Urbanization and migration are critical forces shaping the demographic, economic, and environmental landscape of urban centers worldwide. In Nigeria, rapid urbanization has been particularly evident in cities like Benin City, the capital of Edo State. Over the past few decades, the Benin City has witnessed significant urban expansion driven primarily by rural-urban migration, economic opportunities, and infrastructural development. While urbanization contributes to economic growth and modernization, it also presents a range of socio-economic and environmental challenges.

Workplace is a complex environment where beliefs and expectations can significantly influence productivity. The study examined self-fulfilling theory as management tool to achieve employee job performance. A descriptive survey research method was used for the study while a simple random sampling technique was used to select 412 employees from selected private and public work organizations in Lagos State. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the mean, standard deviation and correlation among the variables in the study.

This study was guided by rational choice theory to examine kidnapping and its consequences on the people of Kaduna state between 2015 - 2022. A sample of 703 respondents selected through multi-stage cluster sampling techniques were surveyed. Instruments used for the survey are questionnaires administered randomly to selected residents of 30 selected communities and key informant interviews administered to 12 participants purposively selected, which includes victims of kidnapping, traditional rulers, security personnel, religious leaders, and across the communities.

The main thrust of the paper is to examine socio-demographic variables and the utilization of modern contraceptives among women of reproductive age in the Cross River and Benue States of Nigeria. The specific objective of the paper is to examine how religious belief and sex preference affect the utilization of modern contraceptives. Empirical and methodological approaches of literature review were used. Malthusian theory by Robert Thomas Malthus was used as a framework to the study. The study used cross-sectional and cohort research designs.

The work was on the impact of knowledge management on corporate performance of commercial banks in Nigeria using guaranty trust bank Joju Ota Ogun State as a case study. Objective of the study is to know if declarative knowledge management reduction in operating cost of the organisation. Survey research design was for the work and population of the research were 20 employee of employee of guaranty trust bank, Nigeria. In this study, the probability sampling method was applied.

This project work examines the effect of performance appraisal on organisations productivity a study of Ejigbo and Isolo local Council Development Area. The objectives are determine if performance appraisal has increased employee efficiency of Ejigbo and Isolo local Council Development Area; to ascertain if performance appraisal increases the profit of Ejigbo and Isolo local Council Development Area and to examine if performance appraisal reduce occupational conflict in Study of Ejigbo and Isolo local Council Development Area.The population of the work is 242 while the sample size is 151.

This paper analyses the ways in which sociocultural norms affect female criminality in provide possible insights on how gender expectations, economic deprivation, and systemic biases operate to give effect to the phenomenon of ‘female criminality’. Female and male criminal behaviour is different, especially as the latter is focused typically on power and organized crime and tend to serve their own financial interests.

Iron production was particularly an important pre-colonial African technology, with iron becoming central component of socio-economic life in many societies across the continent having iron bearing ores much more abundant in the earth crust than those of copper. Iron was recovered from these ores using bloomery process, until the importation of European iron in the latter second millennium eventually undermined local production.

Archaeological investigation as a subject matter and methodology is strictly a science of material culture. The cultural process approach is adaptive system within an ecological frame of what and how religious, social and political ideas may have guided indigenous technology subsistence and settlement through time. Hence the paper holds that plagues as a material culture is subjective. Nonetheless, the art of bronze casting flourished under the guild system established by Oba Oguola in 1280AD.

This study examines the pervasive issue of cultism and its detrimental impact on the standard of education in Nigerian schools. Cultism remains a critical challenge within the Nigerian education system, fostering violence, insecurity, and academic instability. The purpose of this research is to investigate the underlying factors driving students into cult groups, analyze the nature and operations of these groups, and propose effective strategies for mitigating their influence.