasis on maximizing economic benefits. Also other findings indicated that amongst the four major CSR strategies companies propensity to adopt reactive strategy was most likely compared to defensive, accommodative and proactive strategies, because the strategy deny accepting responsibility. The last hypothesis confirmed companies’ unwillingness to contribute to sustainable economic development for the benefit of host communities. And it was concluded and recommended that despite firms and businesses interest in profit maximization, it is also important for firms and businesses to impact socially on its immediate society and environment. Both interests should be pursued simultaneously.

External Debt and Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Nigerian Case

Abstract: The issue of external debt and human development in sub-Saharan Africa with particular reference to Nigeria has risen to the top of the agenda in Nigeria’s politico - economic discourse. It is against this background that this paper examines the implications of external debt on poverty alleviation. The tenet of the paper is to ascertain the extent to which external loans have reduced the incidence of poverty and increase human development. The ordinary least square (OLS) technique was adopted with the use of time series data on aggregate poverty, per capita gross domestic product, inflation, expenditure on education, expenditure on health sector, total debt service and external debt to export ratio. This paper maintains that poverty spread in Nigeria is associated with fallen economic growth, high rate of inflation, and inadequate expenditure on education and health sectors. In order to step up economic growth, human development and reduce poverty, there is need to step up the productive sector. Handling this with a wave of the hands the paper argues, renders the poverty alleviation efforts associated with external loans an illusion.

Bound State Solutions of the Hua Potential within the Framework of Two Approximations Scheme

Abstract: In this paper, we solve analytically the Schrodinger equation for s-wave and arbitrary angular momenta with the Hua potential is investigated respectively. The wave function as well as energy equation are obtained in an exact analytical manner via the Nikiforov Uvarov method using two approximations scheme. Some special cases of this potentials are also studied.

Dirt and the Penetration of Social Fabrics: Rising from the Common to the Uncommon

Abstract: The wheels that carry national economies are hooked to the engine of research. The word “research” carries with it the intrinsic mentality of exclusive laboratory environment. In this case, it is not so. This context includes the use of far-flung production traditions whose investigative stages have been lost in antiquity. Pottery is one of such areas. Among the Igbos of southeastern Nigeria, one of the derogatory names of clay is ‘apiti’ implying “Dirt”. Many, even outside this geographical catchment, feel this is what clay is, yet it has penetrated the social fabrics of every generation and mobilized its potentials to add up to the society’s path to stability. Art has offered itself to this “dirt” or is it the other way round, for the making of pottery for function and aesthetics and, by extension, facilitated the employment of thousands in time. The much-talked-about self-employment, poverty alleviation, and wealth-generation are hooked to the fact that cultures have free-willing methods of training its population. Informal education and training have collaborated to facilitate this where the apprenticeship system has played the mainline role in raising traditional entrepreneurs. Beyond this, historical and documentations dimensions provided by clay cannot be dismissed by the wave of the hand. This paper aspires to explore the social mobility of this common clay and excavate other areas of latent but indispensible involvements in Art, Culture, Documentation and Tourism. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n2p423

Forest Resources Management for Sustainable Development in Cross River State of Nigeria: Challenges of the 21st Century

Abstract: This article dwells on the importance of current management strategies of forest resources and the way forward vis-a-vis the sustainability of the Tropical High Forest (THF) for livelihood, housing and commerce. Over seventy percent of the Cross River State population, occupying about two thousand communities live in rural areas with their characteristic mud-walled and thatch-roofed houses. Their mainstay being crude agricultural practices involving mixed cropping, hunting, non-timber forest product gathering, fishing and other resources exploitation. The high poverty level of these agrarian communities has resulted in mass deforestation of the virgin rain forest biochure for lucre and livelihood. If the importance of the rural environment as a source of industrial raw-material, waste product recycling and a life support regulatory organ has to be appreciated, there is need for sustainable forest and land-use options to protect the natural habitats and biodiversities of our rural communities. Efforts to control the unsustainable timber logging, other forms of deforestation and poor land utilization such as concession granting, check posts/control points, tariff review, revocation orders, awareness creation, formation of community management committees, and introduction of alternative forest and land-use options, among others, are covered in this article. Given the maxims of local, national and global problems confronting the implementation of these strategies, recommendations are made on enhancing the roles played by the Cross River State Forestry Development Department and Land Ordinance Act for sustainable land-use and management of the State’s forestry estates. The article concludes that enormous benefits would be reaped by Cross River State for the sustainable development of its local communities if adequate steps are taken to conserve its forest resources.